T2 is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out how T2 collects, uses and shares information that identifies you or is associated with you (“personal information”) following your use of the T2 website or other T2 services.
For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation any personal information provided to or gathered by us through the T2 website or services is controlled by T2 Auctions LLC.
T2 Auctions LLC is established in the USA at 244-250 West 54th, New York, NY 10019.
We collect the categories of information described below when you use the T2 website or T2 services.
Information you provide
We collect information from you when you voluntarily submit information to us. This can include information you provide when you register to use the T2 website, complete a form on the website, send us an email, take an action on the website (such as when you place a bid on an item), telephone us, or in person when you meet with a member of T2 staff.
Information we collect directly from you includes:
Records of items you sell through T2
Our own written records, photographs and descriptions of the items you submit for sale through T2.
Information about how you use the T2 website
We collect data about how you use the T2 website such as the pages and links you access, the time you access the website and duration you are on it, the site you come to the website from or go to after leaving the website, selections and choices you make when using the website.
Information about how you connect to the website
We collect data about the computer or other electronic devices (“device”) you use to connect to the T2 website. This can include details about the type of device, unique device identifying numbers, the device’s operating system, browser and applications connected to the website through the device, your Internet service provider or mobile network, your IP address and your device’s telephone number (if it has one).
Other organisations may provide information that we associate with you where they are lawfully permitted to share it, such as contact details, demographic data, Internet navigation information or information about the history of the item you wish to sell.
If you fail to pay for an item or fraudulent or other criminal activity is suspected relating to your account, we may be provided with information by credit reference, fraud and crime prevention organisations.
There are a number of lawful reasons why we collect, use and store your information. Often, the processing of your data is necessary for the performance of a contract; otherwise the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests as a data controller, unless these are overridden by your interests, rights or freedoms.
The reasons we process your data are:
From time to time we may contact you by email, phone or text message with information about our products and services.
If you do not wish to receive marketing information from T2 please email us at info@t2-auctions.com. Alternatively, please follow the opt-out instructions contained within the marketing information we have sent to you.
We do not sell, trade, or transfer your personal information to outside third parties with the following exceptions:
Companies in the same group of companies as us – T2 Auctions LLC and its affiliated entities, Tarisio Auctions LLC and Tarisio Europe Limited, may share personal information with each other, they may also share personal information with their subsidiaries (i.e. any organisation they own or control) or their ultimate holding company (i.e. any organisation that owns or controls them) and any subsidiaries it owns. These companies will use your personal information only as described in this Privacy Policy.
Service providers – third parties who provide a service to us. These third parties will be allowed to use your personal information only in accordance with our instructions and will be required to keep your information secure.
Law enforcement, regulators and other parties for legal reasons – third parties to whom we are under a legal obligation to disclose your personal information or to whom we need to disclose your personal information to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of others, or to detect and investigate illegal activities and breaches of any agreement we have with you.
Buyers of our business – buyers of T2 Auctions LLC or any of their assets may have your personal information disclosed or transferred to them as part of the sale.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to anyone else except as set out above. We may provide third parties with aggregate statistical information and analytics about users of T2 services but will we make sure no one can be identified from this information before we disclose it.
Timeframe – your personal information will be kept by us for as long as your account remains active. If you contact us to deactivate your account, your personal information will be kept for a reasonable period of time after this so that we can complete any activities it is being used for or where we have a need to retain your personal information. Following this period we will either delete the information or change it to a form that does not identify you. Following a reasonable period of inactivity on your account we may also delete your personal information or change it to a form that does not identify you.
Cookies and local storage – we may store information (which may include personal information) locally on your device using cookies and other browser and application storage methods. For further information please see our Cookies Policy.
International transfers of personal information – the personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in the USA. It may also be stored in other countries that you are not resident in. Some of these jurisdictions offer differing levels of protection in respect of personal information and may, in certain instances, be less protective than your country of residence. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Much of the personal information we hold about you is available directly from viewing your account and looking back over your own activities. If there is other information you would like to access, please contact us using the contact details set out in the “Contact us” section below. Please provide as much information as you can about the information you are looking for. We reserve the right to charge a small fee to respond to your request.
The T2 website may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites of our partner networks, advertisers, partner merchants, retailers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those websites.
Our services are available only to persons aged 18 or over.
The T2 service is not directed to persons under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information, without your consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
We do not collect information from you for behavioral advertising purposes. We may collect a persistent identifier from your browser or mobile device to assist us with providing and improving the Service. Because we collect browsing and persistent identifier data only for analytic and internal purposes, your selection of the “do not track” option provided by your browser will not have any effect on our collection of analytics information or the collection of a persistent identifier. We do not permit third parties to collect information about your online activities over time and across different web sites when you use our Service.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time so you should review this policy periodically. When we change this Privacy Policy in a material way, we will update the “last modified” date at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If we need to provide you with information about something, whether for legal, marketing or other business related purposes, we will select what we believe is the best way to get in contact with you. We will usually do this through email, or by placing a notice on the T2 website.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcome and should be addressed to info@t2-auctions.com.
This Privacy Policy was last modified in May 2018.