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What Information We Collect and How We Use It
Any information we collect on our Site generally falls into the following two categories: Personally Identifiable Information and
Aggregate Information. Personally Identifiable Information: This refers to information that lets us know specifically who you are. In
general, you can visit our Site without telling us who you are or revealing any Personally Identifiable Information. You may however,
voluntarily provide the following Personally Identifiable Information:
- contact information, such as email address, physical address, shipping address and billing address;
- financial information including credit card, debit card, or bank account numbers.
In such event, we might maintain a record of your contact, including such Personally Identifiable Information, in a file specific to you.
We use this information to provide better service in the event you contact us again. If you voluntarily provide us with Personally
Identifiable Information, you consent to our transfer and storage of the information.
Additionally, we may obtain supplemental Personally Identifiable Information from third parties, such as your driver's license, credit
card statement, and utility bills to verify your Personally Identifiable Information.
Aggregate Information: This refers to information that does not by itself identify you as a specific individual. Such information would
include the Uniform Resource Locator (''URL'' or the web site that referred you to our Site, your Internet Protocol (''IP'') address (a
number automatically assigned to your computer whenever you surf the web), your operating system and browser type, and any
Search terms that you enter on our Site. Our web server aggregates this information in order to monitor the level of activity on our
Site, evaluate its effectiveness, and improve the content of our Site in order to make your visit an easy and enjoyable experience.
We may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, or otherwise disclose or use any Aggregate Information, provided that such
information does not personally identify you. We do not correlate any Personally Identifiable Information with the Aggregate
Information that we collect on our Site. If we do correlate any Aggregate Information to you, it will be protected like any other
Personally Identifiable Information under this Privacy Statement.
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Marketing
We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies in order to improve our services to better serve
your personalized needs. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference once you
sign in on the Site.
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Sharing Your Information
Except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, we do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise retransmit any Personally Identifiable
Information we collect online unless we have your permission. Any Personally Identifiable Information you provide to us will be stored
in the World Discovery Club databases in the United States.
We may share Personally Identifiable Information you provide online with other World Discovery Club-related entities and/or business
partners that provide services to World Discovery Club. Where we engage third-party agents or contractors to perform services on
our Site, we will require them to observe the intent of this Privacy Statement. From time to time, we may release or share with our
corporate family Personally Identifiable Information when we believe that such is reasonably necessary to enforce or apply our Terms
and Conditions of Use, to investigate unlawful activities, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others and ourselves. We may
be required to provide Personally Identifiable Information in response to court order, subpoena, or government investigation. We also
reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
World Discovery Club or its related entities could merge with or be acquired by another business entity, or their respective assets
could be acquired. Should such a merger or acquisition occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your Personally
Identifiable Information to companies serving you and other users of our Site.
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Security
Your Personally Identifiable Information is stored on our servers. We treat your Personally Identifiable Information very carefully and
use our best efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information against unauthorized access and disclosure. However, third
parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your
Personally Identifiable Information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, we cannot promise, and you should not expect that your
Personally Identifiable Information or private communications will always remain private. Moreover, this Privacy Policy only addresses
the information that we collect from you. This Private Policy does not apply to the Personally Identifiable Information that you disclose
to others, such as bidders, buyers, or sellers on the Site or any other sites throughout the internet. Since we are unable to control the
privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties to whom you elect to disclose the
information.
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Your Choices
Your permission is always secured first. We will not use or share the Personally Identifiable Information collected on our Site in ways
unrelated to the purpose for which you provided the information, including those described above, without providing you a choice
whether to permit any such unrelated uses.
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Accessing and Correcting Your Information
We take reasonable measures to ensure that any Personally Identifiable Information we collect on our Site is accurate, current,
complete, and reliable for its intended use. If you wish to update or otherwise correct Personally Identifiable Information you have
provided us, you may contact us as described in the ''Contact Us'' section, below.
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Protecting Your Information
We acknowledge your trust and are committed to take reasonable steps to protect Personally Identifiable Information you provide
online from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access. We employ physical, electronic, and managerial processes to safeguard and
secure your information.
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Your User IDs
Your User ID is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to the general public. All of your activities on the Site will be
traceable to your User ID. Other users can see your bids, items that you have purchased or sold, items that you are selling. Other users can also view feedback,
ratings and comments concerning you and feedback, ratings and comments that you have made about other people. From time to
time, notices are sent to other users regarding suspicious activity and policy violations on the Site and refer to User IDs and specific
items. Therefore, the people to whom you have disclosed your identity will be able to personally identify your activities on the Site.
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Use of Information Obtained from World Discovery Club
Our Site allows you to share Personally Identifiable Information to complete transaction. We strongly encourage you to disclose your
privacy practices and respect the privacy of other users. However, we cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information.
We strongly advise you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before sharing your information or doing
business with the trading partner. When users are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other’s name, User ID,
email address, and other contact and shipping information. You must give other users an opportunity to review what information
concerning them that you collect and to remove themselves from your database.
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Use of Cookies On This Site
A ''cookie'' is a small data file transferred to your computer's hard drive that allows a website to respond to you as an individual,
gathering and remembering information about your preferences in order to tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes.
Overall, cookies are safe, as they only identify your computer to customize your web experience. Accepting a cookie does not provide
access to your computer or any Personally Identifiable Information about you, other than the information you choose to share. Other
servers cannot read them, nor can they be used to deliver a virus. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
adjust yours (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) to notify you of cookie placement requests, refuse certain cookies, or
decline cookies completely. Our Site may send cookies to your computer's hard drive in order to improve our services and to better serve your
personalized needs.
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Links To Other Websites
Links to third-party websites may be provided solely for your information and convenience. If you use these links, you will leave our
Site. This Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those websites linked to our Site, nor do we control their
content or privacy policies. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit.
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Children's Privacy Protection
We take special care to protect the privacy needs of children under the age of 13 and encourage parents to be an active participant in
their child's online activities. We abide by the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other
relevant laws. Our Site does not target and is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we will not knowingly collect
Personally Identifiable Information from them. If we discover personal data from a child through an adult-oriented site, we will
eliminate that data.
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Changes To This Statement
Any updates or changes to the terms of this Privacy Statement will be posted here on our Site and the date of the newest version
posted below. Please check back frequently, especially before you submit any Personally Identifiable Information at our Site, to see if
this Privacy Statement has changed. By using our Site, you acknowledge acceptance of this Privacy Statement in effect at that time of
use.
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Contact Us
If you have any concerns about World Discovery Club's use of your information or about this Privacy Statement, please send an email
to [email protected]. We will make every reasonable effort to address your concerns and remedy any problems you
bring to our attention.
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