eBay Privacy Policy

Contents

• Scope
• Collection and Storage
• Marketing by Third Parties
• Use by eBay
• Our Disclosure of Your Information
• Data Controller
• User IDs and eBay Activities
• Cookies
• Account Protection
• Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
• Security
• Third Parties
• General

Scope

Collection and Storage

• email address, physical address, telephone number and other contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account details;
• transactional information based on your activities on the Site (such as information on your bidding, buying and selling activities, item descriptions and other content you generate or information that relates to your account);
• postage, billing and other information you provide to purchase or post an item;
• community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through the Site, correspondence sent to us and feedback;
• computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, information and statistics on traffic to and from the Site (including the URL you just came from and the URL you go to next, whether they are URLs on the Site or not), advertising data, IP address, browser information and standard web log information; and
• supplemental information from third parties (for example: (a) if you incur a debt to us, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit reference agency, as permitted by law; (b) if the information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you to send us additional information (such as a certified copy of your driver's licence, credit card statement, and/or a recent utility bill or other information confirming your address), or to answer additional questions to help verify your information.); (c) if you register to use eBay's services on a third party website, or use a third party website providing a service for eBay, or use a website that facilitates your activity on eBay, that website may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to eBay.

Marketing by Third Parties

Use by eBay

• provide the services and customer support you request;
• resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
• prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce the User Agreement;
• customise, measure, and improve our services and the Site's content and layout;
• tell you about our existing products and services, changes to our existing products and services, new products and services and promotional offers based on your notification preferences; and
• compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties.

Our Disclosure of Your Information

• other eBay users, whether located within the United Kingdom or abroad. For example, where you are involved in a transaction with another user, the other user may view your email address and obtain your contact information and postal address to help complete the transaction;
• eBay Europe S.à r.l and eBay Inc. for the purpose of providing the eBay services;
• our parent companies, subsidiaries and other companies within the eBay Inc. group to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts;
• our parent companies, subsidiaries, and other companies within the eBay Inc. group of companies to provide joint services;
• 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 (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programmes and marketing activities);
• other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information, or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service;
• law enforcement agencies, other governmental agencies or third parties in response to a request for information (such as a Section 29 (3) Data Protection Act 1998 form) relating to a criminal investigation, alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you or any other eBay user to legal liability. The personal information we disclose may include your User ID and User ID history, name, city, county, telephone number, email address, fraud complaints and bidding and listing history or anything else that we deem relevant;
• VeRO Programme participants under confidentiality agreements, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or any other unlawful activity. The personal information we disclose may include your User ID, name, street address, city, county, post code, country, telephone number, email address and company name; and
• other business entities, should we plan to merge with, or be acquired by that business entity. Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this Privacy Policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information will be used contrary to this Privacy Policy, you will receive prior notice.

Data Controller

User IDs and eBay Activities

Cookies

• we offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies;
• we use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status;
• most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session;
• you are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of the Site; and
• you may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the Site that we do not control, for example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a "cookie" placed by that web page.

Account Protection

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

Security

Third Parties

General