eDisty Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information. We want you to fully understand our privacy practices.

The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and sub-domains of www.eDisty.com and apply generally to our parent, subsidiaries and joint venture websites whose specific privacy policies are available. By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please to not use or access our Site.

Overview

This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part of the normal operation of our services, we collect from you and what may happen to that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about eDisty's practices so that you can make informed decisions.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and User Agreement during registration, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the eDisty User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance during registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on June 1th, 2008 for all users.

Table of Contents

Information We Collect
Our Use of Your Information
Our Disclosure of Your Information
Advertisers
eDisty Community
Co-Brand Services Providers
Legal Request
Your Use of Other User’s Information
Use of Email Tools
Control of Your Password
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
Other Information Collectors
Security
Privacy Tools
Notice
Accountability

Information We Collect

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to use our Site, we require you to provide contact and identity information, billing information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.

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Our Use of Your Information

We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; bill your account; help promote safe trading; measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection, use or disclosure. At times we look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User ID's or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our services.

Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personal information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, and financial information are not disclosed to these third parties in a personally identifiable manner without your explicit consent.

eDisty Community. Your User ID is displayed throughout the Site.

Your Use of Other Users' Information

In order to facilitate interaction among eDisty members, our Site provides you with limited access other users' contact and shipping information. As a seller you have access to the User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information of the buyer, and as the buyer you have access to the User ID, email address and other contact information of the seller.

By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other user's personal information that you obtain through the Site or through an eDisty-related communication or eDisty-facilitated transaction, eDisty hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a) eDisty-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, (b) using co-branded services offered through eDisty (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that a such user expressly agrees to after you tell them the purpose you would like to use it for.

Use of Email tools

You may not use the Email This Item to a Friend service or other email services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreement. We do not permanently store email messages or the email addresses sent from these tools.

If you do send an email using the Email This Item to a Friend service to an email address that is not registered on our Site, we do not use that email address for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.

Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore, we do not recommend that you disclose your eDisty password to anyone. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible for all actions taken with your account and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy before doing so. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.

Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information

Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration including:
Your User ID an email address. If you change your User ID we keep track of your old User ID(s) and your new User ID.
Your name, company address, city, province, postal code, country, primary phone number, secondary phone number, fax number and gender.
Your password
Your credit card number and expiration date, if you supplied one.
You must promptly update your information if it changes.
Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our chat rooms or other message areas or the feedback area.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, billing information, shipping information and financial information from our active databases. To make this request, please contact us. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based upon your account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to remove to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our User Agreement and comply with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests. However, such personal information will be deactivated from public and member viewing and will only be available to select eDisty personal.

Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are buyers or sellers on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. Since eDisty does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Security

Your information is stored and processed on computers located in Canada. eDisty uses procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as against unauthorized access or disclosure, to protect your privacy, including firewalls and encryption. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Privacy Tools

It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. We have created easy-to-read summaries, privacy principles, a privacy chart and, are working on privacy enhancing technology to help summarize our full privacy policy. If you have questions about any summary or if you would like more detailed information, we encourage you to contact us.

Notice

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on the Site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we will notify you in accordance with your Notification Preferences.

Accountability

Our privacy office is responsible for ensuring that our day-to-day procedures comply with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact eDisty.

   
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