We love our community at Collectio. You’ve trusted us with a big responsibility, and we’re committed to upholding a high standard when it comes to our
privacy practices. It’s important to us that you’re comfortable on Collectio, so we provide options for you to control how much information you share and
your communication preferences. We use secure technologies and follow best practices. We believe in being transparent about our practices, which is why we
provide a detailed Privacy Policy to explain how we gather, use and protect your information. We’ve pulled out the highlights here, in an effort to better
communicate the key points.
By visiting Collectio's website, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such,
and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
Current policy published: May 20, 2016.
Scope
Information Collected or Received
Collectio requires a member to provide a valid email address and choose a username connected with your site activity. Depending on the services you choose,
additional information may be collected, for example: billing or payment information, a telephone number, and a physical address.
You may optionally choose to provide your full name and other personal information (such as birthday, gender, location) to be publicly displayed.
You may connect to Collectio with an external application, in which case Collectio may receive some information from that other service.
We use cookies, clear gifs, log files, and flash cookies for several purposes, including to help understand how people interact with our site and services, in order to provide a better experience.
Uses and Sharing
We use the information that we gather from our users in a number of ways, including to provide and improve our services, for targeted online marketing, and
to communicate with you. We also partner with service providers and other third parties that collect, use, and analyze information about Collecto users.
Collectio will not sell or disclose your personal information to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in our Privacy Policy.
Choices
You may review and change your information in your account settings, and you may remove certain optional pieces of information.
You may opt-out of receiving certain types of communications from Collectio in your account settings.You also may limit certain tracking by disabling
cookies in your web browser.
Contact Us
You can email us about the Privacy Policy at info@collectio.bid.
Privacy Policy
At Collectio, we value our community. You trust us with your information, and we’re serious about that responsibility. We believe in transparency, and we’re committed to being upfront about our privacy practices, including how we treat personal information we collect or receive. We know you care about your privacy, too, so we provide settings that allow you to control how certain information is used on Collectio. This policy explains our privacy practices for collectio.bid (the “Site”), Collectio’s mobile applications (the “Apps”) and services provided by Collectio. By visiting the Site or using the Apps, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.
Information Collected or Received
Collectio will not disclose your name, email address or other personal information to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in
this policy.
As a Collectio member you are required to provide a valid email address at registration and choose a username or alias that may represent your identity on
Collectio.
Depending on which services you choose to use, Collectio may require additional information, such as a shop name, billing and payment information
(including billing address, telephone number, credit card information), a telephone number, and/or a physical postal address. As a shop owner if you choose
to enable the direct checkout service ('Direct Checkout'), Collectio may require information such as your social security number, identification ID or tax
ID, date of birth, bank account information, credit card information and/or other proof of identification in order to verify your identity and provide this
service to you. Credit card information on an account may be stored and used for both billing and payment purposes. Collectio may contact individual shop
owners to confidentially request more information about their shops or items listed on the Site, to ensure compliance with our rules. Certain products or
services on Collectio may require you to complete an application; any information you submit through the application processes will not be displayed
publicly and will only be used internally by Collectio, unless otherwise specified.
You may optionally choose to provide your full name and other personal information (such as birthday, gender, location) to be publicly displayed in
connection with your account and activity.
Your username, Collectio ID or alias is publicly displayed and connected to your Collectio activity. Other people may see your date joined, reviews,
ratings, profile information, items listed for sale, shop pages, sold item listings, and comments in community spaces.
Collectio automatically receives and records some information from your browser or your mobile device when you visit the Site or use the Apps, such as your IP address or unique device identifier, cookies and data about which pages you visit on the Site or on the Apps. This information helps us analyze and understand how the Site and the Apps work for members and visitors, and provide a more personalized experience for members and visitors.
Collectio may receive some data from those connected third-party applications. Connecting your Collectio account to third-party applications or services is optional, and when you connect your account to an external app, you will be given the opportunity to grant permission.
