Privacy Policy
Personal Data Protection Act
ADRANCH is responsible for the collection, use, and retention of personal information in accordance with European standards.
Type of Information Collected:
When you visit the Platform, we may collect certain non-personal information such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, operating system, browser type, and Internet service provider. This type of information does not identify you personally. When you register with the Platform, we may also collect personal information that you provide such as your name, mailing address, email address, phone/mobile number, home country, zip code, and certain other information in the event you log in via Facebook depending on your privacy settings including but not limited to your name, email address, profile picture, list of friends, education, etc. (“Registration Information”). If you provide your phone number, it may be displayed in your posting. Further, if you have provided your phone number and posted an advertisement using your account, you agree to receive communications on the provided phone number from our site which may include but not be limited to automated calls or text messages. The communication may require you to confirm and verify that your account has been used to post the relevant advertisement on the platform. We may also collect additional information that our users provide, such as new or deleted postings, new or deleted comments, keyword searches, and new contact sellers. We use a third-party payment gateway for purchases, and other third-party companies to monitor site traffic, which may, in some instances, store your information. By using this Platform or the Service, you consent to the collection, storage, and use of the personal information you provide for any of the services that we offer, and you consent to our collection of any changes or updates that you may provide to any information you provide that is collected by ADRANCH.
By using this Platform, you consent to share your geolocation data in order to publish information/advertisements of advertisements offered by users close to your location and vice-versa.
Cookies
We may use cookies to control user sessions, save preferences, track data, and manage language settings. Whether or whether you register with us, cookies may still be utilized. Small text files known as “cookies” are delivered by a web server to your hard drive and then saved on your computer. The date and time of your visit, your browsing history, your preferences, and your username are the kinds of data that cookies can gather. On the Platform, our third-party service providers might occasionally employ cookies. Third-party service provider’s cookies are outside our control and are not accessible to us. Only the cookies used by us are covered by this privacy statement; none used by third parties are. You have the choice to agree or disagree with the use of cookies.
Third Parties
We use third-party service providers to assist us in measuring purchases and sales on our platform and generally improving our platform and monitoring our users’ interests and activities. You hereby authorize ADRANCH and/or third-party service providers engaged by ADRANCH to collect, use, store, analyze, reproduce, publish, and adapt (either on its own or through a third-party service provider) the information in relation to your use of the platform for the purpose of data analysis and for improving your experience on the platform. In addition, the platform may occasionally contain links to Third-Party sites or provide you with information in relation to services that you may avail from any third parties. Information about services that you may choose to avail from these third-party service providers may be actively provided to you by ADRANCH in any manner including through its various marketing and communication channels. You acknowledge that this is solely undertaken by ADRANCH to improve your experience in relation to the use of the Platform and the provision of such services shall be subject to such additional terms and conditions of ADRANCH and/or third-party service providers. ADRANCH may also offer for free or for a fee, deliverables produced by third-party service providers in furtherance of any services that you may have availed from these third-party service providers in connection with the advertisement posted on the Platform, without any obligation (monetary or otherwise) towards you. ADRANCH shall not be responsible for any service availed by you from such third parties or any payment made by you to such third parties in connection with the services. Any concern or claims in relation to such services should be directed by you to such third parties. If you click on the links to Third-Party Websites, you leave the platform. We are not responsible for the content of these Third-Party Websites or for the security of your personal information when you use the Third-Party Websites. These third- party service providers and Third-Party Sites may have their own privacy policies governing the storage and retention of your personal information that you may be subject to. They may collect information such as your IP address, browser specification, or operating system. This Privacy Policy does not govern personal information provided to, stored on, or used by these third-party providers and Third-Party Sites. We recommend that when you enter a Third-Party Site, you review the Third Party Site’s privacy policy as it relates to safeguarding your personal information. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Platform. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to the Platform and Third-Party Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
How Your Information is Used
Your information may be used by us to: I enforce our Terms of Use; (ii) deliver customer services; (iii) create and manage user accounts; and (iv) support you with technical issues. We may use your information to: I enforce our Terms of Use; I monitor user activity, such as keyword searches or new postings; and (v) more effectively manage traffic on the Platform. Additionally, in order to better understand which advertisements and services may be of interest to you, we might divulge to third-party service providers certain data that we have gathered, such as information about your operating system or browser capabilities. We reserve the right to prevent residents of particular nations from accessing the Platform. Even when your account is closed, we have the right to keep such information for as long as is necessary to achieve our business goals.
Protecting Your Personal Information
You are a valued customer, and we recognize that protecting your privacy is important to you. For this reason, we are committed to protecting the personal information you provide in a variety of ways. We do not directly process any payments and do not store your credit card information. Secured socket layer (“SSL”) technology is used for processing payment transactions with third-party service provider partners, such as PayU, PayPal, and much more. Your Registration Information may be protected by a unique customer password and user ID. You should not disclose your password information to anyone and you should always remember to log off if using a shared computer. Lastly, you may utilize the Platform as an anonymous user by not registering. We have taken certain security protections in safeguarding your personal information. However, as with most electronic transactions, no method is 100% safe. While we strive to use a commercially acceptable means to protect the personal information you provide, we cannot guarantee its security. Therefore, you acknowledge and agree that we assume no liability regarding the theft, loss, alteration or misuse of personal or other information or Content, including, without limitation, such information that has been provided to third parties or other users, or with regards to the failure of a third party to abide by the agreement between us and such third party. You may participate in our Forum or utilize our Comments feature. For postings to the Forum, your username will be posted. For postings using the Comments feature, your name and email will only be posted if you provide it in the comment. We strongly discourage posting any information on these features or in any content posted by you that you do not want others to see. You agree that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password, and all uses of your account, whether or not you have authorized such use.
Notification of Changes
We retain the right to periodically and solely at our discretion modify these Terms. In the event that we make significant changes to these Terms, the Privacy Policy, or the Platform, we may send you a notice. The “last updated date” is stated at the beginning of the Terms. You should be able to tell if the Terms have recently been modified using this information.