Your privacy while bidding in our online auctions
  1. SCOPE
    1. BidBudgie.co.uk (hereinafter referred to as “BidBudgie” or “ Our Website”) is a service provided by Bid Budgie Ltd (hereinafter referred to as “BidBudgie” or “We” or “Us” or “Our”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and your personal data. This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to therein, describes all aspects relating to gathering information while you are visiting our website, how we handle your personal data for our services and all further permissible uses of such information. It is important that you read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
    2. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (The Act), the data controller is Bid Budgie Ltd of 60 Well Lane, Treeton, Rotherham, S60 5QA.
    3. By registering with BidBudgie and creating a registered account, you thereby accept the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy in full; and further, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for all newly registered users and is otherwise effective 10 days after being posted on our website.
  2. DATA COLLECTION
    1. You may visit our website at any time without providing your identity or revealing any personal data about yourself. However, when you visit our website, we may collect and store your computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from our website, advertisement data, IP address and standard web log information and information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data.
    2. For you to actively participate on our website and its auctions we do need to collect some of your personal data from you. Once you provide us with your required personal data, you are no longer anonymous. In providing us with your personal data, you consent to the transfer and storage of such information on our servers.
    3. In connection with your registration and use of our website, We may collect and store the following personal data: email address and physical contact information including but not limited to your name, address, date of birth and telephone number; all transactional information based on your activities on our website; shipping, billing and other information relating to any purchase or shipping; any correspondence sent to us, including surveys that you complete; financial information, such as your credit card information; and, other supplemental information from third parties.
  3. USE OF DATA
    1. Our primary purpose in collecting your personal data is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient and customised experience. You hereby agree that we may use your personal data to: provide the services and customer support you request; resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems; prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our Terms and Conditions; customise, measure and improve our services, content and advertising; inform you about our services, targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers; and, compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.
  4. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL DATA
    1. We may disclose your personal information to third parties only for the following reasons: to fulfil our obligations in relation to any transaction with you (for example, delivery companies); in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; if BidBudgie’s assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
    2. We may disclose personal data to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that any content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. We may also share your personal data with third parties assisting our business operations under contract, including but not limited to fraud investigations and debt collection, with law enforcement or other governmental officials if required by law, and with other business entities, should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity.
    3. Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal data to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a valid court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.
  5. PROVIDING DATA WITHIN THE GROUP
    1. BidBudgie is owned and operated by Bid Budgie Ltd. You hereby consent to your data being provided to Bid Budgie Ltd or other members of the corporate group. We assure you that any data that is provided in this way will be subject to the same level of security and confidentiality will be guaranteed. Further, the data will continue to be subject to this Privacy Policy in its entirety.
  6. YOUR INFORMATION ON BIDBUDGIE
    1. When you participate on our website, your personal data may be partially visible to other visitors on our website. Where this occurs, we will only display a fragment of the data that will not allow other users to personally identify you or associate you with you activities on our website; for example, we display a history of your bids on a certain auction in a tabular format, but we will display only your initials and the town or city from your address.
  7. ACCESS REVIEW AND CHANGE OF PERSONAL DATA
    1. You can access, review and change most of your personal data by logging into your profile on our website at any time. However, to protect the interests of our users and to assist us in enforcing our terms and conditions, some of your personal data may only be changed by contacting us and requesting the change. You are required to promptly update your personal data if any changes occur or if any personal data is inaccurate.
  8. REVOKING CONSENT/DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT
    1. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal data from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with any applicable law. We will still retain personal data from closed accounts to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms and Conditions, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
  9. COOKIES
    1. Our website uses so-called “cookies”, which are files that are stored on your computer that can be retrieved to assist in customising your experience with our online serve. The information saved supports the functionality of the website, for example by keeping track of your visual preferences or controlling the frequency of pop up windows. We also employ the use of third party cookies to anonymously monitor our marketing techniques, how our website is used, and to improve our services.
    2. You are free to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by adjusting the settings in your browser. However, restricting the use of cookies may result in limited functionality or restricted access to certain areas of our website.
    3. Please be aware that our advertisers or third party websites, including our payment gateway, may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
  10. SECURITY MEASURES
    1. On our website your account, profile and information contained therein is password protected for your security. It is expressly forbidden for you to share this password with any other person for any reason – PLEASE NOTE THAT NO BIDBUDGIE REPRESENTATIVE WILL EVER ASK YOU FOR YOUR PASSWORD IN ANY FORM OF COMMUNICATION, INCLUDING EMAIL.
    2. Please ensure that you log out of the website and close the browser window when you leave our website; this is imperative if you have accessed the website from a public computer. This is, at present, the safest way of preventing that no one else has access to your personal data and / or your account balance or privileges. We accept no liability for the abuse of login data and passwords used.
    3. Further, we treat data as an asset that must be protected. We use a variety of security measures to protect both your privacy and personal data against unauthorised access and disclosure, however we cannot guarantee (nor should you expect) that your personal data or private communications will always remain private.
  11. YOUR RIGHTS
    1. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us.
    2. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
    3. The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 (ten pounds) to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
  12. PROTECTION FROM WEBCRAWLERS OR SPAM
    1. We assure you that we will use your email address and / or other communication details solely with your express consent and only for the purposes stated herein or in the terms and conditions. We will not rent or sell any of your personal data to third parties, and we will prevent your email address from being recorded by web crawlers or web spiders to the best of our ability. If you believe for any reason that email your address has been recorded in this way, please advise us of the details.
  13. CHANGES IN THE DATA PROTECTION GUIDELINES
    1. Where there are changes in the Data Protection Guidelines or the Act, we will post this information on our website as soon as reasonably possible.
  14. GENERAL
    1. We may amend this policy at any time by posting the amended terms on our website. All amendments automatically take effect 10 days after the date on which they are posted on our website.
    2. Any questions or comments regarding this policy are welcomed and should be communicated via the Contact Us details on our website.