Wild Rick's Auction

Updated September 18, 2023

The Wild Rick’s Auctions website and affiliated Web properties events.wildricksauctions.com (collectively, the” Website “ located at www.wildricksauctions.com and events.wildricksauctions.com) are subject to the following Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) and the Terms of and Conditions for use.

BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

The Website is owned and operated by Wild Ricks Auctions—an Ontario corporation subject to the following policy. Wild Rick’s Auctions is committed to protecting your privacy. As Wild Rick’s Auctions is referred to herein as "WRA," "we," "us," and "our," the terms "you" and "your", when used in this Policy, means any user of the Website.

Policy Amendments

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Policy in the future, we will post an appropriate notice on the Website. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all Personal Information that we have about you. The date on which the latest amendment was made is indicated at the top of this document. We recommend that you print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your reference and revisit this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure you are aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Website and Our Services signifies your acceptance of any changes.

Consent

By using the website, our services and registering with us, you consent to our processing of your Personal Information as described in this Policy. You may withdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time. However, withdrawing consent may, among other things, result in your inability to continue using the Website and/or our Services. Furthermore, there are certain circumstances in which we may continue processing your Personal Information after you have withdrawn your consent, such as but not limited to we are required to do so under applicable law or it is relevant to our exercising any legal right or remedy, it is reasonably necessary to process any of Our Services received by you, or it is backed up by us pursuant to any document retention, business continuity,

Users of outside of Canada

Our website is accessible around the world. By visiting the Website and providing your information, you acknowledge and agree that your information can be stored for the purposes identified in this policy. We process and store your information under the laws of Canada. In addition, your Personal Information may also be processed in other countries, where the laws regarding the processing of Personal Information may be less (or more) stringent than the laws of Canada.

Collection of Information

We collect, use and disclose only such Personal Information as is required to enable us to manage your account with us, to provide Our Services, to maintain our customer/visitor lists, to respond to your inquiries or provide feedback, for identification and authentication purposes and for other legitimate business purposes.

Personal Information: "Personal Information" means personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, e-mail address, credit card information, birth date and gender. At the time of collection, this Privacy Policy will, among other things, identify the information being collected and the purposes for which it will be used. It is always your choice whether or not to provide Personal Information, but if you choose not to provide certain requested Personal Information, in some instances, you may not be able to register to use the Website or Services or be able to access and use the Website or Services at all. In other instances, your choice not to provide certain other Personal Information may mean that you will not be able to use certain features of the Website or Services. We may collect Personal Information in respect of the Website or Services through registration processes, communications with you, information downloads, service use, purchases, user support, surveys and otherwise.

Non-Personal Information. "Non-Personal Information" is information that does not identify a specific End User. This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the website you visited before coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Aggregate information, such as demographic statistics of our users (e.g. average age or geographical location of our users), number of visitors, what pages users access or visit, and average time spent on the Website or Services, is not considered Personal Information. We, and/or our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers, may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags.

Please note, the obligations under this Privacy Policy do not apply to Non-Personal Information collected, used or disclosed through the Internet as described herein is not restricted. Such Non-Personal Information is collected or derived by us in the course of operating this Website and our Services. For example, our servers may automatically collect Non-Personal Information that is provided through your browser or stored in a cookie.

Individuals under the age of 18

The website and the use of our services are not intended for any individual(s) under the age of 18. Furthermore, we don’t intentionally collect information of anyone under the age of 18. In the event we discover or you are the parent or guardian of an individual under 18 years of age and believe Personally Information has been provide to us, please contact us at info@wildricksauction.com so that we may delete the individual’s information. Use of Information: We collect information for the following purposes and uses:

Registration: In order to register for our Services, you may need to provide certain information, including your name, email address, company name, address, and payment information. We use this information to provide you with the Our Services and for other legitimate business purposes.
Purchase/Sale History: We maintain a record of purchases and sales you make using Our Services for billing purposes and for other legitimate business purposes.
Transactional Notifications: We provide notifications for certain activities relating to your use of Our Services
Newsletters/Marketing Communications: Unless you opt out of receiving newsletters/ marketing communications from us, we will keep you up-to-date on our products and services and send you other correspondence. You may opt out of receiving newsletters/marketing communications from us at any time by following the opt-out instructions in each communication or by contacting us at admin@wildricksauctions.com
Statistics: We collect statistics about use of the Services which we use for analytics, including predictive analytics. Aggregate statistics that do not personally identify an individual will be kept by us and such aggregate statistics may be made available to other members or third parties or used for any other legitimate business purpose.
Cookies: Cookies are used by us to track content usage and traffic on the Website and Services. A cookie is a feature of your web browser that consists of a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server. The Website uses cookies to help it compile aggregate statistics about usage of this Website, such as how many users visit the Website, how long users spend viewing the Website, and what pages are viewed most often. This information is used to improve the Website or for other legitimate purposes. You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie. This gives you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. If you disable cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of the Website or Services.
IP Addresses: An IP address is reported by your web browser whenever you visit a page on the Website. This information is recorded together with your registration information on our databases. We will only use your IP address to improve Our Services and the Website for fraud monitoring and other legitimate business purposes.
Third-Party Links: The Website may contain links to other third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Such third-party websites are governed by the terms and conditions and privacy policies of such third-party providers, and we are not involved in any interaction or transaction between you and such third-parties.

