We respect your privacy and have developed detailed Privacy Policy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please take the time to read our Privacy Policy to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data, how we will treat it and the basis on which it will be disclosed to third parties. By visiting our www.gadgetsbidding.com (“our site”) and/or registering for the service and/or providing information about yourself you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.


Please note that certain features or services referenced in this Privacy Policy may not be offered on the Site at all times. Please also review our Terms of Use, which governs your use of this Site, and which is accessible at www.gadgetsbidding.com/terms

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you

Information You Give Us: You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise.

• This includes the information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, sign up for newsletters, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site and when you report a problem with our site.
• The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, personal description and photograph, educational and employment history.

Information We Collect About You: With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
• information about your visit or visits from your IP address, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
• When you contact our customer care department, we may collect the personal information necessary to fulfill your request and to contact you for follow up as needed. We may also contact you using existing account contact information you provide to us for this purpose. We may also collect other information about our communications with our users, for example any user support requests that our users make or any feedback that our users provide to us.

Listings and Transactions:We may host the information, including personal information and contact information, valid contact information and password necessary to provide our Services. Much of the same information used to create an account or profile may be required to post a listing. Any information users share in listings is their own responsibility. Like with profiles, users should carefully consider the risks of making certain personal information, particularly information such as address or precise location information publicly available in a listing.

Information We Collect From Other Sources:With regard to our affiliations, advertising and promotions:

• We may collect personal information such as your name and contact information when you participate in games, quizzes or other marketing promotions we sponsor on our site or on third-party sites. We may also process information related to the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, including what ads are viewed and clicked either on our network or on third- party sites.
• We may also append information we lawfully obtain from business partners or third parties to existing data we hold about our users.

COOKIES

• We may collect certain information through technology like cookies, pixels and local storage (like on your browser or device). Cookies are small text files that store information on your computer, mobile phone or other device locally. Pixels are small images that are part of codes on webpages that do things like allow another server to measure viewing of a webpage and often are used in connection with cookies. The code tracks if and when (and on which page) a pixel is loaded to indicate that a user has engaged with a specific screen or portion of a screen.
• With the help of cookies, the web server can save, for instance, preferences and settings on the user’s computer, mobile phone or other device which are then automatically restored on the next visit. Or to put it another way, the cookies are used, among other things, to make the use of the site more user- friendly so that, for instance, you do not have to repeat the log-in process when you visit again. We use both persistent cookies and session cookies. Whereas persistent cookies remain on your computer for a longer period of time, session cookies are automatically deleted when the browser window is closed.
• We may allow third parties such as advertising or analytics providers to collect information using these types of technologies directly on our website. The data that they collect is subject to the applicable privacy policy of those third parties.

WEB BEACONS

We may also employ software technology known as “web beacons” or “tracking tags” to help us keep track of what content on our Site is effective and to serve relevant advertising to you. Web beacons are small graphics with unique identifiers that may be invisible to you and which are used to track the online activity of Internet users. Web beacons are embedded in the web pages you review or email messages you receive. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to our Site, to monitor how Users navigate the Site, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened, or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.

EMBEDDED SCRIPTS

An Embedded Script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your computer or other device and is deactivated or deleted when you disconnect from the Site.

In addition, we may use a variety of other technologies that collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes and we may use third parties to perform these services on our behalf.

DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS

Please note that your browser setting may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online service you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, we do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

COMMUNITY POSTINGS

The Site may provide you the opportunity to participate and post content publicly on blogs, as reviews, through interactive features and through other communication functionality ("Community Postings"). You may choose, through such features or otherwise, to submit or post questions, comments, or other content (collectively, "User Submitted Materials"). Such User Submitted Materials may be displayed publicly along with certain of your Personal Information, such as your name or a screen name. Please note that your use of Community Postings is subject to our Terms of Use. Note that any Community Postings that you make are public – others will have access to your User Submitted Materials and may use it or share it with third parties. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information in your User Submitted Materials, that information will be considered public information and the protections of this Privacy Policy will not apply.

