This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) together with our Terms describes what information we collect from users of secondhandboards.com.
Please read these documents carefully. By visiting our website or otherwise interacting with us by, for example, using our services, you acknowledge the processing activities undertaken by us which are described in this Privacy Policy and our terms. Please note that any websites that may be linked to or redirected from our website are subject to their own privacy policy.
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us by email at [email protected].
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and will let you know about any changes, including by posting them on our website. Your continued use of our website after any such changes have been made will amount to your acknowledgement of the amended policy.

What is Personal Information?
“Personal Information” or “Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (each a ‘data subject’). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or by one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Personal Information may include name; address; email address; phone number; IP address; location data; information about movements around our website; service preferences; data captured in authentication and tracking logs; and information collected from cookies and similar technologies.

What personal information might we collect about you?
We may process the following personal data about you:
- Information you give us. You may give us information about you by, even partially, filling in forms, setting up a user account or profile, subscribing to newsletters, uploading information on our website, or using our contact us form. This information may include your name, email address, address, phone number and any other similar information. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but without it, we may not be able to provide you with some of our content, services or information you may request.
-Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, date and time you access our website, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our website, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and similar information.
– Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website, pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Cookie Statement

What Exactly Are Cookies?
In order to collect the information as described in this notice, we may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies on our website.
A cookie is a small piece of information, which is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, mobile phone or other device.
You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not. However, some of the services and features offered through our website may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Cookies can be first party or third party cookies.
-First party cookies – cookies that the website you are visiting places on your computer.
-Third party cookies – cookies placed on your computer through the website but by third parties, such as, Google.

The Cookies Placed On Our Website
We use the following cookies on our website.
Analytics. We may use third party analytics services such as Google Analytics and other providers. These service providers help us analyse how users use our website and to identify user patterns. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by third party analytics service providers on servers outside EEA. The information collected for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. On our behalf third party analytics service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet activity in connection with the use of the website. These service providers may retain and use anonymised, aggregated data collected from users of our Website in connection with their own businesses, including in order to improve their products and services. For information on how to prevent these cookies please click here. In addition, authentication and tracking logs will be used to compile user statistics.

Why do we capture and store your personal information?
We will only process your personal data, in accordance with applicable law, for the following purposes:
(a.)             responding to your queries, comments, complaints and requests;
(b).             notifying you of incoming messages sent to you via our internal messaging system regarding a board posted, or a response to a board enquiry
(c).             sending you board alerts requested by you;
(d.)             managing and administering your user account;
(e.)             delivering any services or information requested by you, including newsletters. We may then send electronic messages at appropriate intervals to the e-mail address you gave us, which may also contain advertisements along with editorial information on our products and services. In deciding whether or not to join such lists, please note that they are only used for internal purposes and we do not sell or rent our subscription lists to anyone. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on any of our unsubscribe links.
(f.)            verifying your identity, when required;
(g.)            display content on our website such as comments, reviews and photos, provided by you;
(h.)            allowing you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so;
(i.)               implement and enforce our general terms and conditions of business or any other agreements concluded with you;
(j.)             serving personalised advertising to your devices, including delivering ads based on your interests ascertained from your past searches, visits of subpages on our websites, and other data obtained through the use of “cookies” placed on your devices. Please see our Cookie Statement above;
(k.)             ensuring the security of your user account and our business;
(l.)              preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our websites, products and services, for example, by requesting verification information in order to reset your account password;
(m.)              administering technical aspects of our website, including troubleshooting, diagnosis of technical and service problems, testing, encryption and similar operations;
(n.)              for internal business operations, including data analysis, research, trend analysis, statistical and survey purposes, for example to gather demographic information about our users, determine how much time users spend on webpages of our website and to gather information on how our users navigate through our website.
(o.)             developing and improving our website, services and determining the effectiveness of our business efforts, for example, by reviewing demand for websites, products and services and user comments or other contributions

How is my Personal Information secured?
We endeavour to protect the privacy of your account and other Personal Information that we hold in our records. Unfortunately, we cannot always guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failures, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information.  Also, while we endeavour to put adequate contractual protections in place we cannot guarantee the security of any Personal Information in databases hosted by third parties.
It is important to note that e-mail communication are not secure. This is a risk inherent in the use of e-mail. Please be aware of this when requesting information or sending forms to us by e-mail (for example, from the “Contact Us” section of our website). We recommend that you do not include any confidential information when using e-mail. For your protection, our e-mail responses to you will not include any confidential information.
Finally, to be prudent, please be sure to always close your browsers when you are done using the site.

How long is my Personal Information retained?
Your personal data will be retained for as long is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed above or as required by applicable local law. Please contact us for further details of applicable retention periods.
We may keep an anonymized form of your personal data, which will no longer refer to you, for statistical purposes without time limits, to the extent that we have a legitimate and lawful interest in doing so.

Your rights
If you wish to exercise any of your rights in relation to your Personal Information, please send your request using the following method of communication.
-via e-mail at [email protected] for any consent withdrawal/unsubscribe requests;

Right to make subject access request (SAR)
We understand that you may like to know what Personal Information we hold about you. We are happy to assist you with your request. However, to protect your Personal Information we require that you prove your identity to us at the time your request is made. You may also make a request by email.
When you make a request, we will require you to produce some form of photo identification and you may be asked to sign a request form. If the request is made in writing via email or letter we require other information so we can check them with our files and satisfy ourselves as to your identity.
The above information is required to create an audit trail of how the request has been handled. Where a request is made, any correspondence or application may be kept and added to your Personal Information.
SHB will respond to any enquiries as soon as possible but no later than within the timeframes prescribed by law.
SHB reserves the right to decline access to your Personal Information under certain circumstances, as permitted by law. If your Personal Information is not disclosed to you, you will be provided with the reasons for this non-disclosure.
Right to object to processing, including automated processing and profiling.
If at any time you wish for your Personal Information to be deleted from our database and systems, or wish to not be part of our profiling module, please contact us.
SHB will aim to respond to your enquiry within 72 hours. However it might take up to 7 days to have your profile deleted from all our systems.

Right to rectification
You may request that we rectify any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete personal data.

Right to withdraw consent
You may, as permitted by applicable law, withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data at any time. Such withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit certain service features for which the processing of your personal data is essential.

Right to erasure
You may request that we erase your Personal Data and we will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing so. For example, there may be an overriding legitimate ground for keeping your Personal Data, such as, a legal obligation that we have to comply with, or if retention is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.

Right to data portability
In certain circumstances, you may request that we provide your personal data to you in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and have it transferred to another provider of the same or similar services. Although we do not consider that this is relevant to our services, we will comply with such transfer request as required by law. Please note that a transfer to another provider does not imply erasure of your Personal Data which may still be required for legitimate and lawful purposes.

Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority
We suggest that you contact us about any questions or if you have a complaint in relation to how we process your Personal Data. However, you do have the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority directly. A list of EU national data protection authorities can be found here.