Sharing of Information

Other than on the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, Wild Rick’s Auctions pledges that it will not sell, share, rent or otherwise transfer your information without your permission. Wild Rick’s Auctions may, however, share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information which can identify any individual user.

While Wild Rick’s Auctions strives to protect the personal information of our users, Wild Rick’s Auctions will release personal information if required by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary.

If we plan to use your Personal Information in the future for any other purposes not identified above, we will only do so after informing you by updating this Privacy Policy or obtaining your consent. See further the section of this Privacy Policy entitled “Amendment of this Policy.”

Third-Party Access

There are times when we may employ third parties to help us improve or maintain the Website and/or the Our Services. These third parties may have limited access to databases of Personal Information solely for the purpose of helping us to improve or maintain the Website and/or Our Services and for other legitimate business purposes. These third parties will also usually be subject to written restrictions prohibiting them from using Personal Information about our members for any other purpose.

To ensure the highest quality experience, we may use third parties to operate certain portions of our Website and other services. If you grant permission, information collected from you may be shared with such third parties.

Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you online. For some services, we may collect and/or transfer your information to a third party. We also may provide links on our Website to unaffiliated third-party websites that may collect and use your personal information according to their privacy policies and terms of use. In those cases, the third parties will govern how your information is collected and/or used.

Also see section Exceptions, Security Exceptions:

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties (including, but not limited to, law enforcement or other governmental authorities), without your consent or notification to you,

upon the request of law enforcement or other government authorities,
if we believe in good faith that such information (a) is helpful in, or otherwise relevant to, preventing, mitigating, terminating, prosecuting or taking any other action with respect to a possible crime or civil claim or (b) relates to any damage or injury to, interference with or other adverse effect on any right or property of another, or
if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by any court order, subpoena or other similar mandate or any applicable law.

We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate re-organization, a merger or consolidation with another entity, a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets or stock or other similar transactions, including in connection with any due diligence relating thereto, provided that the information disclosed continues to be used only for the purposes permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information.

Security:

In order to most efficiently serve you, the purchase of Listing Items utilizing credit card transactions may be handled by established third-party banking, processing agents and distribution institutions. They may receive the information needed to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information and to process and ship your order, if applicable.

We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your personal information. The Website has industry-standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, and we make good faith efforts to store your Personally Identifiable Information in a secure operating environment. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. If we provide you with a username and password to access portions of the Website, we disclaim any responsibility for a breach of privacy as a result of your willingly or inadvertently disclosing your username and password to others.

In certain cases, such as when you provide credit card or other payment information to us, the Website helps protect the security of some of your Personal Information during transmission by using industry-standard encryption technology.

You are also responsible for helping to protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance, you should never provide to third parties your email account information or your password for the Our Services.

Choice/Opt-out

Wild Rick’s Auctions users are asked to give information to be put on Wild Rick’s Auction’s Email list or to receive commercial email regarding upcoming Wild Ricks Auction’s promotions and events. If you receive Wild Ricks Auction’s commercial email and would like to avoid receiving such email in the future, you may opt-out of receiving it by clicking on the opt-out (unsubscribe) area within that email. Wild Ricks Auction’s will only communicate with you according to your instructions. Your privacy is important to Wild Ricks Auction’s.

Contact Us

You can help us maintain accurate Personal Information by keeping us informed of any changes. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions of if you find any errors in our information about you, please contact us at: admin@wildricksauctions.com

Disclosures & Transfers

We have put in place certain contractual and other organizational safeguards to ensure a proper level of protection of your Personal Information (see Security below). In addition to those measures, we will not disclose or transfer your Personal Information to third parties without your permission, except as specified in this Privacy Policy (see Exceptions below).

As at the date of this Privacy Policy, we share Personal Information about you in respect of the Website or Services only with third party resellers, distributors, internet service providers, telecommunication providers, hardware and software providers, website hosting, cloud service providers, analytics providers, security and fraud detection service providers, email marketing providers, payment processors, and other service providers. Our service providers are located worldwide and accordingly your Personal Information may be available to governments and other third parties worldwide under a lawful court order, subpoena or other similar, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.