Cowboy Classifieds Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is in force to protect your personal information. We collect, use, and share personal information exclusively for the purposes of ensuring that cowboyclassifieds.com operates effectively and remains safe for all users.

Cowboy Classifieds Inc. acts on its own accord as the controller of your personal information, as provided to us through the use of cowboyclassifieds.com. This policy is in effect as of 11/1/2008.

Collection of Personal Information

You post information on cowboyclassifieds.com in order to make it available to a wide range of visitors/users. Our servers are located in Canada and the United States of America. When you choose to provide us with personal information through the use of our website services, you are consenting to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers in Canada and the United States of America.

We collect and store the following personal information:

email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the payment service used) financial information;
computer registration/sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from cowboyclassifieds.com and advertising data (all through cookies – you may take steps to disable cookies on your browser however this will limit your ability to use our services);
other information, including users IP address and standard web log information.

Use of Personal Information

We use users’ personal information to:

deliver our services
resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
encourage safe correspondence between users, enable buying/selling/trading, and to enforce our policies;
customize the user experience, measure the performance of our services, and inform users changes and new services;
communicate with you;
conduct polls and undertake other activities, as will be described when such endeavors are undertaken.

Disclosure

We will never sell or rent or distribute our users' personal information to any 3rd parties for marketing or research purposes without explicit consent. In order to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a posting or other content violates other’s rights, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety, we may from time to time be required to disclose your personal information. We may also be required to share personal information with:

corporate affiliates who help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services.
service providers who help enhance our business operations.

In such cases, non-disclosure agreements will be put into force with these 3rd parties in advance of sharing the information.

Use of Information from cowboyclassifieds.com

You may use personal information gathered from Cowboy Classifieds only for the purposes of following up with another user about their specific posting, not for the purposes of sending spam or collecting personal information. (Refer to our Terms of Use - TUP - Document)

Access, Modification, and Deletion

You may view, modify or erase your personal information by reviewing your ad posting, comments, or account status page. Please contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@cowboyclassifieds.com in order to review any personal information we store that is not available on the site. There may a cost associated with such requests, however these shall not exceed the amount permitted by law. We delete personal information when it is no longer required for the purposes we have previously outlined. We retain personal information as permitted by law in order to resolve disputes, enforce operating and security policies, and to prevent non-compliant users from using our services.

Security

We employ many means (encryption, passwords, physical security) in order to protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure, however we can make no guarantees that such efforts may not be breached.

General

We reserve the right to update or modify our Privacy Policies at any time. Should we be involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, however this policy will remain in effect. Please send any questions you may have about our Privacy Policy to our Privacy Officer at privacy@cowboyclassifieds.com.