At UP4buy, we care deeply about privacy. We believe in transparency and are committed to being honest about our privacy practices, including how we handle your personal information. We know you care about your privacy too, so we provide settings that allow you to select how certain information is used by UP4but. This policy explains our privacy practices for Up4buy.com
We process your personal information to run our business and provide our users with the Services. By accepting our Terms of Use (and, in some jurisdictions, accepting this policy), you confirm that you have read this policy, including how and why we use your information. If you do not want us to collect and process your personal information in the ways described in this policy, you should not use the Services. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies or practices of any of our members, websites hosted through Pattern by Up4buy, or third-party websites and applications.
Up4buy Terms of Use require all account owners to be at least 18 years of age. Minors under the age of 18 and at least 13 years of age may use the Up4buy Services only if they have the permission and direct supervision of the account owner. Children under the age of 13 may not use the Services. You are responsible for any and all account activity performed by a minor on your account. We do not knowingly “sell,” as that term is defined under applicable law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, the personal information of minors. You can find more information in Up4buy’s Minors Policy.
By using the Services, you acknowledge that Up4buy will use your information in the United States, Portugal and any other country where Up4buy operates. Please note that privacy laws and regulations in certain countries, including the authorities' rights to access your personal information, may differ from those that apply in the country in which you reside. We will only transfer personal information to countries to which we are authorized by law to transfer personal information, as described in more detail in the “Transfers” Section of this policy.
In the course of providing our Services, we collect or receive personal information in a few different ways. We obtain the categories of personal information listed below from the following sources: directly from you, for example, from forms you fill out or during registration; indirectly from you based on your activity and interaction with our Services or the device or browser you use to access the Services; from our vendors and vendors who help provide Up4buy services that you can interact with (such as for payments and customer support) and from our third-party advertising and marketing partners. You often choose what information to provide, but sometimes we require certain information to provide the Services to you. Up4buy uses the personal information it receives and collects in accordance with the purposes described in this policy.
You may also choose to provide information to a third party via the Up4buy API. Users of the Up4buy API must comply with the Up4buy API Terms of Use, including adopting appropriate privacy and security controls. Likewise, the user can choose to link their bank account to pay for purchases (or receive payments, if they are a seller) through a third-party service available on the Site or in the Application. Etsy does not have a direct partnership with these third parties and the processing of information carried out by third parties is subject to their respective privacy policies. You must understand the privacy and security practices of any third party before sharing information with that third party.
Registration, account setup, use of the service: In order to use the Services, you will need to provide a valid email address. If you register, you will need to submit a name associated with your account. You can change this name through your account settings. You will need to provide this information to allow us to provide the Services to you. Additional information may be required, such as a store name, billing and payment information (including billing contact name, address, telephone number and credit card information), a telephone number and/or physical postal address , so that we can provide you with a specific service. For example, we need a physical postal address if you are purchasing something on the Site for delivery. As an Up4buy seller, if you choose to use our payment service, Up4buy requires your full name, social security number, identification or tax identification number, date of birth, account information bank account, photograph, credit card information and/or other proof of identity to validate your identity, provide the service to you and comply with applicable law. For example, in certain markets, the Up4buy Seller brand (including business name or individual name, as applicable) may be displayed to shoppers on Up4buy to comply with local legal requirements. For both buyers and sellers, Up4buy requires this information to provide the Services to you (including to validate account ownership, mitigate fraud and abuse, comply with regulatory obligations, or complete a transaction as a buyer or seller). We may store credit card and other information information you provide to us during payment, for billing and payment purposes and to process your transaction. Members in certain countries may choose to save their credit information to facilitate payment on future purchases. If you are an Up4buy buyer in the EU, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein or the United Kingdom, you may be asked to authenticate your payment method when placing your order. To authenticate a payment, you will need to respond to a request from your card issuer and provide additional information, such as a correct answer to a question, a password or an access code. Up4buy may confidentially contact individual store owners to request more information about their stores or items advertised through our Services, or may request information from shoppers to ensure compliance with our policies and applicable law. In order to use certain products or services on Up4buy, you may be required to fill out an order; the information you submit through the ordering process will not be displayed publicly and will only be used internally by Up4buy and its service providers, unless otherwise specified.
