BidaGig respects the privacy of the Visitors to its Web site, the home page of which is located at http://www.BidaGig.com (“Site”). This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information and Anonymous Information you submit to us through the Site. This Privacy Policy applies only to Members. “Personal Information” is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, email address or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing. By submitting Personal Information through the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our Services change and expand. If we make substantial changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated policy on the site and we will post notice that this Privacy Policy has changed in the notifications area of the Site. The notification of revised terms will appear on the website up to 30 days after the changes takes place. Once any changes that we make to this Privacy Policy become effective, your continued use of the Site after such time will signify your acceptance of the new terms.
THE MEDIA SHARE
This area of the Site is for the benefit of Members. The Message Board and Media Share areas of the Site facilitate communication and the exchange and sharing of information between Consumers and Artists. The information contained on the Message Board between Consumers and Artists is not used for any purposes other than to facilitate communication and the exchange of information between the parties involved. BidaGig reserves the right to monitor communications in the Media Share in order to verify compliance with our Terms and Conditions, international, federal or state laws.
INFORMATION WE GATHER
Registration
If you register as a Consumer or Artist on BidaGig, we collect and store Personal Information that specifically identifies you or your Account. At this time, the most information you would be required to submit is your first name, last name, User ID, password, street address, city, state, zip/postal code, country, phone number and email address. Other information requested on our Registration page, including the ability to receive promotional offers from BidaGig, is optional. We may, in the future, include other optional requests for information from you to help us to tailor the Site for you and deliver personalized information to you. Without your agreement, we will not share, rent or sell any personal information with third parties in any way other than what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
Online Surveys and Contests
BidaGig may, from time or time, conduct a User survey to collect information about our Users’ preferences. These surveys are optional and if you choose to respond, your responses will be kept anonymous. Similarly, we may offer contests to qualifying Users in which we ask for contact and demographic information such as name, email address and mailing address. None of this information is shared with third parties, except in summary form, if at all. The demographic information that BidaGig collects in the registration process and through surveys is used to help us improve our services to meet the needs and preferences of our Users. This may include targeting advertising to you about our services. Information we gather through a contest may also be disclosed to third parties as necessary for prize fulfillment and other aspects of any contest or similar offering.
Automatically Gathered Information
BidaGig automatically collects browser type and browser software versions to tailor the presentation of the Site and the Services to the Visitor’s or User’s platform and to maintain a record of the User’s or Visitor’s activity on the Site. As an automatic process, our Web server software records a log file of IP addresses that access the Site. We also collect IP address information but do not ordinarily link IP addresses to Users’ Personal Information. However, we can and will use IP addresses to identify a User when we, in our sole discretion, determine that it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms and Conditions or to protect our service, Site, customers or others. When you use the Site, BidaGig collects information about your Account transactions and BidaGig may collect information about your computer for fraud prevention purposes. Finally, BidaGig may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, BidaGig may collect information related to your contact with BidaGig Customer Service or store results when you respond to a survey.
Cookies
When you use the Site, BidaGig may place small data files called cookies on your computer. BidaGig uses cookies to enable Users to specify unique preferences and to track Visitor and User use of the site, including trends and patterns. BidaGig sends a session cookie to your computer when you log in to your Account. This type of cookie helps if you visit multiple pages on the Site during the same session, so that you don’t need to enter your password on each page. Once you log out or close your browser, this cookie expires. BidaGig also uses longer-lasting cookies for other purposes such as to display your gig-related information. BidaGig encodes our cookies so that only we can interpret the information stored in them. Users and Visitors always have the option of disabling cookies via their browser preferences. If you disable cookies on your browser, please note that some parts of our Site may not function as effectively or may be considerably slower.
Email to Friends Feature and Referral Program
BidaGig lets you easily send listings to friends via email. BidaGig also offers the ability to send friends emails about providing or purchasing Services through BidaGig. If you choose to use either feature, be assured that BidaGig only uses your friends’ email addresses on a one-time basis to send the requested listing, and we use your email address to copy you on the message or to send on your behalf. Your friends’ email addresses will be deleted from our database after the message is sent.