SOCIAL MEDIA

You may register to join the Site directly via the Site or by logging into your account with a third party social media service via our Site (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, and other third party services that let you sign in using your existing credentials with those services). If you choose to register via a social media service, or to later link your account on our Site to your account with a social media service, we will use Personal Information you have provided to the social media service (such as your name, email address, gender and other information you make publicly available via the social media service) to create your account. Note that the information we collect from and through a social media service may depend on the privacy settings you have with the social media service, that site’s terms of service, and the permissions you grant to us in connection with linking your account with the Site to your account with a social media service. Other than what we may share with the social media service as described below, the Personal Information a social media service has about you is obtained by the social media service independent of our Site, and we are not responsible for it. Our Site also may permit additional interactions between it and a third party website, service, or other content provider, such as enabling you to “like” or share content to a third party social media service, or to share content from a third party social media service to our Site. If you choose to “like” or share content, or to otherwise share information from or via our Site with a third party site or service, that information may be publicly displayed, and the third party may have access to information about you and your use of our Site (and we may have access to information about you from that third party). Please note that your relationship with any social media service is governed solely by your agreement(s) with such social media service and your interactions with third parties through social media or similar features are governed by the respective privacy policies of those third parties. You represent that you are entitled to use your social media account for the purposes described herein without breach by you of any of the terms and conditions that govern the social media service, and without obligating us to pay any fees or making us subject to any usage limitations imposed by such social media service. If your social media account terminates, then functions enabled through the link between your account with us and your social media account will terminate as well.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

• Registering you as a new customer;
• Processing and delivering your orders and service to you;
• Managing your relationship with us;
• To tailor the content that we display to you;
• To notify you about changes to our service;
• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other device used to access our site.
• For system administration and to report aggregated statistical information about browsing patterns and actions which does not identify any individual;
• To store usage logs which may be used by us to provide existing and potential authors, contributors, associations we partner with, subscribers and clients with firm-level (i.e. not individual) information about the user base and usage patterns;
• To administer our site and for internal operations, including product development, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
• To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
• As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
• We may combine information received from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will not usually share your personal information with other third parties without your consent but may do so in the following situation

• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our term of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Gadgetsbidding, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
• where we share aggregated information which does not identify individuals with potential authors, contributors, subscribers and clients;
• where we are requested to provide information by authorized third parties or regulatory or governmental agencies investigating illegal activities;
• where we believe that an emergency, illegal activity or some other reasonable basis exists for notifying the relevant authority;
• Where we use sub-contractors to provide the service. Any such sub-contractor will only use your personal information for the purposes of providing services to us and will have no right to use your personal information for its own purposes;
• 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 Gadgetsbidding or substantially all of its 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.
• Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. Save as expressly stated, we do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
• We may hold events including seminars and conferences which are sponsored by third parties or have third party speakers. Where you register for one of these events, we may share your details with those third parties.
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our site.

We use third party payment processing services when you make payment through our site. We do not have access to any credit card or other financial information processed by the third party.

SECURITY

We employ security measures to ensure that your personal information is kept secure. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

USERS’ OPTION

Access, Correction and Deletion:  For users that have created an account or listing with us, you can access, correct or delete your personal information by writing to us at the following address: [email protected]. You are responsible for keeping the data you provide or post on our network accurate. If your account was created through an identity provider (e.g. Facebook Connect) you may also disable or change the account information through the settings offered by the identity provider (e.g. on Facebook.com).

In furtherance, if as a visitor to this site or an event attendee a photograph of yours was taken and uploaded on this platform along with other photographs taken at an event at any point in time and certain location which in your opinion you have not authorized, you can take down and delete such photograph by writing to us at the address mentioned above. Take notice, however, that shotsxperience and its parent company is excluded from liability that might arise as a result of public access to the photograph prior to the take down and deletion of it premise on your request. Third Party Choice: Certain third parties active on our site, e.g. Google Adwords, give you the ability to opt out of their collection and use of information for interest-based advertising. You can visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com. or http://www.networkadvertising.org to learn more about this practice and to exercise choices over how this type of information may be collected and used.

Cookies: Most major desktop and mobile web browsers (e.g Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera) provide controls that allow you to limit or block the setting of cookies on your systems. Note that disabling cookies in your browser for either first-party domains (the sites you actively visit) or third-party domains (companies other than those you directly visit on the Web) may result in decreased functionality in certain instances.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSER OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Site is a Nigerian website. We make no representation that this Privacy Policy or its data practices comply with the laws of any other country. Visitors who use the Site and reside outside Nigeria do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you are located outside Nigeria, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to and processed in the Nigeria, a jurisdiction in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as those in the country where you reside or are a citizen. By using the Site or providing us with any information, you consent to this transfer, storage, and processing of such information in Nigeria.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

The date at the bottom of this page indicates when this privacy was last updated. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. By continuing to use our services, our users confirm their continuing acceptance of any updates to this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [email protected]

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