You may be required to provide your name and other personal information (such as birthday, gender or location) in connection with your account and activity. You can edit or remove this information through your account settings. The name associated with your account (which you can modify in your account settings) is publicly displayed and associated with your activity on Up4buy. Other members can see the date you joined; ratings, reviews (including the user's username, city and/or country) and information relating to items you've reviewed and related photographs for items you've purchased or sold; your profile information; items you advertised for sale; your store pages and policies; the user's Favorites and Collections (ads for products saved by the user), followers and followed users; announcements of items sold and the number of items sold; comments you post in our community spaces; and information you decide to share via social media. For Sellers, we may collect and use information about you to feature you in marketing materials and campaigns and to feature you and your store on and off the platform, as provided in the Up4buy Terms of Use or as required by law. From time to time, we may also ask you for certain demographic information, such as your race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, in connection with specific marketing and advocacy projects and campaigns. Providing this demographic information is completely voluntary and, where we ask for it, we will also seek your consent to use it.
You may be required to provide your name and other personal information (such as birthday, gender or location) in connection with your account and activity. You can edit or remove this information through your account settings. The name associated with your account (which you can modify in your account settings) is publicly displayed and associated with your activity on Up4buy. Other members can see the date you joined; ratings, reviews (including the user's username, city and/or country) and information relating to items you've reviewed and related photographs for items you've purchased or sold; your profile information; items you advertised for sale; your store pages and policies; the user's Favorites and Collections (ads for products saved by the user), followers and followed users; announcements of items sold and the number of items sold; comments you post in our community spaces; and information you decide to share via social media. For Sellers, we may collect and use information about you to feature you in marketing materials and campaigns and to feature you and your store on and off the platform, as provided in the Up4buy Terms of Use or as required by law. From time to time, we may also ask you for certain demographic information, such as your race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, in connection with specific marketing and advocacy projects and campaigns. Providing this demographic information is completely voluntary and, where we ask for it, we will also seek your consent to use it.
Up4buy automatically receives and records information from your browser or mobile device when you visit the Site, use the Apps or use certain features of the Services, such as your IP address or unique device identifier, cookies and data about which pages you visit and how you interact with those pages to enable us to operate and provide the Services. This information is stored in log files and collected automatically. Up4buy may also receive similar information (such as IP addresses and actions taken on the device) provided by a connected IoT device, such as a voice-activated assistant or Smart TV. We may combine this information from your browser or mobile device with other information that we or our marketing partners collect about you, including across devices. This information is used to prevent fraud and maintain the security of the Services, to analyze and understand how the Services work for members and visitors, and to provide advertising, including across your devices, and a more personalized experience for members and visitors.
We also automatically collect device-specific information when you install, access or use our Services. This information may include information such as your hardware model, operating system information, application version, application usage and debugging information, browser information, IP address and device identifiers. For more information about these online tools and how to use them, please see our Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy and the “Uses, Sharing and Disclosure of Information” Section.
We also receive information about you from our sellers and suppliers. This information may include customer service interactions, payment information, shipping information, and information shared on Up4buy forums.
As described below, Up4buy receives information about you from our advertising and marketing partners. This information may include attribution information via cookies and UTM URL tags to determine where a visit to Up4buy is coming from, responses to marketing emails and advertisements, responses to offers, and audience information from partners you have given your consent to. your consent to share that information with us.
We collect information about your use of the Services for advertising, for analytics, to display content, and to protect the Services. This may include your IP address, browser information (including referrers), device information (such as iOS IDFA, IDFV for limited non-advertising purposes, Android AAID and, when enabled by you, location information provided by your device). When using the Apps, you may choose to share your geolocation data with Up4buy to use functions such as our local market, maps and in-person sales (although you do not need to share this data). You can choose to publish your location when you sell on Up4buy Marketplace.
We obtain the location information you provide in your profile and your IP address. With your consent, we may also determine location using other information from your device, such as precise GPS location information or information about wireless networks or mobile service towers near your mobile device. We use and store information about your location to provide features and to improve and customize the Services, for example, for Up4buy’s internal analysis and performance monitoring; location, regional requirements and Services policies; for local content, search results, and recommendations; for shipping and mapping services; and use approximate location information, such as city or country, so that the Services are tailored and personalized for you. If you have agreed to the sharing of your precise device location data but do not wish to continue sharing that information with us, you can withdraw your consent to share that information through settings in the Apps or on your mobile device. Some non-precise location services, such as for security policies and located based on your IP address or submitted address, are fundamental to the functioning of the Site. We will only share your geolocation data with third parties (such as our mapping, payment or, as applicable, advertising providers) to provide the Services to you. You can also choose to allow Apps to access your mobile device's camera to upload photos to Up4buy.
