Privacy Policy

Auctioneers specializing in all types of collections.

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of

Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law

protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to

the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation & Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following

conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they

appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Partner means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party,

where "control" means ownership of 50% or more equity interest or other securities entitled to vote

for election of directors or other managing authority.

Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to

Simmons Auction, 40706 E 144th St, Richmond MO 64085.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a

website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: MO, US

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital

tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the Website.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the

Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate

the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the

Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or

from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to Simmons Auction accessible from http://www.simmonsauction.com/

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on

behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable

information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may

include, but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Phone number

Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional

purposes. Information sharing to subcontractors in support services, such as customer service is

permitted. All other use case categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent;

this information will not be shared with any third parties.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store

certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track

information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can

instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent.

However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our

Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our

Service may use Cookies.

• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic

files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs)

that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or

opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the

popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal

computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You

close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Free Privacy Policy website article.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website

and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent

fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for

cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

• Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such

as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to

provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences

every time You use the Website.

• Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users

use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you

as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a

pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also

use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our

users react to them.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our

Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The

Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that

are available to You as a registered user.

• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the

purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other

contract with Us through the Service.

• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of

electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding

updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or

contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their

implementation.

• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods,

services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already

purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

• To deliver targeted advertising to You: We may use Your information to develop and

display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to

Your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger,

divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all

of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar

proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets

transferred.

• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data

analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional

campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your

experience.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out

in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply

with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with

applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally

retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to

improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer

time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in

any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this

information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state,

province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than

those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your

agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely

and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to

an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of

Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have

collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you

have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal

information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal

information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal

obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be

transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to

a different Privacy Policy

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if

required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a

government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary

to:

• Comply with a legal obligation

• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of

transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to

use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its

absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors

collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in

accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Security of Your Personal Data

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website

traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. Google may use

the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by

installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics

JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits

activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms

web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Matomo

Matomo is a web analytics service. You can visit their Privacy Policy page

here: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional

materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or

all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in

any email We send or by contacting Us.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use thirdparty

services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our

third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy

Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI

Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American

Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment

information.

• PayPal

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Authorize.net

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.authorize.net/company/privacy/

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to You after You accessed or visited our

Service. We and Our third-party vendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help Us

recognize Your Device and understand how You use our Service so that We can improve our Service

to reflect Your interests and serve You advertisements that are likely to be of more interest to You.

These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity

on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies and to enable Us to:

• Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on Our Service

• Show advertisements for our products and/or services to You on third-party websites or

apps

• Measure and analyze the performance of Our advertising campaigns

Some of these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that may not be impacted by

browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not permit You to block such technologies.

You can use the following third-party tools to decline the collection and use of information for the

purpose of serving You interest-based advertising:

• The NAI's opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

• The EDAA's opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/

• The DAA's opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

You may opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacy features on Your mobile device

such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) and Opt Out of Ads Personalization (Android). See Your mobile

device Help system for more information.

To read more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their cross-device

capabilities please refer to the Privacy Policy of each vendor listed below.

The third-party vendors We use are:

• Google Ads (AdWords)

Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display

Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

- https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out

Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and

used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms

web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

• Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this

page: https://www.facebook.com/help/516147308587266

To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads, follow these instructions from

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising established

by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating

companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/,

the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European

Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out

using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data

Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Children's Policy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally

identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are

aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware

that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of

parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country

requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use

that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third

party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy

Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices

of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting

the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change

becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy

Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us By

email: [email protected]


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