We provide settings that allow you to choose how certain information is used by Biddow. This policy explains our privacy practices for Biddow.com (which we'll refer to as the "Site") and our other services provided by Biddow. We'll refer to the Site and our other services as the "Services." This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties who may also collect or receive data in connection with your use of the Services.

1. Our Privacy Policy

We process your personal information to run our business. By accepting our Terms of Use (and in some jurisdictions, by acknowledging this policy), you confirm that you have read and understand this policy, including how and why we use your information. If you don't want us to collect or process your personal information in the ways described in this policy, you shouldn't use the Services. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies or practices of any of our members, websites hosted through Pattern by Biddow, or third-party websites and apps.

Biddow's Terms of Use require all account owners to be at least 18 years of age. Minors under 18 years of age and at least 14 years of age are permitted to use Biddow's Services only if they have permission and direct supervision by the owner of the account. You are responsible for any and all account activity conducted by a minor on your account. We do not knowingly collect and "sell," as that term is defined under applicable law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, the personal information of minors.

By using the Services, you acknowledge that Biddow will use your information in the United States and any other country where Biddow operates. Please be aware that the privacy laws and standards in certain countries, including the rights of authorities to access your personal information, may differ from those that apply in the country in which you reside. We will transfer personal information only to those countries to which we are permitted by law to transfer personal information as more fully described in the "Transfers" Section of this policy.

2. Information Collected or Received

In the course of providing our Services, we collect or receive your personal information in a few different ways. We obtain the categories of personal information listed below from the following sources: directly from you, for example, from forms you complete or during registration; indirectly from you based on your activity and interaction with our Services, or from the device or browser you use to access the Services. Often, you choose what information to provide, but sometimes we require certain information to provide you the Services. Biddow uses the personal information it receives and collects in accordance with the purposes described in this policy.

Registration, Account Setup, Service Usage: In order to use the Services, you will need to submit a valid email address. If you register, you will need to submit a name associated with your account. You may modify that name through your account settings. You need to provide this information to enable us to provide you with the Services. Biddow may contact individuals confidentially to request more information to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law. In order to use certain services or services on Biddow, you may be required to complete an application; information that you submit through the application process will not be displayed publicly and will only be used internally by Biddow and its service providers, unless otherwise specified.

Profile: You may provide your name and other personal information in connection with your account and activity. You can edit or remove this information through your settings. The name associated with your account (which you may modify in your account settings) is publicly displayed and connected to your Biddow activity. Other members may see the date you joined; ratings, reviews and information relating to transactions you review; your profile information; listings you posted for sale.

Automated Information: Biddow automatically receives and records information from your browser or your mobile device when you visit the Site, use certain features of the Services, such as your IP address to allow us to operate and provide the Services. This information is stored in log files and is collected automatically.

Location Information: We collect information about your use of the Services for analytics, to serve content, and to protect the Services. This can include your IP address, browser information (including referrers), device information (such as iOS IDFA, IDFV for limited non-advertising purposes, Android AAID, and, when enabled by you, location information provided by your device).

3. Findability

We do not retain the login information for your email service, mobile device, or social network site.

4. Messages from Biddow

On occasion, Biddow will need to contact you. Primarily, these messages are delivered by email, Biddow Messages, or by push notifications for a variety of reasons, including marketing, transactions, and service update purposes. If you no longer wish to receive push notifications, you can disable them at device level. To ensure you properly receive notifications, we will need to collect certain information about your device, such as operating system and user identification information. Every account is required to keep a valid email address on file to receive messages.

You understand and agree that Biddow can send you non-marketing emails, Biddow Messages, or messages, such as those related to transactions, your account, security, or product changes. Examples of service-related messages include an email address confirmation/welcome email when you register your account, notification of an order, service availability, modification of key features or functions, and correspondence with Biddow's Support team (including by chat interface or the other methods of communication as described above).

5. Community

Biddow is a marketplace and a community. Please use common sense and good judgment when sharing your personal information with others through the Services.

