At eBay, your privacy is our priority. It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. We have created easy-to-read summaries and privacy principles, and continue to implement privacy enhancing technology to help summarise our full Privacy Policy. If you have questions about any part of this summary or if you would like more detailed information, we encourage you to review our full Privacy Policy.

Our core privacy principles
Our core privacy principles remain the same throughout eBay worldwide:

1. We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes and will only disclose your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and/or with your explicit consent.
2. Third parties are not permitted to sell the information we provide to them, to market directly to you, or to disclose it in any other way without your consent.
3. We may share your personal information with service providers under contract who provide elements of our services, provide separate services that are complimentary to your use of the site or otherwise help with our business operations.
4. We share your personal information with other eBay members in accordance with our Privacy Policy to help facilitate transactions and to allow members to contact you.
5. We disclose limited personal contact information in response to requests from law enforcement agencies, other government agencies or third parties, in relation to a criminal investigation, alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you or any other eBay user to legal liability, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
6. We give you choices about how you wish to be contacted in the Preferences section of My eBay.
7. We will provide you with notice if our Privacy Policy changes and an opportunity to reject such changes.
8. We let you change your personal information so that you can keep it up to date.
9. Other eBay companies that have access to your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy are required to protect your personal information at least as strictly as we do.
10. We use standard industry practices, including encryption, passwords and physical security to protect your personal information against unauthorised access and disclosure.

View eBay's privacy-related policies:

• Privacy Policy - Your privacy on eBay (comprehensive).
  
• Privacy Policy Summary - Easy-to-read summary of our Privacy Policy.
  
• Privacy Chart - Our easy-to-read chart.
  
• "Spam" policy - Definition of spam and eBay's stance against it.
  
• UseNet policy - What our policy is on Usenet newsgroups.
  
• Cookie policy - How eBay uses cookies (small pieces of information "remembered" by your Web browser).

You can also view the privacy policies of eBay's subsidiaries and joint ventures from around the world. Although each is different, the core privacy principles (listed above) remain the same. To view the privacy policy of other eBay Companies, simply visit their home page and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will see a link to their Privacy Policy.

Decide how you'd like to be contacted by eBay
Update your notification preferences and tell eBay how and when you'd like to be contacted. For example, you can choose to receive the eBay Newsletter and other important eBay communications.

Learn what information is disclosed
Find out exactly how and what information eBay discloses and what other people can see.

Stop spam
If you've received unsolicited, commercial email and want it to stop, learn what you can do:

• minimise repeat spam.

Related Help topics

• Privacy Policy Summary
  
• Stopping Spam