Privacy Policy

Nicholls Auction Marketing Group (“Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information when you use our website or mobile application (collectively, the “Digital Tools”).

Children’s Data.  The Digital Tools are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from, children under the age of 18.  If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 years of age, we will delete that information. 

Information We Collect.  “Personal information” is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual.  The types and categories of personal information we collect when you use our Digital Tools include:

• Account and contact information, including name, email address, phone number, physical address, and other contract information you provide to us.
• Payment information.
• Account history, including information about your account and transactions.
• Identity document information.
• Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, browser type and settings, and other device information.

We also collect:

• Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature of our Digital Tools.
• Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Digital Tools, such as clickstream information (including date and time), properties that you view or search for, page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
We may link the aforementioned types of information to your user profile.  If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal information so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

How We Collect Your Information.

You Provide Information to Us:

We collect information about you when you interact with our Digital Tools, such as when you create or update an account, place a bid, or participate in an auction.

Automatically Through Our Services:

As you navigate through and interact with our Digital Tools, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies, including details of your interactions with our Digital Tools, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which Digital Tools features you access and use.

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Digital Tools and to deliver abetter and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Digital Tools. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Digital Tools.

• Web Beacons. Some parts of the Digital Tools may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those parts and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

From Business Partners and Service Providers:

We may receive personal information about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as payment processors, and analytics, security and anti-fraud services.

How We Use Information.  We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including personal information, to:

• Provide you with Digital Tools and any contents, features, information or services we make available through the Digital Tools.
• Enable you to register, bid, and participate in auctions.
• Verify your identity and process payments.
• Communicate with you about your account.
• Maintain and improve the Digital Tools’ functionality and security.
• Analyze usage trends and improve user experience.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered intobetween you and us, including for billing and collection.
• Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal information or not, helps us improve our Digital Tools and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Digital Tools.
 

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you.  If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us using the contact information below (you may also unsubscribe from marketing/advertising emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any such emails you receive).  

We do not sell your personal information.

To Whom Disclose your Information.  We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.  We may also disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
• To the seller of any property in connection with any auction.
• To fulfill the purposes for which you provide it.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply any of our agreements with you (e.g., the applicable Auction Terms and the General Terms and Conditions), including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others.

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

• Account and contact information.
• Payment information.  
• Account history, including information about your account and transactions.
• Location information.
• Device information.
• Content and information you elect to provide to us.
• Identity document information.
 
How We Protect Your Personal Information.  We use commercially reasonable measures designed to protect your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Digital Tools. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal information (and your account) against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
 
Changes to Our Privacy Policy.  We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date above and posting the updated policy on our Digital Tools. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Digital Tools periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it. Anyupdated policy will be effective upon posting.  Your continued use of the Digital Tools after such update will constitute your acceptance of and agreement to the updated policy.
 
Contact Information.  If you have any questions about this privacy policy, contact us at:

Email:  Contactus@nichollsauction.com​

Telephone:  540-898-0971

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