6. Information Uses, Sharing, & Disclosure

We respect your privacy. Biddow will not disclose your name, email address, or other personal information to third parties without your consent, except as specified in this policy.

Legal Bases

When you access or use the Services, we collect, use, share, and otherwise process your personal information for the purposes described in this policy. We rely on a number of legal bases to use your information in these ways. These legal bases include where:

Necessary to perform the contractual obligations in our Terms of Use and in order to provide the Services to you; You have consented to the processing, which you can revoke at any time; Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order, or to exercise or defend any impending or asserted legal claims; Necessary for the purposes of our or a third party's legitimate interests, such as those of visitors, members, or partners (described in more detail below); You have expressly made the information public; Necessary in the public interest, such as to prevent crime; and Occasionally necessary to protect your vital interests or those of others (in rare cases where we may need to share information to prevent loss of life or personal injury).

We principally rely on consent (which can be withdrawn at anytime) (i) to send marketing messages, (ii) for third-party data sharing related to advertising, and, to the extent applicable, (iii) for the use of location data for advertising purposes.

We rely on consent for targeted online and offline marketing including through tools. As part of this, we may work with advertising partners such as Facebook, Google, and other partners disclosed in our Cookies and Similar Technology Policy. These partners have their own privacy policies and consent mechanisms for their customers, in addition to Biddow's controls. You may see the privacy policies and privacy choices for these partners, and the information you share with them, in our Cookies and Similar Technology Disclosures.

Our Legitimate Interests

Where we process your information on the basis of legitimate interests, we do so as follows:

Providing and Improving our Services: We use your information to improve and customize our Services, including sharing your information for such purposes, and we do so as it is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests of improving our Services for our users. This is also necessary to enable us to pursue our legitimate interests in understanding how our Services are being used, and to explore and unlock ways to develop and grow our business. It is also necessary to allow us to pursue our legitimate interests in improving our Services, efficiency, interest in Services for users, and obtaining insights into usage patterns of our Services. As a core part of our Services, we have a legitimate interest in customizing your on-site experience to help you search for and discover relevant services and recommended purchases.

Providing Marketing Communications: We rely on our legitimate interest to send you marketing messages (where permitted independent of consent) and for Biddow's advertising programs (including Biddow's on-site advertising and marketing).

Keeping our Services Safe and Secure: We use your information for safety and security purposes, which can include sharing your information for such purposes, and we do so because it is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests or those of a third party in ensuring the security of our Services, preventing harm to individuals or property, or crime, enforcing or defending legal rights, or preventing damage to Biddow's systems, or those of our users or our partners. This includes enhancing protection of our community against spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime, and security risks of all kinds. We use your information to provide and improve the Services, for billing and payments, for identification and authentication, and for general research and aggregate reporting. For example, in accordance with our existing case resolution process, we may use information you provide to resolve disputes with Biddow or other members.

style="font-size:14px">Site Customization: We may learn about the types of services that you're interested in from your browsing and purchasing behavior on (and off) the Site or Apps and use such information to suggest potential purchases as a result. As a core part of our Services, we have a legitimate interest in customizing your on-site experience to help you search for and discover relevant services and recommended purchases, including using this information to help teachers find the best ways to market and sell their services on Biddow.

Legal and Safety: Biddow may retain, preserve, or release your personal information to a third party in the following limited circumstances: in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet legitimate national security or law enforcement requirements; to protect, establish, or exercise our legal rights or defend against impending or asserted legal claims, including to collect a debt, or a material violation of our policies (including our Intellectual Property Policy); to comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, or other legal requirement; or when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is reasonably 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 rights or property, or violations of Biddow's Terms of Use. In these cases, our use of your information may be necessary for the purposes of our or a third party's legitimate interest in keeping our Services secure, preventing harm or crime, enforcing or defending legal rights, or preventing damage. Such use may also be necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order, or to exercise or defend legal claims. It may also be necessary in the public interest (such as to prevent crime) or to protect vital interests (in rare cases where we may need to share information to prevent loss of life or personal injury).

