We don’t really have much of a privacy policy like eBay but we are able to record IP address unlike eBay who seems to have trouble stopping known scamsters opening multiple accounts and we will delete all messages submitted by anyone who is shown to be telling lies on this site and will try to verify all information as being correct when ever possible.

Since we don’t have much of a privacy policy lets look at eBays with a few personal comments listed yellow.

The following Privacy Policy shall apply to users registering on or after 10 July 2008, as from the date of registration. For users who registered prior to 10 July 2008, the Privacy Policy shall apply as from 13 August 2008. You can find the old Privacy Policy here.What changed and why ? 

This policy tells you about how we use and protect your personal information. To see a summary of this policy, and for more information to answer your privacy concerns, please go to our Privacy Central page. No this is 20 pages long, that will do thanks

Contents

Scope

1. Controlling and Processing Parties
2. Collection
3. Marketing
4. Use
5. Our Disclosure of Your Information
6. Information You Share on eBay
7. Using Information on eBay
8. Cookies
9. No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing
10. Account Protection
11. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
12. Security Third Parties
13. General

Scope

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services on the eBay websites. It applies generally to the eBay.co.uk. website and content and other related websites where this policy appears in the footer of the page. Some eBay-branded websites or websites we operate may be governed by separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of our domains or subdomains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website. So signing up for an eBay accounts signs you up for a loads of other policy's and not just this one 

Our subsidiaries', affiliates’ and joint ventures’ privacy practices are similar to those described in this Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the global eBay trading community.(Still subject to local and region laws not that they care) By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on 13 August 2008.

Controlling and Processing Parties

When you use the eBay services, you agree that:

eBay Europe S.à r.l., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, and eBay International AG, Helvetiastrasse 15/17, 3005 Bern, may process your personal data. They may transfer your personal data to eBay Inc., 2145 Hamilton Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125, USA. Quick make a note of the address and give me any email addresses you can get

eBay Inc., eBay Europe S.à r.l. and eBay International AG process your personal information to deliver the services eBay provides under the User Agreement and within the framework and according to the principles laid down in this Privacy Policy.

Collection

You can browse our sites without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to provide us with personal information, you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States. Once registered you have given concent for them to keep all information but why the need for it all to be kept in the USA

We may collect and store the following personal information:

email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;

transactional information based on your activities on the sites (such as bidding, buying, selling, item and content you generate or that relates to your account);

shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;

in other words anything and everything

community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, feedback, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us; Do this yourself as eBay deletes your copies of messages and pages after 90 days and then pretends they never existed when asked.

other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information *, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;

* So how come scamsters keep opening new accounts and in my case eBay could not provide information to the traeding standards regarding IP addresses and could only say the eight eBay names i gave out were all opened using fake names and addresses ?

additional information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself or if we believe you are violating site policies (for example, we may ask you to send us an ID or bill to verify your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify your identity or ownership of an item you list);

information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data; and

other supplemental information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt to eBay, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law; or if the information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you to send us additional information,(So why is this not working)  such as your driver’s licence, credit card statement, or a recent utility bill or other information confirming your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify your information).

Marketing

We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.They must just give it away then We may combine your information with information on other users and information we collect from other companies What other companies and how does it link to your eBay account !  and use it to improve and personalise our services, content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our ad-customisation programs, simply indicate your preference via the “Preferences” page in My eBay (or similar account status page) or by following the directions provided with the communication or advertisement.

Use

Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customised experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

Google 'eBay Scam' to see how personal it is to 386,000 people.

provide the services and customer support you request;

resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;

prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities (If only they did), and enforce our User Agreement;

customise, measure and improve our services, content and advertising;

tell you about our services and those of our corporate family, targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; and

compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.Compare with 3rd parties means swapping information or giving it away as i said 

Our Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content infringes the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property, or safety. Rubbish it took 3 months to provide the trading standards with information in my case and yet ebay removed information linking eight accounts togeather as soon as a problom was reported in an effort to sweep it under the carpet.

We may also share your personal information with:

Members of the eBay Inc. corporate family—like PayPal*, Skype or Shopping.com—to provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions and customer support), to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications. Members of our corporate family will use this information to send you marketing communications only if you’ve requested their services.That's will be the No-Pal who many buyers and sellers object to being forced to use and IMHO is like the xmas turkey and is ready to be sold off 

Service providers under contract who help with our business operations (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs and customer support). Will they help me with eBay member Kawasakiz25039, Garry473473, MarkMark.0121 , Paul39393939 , IBuyCarsandBikes ,Mk39Escort or maybe Belkin0121 and gsnnah0121 and just why is Kawasakiz25039 using the same telephone number as Garry473473 and why is Scoobster199 selling cars for mark and can you please check these telephone numbers for me 07982 281422, 07960 614603, 07958 247351 07725 577419, 07806 524449, 07505 639396 97947 7703595 No eBay you hide behind the data protection act to cover your own mistakes.

