Privacy Policy
This privacy statement is created to get you acquainted with our ways of collecting private data from you while you access The Site (our website) and The Services (our services and products), we provide in addition to the way we utilization the collected data to help you make informed choices.
The type of data we collect
Upon accessing our website, we may collect the following data from you:
1. Private data – data that is sensitive to you, which is gathered aggregately and freely without any coercion whatsoever.
2. Site use data – data that is gathered based on your total visits as well as those of others to our website.
1. Private data
This is data that is generated whenever you decide to sign up an account with our website. It includes data such as username, user contacts like email address, cell-phone number, postal address, and any other relevant data. Similarly, we can gather data such as the one in your personal listings or your messages to us. Some of the data we collect can personally identify you as an individual and we only collect such data with your permission. You can still use our services that is, share posts, browse or respond to posting without creating an account on our site. This way, we may not be able to access such data.
Data that you contribute while posting a classified is shown publicly and made accessible to all users of our site. Therefore, you should be extremely careful about what you post because everyone can view your postings. You also have the choice to include images and descriptions to your products or services. Upon submitting your listing, the image and the descriptions will displayed publicly for all users to view.
Should you provide your own private data to any consumer or dealer on the site directly or via our messaging service, we cannot possibly monitor the purposes and how they use the data. As a precautionary measure, we encourage the use of our messaging service when interacting with prospective buyers or sellers.
2. Site use data
This is the total data collected upon every successive visit to the Site. Site use data includes the pages accessed, time-taken on various sites, the exact time and date of visits and the immediate sites preceding and succeeding your visit to our site.
The Site, just like many e-commerce sites, makes use of cookies (discussed below) as well as web server logs to gather data on how users utilize the Site. Website owners including us, our ad server platforms and advertisers may additionally use small technologies and code fragments to identify product promotions and ads viewed by users as well as their reactions to the products.
How we utilize the data you voluntarily offer us
Generally, we use the private data we collect from users to manage and scale up our website and the Services we provide. Essentially, private data is used to support and meet client needs, identify and fix problems, promote the secure exchange of products and services, and execute policies of the Site. Moreover, the collected data helps us to not only enhances the Services we offer but also give you a more personalized experience based on your preferences and likes. From time to time, we may use the data we have collected from you to inform you of any key updates on the Site including any changes to our services and products.
We cannot lease or for any price, disclose your private data to anyone without prior express permission and acknowledgment. However, we may be compelled to reveal private data in response or compliance with legal stipulations, implement the Terms of Service, respond to complaints regarding abuse of other users rights by a specific posting or content, or safeguard other person’s rights, privacy, welfare or property. Additionally, we may share personal data with our partners, other websites that we work with and publishers to make your listings or content contained in your listings available on multiple websites for increased visibility.
Cookies
Refers to a miniature text report that mostly constitutes an auto-generated distinct identifier used for collecting data based on your visit to a web page.
Upon accessing a site, you are prompted for your decision to accept cookies to be stored in a section of your main storage drive dedicated for cookies. When you access any website, the website sends its cookies to your web browser. To uphold user privacy, your web browser only allows a site to connect to cookies it dispatched to you and not those generated by other websites. When it comes to our business associates including our advertisers, they generate their own cookies and therefore, we do not have control over their cookies.
How we utilize the data we gather from cookies
We use cookies to distinguish you from our other users when you visit the Site. Cookies and web server logs, help us to determine the total number of visitors the Site receives and the Site’s most visited pages. This information helps us to further upgrade our website and to consistently our users’ experience. We cannot use any private data provided by cookies because the cookie technology does not allow us to collect and save such data, to begin with.
Sharing data with other websites
Our website includes links to third-party websites from all around the world. Kindly take note that we do not take any responsibility in the way such sites collect or utilize private data. Therefore, we advise you to familiarize yourself with the privacy customs of such sites whenever you choose to follow the links and access these site. This privacy policy is only applicable to the data we gather ourselves from our website.
Advertisements are served to you by third party companies. They may use data based on your visit to their site to avail and customize advertisements to your liking. During this process, these sites may bug a distinct cookie or a pixel tag within your search engine. Our privacy code does not guarantee the safety of the data collected from you by third-party advertisement servers. These servers have their inherent customs with regard to data collection and storage of gathered data. For more details about this or your take on not having such data being used by the advertising companies, contact us at info@slamgator.com.
The Site uses Google Analytics and details on exactly how this platform gathers and analyses data may be accessed by visiting: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
We have allowed specific Google Analytics product-promotion features that make use of cookies. Such features help us deduce analyse population data and preferences for the Site’s users. You may disassociate from these features at https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads.
Additionally, we may utilize Google AdWords remarketing for the purposes of prompting product-promotions over the Internet. This tool bugs your browser with a cookie and shows you customized ads based on the Site pages you have browsed. The cookie cannot solely identify you, it only provides information about the pages you browsed and prompts the system to display ads that match your preferences. This strategy helps us customize our website and show advertisements based on your preferences. You may disassociate from this feature at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
We may also team up with other websites in form of partnerships and collaborative undertakings to provide them with access to your private information such as your username and contacts for the purposes of informing you about some of their services or merchandise. Inquiring about some specific listings on our website is taken to mean that you are agreeing to us providing our affiliated websites who in turn link with businesses that deal in such inquired listings, with data that they may, consequently, use in reaching out to you.
In the event of us merging with other corporates or winding up the company, we may hand over such data to them. By growing our trade, we buy and also sell important assets such as email addresses, usernames and user visits details which are mostly exchanged during such business undertakings.
Updates on the Modification of the Site and Services
This may include information about new products and/or services. We may use your personally identifiable details to reach out to you and make let you know of such new services, products or modifications to our website. As a customer, you may inform us of any disinterest with regards to sharing such updates.
How we uphold the safety of your data
What measures have we put in place to protect our users’ data?
In this regard, we employ both administrative and technological measures to ensure that personal your data is safe from unwarranted access, modifications, damage, disclosure, or loss.
Special Disclosure
We may be compelled to share your personal details by law, legal requirement or if there is enough justification to warrant such disclosure including (a) compliance with existing laws or lawful statues implied on us as well and/or our partners; (b) the need to safeguard and uphold the rights, freedoms, and assets of the Site, our users, or our partners; (c) the need to take action in the event that the security of the Site, our users and/or our business affiliates is compromised.
End-user acknowledgment of the collection and use of private data
Accepting to use the Site means that you acknowledge and agree to us gathering and using your private information for the specific purposes explained in this comprehensive privacy statement.
We will notify you through the Site of any modifications or alterations in our policies and processes to ensure that you understand the type of data we collect, our utilization of the collected data and the conditions under which we may make such data accessible to third parties or the authorities.
For any inquiries regarding this, you are free to reach out to us, and we will readily respond to any and all of your inquiries.
This privacy policy is effective starting March 30, 2019.