Our Privacy Policy Disclosure & Security Statement
Effective Date: June 01, 2018
SSL Certificate Holder
NationalTradesman.com is an SSL Certificate holder for the benefit of your security. Typically, SSL is used to secure credit card transactions, data transfer and logins, and more recently is becoming the norm when securing browsing of social media sites etc.
Application of Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting NationalTradesman.com, sometimes referred to within this document as “website” or “site”. This Privacy Policy, sometimes referred to as “policy”, applies to www.nationaltradesman.com. It describes what types of information we may collect from online visitors/customers and how this information may be used or shared. By visiting or purchasing ads/items on NationalTradesman.com, you agree to the terms of this Policy.
Types of Information We May Collect
Information You May Provide When You Interact with NationalTradesman.com
We may collect information, including personal information, from you in a variety of ways when you interact with NationalTradesman.com through our website. Examples of the types of information we may collect include your name, home address, shipping address, email address, telephone number, mobile phone number, purchase and order information, and demographic information. You may provide such information, for instance, when:
- You create a free ad on our site.
- You purchase an ad or ad placement space on our site.
- You make a purchase of an item on our site.
- You ship an item purchased on our site.
- You create a personalized profile on our site for your convenience.
- You provide your contact information.
Information Collected Automatically
In addition to information you provide directly, we may collect certain information using automated means such as cookies, web beacons, and web server logs. We may combine this automatically-collected information with other information we obtain about you, as described below. Examples of the types of information we may collect automatically include IP addresses, location information, mobile device identifiers, browser characteristics, and Site traffic and navigational information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file sent by a website that is stored on your hard drive by your computer’s browser. This site does not currently directly store cookies on your hard drive or browser. Currently only third parties such as ad services on this site may be placing cookies on your computer or browser.
Just to make you aware, you can manage the cookies placed on your computer. Managing cookies varies from browser to browser, so please refer to your browser for further information. You can usually can set your browser to remove or reject cookies.
Information from Other Sources
In the future we may receive information about you from other sources and combine that information with information we collect about you through this site.
How We Use Your Information
We may use information about you for various purposes, including:
- Enhancing your online interaction with NationalTradesman.com.
- Processing both free ads and purchased ads.
- Checking your trade credentials with appropriate state licensing agencies.
- Providing customer service, and following up on order questions and concerns.
- Communicating with you about advertising and other products, services, promotions, offers, and other news and information we think may be of interest to you.
- Analyzing usage of, modifying, or improving our site.
- Contacting you regarding your use of our site and, in our discretion, changes to our policies.
- Preventing fraudulent activity and monitoring against threats.
- Carrying out any business function or other purpose as disclosed in this policy or at the time you provide information to us.
How We Share Your Information
Internally: We may share your information within NationalTradesman.com between administrators, editors, etc.
Service Providers: We provide your information to companies that provide support services to NationalTradesman.com, including, but not limited to, analytics companies, web hosting providers, payment processors, fulfillment and logistics vendors and data verification providers. We may also share your personal information with third parties that provide financial products and services related to our business.
Legal or Safety Requirements: NationalTradesman.com may disclose information about you in response to a legal order or request, or based upon our good faith belief that the disclosure is required or permitted by law. We also may disclose your information to protect users of our site or the site itself, to protect the public or to otherwise protect and defend the rights, property, security, safety of any party, or to protect our business interests.
Analytics and Online Tracking
We use third-party service providers such as Google Analytics, to assist us in better understanding how visitors use the Site. These providers place cookies on visitors’ computers to collect information about how visitors navigate the Site, what products are browsed, and aggregate purchasing and other information. The information collected for this purpose is disclosed to, or directly collected by, these service providers. To learn more about opting out of data collection through Google Analytics, click here.
Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. There is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Like many websites and online services, our site is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may wish to visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Children Under 13
The Site is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have received such information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete the information.
To stop receiving any email from NationalTradesman.com, please contact NT@NationalTradesman.com.
Security
NationalTradesman.com uses appropriate safeguards to help protect the information you provide to us online. Although we use reasonable efforts to secure information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of information collected through our site. We secure and monitor the site with vigilance and maintain an SSL security certificate. We also assure you we do not intentionally disseminate your information unless we are for instnce processing your trade listing or other actions directly related to you or your companies interaction with our site.
Contact Information
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may click here to contact us. Our Email address is:
NT@NationalTradesman.com
Please place “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.
Updates to this policy
As we continue to offer new and different types of content and services, NationalTradesman.com may modify this policy. Should there be a material change to our information practices, it will be applied on a go-forward basis, and we will notify you by updating the date at the beginning of this policy. NationalTradesman.com encourages you to review this policy each time you visit our site.