Privacy Policy

Overview

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 data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information by this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation And Definitions

Interpretation

The words whose 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 the singular or plural.

Definitions

For this Privacy Policy:

• 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.
• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to AHG, Inc., dba U.S. Auction Online, 438 N. Frederick Ave., Suite 318, Gaithersburg, MD 20877.
• Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest, or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• Account means a unique account created for you to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• The website is referred to as U.S. Auction Online, accessible at https://www.usauctiononline.com.
• Service refers to the Website.
• Country refers to: Maryland, United States
• 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, provide the Service on behalf of the Company, perform services related to the Service, or assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• For the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you.
• 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 their many uses.
• 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).
• Business, for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the State of California.
• Consumer, for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
• Sale, for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s Personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

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

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.

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. 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. 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. 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 advertisements, pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.

Use of Your Data / Retention / Transfer / Disclosure / Security

Use of Your Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including monitoring 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 you have purchased.
• 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 attend to and manage your requests to us.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• For Business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users.

Retention of Your Data

The Company will retain your Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your 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, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or when We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Your 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 from those in your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, following your permission 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 by this Privacy Policy, no transfer of Your 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.

Disclosure of Your Data

• Business Transactions: If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your 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 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 Data in 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 Data

The security of Your 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 Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Data

Service Providers have access to Your Data only to perform their tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

  Google Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. 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. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its advertising network.

You can opt out of having your activity on the Service made 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 visit activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Email Marketing

We may use Your 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. We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to you.

Constant Contact

Constant Contact is an email marketing sending service provided by Constant Contact, Inc. For more information on the privacy practices of Constant Contact, please visit their Privacy Policy: https://www.constantcontact.com/forward/privacy-center.

Behavioral Remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you have visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

Google Ads (AdWords)

Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise 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?hl=en.

Bing Ads Remarketing

Bing Ads remarketing service is provided by Microsoft Inc. You can opt out of Bing Ads interest-based ads by following their instructions: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads. You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Microsoft by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/PrivacyStatement

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/164968693837950. To opt out of 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 of 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

Payments

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

 Elavon

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.elavon.com/privacy-pledge.html. When you use Our Service to pay for a product and/or service via bank transfer, we may ask you to provide information to facilitate this transaction and to verify your identity.

Usage, Performance, and Miscellaneous

We may use third-party Service Providers to provide better improvements to our Service.

 Invisible reCAPTCHA

We use an invisible CAPTCHA service named reCAPTCHA. ReCAPTCHA is operated by Google. The reCAPTCHA service may collect information from you and from Your Device for security purposes.

The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held by the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

CCPA PRIVACY, Your Rights under the CCPA

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law, if you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:

• The right to notice. You must be properly notified of which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
• The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits you to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of your Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third party for the third party’s direct marketing purposes.
• The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell your Personal Data to third parties.
• The right to know about Your Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:
• The categories of Personal Data collected
• The sources from which the Personal Data was collected
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data
• Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Data
• The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about you
• The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Data that has been collected in the past 12 months.
• The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer rights, including by:
  • Denying goods or services to you
  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties
  • Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you
  • Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services, or a different level or quality of goods or services

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, if you are a California resident, you can email or call us. The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. 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 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

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 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, before the change becomes 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:

📞 Phone number: 800-596-9613

✉️ Email: support@usauctiononline.com