1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share your personal data. It applies to the OPBazaar.com website (“OPBazaar” or the “Site”) and all related sites, applications, services and tools where this policy is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them, including mobile devices. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us in the event you have any questions or comments.
2. Personal data we collect about you
We may collect and use the following personal data about you:
- your name and contact information, including email address and telephone number
- Computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from OPBazaar, and cookies information;
- your professional online presence, e.g. LinkedIn profile
- your contact history, purchase history and saved items on OPBazaar
- information from accounts you link to OPBazaar, e.g. Facebook and other social media platforms
- information to enable us to undertake credit or other financial checks on you
- information about how you use the OPBazaar website, IT, communication and other systems
- your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
- transactional information based on your activities on OPBazaar (such as information to facilitate buying and selling)
- community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondences through OPBazaar, and correspondences sent to us
- computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from OPBazaar, and cookies information
- other information, including IP address and standard weblog information, and supplemental information from third parties, such as payment account information provided by any payment services that you use to make purchases or receive payments, and your browser ID, cookie ID, device ID, device type, proxy usage, VPN usage, and associated names, locations, email addresses, phone numbers, and social media public profiles provided by our payment fraud and customer due diligence service providers.
This personal data is required to provide our services to you. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general some information about you is required in order for you to: register as a member; purchase products or services; complete a profile; participate in a survey, contest, or sweepstakes; ask us a question; or initiate other transactions on our site.
5. How and why we use your personal data
Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason for doing so, eg:
- to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
- for the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;
- for our legitimate interests or those of a third party;or
- where you have given consent.
A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
6. Promotional communications
We may use your personal data to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone or post) about our services, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and/or services.
We have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data for promotional purposes (see above 'How and why we use your personal data'). This means we do not usually need your consent to send you promotional communications. However, where consent is needed, we will ask for this consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell OR share it with other organizations outside the OPBazaar group for marketing purposes.
9. How long your personal data will be kept
We will keep your personal data while you have an account with us or we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary:
to respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf
to show that we treated you fairly
to mitigate fraud against us or our active users
to keep records required by law
We will not retain your personal data for longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal data, we will delete or anonymize it.
10. Keeping your personal data secure
We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
11. Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy notice was last updated on December 24, 2022.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time—when we do we will inform you by posting the updated privacy policy on the Site or by email.
12. How to contact us
Please contact us by information given below, if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
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