Privacy Policy
Introduction
TipaTipa is committed to protecting User privacy. This Privacy Policy tells you what information we gather about you, how we gather it, what we do with it and how we protect it.
This Privacy Policy forms part of our User Agreement and by using our website and services you expressly consent to us collecting, storing, using and disclosing information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to at our sole discretion to amend, change, modify, add or delete any part or parts of this Privacy Policy without further notice. Any changes will be posted on the website and will come into immediate effect. The date of the last revision can be found at the top of the Privacy Policy page.
Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to help us identify Users and to track Users through our website. Cookies help us to improve the User experience and the services we offer.
Third-party cookies may also be used to track Users visiting other sites via links on our website. These cookies contain no personal information and only assign an anonymous, unique identifier to Users Internet browser, which allows the third-party to recognise who referred the User to them and, where applicable, pay an affiliate commission to the referrer. Using cookies in this way is important because affiliate income is our main source of income and allows us to operate the website and services at no cost to our Users.
Data Collected and What We do With It
You are free to browse our website without providing any personal data about yourself. However, in order to access services you need to register with us and as part of this process will be required to provide information about yourself, including your name, email address and physical address. We also ask for, but you are not obliged to provide, your date of birth.
During the course of using our services you may add content and data by way of listings, bids and postings. This information may be collected, stored and made visible to other Users of our website and used for the purpose of gathering statistical information e.g. purchasing trends.
In order to give and receive tips via Paypal, it is necessary to disclose the email address of both parties involved i.e. the user listing and the user receiving the tip. By using our services you authorise us to release your email in order to facilitate Paypal payments between users – during this process email addresses are only visible to the two parties involved.
You may also receive email notifications when you add a listing, your listing ends, you receive a tip or when a user has left/replied to a question about a listing. During this process email addresses are NOT revealed to any other users.
From time to time we may send you communications about new services, special events, promotions and services that we think may be of interest to you. You can choose to opt out from receiving these communications during the registration process or at any time by changing your MyTipa account details. Users should however note that if you choose to opt out then you will continue to receive administrative notices that relate to your account or continued use of the website and services.
Data collected will be stored in a safe, confidential and secure environment on servers in the UK.
Third-Party Marketing
We will never sell or rent personal information about our Users to third-parties.
We may aggregate statistical information about our Users and provide it to third-parties but this will never contain personal identifying information.
Disclosure of Information
We reserve the right to access and disclose personal information and data to comply with applicable laws and lawful requests from authorities such as the police or government or to protect the Company and our Users.