We use data analysis software to ensure the functionality of the Site and Applications and to improve the Services. This software records information such as how often you use the Apps, what happens in the Apps, aggregated usage, performance data, error information and debugging of the Apps and where the Apps were downloaded from. We do not associate the information we store in the analytics software with any personally identifiable information you submit in the mobile application. For more information, see Up4buy’s Cookies and Similar Technologies Policy and Disclosures.
Some members or visitors may choose to connect to Up4buy or register an Up4buy account using an external third-party application, such as Facebook, or an application developed using the Up4buy API. Linking your Up4buy account to third-party apps or services is optional. If you choose to link your account with a third-party application, such linking is subject to your agreements with those third parties (such as their Terms of Use and Privacy Notices) and Up4buy may receive information from that application. We may also collect public information to engage with you, such as when we communicate with you via social media. We may use this information as part of providing the Services. You can choose to share some of your Up4buy activity on certain social networks linked to your Up4buy account, and you can revoke your permission at any time in your account settings. Some third-party applications that you use to create or log in to your account may provide you with the option to opt out of receiving messages from us or allow you to forward those messages to another email address. If we cannot send you essential messages about your account, we may suspend or close your account.
Up4buy receives or obtains information (for example, an email address or IP address) about a person who is not yet a registered member of Etsy (a “non-member”) in connection with certain features of Up4buy, such as when a non-member chooses to subscribe to an Up4buy newsletter, a member invites a non-member to visit the Site, a member uploads information for a non-member using the contact upload feature, a non-member participates in a transaction, a member sends a gift card code to a non-member, or a non-member uses Guest Checkout to make a purchase. Non-member information is used only for the purposes disclosed when submitted to Up4buy, for purposes necessary for the Up4buy Services to function, or where Up4buy has a legitimate interest, as indicated in the Section “Uses, Sharing and Disclosure of Information,” below, or to facilitate an authorized action by a member or non-member.
We collect certain information from members and non-members who visit websites hosted by us. This information may include your IP address or unique device identifier and cookies and data from the pages you visit. To learn more about sites hosted by us through Pattern by Up4buy, please see our Pattern Policy. For more information about our use of cookies and the collection of tracking information, please see the Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy or “Uses, Sharing and Disclosure of Information” section below.
You can choose to import your contacts from your mobile device or personal email address book or social media account into Up4buy. We do not retain login information for your email service, mobile device or social media site. You can search for people you know by email address or phone number on the Site or by contact information that matters. Finding your friends on Up4buy helps you connect with them on our platform. For example, you can follow another member's public activity, such as Public Favorites. When you start following another member's activity, they receive an email notification (if the member has agreed to receive this type of email).
If you don't want your contacts to be able to find you on Up4buy using your email address, phone number, or social media links, you can change your findability through your account settings. If you don't want to be found on Up4buy by your name, you can remove the name and instead use a nickname as the name in your public account information.
Occasionally, Up4buy will need to contact you. These messages will primarily be delivered via email, Up4buy Messages, or push notifications for a variety of reasons, including marketing, transaction, defense, and service update purposes. If you no longer want to receive push notifications, you can disable them on your device. You can opt-out of marketing communications via email or Messages in your account settings or by following the unsubscribe link in any marketing email you receive. To ensure that you receive notifications correctly, we will need to collect certain information about your device, such as your operating system and user identification information. All accounts are required to keep a valid email address on file to receive messages. Up4buy may also contact you by telephone to provide member assistance or for transaction-related purposes if you request that we contact you by telephone. In addition, and with your consent where required by law, Up4buy may send you an SMS (or similar) message or contact you by phone to provide you with customer assistance, for research or feedback, for security reasons when enable two-factor authentication on your account, or to provide you with information about products and features that may be of interest to you. You can update your contact preferences in your account settings. When you contact a winner through Up4buy Messages, the feature that allows buyers and sellers to communicate through the Services, we may share aggregate information about your use of the Services with sellers (for example, if you are a frequent buyer or a new buyer), so that they can provide better service; accordingly, we have improved our Site and our Applications.
