LINCOLNSHIRE AUCTIONS ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY

GENERAL

Lincolnshire Auctions respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites and is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and providing a safe online experience for all our users. This Privacy Policy outlines the information Lincolnshire Auctions may collect and how we may use that information. Please read the complete Lincolnshire Auctions Online Privacy Policy below and contact us if you have any questions.

COLLECTION AND TRACKING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Lincolnshire Auctions will not collect any personally identifiable information about you (e.g., your name, address, telephone number or email address ("personal data")) through our websites unless you have provided it to us voluntarily. If you do not want your personal data collected, please do not submit it to us. We also may collect your IP address, browser type, domain name, access times and referring Web site address. This information is collected both during registration on a site or in response to specific requests, for example when signing up for a auctioning items, bidding, newsletter, entering a contest or answering a survey.

Sometimes we will give you the opportunity to opt in to offers from third parties not affiliated with Lincolnshire Auctions . If you decide to accept these offers, we will provide, with your consent, your information to the third party. However, you should note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to information users consent to give to third parties not affiliated with Lincolnshire Auctions . Any information users give to another party is governed by the rules of that party's privacy policy, which may differ from this Privacy Policy. Lincolnshire Auctions is not responsible for information given to other parties. Please review their privacy policies prior to providing any information to third parties.

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WHAT WE DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION

We use personal information so that we may display custom, personalized content to our visitors and send newsletters, emails, features, promotional material, surveys and other updates to our users. A user may, at any time, opt out of receiving such information. We also use collected information to evaluate and administer our service, respond to any problems that may arise and to gauge user trends to determine what part of our services are most popular with users.

We may extend offers to users on behalf of our partners about a particular product or service that may be of interest to you, but we will never give out your name or personal information at any time without your permission. As result, although Lincolnshire Auctions may receive a fee from our partners for this service, Lincolnshire Auctions sends all the offers so that your personal information is never shared with any outside third party.

We may, at times, produce reports for advertisers containing aggregate information about our users such as demographic, age and online usage information. This allows us to work more closely with advertisers to provide content and offers that are most relevant to our users. We will never include any personal information of our users in these reports.

We allow users of our Web site to send articles or links by email to other parties who may be interested in them. We do not retain any email addresses (unless you are a member who already has voluntarily provided your email address) of either the sender or recipient of such articles or links after they are sent.

We reserve the right to use or disclose any information without notice or consent as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request; to conduct investigations of consumer complaints or possible breaches of law; to protect the integrity of our site and our property; to protect the safety of our visitors or others; to fulfil your requests; or to cooperate in any legal investigation.

You should be aware that if you voluntarily disclose information online (whether through Lincolnshire Auctions services or any other service available online), personal or otherwise, that information can be collected and used by others. For example, if you use chat, forums, bulletin boards, and your e-mail or if you post personal information online, you may receive unsolicited messages from others. Lincolnshire Auctions has no control over this use of your personal information.

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CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Lincolnshire Auctions has no intention of collecting any personal data from individuals under thirteen years of age. Where appropriate, the Company will specifically instruct children not to submit such information on our websites and/or will take reasonable steps to ensure parental consent to such submission.

Parents should be aware that Lincolnshire Auctions Privacy Policy will govern our use of personal data, but that information which is voluntarily given by children -- or others -- in chat sessions, email exchanges, bulletin boards or the like may be used by other parties to generate unsolicited mail. Lincolnshire Auctions encourages all parents to instruct their children in the safe and responsible use of their personal data while using the Internet.

If you have any questions regarding the privacy and safety of children on our site, email support@lincolnshireauctions.co.uk

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INFORMATION PLACED AUTOMATICALLY ON YOUR COMPUTER - Use of Cookies

Your browser offers so-called "cookies" which, if you allow their use, store small amounts of data on your computer when you visit a Web site. Cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information about you and therefore cannot be used to identify you personally. Cookies simply assist us in tracking which of our features you like best. Cookies also enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your browser and our Web sites are viewable even if you disable the cookie function on your browser. However, if you disable cookies, some advanced and customized features of our site, as well as other Web sites, will not be available to you.

Some of the banner ads displayed in our Web sites are provided by outside companies. These ads contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web sites, our advertisers collect cookies received with banner ads and we do not have access to this information. We use a reputable third party to serve some or all of the advertisements that are placed within our sites and they may use information (not including personally identifiable information) about your visits to our sites and other sites to assist in serving advertisements to you.

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USE OF WEB BEACONS

Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons, which are also called single-pixel gifs. These images allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We also may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information but they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about our Web site usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. Some of our Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help us determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

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CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

A user may, at any time, change, correct, modify or delete any personal information they may have provided to Lincolnshire Auctions by visiting the ‘My Controls' ‘Members' located on the Lincolnshire Auctions main-site or Forums. Users can also unsubscribe from any newsletters or opt out of various promotional emailing at any time by unselecting email notifications within the My Control/Members options or clicking on "unsubscribe" links in each of our newsletters or emails.

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SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

All Lincolnshire Auctions employees are made aware of its privacy practices through periodic communications and training. We limit access to private and confidential data only to those employees with a specific need to retrieve this information. To maintain the highest level of security, we conduct internal reviews of our security measures on a regular basis.

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CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy as necessary to maintain the highest protection for our users and to comply with a changing environment. We recommend that you check the policy when you visit our site to be sure you are aware of and understand our current policy. If we make material changes to this policy or in how we will use or collect your personally identifiable information, we will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. We will not make changes in how we handle previously collected personal information that have retroactive effect unless legally required to do so.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, email admin@lincolnshireauctions.co.uk