3-Bids.net Privacy Policy (effective January 14, 2008)

At 3-Bids.net we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the services offered by 3-Bids.net.

Information we collect and how we use it:

• Information you provide - When you sign up for a 3-Bids Account, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). The information we store is for internal uses only and is never sold to third parties. For certain services, such as purchasing points, a credit card number is requested. WE DO NOT STORE CREDIT CARD NUMBERS ON OUR SERVERS.
  
  
• Cookies - When you visit 3-Bids.net, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
  
  
• Log information - When you visit a 3-Bids.net Web page, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. The server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
  
  
• User communications - When you send email or other communication to 3-Bids.net, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
  
  
• Affiliated sites - Some of our services are used in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to 3-Bids.net in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
  
  
• Links - 3-Bids.net may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our services, customized content and advertising.
  
  

3-Bids.net only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy document. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing services to clients, including the display of customized content and advertising;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
• Developing new services.

Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures. We restrict access to personal information to 3-Bids.net employees only. There are no third party members who have access to any data we collect.

Data integrity

We process personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information

We provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Changes to this policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.