| Privacy Policy
Smart Collecting is committed
to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read
the following policy to understand how your personal
information will be treated as you make full use
of Smart Collecting. This policy may change
from time to time so please check back periodically.
This policy will let you
know:
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What personally identifiable information is
collected from you
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What cookies are and how they are used
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How your information is used
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Who is collecting your information
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With whom your information may be shared
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What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use, and distribution of your
information
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How you can access, update or delete your
information
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The kind of security precautions that are
in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration
of your information
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How Smart Collecting protects children's privacy
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What else you should know about your online
privacy
What personally identifiable information is collected
from you
Smart Collecting collects information
in several ways from different parts of our web
site.
We may ask you for personal
information at certain times, including (but not
limited to) when you place ads, join our club
or trader's rating list, subscribe to our newsletters,
use our message boards, or participate in chat
rooms. If you contact us, we may keep a record
of that correspondence.
Any individual can browse Smart
Collecting on the World Wide Web. No registration
is required. However, there are some aspects of
our website where we do collect information about
our visitors or require registration. Any information
is never shared with anyone outside of Smart Collecting
(and Topica, our mailing list host provider) and
is used to refine our content based on our visitors.
To join the Smart Collecting
Club, visitors are asked to register. Our registration
form requests users to include their name, e-mail
address, age range, collecting interests, frequency
of Internet and how they found our website.
In order to receive one of our
free email newsletters, we only require an email
address.
In order to join our Trader's
Rating List, we require their name, e-mail address
and links (if applicable) to other website where
visitors can view their feedback rating.
In order to post a free ad in
our Classifieds section, we require their name,
e-mail address, city, and state.
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What cookies are and how they are used
As part of offering and providing
customizable and personalized services, Smart
Collecting may use
cookies to store and sometimes track information
about you. A cookie is a small amount of data
that is sent to your browser from a web server
and stored on your computer's hard drive. Certain
features of Smart Collecting require that you
accept cookies in order to work properly. (See
"What choices are available to you regarding
collection, use, and distribution of your information"
for more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies for
the following purposes:
Advertising networks that serve
ads onto Smart Collecting may use their own cookies.
Smart Collecting may also collect
IP addresses for system administration and
to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
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How your information is used
The primary goal of Smart Collecting
in collecting personal information is to provide
you, the user, with a customized experience and
to assist your navigation throughout the website.
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Who is collecting your information
When you are asked for personal
information on Smart Collecting, you are sharing
that information with Smart Collecting alone,
unless it is specifically stated otherwise. However,
some activities will, by their very nature, result
in your personal information being revealed to
other users of Smart Collecting. For example,
when you enter personal information on the Classified
ad posting form, this information will generally
be included in your ad, unless specifically stated
otherwise.
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With whom your information may be shared
As a general rule, Smart Collecting
will not disclose any of your personally identifiable
information except when we have your permission
or under special circumstances, such as when we
believe in good faith that the law requires it
or under the circumstances described below. Please
see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for
each of our products and services for more detailed
information about how your personal information
may be shared.
Smart Collecting may disclose
account information in special cases when we have
reason to believe that disclosing this information
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal
action against someone who may be violating the
Terms of Service of Smart Collecting or may be
causing injury to or interference with (either
intentionally or unintentionally) the rights or
property of Smart Collecting, other users of Smart
Collecting, or anyone else that could be harmed
by such activities. Smart Collecting may disclose
or access account information when we believe
in good faith that the law requires it.
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What choices are available to you regarding collection,
use, and distribution of your information
If you choose not to provide
personal information, you can still use some areas
of Smart Collecting, but you will not be able
to access areas or use features that require you
to submit personal information, such as posting
ads.
You also have choices with respect
to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences,
you have the choice to accept all cookies, to
be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject
all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies
you will be unable to use those services of Smart
Collecting that require registration in order
to participate. You can still use most of the
features of Smart Collecting even if you do not
accept cookies.
Smart Collecting does not sell
or rent user information to anyone. We will notify
you at the time of data collection or transfer
if your data will be shared with a third party
and you will always have the option of not permitting
the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your
data to be shared, you can choose not to use a
particular service.
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How you can access, update or delete your information
We will provide you with the
means to ensure that your personal information
is correct and current. You may edit or delete
your Classifieds ads at any time by clicking on
the appropriate link or graphic provided by the
system. To update your email address, click
here for details.
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The kind of security precautions that are in place
to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of
your information
Other than the administrator
of Smart Collecting or other authorized personnel
of Smart Collecting, you are the only person who
has access to your personal information. Your
Classified ads and Trader's Rating are password-protected
to prevent unauthorized access.
We recommend that you do not
divulge your password to anyone. Smart Collecting
will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited
phone call or in an unsolicited email.
Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. As a result, while we strive to protect
your personal information, Smart Collecting cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information
you transmit to us or from our online services,
and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive
your transmission, we make our best effort to
ensure its security on our systems.
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How Smart Collecting protects children's privacy
Smart Collecting is a general
audience web site. Children should always ask
a parent for permission before sending personal
information to anyone online. Smart Collecting
does not share personal information about users
under the age of 13 with third parties and we
do not sell or rent personal information about
any of our users, regardless of age.
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What else you should know about your online privacy
Please keep in mind that whenever
you voluntarily disclose personal information
online - for example in ads that you post or through
email - that information can be collected and
used by others. In short, if you post personal
information online that is accessible to the public,
you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible
for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords
and/or any account information. Please be careful
and responsible whenever you're online.
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Smart Collecting
believes in on-line safety and would welcome any
suggestions that you may have. Please contact
us at:
Smart Collecting
Email:
orders@smartcollecting.com
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