Bidmate.com.au does not sell or rent your personal identification to third parties. We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Bidmate.com.au, our users, or others.

2. Communication

Bidmate.com.au will communicate with you via emails from time to time. These emails will advise you of your current status during and at the conclusion of an auction. They will also advise you of any new products that you have listed as interests during the registration process.

3. Registration

Our site's registration form requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.

4. Maintaining Your Personal Information

Bidmate.com.au provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. bidmate.com.au will store previous email addresses against your profile to ensure compliance with our User Agreement - specifically the use of one account per member.

5. Password Protection

You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your Bidmate.com.au password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.

6. Other information we collect

We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour to better understand and serve our customers.

Users who login have their IP addresses recorded. This information can be used to track users who abuse the Bidmate.com.au system and will be only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud. IP addresses can be used, in conjunction with an Internet Service Provider, to find the account of a user and, ultimately, further information to identify a user. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

7. Membership Removal

If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, simply send us an email requesting to be removed.

8. Advertising and Third Party Links

Some bBidmate.com.au advertisers may request information directly from users, or link to sites that do so. Bidmate.com.au has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, and encourages users to review such policies prior to submitting any personal information to them.

Bidmate.com.au contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the member experience. Bidmate.com.au has no control of either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.

9. Privacy Policy Updates

From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at bidmate.com.au.

10. BidMate Message System

Because the BidMate Message system can be abused, BidMate reserves the right to monitor communications conducted using it. We also reserve the right to edit, suspend, delete or in any other way modify these messages, in order to ensure BidMate rules are met.