Some Up4buy messages are service-related and required by Pay as a Guest members and users. You understand and agree that Up4buy may send you non-marketing emails, Up4buy Messages or messages such as those relating to transactions, your account, security or product changes. Examples of service-related messages include an email address confirmation/welcome email when you register your account, notification of an order, service availability, modification of features or important functions, relay of Messages with buyers and correspondence with the Up4buy Support Team (including via the chat interface or other communication methods described above).
When you register for an account, subscribe to a newsletter, or provide us with your email address or phone number, such as for a Pay as a Guest purchase, you will receive notice and consent (in some jurisdictions and situations, subject to consent additional unambiguous) receive marketing emails and messages from us. You can unsubscribe from emails or marketing messages at any time via the opt-out link included in such emails, advocacy emails or messages. Members can also control which marketing emails or messages they receive from Up4buy through their account settings. Please note that some changes to your account settings may take a few days to take effect.
A contact import feature is available to help you find and connect with your friends and contacts who may be members of Up4buy (see “Findability” section above for more information). If someone on your contact list is not yet a member, you can invite them to join Up4buy and an email will be sent to them on your behalf. Recipients of email invitations can opt-out of future invitations by following the instructions in the email invitation message. You can only send an invitation to someone who has given you consent to receive it.
Up4buy is a marketplace and a community. We offer several features that allow members to connect and communicate in public and semi-public spaces, such as Forums and Teams, that form part of the Up4buy Community space. You don't have to use these features, but if you do, use your best judgment when posting to these communities or sharing your personal information with others through the Services. Please be aware that any personal information you choose to submit in these spaces may be read, collected or used by third parties or may be used to send you unsolicited messages. We engage certain third parties to assist in providing the community services and, in the context of that relationship, we must share some of your information with those third parties to provide that service to you. This may include, for example, your publicly available Up4buy account information, your account status, your forum posts and Teams memberships, your Up4buy username and/or store name, your presentation you have chosen to optionally share publicly on your Up4buy account, avatar image, the date you registered on Up4buy, as well as your language and regional settings on the Site. If you close your Up4buy account, your Community account, which allows you to post on Forums, will also be closed and related personal information will be deleted. However, your posts may remain public after your account is closed, although your name will no longer appear with the post. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to post in community spaces through the Services. You can set your privacy preferences and transfer your data in Community Settings and close or delete your Community account by submitting a request to Up4buy.
Another member may follow your public activity on the Site to receive updates, such as when you add an article to your Favorites or Public Collections. You can choose to make certain activities private through your account settings. You have the option to block any member you don't want to share your updates with.
We respect your privacy. Up4buy does not disclose your name, email address or other personal information to third parties without your consent, except as specified in this policy.
You can control your privacy settings via the opt-out buttons in the Privacy tab of your account settings and the Privacy Settings link at the footer of most pages on the site and on our home page. Please note that some changes to your privacy settings may take a few days to take effect. We or our vendors may advertise our Services or our vendors' products through a variety of different means and rely on your consent to do so outside of the website.
When you access or use the Services, we collect, use, share and otherwise process your personal information for the purposes described in this policy. We rely on a set of legal grounds for using your information in these ways. These legal grounds include when:
It is Occasionally necessary to protect your vital interests or those of others (in rare cases where we may need to share information to prevent loss of life or personal injury).
We mainly rely on consent (which can be withdrawn at any time) (i) to send you marketing messages, (ii) to share third-party data related to advertising, and, to the extent applicable, (iii) to use location data for advertising purposes.
We rely on consent for online and offline targeted marketing, including through tools such as Facebook Custom Audience and Google Customer Match. We or our vendors may advertise our Services or our vendors' products through a variety of different means and rely on your consent to do so outside of the website. As part of this process, we may work with advertising partners such as Facebook, Google and other partners disclosed in our Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy. These partners have their own privacy policies and consent mechanisms for their customers, in addition to Up4buy’s controls. You can view the privacy policies and privacy choices for these partners, and the information you share with them, in our Cookie and Similar Technology Disclosures.
