Privacy Policy

BidBurglar Policy on Privacy

BidBurglar is fully committed to protecting and securing your privacy.

What the Privacy Policy is

This privacy policy deals with how we use and store your information you give us. BidBurglar Privacy policy will be used in accordance with emails we may send out to you, newsletters, any forums we may operate in connection with BidBurglar sniping service, or any mailings that you have chosen to receive from us. It will not be used in connection with external third parties i.e. companies, websites, or other information providers that BidBurglar does not have direct and complete control over.

Use of information

To place a bid for you, we need the following information. 1) Your eBay user ID 2) Your eBay password. In order to communicate with you for payment, for information generated by auctions etc we will need your email address and your password to the site. All of this information is used to effectively place bids for you and it is stored securely. We encrypt your information and store it on a secure server which is physically protected and monitored 24 hrs a day. Other information we store includes cookie information (we place a cookie on your computer to aid us in verifying user ID and help us to ensure safe, fast use of the site), IP addresses, times of connection to our site, and what browser you're using to connect to our site. This other information is also held securely and is used by us to continually improve the BidBurglar service.

How we handle your information

We respect the privacy of our customers. We will not sell or pass on any information which could personally identify you to anyone. Your details are held very securely (see use of information section).

In extremely rare circumstances BidBurglar may have to release information on our customers. This could be in the event of a court order, a subpoena, legal order or violations of our terms and conditions. This is very unusual however and in usual operating conditions we will not release any information to any third party without your express permission or agreement.

BidBurglar Site Security

Your eBay password and user ID are stored and protected using the very best security technology available to us i.e. 128 bit encryption. According to Netscape, 128-bit encryption is 309,485,009,821,345,068,724,781,056 times stronger than 40-bit encryption, and that's why they use it too. Keep your BidBurglar password secure though – your BidBurglar account information is protected by it.

Your BidBurglar account

Should you wish your BidBurglar account to be removed, we will delete all your personal information completely and inform you of the successful deletion via email.

BidBurglar Privacy Policy alterations

We reserve the right to change or alter the points in this privacy policy at any time. But if we do, and the changes are considered 'major', we will explain the changes by either an email to all our customers, or by displaying the change information clearly on prominent site pages.