If Biddow receives a lawful, verified request for a member's records or information in one of the limited circumstances described in the previous paragraph, Biddow may disclose personal information, which may include, but may not be limited to, a member's name, address, phone number, email address, and company name.

The United States, European Economic Area ("EEA") Member States, and other countries all have different laws. When your information is moved from your home country to another country, the laws and rules that protect your personal information in the country to which your information is transferred may be different from those in the country in which you live. For example, the circumstances in which law enforcement can access personal information may vary from country to country. In particular, if your information is in the US, it may be accessed by government authorities in accordance with US law.

Biddow provides a voluntary service; you can choose whether or not to use the Services. As we operate in countries worldwide and use technical infrastructure in the U.S. to deliver the Services to you, in accordance with the contract between us (our Terms of Use), we need to transfer your personal information to the U.S. and to other jurisdictions as necessary to provide the Services. Simply put, we can't provide you with the Services and perform our contract with you without moving your personal information around the world.

8. Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after it is received. Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your account information is protected by a password. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access to your account and information by choosing your password carefully and by keeping your password and computer secure, such as by signing out after using the Services.

9. Retention

Biddow will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, for as long as your account is active (i.e., for the lifetime of your Biddow member account), or as needed to provide the Services to you. If you no longer want Biddow to use your information to provide the Services to you, you may close your account. Biddow will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable tax/revenue laws), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and as otherwise described in this policy. In addition, Biddow teachers may also be required to retain and use your information in order to comply with their own legal obligations. Please note that closing your account may not free up your email address, username, or shop name (if any) for reuse on a new account. We also retain log files for internal analysis purposes. These log files are generally retained for a brief period of time, except in cases where they are used for site safety and security, to improve site functionality, or we are legally obligated to retain them for longer time periods.

10. Your Rights & Choices

Certain privacy laws around the world, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), provide users with rights related to their personal information. Consistent with those laws, Biddow gives you the choice of accessing, editing, or removing certain information, as well as choices about how we contact you. You may change or correct your Biddow account information through your account settings. You may also remove certain optional information that you no longer wish to be publicly visible through the Services, such as your name. You can also request to permanently close your account and delete your personal information. Depending on your location, you may also benefit from a number of rights with respect to your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply in limited cases.

Right to Access & Portability: You can access certain personal information associated with your account by visiting your account privacy settings.

Right to Correction: You have the right to request that we rectify inaccurate information about you. By visiting your account settings, you can correct and change certain personal information associated with your account.

Right to Restrict Processing: In certain cases where we process your information, you may also have the right to restrict or limit the ways in which we use your personal information.

Right to Deletion: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, except information we are required to retain by law, regulation, or to protect the safety, security, and integrity of Biddow. See this Help Center article for more information.

Right to Object: If we process your information based on our legitimate interests as explained above, or in the public interest, you can object to this processing in certain circumstances. In such cases, we will cease processing your information unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue processing or where it is needed for legal reasons. Where we use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you can object using the unsubscribe link in such communications or changing your account email settings.

Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on consent, you can choose to withdraw your consent to our processing of your information using specific features provided to enable you to withdraw consent, like an email unsubscribe link or your account privacy preferences. If you have consented to share your precise device location details but would no longer like to continue sharing that information with us, you can revoke your consent to the sharing of that information through the settings on your mobile device. This is without prejudice to your right to generally permanently close your account and delete your personal information.

The CCPA provides California residents with the following additional rights:

Right to Know: California residents may request disclosure of the specific pieces and/or categories of personal information that the business has collected about them, the categories of sources for that personal information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, the categories of personal information that we have disclosed, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared.

Right to Opt-Out: To the extent that Biddow "sells" personal information(as that term is defined under the CCPA), California residents are entitled to opt-out of the "sale" of data at any time (see below for more information).