Up4buy may also use first-party data (for example, your past purchases and browsing partners on our Site) and may combine this with other data we collect from you or received through our advertising and marketing partners, such as your location or publicly available information, to allow us to create targeted audiences based on your known or inferred demographics and/or interests to show you the most relevant and useful advertising on our Site or Applications (including personalization of our Services) , on our direct marketing channels (such as email) or with our off-site marketing partners such as Google and Facebook, subject to the respective terms and privacy notice you have accepted from those partners.
When we process your information based on our legitimate interests, we do so as follows:
We use your information to improve and customize our Services, including sharing your information for these purposes, and we do so as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests of improving the Services for our users. This is also necessary to allow us to pursue our legitimate interests in understanding how our Services are being used and to explore and unlock ways to develop and grow our business. It is also necessary to allow us to pursue our legitimate interests in improving our Services, the efficiency and interest in the Services for users and in improving awareness of usage patterns of our Services. As a core part of our Services, we have a legitimate interest in customizing your site experience to help you search and discover relevant items and recommended purchases, including using this information to help sellers find the best ways to market their products. on Up4buy Marktplace.
We rely on our legitimate interest to send you marketing messages (where permitted, regardless of consent) and for Up4buy’s advertising programs (including advertising and marketing on the Up4buy website).
We use your information for security and safety purposes, which may include sharing information for such purposes, and we do this because it is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests, or those of others, to ensure the security of our Services, prevent harm to people and property or criminal activity, enforce or defend our legal rights, or prevent harm to Up4buy’s systems or those of our users or partners. This includes improving our community's protection against spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime, fraud and security risks of all kinds. We use your information to provide and improve the Services, for billing and payments, for identification and authentication, and for general aggregated research and reporting. For example, consistent with our existing case resolution process, we may use information you provide to resolve disputes with Up4buy or other members.
As part of the buying and selling process, Up4buy will facilitate the sharing of information between the two members involved in the transaction, such as the shipping address, email address and payment status of the another Up4buy member. This may also involve us sharing your information with one of our third party partners, such as shipping and payment partners, to enable us to provide the Service to you. These partners will handle your personal information in accordance with their privacy policies. In some cases, while subject to Up4buy’s privacy and security requirements for sellers, these partners, not Up4buy, are responsible for protecting the personal information under their control. By making a sale or purchase on Up4buy, you are instructing us to share your information in this way. As this is an important part of the Services we provide, we need to do this to fulfill our obligations under our Terms of Use. We may partner with third parties so that you can make an Up4buy purchase from the third party's website or mobile app. Third party terms of service, privacy policy, and other policies may apply in addition to Up4buy’s policies. In addition, third parties will directly collect user information associated with the purchase. Third-party partners will share information collected from users with Up4buy for order-related purposes and for any other purpose that is communicated to the user at the time the information is provided. We expect you to respect the privacy of the member whose information you received. As described in the Up4buy Terms of Use, you have a limited license to use that information only for Up4buy related communications or Up4buy facilitated transactions. Up4buy has not granted you a license to use the information for unauthorized transactions or sending unsolicited commercial messages in violation of any applicable laws, including any consent requirements of the recipient's jurisdiction. You should only add a member to your email or physical mailing list or store a member's personal information in accordance with applicable laws, including any consent requirements that apply in that member's jurisdiction.
We may learn the types of products that interest you from your browsing and purchasing behavior on (and off) the Site or Applications and, as a result, use that information to suggest potential purchases. As a core part of our Services, we have a legitimate interest in customizing your site experience to help you search and discover relevant items and recommended purchases, including using this information to help sellers find the best ways to market their products. on Up4buy Marketplace.
Up4buy may also retain, preserve, or disclose your personal information to a third party in the following limited circumstances: in response to legitimate requests from public authorities, including to comply with legitimate national security and law enforcement requirements; to protect, establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against actual or imminent legal claims, including to collect a debt, or a material breach of our policies (including our Intellectual Property Policy); to comply with a subpoena, court order, court process, regulation or other legal requirement; or when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with the law, prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, threats to our rights or property, or violations of the Up4buy Terms of Use. For example, if permitted under the circumstances above, your information may be shared with tax authorities or other government agencies. In the cases indicated above, our use of your information may be necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, or those of third parties, in maintaining the security of our Services, preventing offense or crime, enforcing or defending legal rights, or damage prevention. Such use may also be necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order, to exercise or defend legal claims or to facilitate the collection of taxes and the prevention of tax fraud. It may also be necessary in the public interest (such as to prevent crime or fraud) or to protect vital interests (in rare cases, we may need to share information to prevent loss of life or personal injury).
