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Privacy Policy

AirlineHobby.com recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others who use www.AirlineHobby.com (collectively or individually "Users") value their privacy. This Privacy Policy details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on by AirlineHobby.com. AirlineHobby.com provides this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using AirlineHobby.com.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the AirlineHobby.com Terms of Use and User Agreement. Any personal information you provide on the AirlineHobby.com site remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and User Agreement.

Please note that any image, or other content posted at the direction of Users onto the AirlineHobby.com site becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.

The Information AirlineHobby.com Collects

User Provided Information: You provide personal information (such as your name, mailing address, and email address) to AirlineHobby.com when choosing to participate in various activities on the AirlineHobby.com site, such as uploading slides for auction and/or posting messages in our forums or in the user feedback section, entering contests or sweepstakes, taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other mailing lists.

Cookies Information: When you visit the AirlineHobby.com site, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. AirlineHobby.com uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the AirlineHobby.com site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.

Log File Information: When you use the AirlineHobby.com site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

The Way AirlineHobby.com Uses Information

If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the AirlineHobby.com site, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the AirlineHobby.com site. Any personal information or photo content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload auctions and/or send messages through the AirlineHobby.com site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any auction listings that you submit to the AirlineHobby.com site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. If you receive promotional emails from us at the present time, and do not wish to continue receiving such emails, simply log into your account and adjust your account settings to no longer receive such emails. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major AirlineHobby.com site changes or for customer service purposes). WE DO NOT SELL OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANY THIRD PARTIES, AND WILL NOT PROVIDE SUCH INFORMATION UNLESS REQUIRED BY COURT ORDER.

We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the AirlineHobby.com site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.

When AirlineHobby.com Discloses Information

User contact information (mailing address, email, and phone number) will be provided to other site members for the purpose of settling uncompleted auctions in accordance with the auction rules posted on this website. We encourage users to communicate with each other to settle auctions quickly and efficiently. Users who provide inaccurate contact information will have their accounts suspended, and may face permanent barring from the website.

We may provide personally identifiable information and non-personally-identifiable information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or other businesses or persons for the purpose of processing such information on our behalf, for example to charge your credit card account or PayPal account as required to pay your selling fees on this website. This will only happen when you initiate such payments through our website. We will not initaite payments without your consent. We expect that these parties will process such information in compliance generally accepted privacy policies, but we cannot insure third party handling of such information, although we expect reasonable efforts are made by our thordy party payment processors to limit their use of such information and to use appropriate confidentiality and security measures. We do not share your personally identifiable information (such as name or email address) with other, third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.

We do share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the AirlineHobby.com site. We may release personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with provincial, state and federal laws, or respond to a court order, lawsuit, subpoena, or search warrant.

AirlineHobby.com also reserves the right to disclose personally identifiable information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that AirlineHobby.com believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use and User Agreement, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our web site, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of AirlineHobby.com, our Users or others.

Update your Information

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the AirlineHobby.com site, in which case AirlineHobby.com may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. Providing us with non valid personal information will result in account suspension and permanent barring from the website.

Photo Files

Please note that photo files uploaded by Users to the AirlineHobby.com site can be removed from system during the term of the auction listing, and remain subject to our Terms of Use while on the website. User feedback comments cannot be editted after 90 days afterwhich such comments become permanent and remain subject to our Terms of Use.

For your Protection

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

Please contact AirlineHobby.com with any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

AirlineHobby.com allows other companies, third-party ad servers and ad networks, to serve advertisements within the AirlineHobby.com site. These third-party ad servers and ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the AirlineHobby.com site. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

AirlineHobby.com does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers and ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. AirlineHobby.com's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web site.

Currently, AirlineHobby.com has relationships with the following third-party ad servers:

Google, Inc.
http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Our Commitment To Data Security

AirlineHobby.com uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to AirlineHobby.com and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, AirlineHobby.com makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

If AirlineHobby.com learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. AirlineHobby.com may post a Policy on the AirlineHobby.com site if a security breach occurs.

Special Note to International Users

The AirlineHobby.com site is hosted on servers in Canada. This website is governed by Canadian Law. If you are a User accessing the AirlineHobby.com site from the United States, the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from Canadian laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the AirlineHobby.com site, which are governed by Canadian law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use and User Agreement, you are transferring your personal information to Canada and you consent to that transfer.

In the Event of Merger and/or Sale

In the event that AirlineHobby.com is acquired by or merged with and/or sold to a third party entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our Users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control.

Changes and updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "Date Last Modified" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. In general, we only use your personal information in the manner described in the Privacy Policy in effect when we received the personal information you provided. Your continued use of the AirlineHobby.com site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any future revisions.

Date Last Modified:

This Privacy Policy was last amended on February 15, 2007.