Xoobie’s privacy policy

Xoobie has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This document discloses our information gathering and usage practices. For additional information about Xoobie, please review our Terms and Conditions.


Use of your information
Xoobie does not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Xoobie Pty Ltd, our users, or others.


Email
It is the policy of Xoobie to send our members email throughout the auction process, in addition to customary business communications (payment confirmations, etc.).

From time to time Xoobie will also send out newsletters and promotional material to users who have elected to receive such promotional material. Further, it is our policy to immediately remove any member from any mailing list upon the member's request. Such communications will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the member can remove himself or herself from the mailing list.

We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our members, and we encourage you to email us with your questions or comments.


Emailing Tools
Xoobie provides facilities throughout the site to refer a friend to Xoobie or to send references to a specific listing to a friend. You may not use this service or other email forwarding services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our privacy policy or Terms and Conditions. We do not permanently store, sell, or rent these email messages or the email addresses.


Membership Registration
Our site's registration form requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.


Updating Your Personal Information
Xoobie provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. Xoobie will store previous email addresses against your profile to ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions - specifically the use of one account per member.


Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your Xoobie password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.


Credit Card Security
We work diligently to protect the security of your personal information, including credit card information.

We protect your credit card information during transmission by using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol, which encrypts your information when transmitted over the Internet. Your credit card details are not held by Xoobie and cannot be accessed by Xoobie staff. However they may be held by PayPal when using it to make payments. Please review PayPal’s privacy policy for more about this.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Ensure you logout when you have finished visiting Xoobie, especially if you access Xoobie from a shared computer.


Other information we collect
We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Users who login have their IP addresses recorded. This information can be used to track users who abuse the Xoobie system and will be only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud. IP addresses can be used, in conjunction with an Internet Service Provider, to find the dial-in account of a user and, ultimately, further information to identify a user. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.

If you choose to post messages in our message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide to us.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.


Membership Removal
If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, simply send us an email requesting to be removed.


Advertising and Third Party Links
Some Xoobie advertisers may request information directly from users, or link to sites that do so. Xoobie has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, and encourages users to review such policies prior to submitting any personal information to them.

Xoobie contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the member experience. Xoobie has no control of either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.


Updates to our information practices
From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at Xoobie.


If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please contact us.