If Up4buy receives a legitimate and validated request for a member's records or information in one of the limited circumstances described in the previous paragraph, Up4buy may disclose personal information, which may include, without limitation, name, address, telephone number, email address, company/business name and, where appropriate, a member's bank account and transaction details. Learn more about how Up4buy responds to requests for registrations or information about members of the Up4buy community in our Information Requests Policy.
Up4buy is associated with a wide variety of companies and works closely with them for a variety of purposes, including assisting with our provision and improvement of the Services. These companies may sell you items or services through the Services or, with your consent, offer you promotions (including email promotions). Up4buy also provides services or sells products in conjunction with affiliated companies, including providing you with the opportunity to register with such partners and allowing them to market more effectively to you. When an affiliated company assists in facilitating your transaction, we may need to share transaction-related information with that affiliated company to facilitate your transaction, as part of the Services we provide in accordance with our Terms of Use. We rely on consent (which can be withdrawn at any time) to send you marketing messages and for sharing with third parties in connection with advertising. As part of this process, we may work with advertising partners such as Facebook or Google and may use aggregated analytics for usage information, including, for example, search keywords, bookmarks, browsing history and purchase history.
Up4buy may share demographic information with business partners, but unless stated otherwise, it will be aggregated and depersonalized so that personal information is not revealed.
Up4buy also needs to hire third-party companies and individuals (such as research companies and analytics and security providers) to help us operate, provide, and market the Services. These third parties have only limited access to your information, can only use your information to perform these tasks on our behalf, and are bound by Up4buy not to disclose or use your information for other purposes. Our interaction with service providers is usually necessary for us to provide the Services to you, especially when such companies perform important functions, such as helping us maintain the operation and security of our Services. In some other cases, these service providers are not strictly necessary for us to provide the Services, but they help us make the Services better, such as by helping us conduct research on how we can better serve our users. In the latter cases, we have a legitimate interest in working with service providers to make our Services better.
In some cases, Up4buy may choose to buy or sell assets. Such transactions may be necessary and in our legitimate interest, especially our interest in making decisions that allow us to develop our business over time. In these types of transactions (such as a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership, or transfer of all or substantially all of Up4buy’s assets), typically, member information is one of the business assets that is transferred. If Up4buy intends to transfer information about you, Up4buy will notify you by email or by displaying a prominent notice on the Site and App, providing you with an opportunity to opt-out before information about you becomes subject to different privacy policy.
Third party plug-ins also collect information about your use of the Site. For example, when you load a page on Up4buy that has a social plug-in from a third-party site or service, such as a “Like” or “Submit” button, you are also loading content from that third-party site. This site may request cookies directly from your browser. These interactions are subject to the third-party site's privacy policy. In addition, some cookies and other similar technologies on the Site are used by third parties for targeted online marketing and other purposes. These technologies allow a partner to recognize your computer or mobile device whenever you use the Services. Please note that when you use third-party sites or services, their terms and privacy policies govern your use of those sites or services. Up4buy chooses and manages these third-party technologies placed on its Sites and Apps. However, these are third party technologies and are subject to that third party's privacy policy. For more information, see our Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy. We rely on your consent to place and read these cookies when they are not technically necessary or when they are not mandatory on the basis of another purpose, such as a legitimate interest.
This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties (such as other members who sell through the Services, certain third-party providers we rely on to provide certain services, or API users) that Up4buy does not own or control, or individuals that Up4buy does not employ or manage, except as otherwise specified in the Terms or required by law. If you provide your information to such third parties in connection with your use of the Services, different practices may apply to the use or disclosure of the information you provide to them. While Up4buy requires these third parties to adhere to Up4buy’s privacy and security requirements, Up4buy does not control the privacy or security policies of those third parties. To the fullest extent applicable in your jurisdiction, Up4buy is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of these sellers, API users, or other sites on the Internet, even those that link to and from the Services. We encourage you to read the privacy policies and ask questions of third parties before disclosing your personal information to them. For the purposes of European law, these vendors, third-party providers and API users are independent data controllers, which means that they are responsible for providing and complying with their policies relating to any personal information they obtain in connection with the Services.
