We care about your privacy and take special efforts to maintain your trust. We offer a web site service that allows you to interact with other users; this document provides a thorough description of such tools and our practices to help you understand our approaches to privacy. You should carefully read this Privacy Statement (the "Policy").
This Policy supplements the Member Agreement (the "Agreement"). Thus, this Policy is incorporated into and governed by all of the terms of the Agreement. In the event of any conflict between the terms of the Agreement and this Policy, the terms of this Policy shall control.
This Policy applies only to information collected on the Baker Connection web site. It does not speak about our practices for information collected elsewhere or the practices of any third parties, including those who operate sites on our behalf and that display our branding.
Warranty
Baker Connection provides the software, site and services on an "as is" basis and "as available" basis without any warranties of any kind. Baker Connection makes no warranty with respect to the software, the goods or the manufacturer of the goods, or with respect to the services Baker Connection performs, or that sellers or buyers will perform as promised, and Baker Connection expressly disclaims all such warranties, either express, statutory or implied, including without limitation any warranties of merchantability, title, non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose.
Baker Connection expressly disclaims any responsibility for any consequential, incidental, and exemplary damages (including without limitation direct, indirect and special damages) which may result from the manufacture, sale, distribution or use of goods or items.
You agree that Baker Connection is not responsible in any way for the accuracy or suitability of any payment of taxes to any entity on your behalf. You shall indemnify and hold Baker Connection, and its parent (if applicable), subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees harmless against all liabilities, costs, interest and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by Baker Connection that arise out of any third party or governmental claim that involves, relates to or concerns (i) any federal, state or county tax obligation or amounts due or owing under any tax regulation, law, order or decree or (ii) any dispute concerning the tax status of Baker Connection as a reseller of goods.
Baker Connection reserves the right at any time to modify (including moving your items to product categories different from the one you listed) or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Site or any part of the Site with or without notice. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Site or any services under this Agreement.
General
Our Core Principles: We do not sell or rent your lists of your personally identifiable information for marketing purposes. Our goal is to practice industry best efforts with respect to your privacy. We feel that trust is critically important to your use of our site and we know that in order to achieve this goal, we must ensure that all members are totally confident that their information is secure and private. Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient and customized experience while using our Site. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to make you experience easier and quicker.
Cookies: Cookies are small bits of information that are stored on your hard drive. A session cookie is only stored on your hard drive while you are actually visiting our Site, whereas a permanent cookie is stored permanently unless you delete it from your cookie file on your hard drive. Cookies are extensively used by web sites as a convenient way to store information it knows about you. If you have not registered, cookies help us understand the site better and target ads based on whatever information we know about you (which isn't much if you have not registered). Most browsers allow you to configure your preferences to notify you when cookies are being placed on your hard drive or to reject all cookies. Rejecting cookies will not noticeably affect your experience as an unregistered visitor.
IP Address: An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer Internet access provider such as AOL or Earthlink, your IP address probably varies each session-thus making it difficult for us to use your IP address (by itself) to determine who you are. When you visit the site, our servers log your IP address, which is used for, among other things, systems administration and aggregated usage reports.
Information We Collect
Registration Information: To fully use our services you will need to register using our online registration form, where you will be required to provide us with your contact information and other personal information.
Cookies and IP Addresses: If you register, we use cookies and IP addresses as described above. We also use cookies to store your preferences and passwords for your convenience, to provide you with a more personalized experience, and to track your use of the site. You may have the ability to deny some of these cookies but others are integral to your use of the Site.
Referred Information: If you were referred to our Site from another web site, that web site may send us information that you provided to them. We will collect, use, and protect that information they provide to us, just as if you provided it to us.
Our Use of Your Information
Our Services: We primarily use your information to facilitate our services. Since we serve as a venue between buyers and sellers. We will use your contact information to send you notices regarding your activity on our site.
Future Services: We also use your information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings, and to customize our Site's content, layout and services.
Marketing: We use your information to alert you to new services, features and happenings on our Site.
Your Use of Other's Information
Buyers and Sellers: If you are involved in a transaction with another user you might receive their contact information. By entering into our Member Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other user's personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Site or through any related communication or transaction, we hereby grant to you a license to use such information only for: (a) Site communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages, (b) using third party services offered through our Site (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that such user expressly opts into after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally identifiable information about another user to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate disclosure.
Spam: We and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add any user, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure.
Miscellaneous
Other Information: You may provide us and we may receive other personally identifiable information that is not contemplated in this Policy. For example, we may receive information from another user regarding your activities. As you would expect, we will treat that information as best we can under the same principles as this Policy, and at a minimum, use the information in a commercially reasonable business manner.
Limits on Our Abilities: While it is our mission to run our service perfectly to ensure your satisfaction, technology is never perfect. We may make inadvertent uses and disclosures of your information in ways not described in this Policy. For example, if the software has a crash or a virus, your personal information could be displayed on the site even though you have configured your preferences otherwise. We may also make ad hoc uses of your information in ways we have not contemplated here. We will do our best to work with you if these types of situations arise, but your sole remedy in these cases is to have us try to fix the problem as soon as we possibly can.
Control of Your Password:
Except as specifically permitted by this Section, you may not disclose your password to any third parties nor share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password as detailed in this Section.
Third Party Collection: Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are buyers or members on our system or other web sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them. Since we do not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