Other eBay users, whether located within the United Kingdom or abroad. For example, where you are involved in a transaction with another user, the other user may view your email address and obtain your contact information and postal address to help complete the transaction. Are they as good as the contact details eBay provide me for Garry473473 complete with fake telephone number

Other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your information (or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific service).

Law enforcement agencies, other governmental agencies or third parties in response to a request for information (such as a Section 29 (3) Data Protection Act 1998 form) relating to a criminal investigation, alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you or any other eBay user to legal liability. The personal information we disclose may include your User ID and User ID history, name, city, county, telephone number, email address, fraud complaints and bidding and listing history or anything else that we deem relevant.IP address would be nice since the rest is is often faked 

eBay VeRO Programme participants in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate, either under confidentiality agreement or as required by law. In such circumstances, we may disclose name, street address, city, county, postcode, country, phone number, email address and company name.

Other business entities, should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity. (Should such a combination occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. If your personal information will be used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy (Wot you mean i've still got some left )and our ability to keep the community free from those who attempt to carry out fraudulent or illegal activities on the site, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss* or to report suspected illegal activity. eBay see all the emails i sent about script injection on eBay pages and then say that again please *

Information You Share on eBay

Your user ID is displayed throughout eBay (and so available to the public) and is connected to all of your eBay activity.No it's not * Other people can see your bids,(Hidden in more and more private sales ) purchases, items for sale, shop fronts, feedback, ratings and associated comments. Notices sent to other community members about suspicious activity and policy breaches on our sites refer to user IDs and specific items. So, if you associate your name with your user ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to personally identify your eBay activities. If you are a business seller, your contact details (such as name and geographical address) may be visible on the View Item page, as you indicate in your business preferences on My eBay. *Ebay is now changing names to GUID's like a106358ca538629351ee136d39feee8b9d57a88a2c739176003

If you access our sites from a shared computer or a computer in an internet café, certain information about you, such as your user ID or reminders from eBay, may also be visible to other individuals who use the computer after you.

Using Information from eBay eBay enables you to share personal and financial information to complete transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited access to other users' contact, shipping and financial information to facilitate your transactions. (So why all the hijacked eBay account then )When users are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information. In all cases, you must comply with data protection laws, and give other users a chance to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them.

You agree to use user information only for:

eBay transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages; Like the banner adverts competing with sellers at the top of the page and all flashing

using services offered through eBay (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints), or

other purposes that a user expressly chooses.

Cookies We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages to help analyse our web page flow; customise our services, content and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. For more information about why we use cookies, see Cookies, Web Beacons, and Your Privacy.

A few important things you should know about cookies are that:

We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.

We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.

Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session.

You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.

You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user, there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)

Go to any eBay page and delete cookies and then press refresh and then view cookies to see if they are telling the truth or better still view the javascript in the page if you can understand it.

No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing

We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your eBay notification preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other eBay users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (email or physical mail) without their express consent. To report eBay-related spam or spoof emails to eBay, please report it to us. You can report it but don't hold your breath for them to do anything about it You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would breach our User Agreement. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you send an email to an email address that is not registered in our community (via Refer-a-Friend or other tools), we do not permanently store that email or use that email address for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.

Account Protection

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose your eBay password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately notify eBay and change your password. They don't like snipe

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing on to eBay. Generally, we will not manually modify your personal information because it is very difficult to verify your identity remotely. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once you make a public posting, you may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request to Customer Service, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law.In the case of a frudster they remove pages and then try to say it's all in your head We do retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our eBay User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law. Good i might get my £3850 back one day then

Security

Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect your personal information against unauthorised access and disclosure. However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private. Blames 3rd parties when it all goes wrong as it often does go wrong

Third Parties Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. eBay does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others. Like all them sites now listing eBay scam artists you mean :) 

General

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. Can rewrite the rules at anytime like buyers feedback  All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted. In addition, we will notify you through the eBay Message Centre or via email at the address you provide in My eBay. If our help pages do not answer the questions you may have related to the Privacy Policy, you can write to the Data Controller within the European Union: eBay Europe S.à r.l. – Privacy Policy Requests, 22-24 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg, or you may contact eBay Customer Support. Will the data controller explain why many accounts with bad feedback end up being diplayed with a feedback of zero ! can he help

To see a summary of this Privacy Policy, please go to the Privacy Overview page. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact eBay Customer Support Who often won't respond and if they do send out a one size fits all auto reply 

Now if you think that was long then do read the Paypal terms and conditions and see if you can spot the bit about only returning funds if the seller has any money left in the account.