Up4buy operates an international service. If you reside outside of North or South America, your personal information is controlled by Up4buy Portugal SA. By using our Services, you understand that Up4buy Portugal SA may share some of the information it collects with other affiliates of Up4buy for the purposes described in this privacy policy, including validating your identity, reviewing transactions, and processing payments.
The United States, Member States of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and other countries all have different laws. When your information is transferred from your country of residence to another country, the laws and regulations that protect your personal information in the country to which your information is transferred may be different from those in the country in which you reside. For example, the circumstances under which law enforcement authorities may access personal information may vary from country to country. In particular, if your information is located in the United States, it may be accessed by government authorities in accordance with United States law.
To the extent that Up4buy is deemed to be transferring personal information outside the EEA, we separately, alternatively and independently rely on the following legal grounds for transferring your information:
The European Commission has adopted Standard Contractual Clauses (also known as Standard Clauses), which provide safeguards for personal information that is transferred outside of Europe. We frequently use these Standard Clauses when transferring personal information outside of Europe. You can request a copy of our Standard Clauses by emailing legal@up4buy.com.
Necessary for the fulfillment of the contract between Up4buy and its Members Up4buy provides a voluntary service; you can choose whether or not to use the Services. Since we operate in countries all over the world and use technical infrastructure in the United States to provide the Services to you, pursuant to the contract between us (our Terms of Use), we need to transfer your personal information to the United States. and to other jurisdictions as necessary to provide the Services. In short, we cannot provide the Services to you and fulfill our contract with you without transferring your personal information around the world.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. For example, encryption is used for certain information (such as credit card numbers) using TLS (transport layer security). Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your account information is password protected. It is important that you protect yourself from unauthorized access to your account and information by selecting your password carefully and keeping your password and computer secure, for example, by logging out after using the Services. Up4buy offers advanced security features and settings for members, such as two-factor authentication for login and login history and notifications; you can see more information in your account settings.
If you have any concerns about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at legal@up4buy.com.
Up4buy will retain your information only for the period of time necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, for as long as your account is active (i.e. for the life of your Up4buy member account) or as necessary to provide the Services to you. . If you no longer wish Up4buy to use your information to provide the Services to you, you may close your account. Up4buy may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your information to comply with applicable tax/income laws), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and as otherwise described in this policy. In addition, Up4buy sellers may also be required to retain and use your information to comply with their legal obligations. Please note that closing your account may never release your email address, username or store name (if any) for re-use in a new account. We also keep log files for internal analysis purposes. These log files are generally kept for a short period of time, except where they are used for security and protection of the site, to improve the functionality of the site or where we are legally required to keep them for longer periods of time.
Some privacy laws around the world, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), provide users with rights related to their personal information. In compliance with those laws, Up4buy gives you the option to access, edit or remove certain information, as well as options about how we contact you. You can change or correct your Up4buy account information through your account settings. You can also remove certain optional information that you no longer want to be publicly visible through the Services, such as your name. You can also request that we permanently close your account and delete your personal information. Depending on your location, you may also benefit from a range of rights regarding your information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply in limited cases.
The CCPA gives California residents the following additional rights:
If you would like to manage, change, limit or delete your personal information, you can do so through your Up4buy account settings. Alternatively, you can exercise any of the above rights by contacting us by sending a message using our contact form available in the Help Centre, chat assistance or through other channels available through our Help Centre. After contacting us to exercise any of your rights, we will confirm receipt of your request.
Limiting the use of, or deleting, your personal information may affect features and uses that rely on that information. However, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights, including refusing goods or services, providing a different level or quality of service, or charging different prices or fees for services. If you need further assistance, you can contact Up4buy through one of the channels listed below under “Contact”. We will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time.
Please note that we may verify your identity before we can process any of the requests described in this Section and, at our discretion, refuse your request if we are unable to verify your identity. As part of this process, government-issued or other identification may be required. You can designate an authorized agent to place the order on your behalf. To designate an authorized agent to place an order on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney, valid applicant's government-issued ID and valid authorized agent's government-issued ID, and we can validate the authenticity of the order directly with you.
