Information collected on AquaticAuction.com will not be sold, shared or rented to others.


Information Collection
Aquatic Auction uses the information we collect about you to process orders and communicate with you regarding the status of your order. When you register at Aquatic Auction, we collect your name, e-mail addresses, mailing or billing address, credit card number, and expiration date in order to process and fulfill your order.
When you sign up for E-mail Alerts, we need only an e-mail address to send you the e-mail topics that you have selected. We also use your e-mail address to send you e-mail notice of your bid and order status, and we may use your e-mail address to send you notice of upgrades or changes to Aquatic Auction, new services, and special offers. You may choose not to receive any of these e-mails when you register, or at a later date, through our unsubscribe process.
In order to bid on an item, you must login with your Aquatic Auction User ID and your password and you must enter the amount of your bid. Only your User ID and your bid will be publicly available in the Bid History.

Cookies
We use "cookies" and other Web technologies to collect information and support certain features of this site. "Cookies" are pieces of information that are passed to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Aquatic Auction uses cookies to recognize repeat visitors and to provide additional features to make bidding & buying at Aquatic Auction easier and more efficient. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can turn them off using your browser's settings. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

Sharing data with third parties
Upon registration with Aquatic Auction, each of our customers is assigned a random and anonymous customer number, which we use to track customer orders. This customer number is different from any custom User ID selected by you and may be passed to third party vendors with whom we work to provide more efficient and relevant services to our users. Our anonymous customer numbers may be used to measure traffic and visiting patterns on Aquatic Auction. We may also compile statistics and other data about our customers on an aggregated basis, and may share such aggregated data with selected third parties. Aquatic Auction can (and you authorize us to) release any information about you when we believe that such release is reasonably necessary to comply with law, enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, enforce other Aquatic Auction rights, or protect the rights, property or safety of Aquatic Auction, the AquaticAuction.com Web site, our users, or others. Further, as permitted by applicable law, Aquatic Auction can (and you authorize us to) disclose your login ID, name, street, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, e-mail, company and any other information in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity whenever Aquatic Auction in its sole discretion believes necessary or appropriate. In addition, we may share information about you with third parties as necessary to complete a transaction requested by you.

Links
This Web site may contain links to other approved web sites. We provide these links for your convenience. Your use of other web sites is subject to the terms and conditions of those web sites, including the privacy policies of those web sites.

Security
We have industry standard measures in place to protect the security of the personal information we collect through AquaticAuction.com. We use Secure Socket Layers ("SSL") to encrypt your credit card and other information as it travels over the Internet. It is important that you understand, however, that no Web site or database is completely secure or "hacker proof." You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse, for example, by protecting your passwords.

How your information is encrypted
The pages where you submit your account information, place a bid, and receive confirmation of a successful bid are all encrypted. In addition, your credit card information is encrypted within our database and access to such information is restricted.

Technical Details About Encryption
AquaticAuction.com operates with a Thawte SSL 123 Certificate to offer secure communications by encrypting all data to and from the site, utilizing 256-bit encryption - the current industry standard.

Your Consent to This Online Privacy Statement
By browsing or using AquaticAuction.com, you are agreeing to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Online Privacy Statement. If you do not consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Online Privacy Statement, you should not use this site.

Children and Minors
AquaticAuction.com is not directed at nor targeted to children We do not use this site to knowingly solicit personal information from or market to children. If you are under 13 years of age, you should not submit any personal information to us.

This Online Privacy Statement May Change
We reserve the right to update or modify this Online Privacy Statement, at any time and without prior notice, by posting the revised version on this site. These changes will only apply to personal information we collect after we have posted the revised Online Privacy Statement on this site. Your use of this site following any such change constitutes your agreement that all personal information collected from or about you through AquaticAuction.com after the revised Online Privacy Statement is posted will be subject to the terms of the revised Online Privacy Statement.

To alert you to changes to this Online Privacy Policy, we will provide a notice at the top of this Online Privacy Statement for at least 30 days after the new effective date of such changes and highlight the changes so that you can locate them easily.
You may access the current version of this Online Privacy Statement at any time by clicking on the link marked "Privacy Policy" at the bottom of each page of this site.

Questions Concerning Our Online Privacy Practices
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Online Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, please e-mail us at Support@AquaticAuction.com or write to us at Aquatic Auction, 1545 Capital Drive Suite 100, Carrollton, TX, 75006.