Auction Ventures, L.C. (“AVL”) has established this privacy policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected and used. This Policy may be updated by AVL from time to time. AVL will provide notice of materially significant changes to this Privacy Policy by posting notice on the FindSelfStorageAuctions.com.

Protecting Your Privacy

✤ AVL does not...

• Share information provided by you on the FindSelfStorageAuctions.com with third parties for marketing purposes.
• Use tracking devices for marketing purposes.
• Knowingly collect any information from minors. If AVL learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 18, AVL will remove that posting.

✤ AVL, or people who post on the FindSelfStorageAuctions.com, may...

• Provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. AVL is not responsible for, nor has any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and encourages all users to read the privacy policies of every website visited.

✤ Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.

Data AVL Collects

✤ AVL may collect...

• Your email address for purposes such as sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, etc.
• Contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax number(s), email and address for authentication and billing purposes.
• Personal information if you provide it in your postings. Do not post any personal information that you expect to keep private.
• Standard web logs for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and time-stamp in order to help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the site, and to otherwise provide our service to you.

✤ AVL does not...

• Store credit card information. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway, and AVL endeavors to protect the security of your payment information during trans­mission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.

Data AVL Stores
✤ AVL may store in its database...

• All postings on the FindSelfStorageAuctions.com, even after their apparent deletion, and this may be archived elsewhere.
• AVL’s web logs and other records, which may be stored indefinitely.

✤ Although AVL makes good faith efforts to store the information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, AVL cannot guarantee complete security.

Archiving and display of Self-Storage Auctions postings by search engines and Internet archival websites

✤ Search engines and other sites not affiliated with AVL the sole function of which is to provide archival Internet services, including archive.org, google.com and groups.yahoo.com, may archive or otherwise make available AVL postings subject to the limitations imposed by AVL’s Terms of Use. However, postings on the FindSelfStorageAuctions.com may not be republished for any other purpose without AVL’s express consent.

Circumstances in which AVL may release information

✤ AVL may disclose information about its users...

• If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.

• To law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce AVL’s Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of AVL personnel, members, website users or the general public.


Rev. 12/14/10