If you would like to manage, change, limit, or delete your personal information, you can do so via your Biddow account settings. Alternatively, you can exercise any of the rights above by contacting us. Once you contact us to exercise any of your rights, we will confirm receipt of your request.

Limiting use of, or deleting, your personal information may impact features and uses that rely on that information. However, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights, including otherwise denying you services, providing you with a different level or quality of services, or charging you different prices or rates for services. If you need further assistance, you can contact Biddow through one of the channels listed below under "Contact". We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

Please note that we may verify your identity before we are able to process any of the requests described in this Section, and in our discretion, deny your request if we are unable to verify your identity. As a part of this process, government or other identification may be required. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester's valid government issued identification, and the authorized agent's valid government issued identification, and we may verify the authenticity of the request directly with you.

Email & Messages

You may also control the receipt of certain types of communications from Biddow in your account settings. Biddow may send you messages about the Services or your activity. Some of these messages are required, service-related messages for members (such as transactional messages or legal notices). Other messages are not required, such as newsletters. If you no longer wish to use the Services or receive service-related messages (except for legally required notices), then you may close your account.

Cookies

We use technically necessary (for the functioning and security of the Services).

Additional Disclosures for California Residents

Notice of Collection

In addition to the Rights & Choices described above, the CCPA requires disclosure of the categories of personal information collected over the past 12 months. While this information is provided in greater detail in the "Information Collected or Received Section above, the categories of personal information that we have collected - as described by the CCPA - are:

Identifiers, including name, email address, IP address, and an ID or number assigned to your account.

Demographics, such as your age or gender. This category includes data that may qualify as protected

classifications under other California or federal laws.

Commercial information, including purchases and engagement with the Services.

Internet activity, including your interactions with our Services and what led you to our Services.

Sensory visual data, such as pictures posted on our Service.

Geolocation data provided through location enabled services such as WiFi and GPS.

Inferences, including information about your interests, preferences and favorites.

The Purposes for Our Collection

We collect and use these categories of personal information for our business and commercial purposes described in the "Information Uses, Sharing and Disclosure" Section above, including providing and improving the Services, maintaining the safety and security of the Services, processing purchase and sale transactions, and for advertising and marketing services.

Third Party Marketing and Advertising and Your Rights (Opt-Out of "Sale")

Biddow does not sell personal information to third parties for monetary value. However, the term "sale" is defined broadly under the California Consumer Privacy Act. To the extent that "sale" under the CCPA is interpreted to include interest based advertising or other data uses described in the "Information Uses, Sharing and Disclosure" Section above, we will comply with applicable law as to those activities. You can read more in our Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy.

Do Not Track Signals

Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is interpreted to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to "Do Not Track" signals. For more information on "Do Not Track," visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Shine the Light

California law entitles residents to ask for a notice describing what categories of personal information we share with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. Other than to Sellers on Biddow (see "Learning and Teaching" under the "Information Uses, Sharing and Disclosure" Section above), who must obtain your separate consent for their own marketing off of Biddow, or unless you request us to or consent to it, Biddow does not share any personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

11. Your Responsibilities

If you sell using our Services, you may receive and determine what to do with certain personal information. Your privacy responsibilities, including when you act as an independent data controller (someone who decides what personal data to collect and the purpose you use the data for) are laid out in the Biddow Seller Policy.

12. Privacy Policy Changes

We may amend or update this policy from time to time. If we believe that the changes are material, we'll let you know by doing one (or more) of the following: (i) posting the changes on or through the Services, (ii) sending you an email or message about the changes. We encourage you to check back regularly and review any updates.

13. Contact

If you have any questions:

Contact Biddow's Support team via our Help Center

Write to us at one of the following addresses:

Biddow

1022 Grassland CT

Hillsborough, NC, USA

27278

If you live in the EEA, you may file a complaint with your local data protection regulator.

Last updated on Jan 1, 2020