Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.auctionfinder.com.au
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics & Advertising
Why do third parties collect information from you when you visit our websites?
For a number of reasons:
- We sometimes display adverts provided by Google – in order to display relevant ads, Google may use a number of cookies to show relevant ads.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visit(s) to our website(s) and/or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit(s) to our site(s) and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
- The third-party app “Google Maps” to display location map information. Unless you opt out (see below), Google will set cookies when you view such information.
- The third-party monitoring system, Google Analytics, is used to monitor user traffic as they navigate around. Google makes this data available to us in an aggregate way and not in any way that we could personally identify any particular user or user action.
How can I stop you and third parties from setting and using cookies in my browser?
Most modern browsers have the built-in ability to opt out of all or certain classes of cookies. Your browser’s help menu and a decent search engine will provide you with all of the information you need in order to achieve this.
Google AdSense
Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing. This service uses the “DoubleClick” Cookie, which tracks use of auctionfinder.com and user behaviour concerning ads, products and services offered.
Users may decide to disable all the DoubleClick Cookies by going to: Google Ad Settings.
In order to understand Google’s use of data, consult Google’s partner policy.
Personal Data processed: Tracker; Usage Data. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Also, you may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Google Analytics
Many websites and apps use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with their sites or apps. If you don’t want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on. Learn more about Google Analytics and privacy.
How is your information used?
In general terms, and depending on which services you engage us to deliver, as part of providing our agreed services we may use your information to:
- study website usage
- maintain our records in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations
- prevent and detect crime, fraud or corruption.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, if there is any, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact information
You can contact us via email rod@auctionfinder.com.au or Facebook
or via mail to:
ATTN: Rod Charles
PO Box 92
Echuca
Vic 3564
Australia
Updates to this policy
Will be notified and added here