Overview

This policy file was written with the intent of informing users of the FurBuy system of policies and recommended procedures for the dissemination of user information. It is a bona fide extension to the Terms of Use document which acts as the core policy file which all users must abide by. This file is of particular interest to all users and applies to the listing and use of personal information on the FurBuy system.

Responsibility of FurBuy to protect user information:

Under no circumstances will users' private account information be granted to any users or administrators of the FurBuy system. This information includes users' addresses, phone numbers, passwords, payments and any other information that may be considered to be of a personal and private nature. Administrators have access to this data only by necessity; any administrator who is found to be abusing private user information will be punished in full accordance with the law and removed from the system immediately upon proof of such. The only circumstances which supercede this policy are court orders or other government siezures of our systems, be they authorized or unauthorized by local, State, or Federal law.

Users have access to other users' primary e-mail address only in two situations. If a user has elected NOT to make their primary e-mail address private upon account creation or in setting their preferences, their e-mail address will openly appear to any user of the site wherever they are selling or bidding upon an auction. Otherwise, if the user has elected to make their primary e-mail address private, only other registered users of the system may view the address by logging in with their username and password. FurBuy cannot be held liable for e-mail addresses obtained by malicious users of the system or by users who have not elected to make their address private.

At this time, users may turn the privacy status of their primary e-mail address on and off using the My Account - Prefs page under Notification Preferences.

Responsibility of Users to protect user information:

It is a responsibility of the users of FurBuy to keep confidential any information that may be considered of a private or personal nature as outlined above. FurBuy Internet Systems cannot be held liable or responsible for any information freely given from their own account to other sources or users of the system. Obtaining account information about other users of the system for commercial or unnacceptable use is prohibited by our Terms of Use agreement; users found to have done such will be immediately suspended from the system pending further investigation of the infraction.

Siphoning of user e-mail addresses on FurBuy is strictly prohibited and may result in removal from the system up to blacklisting from our servers. There is no feasable reason to extract e-mail addresses of other users through the web interface or other means, any attempt to do so will lead to applicable punishment and possible persuit of legal action where necessary.