PhiConnect.com
Privacy Policy

PhiConnect respects your privacy and takes great care in protecting it. This Privacy Policy applies to the PhiConnect website and its subsidiaries, including PhiReviews.com. PhiConnect provides a fun environment to its users to conduct transactions that involve many different methods, including online auctions. PhiConnect does not share your personal information with a third party without your express consent unless as otherwise disclosed in this privacy policy. PhiConnect collects your information for registration as well as marketing and customer service purposes. However, if you tell us that you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, we will not contact you for marketing purposes.

PhiConnect.com is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build users' trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.PhiConnect.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact us at info@Phiconnect.com. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.

The TRUSTe program only covers information that is collected through this Web site, and does not cover information that may be collected through any software downloaded from this Web site.

Effective Date: 11/1/2007

1. We do not collect your information for simply browsing our websites. In order for you to use PhiConnect websites, you must register and become a user. During the registration process, we collect your personal information, including your contact and financial information. We collect your information to protect our users from fraud and to assist the users in completing the transactions.

2. In order to register you must provide us with your name, email address, phone number, credit card information, billing and shipping addresses as well as Bank Account information if you wish to register with us as a seller.

3. When you use PhiConnect websites as a user, either as a buyer or as a seller, we may collect your transaction history to provide you with better service and to customize your experience on PhiConnect websites.

4. From time-to-time PhiConnect may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

1. PhiConnect does not share the personally identifiable information you provide to us with other third parties unless you give us your express consent.

2. PhiConnect stores information that we collect through cookies and log files to create a "profile" of your preferences. PhiConnect may tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide tailored services and to improve the content of the site for you.

3. PhiConnect may use the information to investigate the account activities, prevent fraudulent activities, collect unpaid bills, and to assist with PhiConnect transactions.

4. PhiConnect may use a third party or a third party software to verify your identity and address, in order to prevent fraud. We may share some personal information with this company in order to provide you with our services. The information we share with them is used only to validate you as a user and will not be used for any other purposes.

5. PhiConnect may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. PhiConnect does not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

6. PhiConnect uses an outside credit card processing company and bank to bill you for our services. These companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

7. Under circumstances where required by law, subpoena, judicial proceeding, government administrative proceeding, court orders, or to protect our legal rights and to defend from claims, we may disclose the information that is necessary.

8. There are certain information that is necessarily share with the public, such as your user id, your feedback, and your transaction history.

1. a. If you do not wish to receive marketing, newsletter, promotional, contest, or survey communications, you can indicate your preference on your account page, or you may send us an email at info@PhiConnect.com to opt-out of receiving the emails.

2. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our account page, or you can contact us directly by emailing update details to info@PhiConnect.com.

3. You must take great care in protecting certain information, such as your password. You are recommended to use a combination of letters and numbers that are random and hard to guess. If you suspect your password has been compromised, please change it immediately.

4. In order to complete your transaction, you must share certain information with the other user. Please exchange only the information necessary to complete the transaction. Do NOT ask for or give out your social security number for any reason.

1. The advertisements appearing on PhiConnect websites are delivered to users by a third party, which may use cookies and other technologies to collect information that are not personally identifiable. PhiConnect shares Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this site.

2. PhiConnect websites contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by PhiConnect. Please be aware that we, PhiConnect, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

3. PhiConnect encourages you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

4. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

5. The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our Web site, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

6. PhiConnect follows generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7. In the event PhiConnect goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

8. PhiConnect reserves the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.