Privacy
Policy
We are strongly
committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information. The following
discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this site. The
information we receives depends upon your actions when visiting our website.
Information
Collected About Your Visit to the website
We automatically collect and store the following information
about you when you visit our website:
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• The date
and time the request was received.
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• Your
Internet Protocol (IP) address, or the proxy address of your Internet Service Provider (e.g. MSN, Juno, AOL,
etc.).
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• The name
and IP address of the server that received and logged the request.
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• The resource
on our server accessed as a result of the request, such as the Web page, image,
and so on.
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• The query
in the request. This field captures any criteria or parameters issued with a query,
such as the User Name and Item Number.
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• The name
and version of your Web browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 6.0).
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• The content
of any sent or received cookie.
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• The Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) that was accessed before the user made a request for our
Web server. The URL may be an outside address that is not related to our server.
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• Other
status codes and values resulting from the Web server responding to the request
received: HTTP status code, Windows NT code, number of bytes sent, number of bytes
received, duration (in seconds) to fulfill the request, server port number addressed,
and protocol version.
Some parts
of we website may use a "cookie", which is a file placed on your computer hard drive,
that allows our web server to log the pages you use in our site and to determine
if you have visited the site before. The cookie captures no personally identifying
information. Our server uses this information to provide certain features during
your visit to the website. You can set your browser to warn you when placement of
a cookie is requested, and decide whether or not to accept it. By rejecting a cookie
some of the features available on the site may not function properly.
Other than
the automatic data collection described above, this site collects no personally
identifying information. The sole exception is when you knowingly and voluntarily
provide information, such as when you complete the Registration and Bidder
Profile form. We use the information we collect for internal system administrative
purposes to measure the volume of requests for specific website pages, and to continually
improve our website to be responsive to the needs of users. Your choice to use our
website or to send electronic mail to us will be considered your consent for us
to use the information collected therein as stated in this notice.