You can find information here about consumer requests we received and processed under the CCPA and GDPR, and similar laws, during the past calendar year.
You can control receiving certain types of communications from Up4buy in your account settings. Up4buy may send you messages about the Services or your activity. Some of these messages are necessary service-related messages (such as transactional messages or legal notices). Other messages are not required, such as newsletters. You can control which optional messages you choose to receive by changing your account settings, and you can find out more in the “Up4buy Messages” Section of this policy. If you no longer wish to use the Services or receive service-related messages (other than legally required notices), you may close your account. Click here to find out how to close your account.
We use cookies and similar technologies that are technically necessary (for the functioning and security of the Services) and not technically necessary. A more detailed explanation of the technologies we use and how to opt-out, if applicable, can be found in Up4buy’s Cookies and Similar Technologies Policy.
In addition to the rights and options described above, the CCPA requires disclosure of categories of personal information collected over the past 12 months. While this information is provided in more detail in the “Information Collected or Received” Section above, the categories of personal information we collect, as described in the CCPA, are:
Identifiers, including name, email address, store name, IP address and an ID or number assigned to your account. Other records such as phone number, billing address or credit or debit card information. This category includes personal information protected under pre-existing California law (Civ. Code Cal. 1798.80(e)) and overrides other categories noted herein. Demographic data, such as your age or gender, or, where you have voluntarily provided such information to Up4buy, demographic information about your race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, provided in connection with marketing and advocacy projects and campaigns specific. This category includes data that may qualify as protected classifications under other California or federal laws. Business information, including purchases and interaction with the Services. Internet activity, including your interactions with our Services and what led up to our Services. Visual sensory data, such as images posted on our Service. Geolocation data provided through location-aware services such as Wi-Fi and GPS. Inferences, including information about your interests, preferences and favorites.
We collect and use these categories of personal information for our business and commercial purposes described in the "Uses, Sharing and Disclosure of Information" Section above, including providing and improving the Services, maintaining the security and protection of the Services, processing transactions buying and selling and to advertise and market services.
Up4buy does not sell personal information to third parties for monetary value. However, the term “sale” is broadly defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act. To the extent that the term “selling” under the CCPA is interpreted to include interest-based advertising or other uses of data described in the “Information Uses, Sharing, and Disclosures” Section above, we will comply with applicable law in the regarding these activities. You can read more in our Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy.
To opt out of receiving interest-based advertising, you can exercise your option using your account's privacy settings or the general privacy settings link located at the footer of our home page and most pages on the Site. The right to opt out of interest-based advertising is available to all Up4buy users.
Your browser settings may allow it to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. However, please be aware that there is no industry consensus on what website and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, unless and until the law is construed to require us to do so, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals. For more information about “Do Not Track,” visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
California law gives California residents the right to request a notice that describes what categories of personal information we share with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. In addition to Sellers on Up4buy (see “Buying and Selling” in the “Uses, Sharing and Disclosure of Information” Section above), who must obtain your separate consent for their marketing outside of Up4buy, or unless you request or consent to do so, Up4buy does not share any personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you have questions about these practices, you can contact us through one of the channels listed in the “Contact” Section below. For information about interest-based advertising with Up4buy and how your information is used for marketing, please see Up4buy's Cookie and Similar Technologies Policy.
If you have a disability and would like to access this policy in an alternative format, please contact us through one of the channels listed in the “Contact” section below.
If you sell through our Services or use the Up4buy API, you may receive and determine what to do with certain personal information. Your privacy responsibilities, including when you act as an independent data controller (someone who decides what personal data to collect and what you use the data for), are set out in the Up4buy Seller Policy and the Up4buy API Terms of Use.
We may periodically change or update this policy. If we believe the changes are material, we will let you know by one (or more) of the following means: (i) posting the changes on or through the Services, (ii) sending an email or message about the changes, or (iii) posting an update to the release notes on the Application platform. We encourage you to check back regularly and review any updates.
If you have any questions:
Contact the Up4buy Support Team through our Help Center
Email Up4buy's Data Protection Officer at dpo@up4buy.com
Write to us at one of the following address:
Up4buy
Rua dos Chãos nº27 Nadadouro
2500-599 Caldas Da Rainha Portugal