Privacy Policy

Thank you for viewing our privacy policies. We are and will continue to remain strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your information both personal and/or company where appropriate. For that reason we use a secure server to ensure your information is safe when you register and log on to our site.

The ShetlandAuctions.com website may place small files on your computers hard drive called cookies. These files help ShetlandAuctions.com recognise your computer when logging in.

You agree that we may contact you in relation to the operation of our website, where we may ask you to suggest new categories or other such improvements to our website. Your information will be stored on our system for the purposes of using our website.

We will not email you asking you for your log in details, if you receive an email like this please report it to us immediately.

Visitors to our web site remain anonymous. We do not collect personal and/or company information about visitors to our site.

We gather your information, to verify your identity/details for added security. Also to enable the contract between buyer and seller to be concluded smoothly when you buy or sell an item on ShetlandAuctions.com To help, in the event of a problem and to assist it's resolution.

The information we will hold about you will include, but is not restricted to: name and address, telephone number, date of birth, email address, IP address, username and password.

We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and intend to follow all guidelines set out by them in relation to the information held about you on our computers.

ShetlandAuctions.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. Personal information is not sold, shared or rented to others. ShetlandAuctions.com cannot control how personal information sent to/from a buyer/seller regarding a product bought/sold on the site is used; abuse of personal information will not be tolerated.

Our hosting servers collect standard non-identifying information about visits to ShetlandAuction.com such as date, IP address, referrer, geography, technology and pages visited. This information is used to compile standard daily, weekly and monthly statistics on site usage, and to continually improve the site to be responsive to the needs of our customers.

If you have provided any personal and/or company information via e-mail or a form on the ShetlandAuctions.com site; the information will only be used to communicate with you as and when necessary to answer questions, your account, mediation and the like. It will never be sold or transferred to other parties.

We are committed to protecting your privacy, we use a secure server to protect your details when you register and login to the site. Please check for https:// in the address line and the closed padlock; either at the end of the address line, or on the bottom right of the screen when you register and log in to our site.

As with any transmission over the Internet, there is always an element of risk in sending your personal information.

We recommend that you pay using PayPal or similar online merchant service for added security and peace of mind.

Never give out your credit card details to a third party. Use common sense when dealing with the buyer/ seller. If you are in any doubt, contact ShetlandAuctions.com for assistance.

PLEASE NOTE: In the event of a seller failing to complete a transaction with a buyer after payment has been made then ShetlandAuctions.com reserve the right to disclose full address details of the seller to the buyer and/or their legal representative.

Like most sites ShetlandAuctions.com may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions to our web site. ShetlandAuctions.com will also email all members of any updates and revisions to our privacy policy, as we believe in communicating with our members.

Your use of the site constitutes acceptance of the provisions of this Privacy Policy and your continued usage after such changes are posted constitutes acceptance of each revised Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy, please exit the site.