John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding does not read any of your private online communications.

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding and John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding collects and uses your personal information to operate the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web site and deliver the services you have requested. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding and its affiliates. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding, in order to determine what John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding pages, or register with John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding site or services, a cookie helps John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding is protecting your information.

Contact Information

John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding has not adhered to this Statement, please contact John Bickel & Associates - Online Bidding at jb@johnbickel.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.