Privacy Policy

HOW BULKITRADE COLLECTS PERSONAL INFORMATION

Bulkitrade may collect personal information from its customers, suppliers and other Site users in several ways:

• Bulkitrade may gather account information through the Sites;
• Bulkitrade may gather customer information through the Sites;
• Bulkitrade may maintain historical account information of its customers and suppliers;
• Bulkitrade may gather information about individual payors and guarantors;
• Bulkitrade may gather information from the Sites by cookies and similar Internet monitoring technologies; and
• Bulkitrade may in some instances gather information from third parties, for example but without limitation, when a customer completes a purchase with Bulkitrade through a third-party website.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION BULKITRADE COLLECTS

The categories of personal information we may collect through the Sites, use, and disclose for a business purpose as described below are as follows:

• Personal identifiers for employment applications or business credit applications, such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, IP address, email address, account name, social security number, driver's license number, national insurance number, passport number, or other similar identifiers;
• Personal identifiers for processing transactions, such as name, email address, shipping address, phone number, payment card information, and information about transactions including purchase information and pick-up times and locations;
• Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies;
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing history, search history, and information regarding a California resident's interaction with an internet web site, application, or advertisement;
• Geolocation data;
• Audio, electronic, visual or similar information;
• Professional or employment-related information; and
• Education information for employment purposes.

USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our Sites. We and outside companies, such as advertising networks, social media widgets, and analytics providers, use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons and web server logs) to provide and improve the Sites and our emails and make them easier to use. The information collected in this manner may include IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, language preferences, referring URLs, pages visited, and other information about the usage of our Sites or emails. The technology permits us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. The technology also assists us in identifying the types of browsers and operating systems used most by our customers, and how visitors move through the Sites. All this information enables us to improve the Sites and related communications, generally but without limitation for efficiency/speed and practicality of use, and for purposes of tailoring them to our customers' needs, usage and preferences. We may also use this technology to track user trends and patterns in order to better understand and improve areas of our Sites that our users find valuable.

We also reserve the right to use outside companies to display ads on our Sites. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by such outside companies, and we do not have access to this information. These outside companies also may collect and combine information collected on our Sites and emails with other information about your online activities over time, on other devices, and on other websites or apps, if those websites and apps also use the same partners.

We currently use programs such as Google Analytics to collect and process certain Site usage data. To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may be able to change browser settings to block and delete cookies when you access our Sites through a web browser. We respect your right to do so, but please note that in the event of such activity, our Sites may not work properly or most efficiently. Our Sites do not respond to browser do-not-track signals.

You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements on this browser or device from advertisers, or other advertising networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising by visiting the opt-out options of each of those organizations. Links to those websites are as follows: Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

HOW BULKITRADE USES PERSONAL INFORMATION

• To establish, conduct, maintain and conclude business arrangements.
• To evaluate and engage with prospective and current customers, suppliers and other business partners.
• To evaluate and engage with prospective employees.
• To process transactions with customers and suppliers and to improve its business processes.
• To fulfill orders placed by customers, to order goods from suppliers, to respond to the requests of users of the Sites, and generally to enrich the usefulness of the Sites.
• For identifiable and aggregate basis, in various analyses intended to help Bulkitrade better understand its customers and suppliers.
• Aggregated reports – Bulkitrade may combine personal information with other information to create aggregate or summary reports and may provide aggregate data to other parties for marketing, advertising, and other purposes.
• If Bulkitrade provides information to other parties in aggregate form, such data will not include any specifically identifiable personal information concerning specific customers, suppliers or individuals unless authorized to do so.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Bulkitrade may provide third parties with personal information for our business purposes to provide or improve our products and services, including to deliver products at your request, or to help Bulkitrade market to consumers. When we do, Bulkitrade requires those third parties to handle such information in accordance with relevant laws and in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. Subject to applicable laws, Bulkitrade also reserves the right to share, for Bulkitrade's own business purposes, personal information with companies who provide services such as information processing, associate benefits processing and services, banking/financial services, extending credit, fulfilling customer orders, delivering products, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing interest in our products and services, and conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys. These companies are obligated to protect your information, are not permitted to use personal information other than for purposes of providing services to us and may be located wherever Bulkitrade operates.

Personal information is used to complete and support your use of the Sites and the services provided thereon and to comply with any requirements of law. Bulkitrade may share personal information with third parties as described below:

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Bulkitrade takes the security of your personal information seriously. We strive to process your information securely, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the information security requirements defined by applicable law. We cannot, however, be responsible for Internet communications that are inherently not completely secure.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Personal information collected on the Sites may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Bulkitrade or its affiliates, subsidiaries, agents, or third-party service providers maintain facilities and/or infrastructure, and by using the Sites, you acknowledge that such transfers of information outside of your country to the extent permissible under applicable law occur.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE EEA

LAWFUL BASIS FOR USING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use the personal information you provide to us (either orally, in writing, through your use of our website, or as a result of our dealings with you) and any data we obtain from third parties to provide the service requested by you.

We recognize that we have a legitimate interest in processing the personal data we collect about you for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to: marketing purposes, to enable us to enhance, modify, personalize, or otherwise improve our services, identify and prevent fraud, enhance and protect the security of our network and systems, and market research. "Legitimate interests" means the interests of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service and most secure experience.

When we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure to consider and balance any potential impact on you and your data protection rights. Where applicable, legitimate interest assessments are conducted to ensure that these rights are protected.