Our Web Site Privacy
Policy at Wahaa.com
At Wahaa! we take your privacy very seriously and we have created this privacy
statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy, on the
internet with our web site.
The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for our website.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
and Does Not Cover
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We do not offer your
information to outside sources about you without your prior consent or
permission.
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We use your IP address to help
diagnose problems with our servers, and to help the administer resolve
problems that may arise on our web site.
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Your IP address is also used
to help identify you and your shopping cart.
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We use cookies to deliver
content specific to your interests.
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Wahaa! collects personal
identifiable information such as name and email address, financial
information (like their account or credit card numbers), and demographic
information (like their zip code, age, or income level).
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We use customer contact
information to send our members information on our ongoing auctions,
classifieds and updates, directory information or problems, newsletter
information, that may concern them, registration information, and
information about our company, our partners and affiliates, from time to
time.
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Users may opt-out of receiving
future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. They may also opt-out
by clicking no when they are asked to join different groups.
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All financial information that
is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.
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Demographic and profile data
is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor the visitor's
experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be
interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences.
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This privacy policy does not
cover or apply to practices of other companies that Wahaa does not control
nor own.
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Because our site is also a
directory portal and auction site which contains links to other sites.
Wahaa! is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such
Web sites, nor do we employ or manage other web sites and their practices.
- We attempt to screen all sites prior to
allowing them into our directory. We cannot be responsible for there
changing web information in mid stream, or switching links to adult sites.
- If you notify us about it when you come
across it in our directory or auction we will take immediate action.
- The following
websites cannot be added to our directories.
Pornographic websites, racial, defamatory or
slanderous websites. Every website subscribing to our directories will
be verified and checked out by us. Thank you!
- There are special relationships, such as
"Powered by" partners, business partners, co branded sites, these
relationships are addressed here in our privacy statement.
- The information that we do share with them
is of an aggregate nature such as, we use wed trends that discloses
aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective
partners, advertisers, and other third parties, all for lawful purposes.
Security
This site has security measures in place to
protect both the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our
control. In our Auction services we are using industry-standard SSL-
encryption to protect data transmissions.
What is SSL
SSL means (Secure Sockets Layer) this is a protocol for transmitting private
documents over the internet. It was developed by Netscape Communications. SSL
enables you to send personal information over the internet, in a secure
protocol. SSL works by encrypting the messages that you are send to insure that
all transactions are private and that your information has not been altered
during transmission.
Children's Guidelines
According to the answers that you have chosen,
your Web site meets the guidelines of TRUSTe's Children's program. YOU
MUST BE OVER THE AGE OF 18 TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR AUCTIONS.
- Kids under the age of 13
- We do not knowingly collect online contact
information without prior parental consent or parental notification, which
will include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information
and participation in the activity. Without prior parental consent, online
information will only be used to respond directly to the child's request and
will not be used for other purposes without prior parental consent.
- We do not knowingly collect personally
identifiable offline contact information without prior parental consent.
- We do not knowingly distribute to third
parties any personally identifiable information with out prior parental
consent.
- We do not knowingly give the ability
to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact
information without prior parental consent.
- We do not knowingly entice by the
prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more
information than is needed to participate in the activity.
- If information is collected in our databases
of kids under 13 and found by us it will be destroyed immediately.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out
of receiving communications from us at the point where we request information
about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for
removing their information from our database to not receive future
communications or to no longer receive our service.
- You can send email to webmaster@wahaa.com
- You can visit the following URL: http://www.wahaa.com
- You can send mail to the following postal
address:
Wahaa.com
PO Box 8087
Stamford, CT 06905-8087
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for
changing and modifying information previously provided.
- email webmaster@wahaa.com
- visit http://www.wahaa.com
- send mail to the above address:
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about our privacy
statement, the practices of our site, or your dealings with this Wahaa! site,
you can contact
webmaster@wahaa.com
Copyright © 2006 Wahaa.Com All Rights
Reserved. This Page was Last Modified January 1, 2006. For Advertising
Information contact us at (203) 348-8687 or write to us at
Advertising Dept
Wahaa .Com
PO Box 8087
Stamford, CT. 06905-8087
Thank You for your time and enjoy
your stay!