Privacy Policy

This is an evolving document, last updated March 4, 2024

Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, maintain, and disclose information collected from you when you use GOODBIDS. This policy applies to this site and all products and services we offer here.

We may revise and update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them. Your continued access or use GOODBIDS following the posting of revisions to this Privacy Policy that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page each time you access the SERVICE so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.

Information Collection and Use

We collect personal identification information (PII) from you in various ways, but only if you voluntarily submit this information to us:

  • when you visit our site,
  • when you register on our site,
  • in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our site

OAuth

We use OAuth to connect with third-party service providers without you having to share your login credentials directly with us.

When you use OAuth, you may be directed to a third-party platform to authenticate and authorize our access to certain information.

The information we access and how it is used will be described at the point of connection and is subject to this Privacy Policy.

How We Use Collected Information

We may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • Improving customer service
  • Improving your experience on the site
  • Sharing your information with the non-profit you have donated to, including giving them the ability to contact you
  • Processing payments
  • Managing content, promotions, surveys, or other Site features
  • Sending periodic emails

How We Protect Your Information

Protecting your data is of the utmost importance to us. We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and data stored on our Site.

Your California Privacy Rights 

If you reside in California and have provided personally identifiable information to us, you may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under California’s Shine the Light law.  Such requests must be submitted to us at: box42@goodbids.org 

If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”): 

  1. to know what categories of personal information about you we have collected and used, including how the personal information was collected; 
  2. to know what categories of personal information is being sold or disclosed and if it is being sold or disclosed to third parties and a list of categories of information that are sold, or to know that your personal information has not been sold; 
  3. to access your personal information, including the right to download or transfer personal information collected during the previous 12 months; 
  4. to request that your personal information be deleted; and
  5. to equal service and equal price for goods or services even if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

While California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information under CCPA, we do not sell personal information to any third parties, and therefore, we have not included a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on our Site. If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and take any other necessary action to comply with applicable law.

If you are a California resident and you want to exercise any of your rights as set forth above, please contact us at the email address noted above. For all requests, it is helpful to put the statement “California Privacy Rights” in the body of your request, describe the nature of your request, and provide your name, street address, city, state, and zip code. In your request, you need to attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response..

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

Sharing Your Personal Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information. We may share high-level, aggregated (not linked to any personal identification information) data about our visitors and users with our business partners for the purposes outlined above.

The information you submit when making a donation directly to a non-profit on this site is shared with the non-profit.

Your trust and security matter to us.