Effective Date: February 1, 2012
Bit Brokers International, Ltd. owns and operates the Website bitbrokers.com and provides its associated services. Bit Brokers hereby adopts this Privacy Policy (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”) to provide you with notice of its collection and use of personal and personally identifiable information.
Bit Brokers may collect personal or personally identifiable information from you when you use the Website or when you participate in its associated services, including but not limited to first name, last name, email address, billing information, personal telephone and fax numbers, company name, website links, username, password, information you provide in your Listing, IP address, referring website, browser, operating system, page views, and other analytics data (collectively “Personal Information”).
1. Consent to Collection and Use of Personal Information
By using the Website, you agree to the terms contained within this Privacy Policy. Bit Brokers will only collect Personal Information from you when you voluntarily provide such information through your use of the Website.
By providing Personal Information to Bit Brokers, you understand and agree that Bit Brokers will collect and process your Personal Information in the United States. You hereby provide your unequivocal consent to the collection and processing of your Personal Information in the United States.
You understand and agree that Bit Brokers is not responsible for any third party links, content or communications sent to you from entities or individuals that Bit Brokers does not own or control. You are advised to review the privacy policies of all third party websites.
1. Use of Personal Information
Bit Brokers may use Personal Information collected from you to provide you with the Website or its associated services, to communicate with you, respond to requests that you have initiated, and to improve the Website or its associated services by, without limitation, analyzing your usage patterns.
Bit Brokers will not sell, rent, lease, or transfer your Personal Information to any individual, business or government entity except to respond to duly authorized information requests by government authorities, to respond to a duly authorized court order or subpoena, to protect the officers, directors, employees, shareholders, or independent contractors of Bit Brokers, to help prevent against fraud, or to remedy the violation of any applicable law, statute, regulation, ordinance, or treaty.
Bit Brokers may provide promotional offers to you, via email.
1. Use of Cookies
Bit Brokers may collect Personal Information from you through the storage of data files on your computer called “cookies”. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer by Bit Brokers, passing through your web browser. These cookies allow the Website to recognize your computer when you revisit the Website and are used for record-keeping purposes so the stored information can be retrieved by the same Bit Brokers server that created the cookie. This allows Bit Brokers to personalize, monitor, or regulate the use of this Website, and also permits Bit Brokers to ultimately automate the access and data-entry functions of the Website (e.g., login information), to store on-line ordering information for purchases made while visiting the Website, and to tie the appearance or presentation of the Website to your preference or interests. In addition, cookies allow Bit Brokers to track usage of the site (e.g., to determine which areas of the site are useful or popular) and permit us to improve and update the Website effectively.
Additionally, Bit Brokers may collect Personal Information from you through the use of “session cookies,” which help Bit Brokers track the pages that you visit during a single use of the Website and ensure that users are not required to re-enter their usernames and passwords upon accessing each page of the Website. These session cookies will expire once you leave the Website.
The use of cookies is common in the industry, and they are used at most major websites. You may wish to adjust your web browser to inform you whenever a cookie is to be used, or to reject all cookies automatically. However, if you elect not to accept cookies, some parts of the Website may not function properly or permit access. For more information on cookies, see https://www.cookiecentral.com/faq.html.
1. Tracking Techniques
Bit Brokers may collect Personal Information from you through the use of pixel tags, web beacons, or other tracking techniques related to use of the Website only. Bit Brokers may use the Personal Information to gather analytics data, which will be used to tie the Website to your habits and preferences.
1. Opt-Out
Bit Brokers provides you with the ability to opt-out of its collection of your Personal Information by deleting your User Account and ceasing your access to and/or use the Website. Bit Brokers allows you to opt-out of receiving promotional email offers.
1. Purchase and Sale of a Business Unit or Subsidiary
If Bit Brokers acquires or sells a business unit or subsidiary, including but not limited to the complete sale of the Website to a third party, your Personal Information may be transferred to a third party. If this happens, your Personal Information will continue to be used consistent with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. Protection and Storage of Personal Information
Bit Brokers undertakes commercially reasonable efforts to protect and secure your Personal Information, but you provide your Personal Information at your own risk. Bit Brokers processes your Personal Information on computers located primarily in the United States and has adopted procedural safeguards to protect against data theft. Bit Brokers uses commercially standard and commercially reasonable encryption to ensure, to the extent possible, that your Personal Information is protected from unauthorized disclosure.
Should Bit Brokers provide you with a User Account, your User Account may only be accessed through your entry of a username and password. You are advised not to share your Personal information, including but not limited to your username and password, with any other person or entity.
Though Bit Brokers takes the security of your Personal Information seriously, Bit Brokers cannot guarantee that its servers and Website are completely secure.
In no event shall Bit Brokers be liable to you or others for any damages resulting from any transfer, processing, collection or use of personal data resulting from your use of this Website.
1. Accuracy and Integrity of Personal Information
You are responsible for ensuring that your Personal Information is accurate, complete, and current. You have an ongoing duty to inform Bit Brokers of any changes in your Personal Information.
1. California Privacy Rights
California residents have the right to receive information that identifies any third party companies or individuals that Bit Brokers has shared your Personal Information with in the previous calendar year, as well as a description of the categories of Personal Information disclosed to that third party. You may obtain this information once a year and free of charge by contacting Bit Brokers at [email protected].
1. Changes and Amendments
Bit Brokers reserves the right to amend, replace, or discontinue this Privacy Policy at any time. If Bit Brokers changes or amends this Privacy Policy, your use of the Website after such a change constitutes your manifestation of assent to the change.
1. Contact and Notices
All questions and concerns regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to Bit Brokers by emailing [email protected].