Collectio may receive or collect information (for example: an email address) about a person who is not yet a registered Collectio member (a “non-member”) in connection with certain Collectio features, including but not limited to: a non-member subscribing to an Collectio newsletter, a member inviting a non-member to visit the Site, a non-member engaging in a transaction, or a member sending a gift card code to a non-member. Non-member information is used only for the purpose it was originally submitted to Collectio.
Collectio uses the information described in this policy to provide and improve our services and products, for billing and payments, for identification and authentication, for targeted online marketing, to contact members or interested parties, and for general research and aggregate reporting.
Collectio Terms of Use require all account owners to be at least 18 years of age (or have the permission and supervision of a responsible parent or legal guardian), therefore, this policy does not discuss use of our Site, our Apps, or services by minors.
Choice & Control
We know members of our community value having control over their own information, and therefore Collectio gives you the choice of providing, editing or
removing certain information, as well as choice over how we contact you.
You may change or correct your Collectio account information (except your username) on the Site. You may also remove certain optional information on the
Site that you no longer wish to be publicly visible, such as your full name.
For various reasons, Collectio may contact you about our services or your activity. Some of these messages are required, service-related messages for
members. Other messages are not required, and you can control which optional messages you choose to receive by changing your settings in your account.
Learn more in the Messages from Collectio section of this policy.
If you no longer wish to use Collectio’s services or receive service-related messages, then you may close your account.
Findability
You may connect directly with your email service provider, your mobile device’s address book, or a social network account to import your contacts to
Collectio; we do not retain the login information for your email service, mobile device, or social network site. You may be able to search for people you
know by email address or phone number on the Site or by connecting to your mobile device’s contact list through the Apps. Finding your friends on Collectio
helps you connect with them in community features. You can follow another member’s public activity, such as Favorites lists. When you begin following
another member’s activity, they may receive an email notification (unless a member has opted-out of receiving this type of email).
If you do not want your contacts to be able to find you on Collectio through your email address, phone number, or social networking connections, then you
may opt-out through your account settings on the Site. If you do not wish to be located
on Collectio via your full name, you may remove your name from your public account information on the Site. It is not possible to opt-out of being found
via your username.
Messages from Collectio
On occasion, Collectio will contact you. Primarily, messages are delivered by email or by push notifications, and every account is required to keep a valid
email address on file to receive messages. In some situations, Collectio may contact you by telephone, SMS message or physical mail in order to provide you
with customer support or to provide you with information about products and features you may find of interest. You may update your contact preferences in your account settings.
Some messages from Collectio are service-related and required for members. Examples of service-related messages include, but are not limited to: a
welcome/confirmation email when you register your account, notification of an order, or correspondence with Collectio’s support team. These messages are
not promotional in nature. You may not opt-out of receiving service-related messages from Collectio, unless you close your account.
As a member, Collectio may also send you messages related to certain features or your activity on the Site or Apps. Collectio may also send you news or
updates about changes to our Site, Apps, or services. By default, members will receive these messages via email or push notifications through the Apps, but
you may choose to opt-out of getting certain messages through the settings on your Collectio account.
Collectio offers optional email newsletters. When you register for an account, or choose to subscribe, you will receive newsletters from us. Newsletters
are available to both members and non-members. Members may subscribe or unsubscribe from optional newsletters under your account settings or by following
the instructions contained in the newsletter emails. Non-members may subscribe by providing an email address, which will only be used by Collectio for
these newsletters. Non-members may unsubscribe from newsletters by following the instructions contained in the newsletter emails.
A contact-importer feature is available to help you locate and connect with your friends and contacts who may be members of Collectio (see Findability). If someone in your contact list is not already a member, you may invite them to join Collectio. Recipients of email invitations may
opt out of receiving future invitations by following instructions in the email invitation message.
Community
Collectio is both a marketplace and a community. We offer several features that allow members to connect and communicate in public or semi-public spaces, such as Forums, and multimedia chat events. Please use common sense and good judgment when posting in these community spaces or sharing your personal information with others on Collectio. Be aware that any personal information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by others, or could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Collectio generally does not remove content from community spaces, and your posts may remain public after your account is closed. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to post in community spaces on Collectio.