Public Information
As part of registration, you may set up a Profile describing your expertise and qualifications. Consumers and Artists may review each others’ Profiles to help them decide whether to solicit or make a bid on a Gig. Information in your Profile is available for any other Member to access. We will not have any obligation under this Privacy Policy with respect to information in your Profile or information you voluntarily provide to other Users via the Site.
HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION
Registration Information
We use Personal Information for our own internal purposes including contacting you via email to inform you about updates to our services and providing you with information relating to e-commerce transactions that you conduct on the Site. We reserve the right to disclose your information as required by law. We do not rent or sell our Users’ Personal Information to third parties. We do, however, provide you with the opportunity to receive newsletters and notifications via email. If you decide to opt in to receive newsletters and notifications, you may opt out of receiving these newsletters and notifications at any time by clicking on the notifications tab of your preferences menu and unsubscribing from individual categories or globally opt out from receiving notifications.
Advertising
We may send you email communications including information that we think may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving these email communications either when you register to become a Member or via the Preferences section of your MyCP area. We do not send any of your Personal Information to our advertisers. You may see a cookie from a third-party banner server, and this cookie comes from the third- party banner server, not BidaGig. Again, we do not pass along any Personal Information to this party.
Other Members
We share the email addresses of Artists and Consumers to each other once a gig is awarded and accepted to enable work on the Gig to be undertaken and completed. You agree not to use the disclosed information of other members for any purpose other than providing the applicable services and payments for a Gig.
Legal Requests
BidaGig cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud, theft, harassment and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you, including the content of your online communications, if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (b) protect or defend the rights or property of BidaGig or third parties; (c) assist in an investigation; or (d) respond to an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of Users or other persons.
Comments Submitted by Users
BidaGig constantly seeks to improve the quality of the services we provide and the User experience on the Site. We value your input and encourage you to help us expand and make improvements to the Site by providing us with any thoughts or comments you might have regarding our services or the operation of the Site. You can submit any comments you have to us by clicking on the link “Contact” at the bottom of most of the pages on the Site. The “Conatct” page asks for your frist name and email address. If you provide this information, we will only use it to acknowledge or respond to your comments. Submitting comments via email will not cause you to receive any secondary or promotional material, unless specifically requested by you. In certain circumstances, we may ask for your permission to post your comments in marketing or promotional materials.
Security
We will use commercially reasonable methods to keep Personal Information securely in our files and systems. The Paypal System is operated using secure Internet connections, using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption, to help protect your financial data. Please note that with current technology, we cannot guarantee the security of your data as it travels over the Internet.
Regarding Children
We do not intentionally gather Personal Information about Visitors who are under the age of 18.
Terminating Your Subscription
We save your Personal Information until your subscription with us is terminated and you unsubscribe to email notifications. To terminate your subscription, visit the Subscription Manager page and proceed with your cancellation. Your personal Information cannot be recovered. You may continue to receive email communications for a short period of time until we have updated all of our databases. After termination of your subscription, your Personal Information may remain on our archived database and records. Notwithstanding the above, we will maintain information on Users who have been removed for violating our Terms and Conditions.
Correcting/Updating Your Information and Opting Out
This Site gives the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:
- You may update your registration information using the Preferences page, under MyCP, in the BidaGig navigation bar after you register.
- This Site provides Users the opportunity to opt out of receiving promotional email communications from us, BidaGig newsletters and other Site information using Preferences, Email Notifications under the MyCP section of the Site.
- However, you may not opt out of receiving administrative communications from BidaGig regarding the services or the Site, except by terminating your subscription.
- In addition, you may not opt out of BidaGig sending you legal notices related to the Services or the Site.
For other requests please contact customer support.
CONTACTING US
Web Support: www.bidagig.com/support
Email: support@bidagig.com
Online Knowledge Base: www.bidagig.com/kb
Mailing Address: BidaGig LLC PO Box 231744 Centreville, VA 20120-1744