Another Collectio member may follow your public activity on Collectio to receive updates, for example: when you create a public Treasury list or add an
item to your Favorites. You may choose to make certain activities private through your account settings on the Site. After a member has begun following
your activity, you have the option to block that member through the Site if you do not wish to share your updates with that specific person.
Information Sharing & Disclosure
We want to respect your privacy. Collectio will not disclose your name, email address or other personal information to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this policy.
Collectio limits access to your personal information to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
As part of the buying and selling process, Collectio will facilitate the sharing of information between the two members involved in the transaction. As part of the buying or selling process, you may obtain another Collectio member's email address, shipping address, payment information, and/or other information. As described in Collectio's Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use this information only for Collectio-related communications or for Collectio-facilitated transactions. Collectio has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages or unauthorized transactions. Without express consent from that person, you must not add any Collectio member to your email or physical mailing list or store or misuse any payment information.
Collectio may release your personal information to a third-party in order to protect, establish, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, or other legal requirement; or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, threats to our property, or violations of Collectio's Terms of Use.
Collectio is affiliated with a variety of businesses and works closely with them. These businesses may offer promotions or sell items or services to you through Collectio’s services. Collectio may also provide services or sell products jointly with affiliated businesses. Due to the nature of our business model, when an affiliated business is associated with your transaction, we may share information that is related to such transaction with that affiliated business. Collectio may share aggregated demographic information with business partners.
In some cases, Collectio may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions (such as a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of Collectio’s assets), member information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. In the event that Collectio transfers information about you, Collectio will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Site and the App, and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out before information about you becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
Third-party plug-ins also may collect information about your use of the Site. For example, when you a load a page on Collectio that has a social plug-in from a third-party site or service, such as a Like or Send button, you are also loading content from that third-party site. That site may request cookies directly from your browser. These interactions are subject to the privacy policy of the third-party site. In addition, certain cookies and other tracking mechanisms on our site are used by third parties for targeted online marketing and other purposes. These technologies allow a partner to recognize your computer or mobile device each time you visit Collectio, but do not allow access to personally identifiable information from Collectio. Collectio does not have access or control over these third-party technologies, and they are not covered by our privacy policy. If you prefer to prevent third parties from setting and accessing cookies on your computer, you may set your browser to block cookies. And you may opt out of the use of cookies by Google Analytics here. Although our website currently does not respond to 'do not track' browser headers, you can limit tracking by taking these steps.
We can only speak for ourselves; this policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Collectio does not own or control, or individuals that Collectio does not employ or manage. If you provide your information to others on Collectio or throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to the use or disclosure of the information you provide to them. Collectio does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Collectio is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites on the Internet, even those linked to or from the Collectio Site or Apps. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. Your Collectio account information is protected by a password. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access of your account and information by choosing your password carefully, and keeping your password and computer secure by signing out after using our services.
Collectio encrypts sensitive information (such as credit card number) using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Collectio follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once Collectio receives it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Data Retention
Collectio will retain your information only for as long as is necessary or your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you no longer want Collectio to use your information to provide you services, you may close your account. Collectio will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
You may inform us of any changes or requests in regards to your personal data, and in accordance with our obligations under local data protection law, we may update or delete your personal data accordingly.
Privacy Policy Changes
Collectio reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it periodically. We’ll communicate changes by posting a notice on the Site or the Apps. If we make material changes to this policy, prior to the change becoming effective, you will be notified here, by email, in the version notes on the Apps' platform, or other places Collectio deems appropriate.
Contact Collectio
If you have questions about personal information or suggestions you can contact Collectio’s Support team, by sending an email to info@collectio.bid, or contact us at: COLLECTIO.BID, P.O. Box 3138, GR-102 10 ATHENS, GREECE. We will respond to you within 30 days of receipt of your correspondence.
