At Dualj, we understand how important your privacy is. This privacy policy describes how we collect, store, and use your personal information.
Collection
We may collect your personal information through our registration page, contact pages, and other pages on our site. On each page, we only require you to enter the information that we need in order to be able to respond to your request, or offer to you the services you are requesting. For example, on most of our contact pages, we only require your email address, so that we can reply to you. To become a buyer, we only require minimal personal information, such as your email. To become a seller, we require full contact information, so that we can provide better security to our users. We may additionally collect your information through PayPal transactions, cookies, and other means.
Verification and Integration
Phone Verification: As part of our seller program, we collect and verify your phone number. Part of this process involves a one-time phone call, which you have the option to request, which we will use to verify your phone number. We do not add your phone number to any calling list, nor do we share it with any outside organization. This phone verification process is used primarily to stop users who might try to create large numbers of seller accounts.
PayPal Integration: As part of our seller program, we collect information about your PayPal account, such as your PayPal email address, and we may require you to change some settings in your PayPal account in order to connect your PayPal account to our system. This enables us to direct buyers to pay you directly through PayPal. Additionally, we will receive extensive transaction information from PayPal through the PayPal Instant Payment Notification. We use this information to update your seller records, and buyer purchase history pages, and enable all features related to buying and selling on Dualj.
PayPal transaction information
Whether you are a buyer or a seller, we may collect your personal information through any transaction or purchase you make on PayPal that is initiated on our website. This information may include your PayPal email, your PayPal shipping address, and other transaction information. We use this information to update your purchase/sales history pages on Dualj so that you can see what you have bought or sold. As a buyer, your PayPal transaction information, along with your email, is given to your seller, so that they can fulfill your order and contact you if there are any questions. As a seller, your business information may be given to your buyer, in case they need to contact you regarding their order. For both parties, this information is shared for the purpose of the transaction only, and may not be used for any other purpose.
Email Addresses
We do not display your email address on Dualj to the "public", to enable anyone to contact you through email who otherwise should not have your email address. However, if you place an order through PayPal, your email address will be shared with your seller, so that your seller can contact you if necessary. Sellers are not allowed to add your email to any "list" to send you any emails that are not related to your purchase. Buyers also receive their seller emails, so that they can contact their seller with any questions related to the transaction. Buyers are not allowed to add their seller's emails to any email list. Additionally, if you contact a seller on Dualj through the contact page, your email address may be give to that seller so that they can reply to you.
Cookies
Cookies are small files which a website is able to store on your computer, and retrieve again later. Cookies can only be "read" by the website that wrote them, so they cannot be used to obtain information that the website did not already know earlier. Nevertheless, they can be used to "remember" a person, and therefore they are frequently used by websites to keep a person "logged-in" or to greet a person with a message such as "Welcome back, John". On Dualj, we use cookies to maintain your log-in status, and if you are a new user, we may use a cookie to remember who referred you to our website (if you were referred by one of our users) so that we can reward them.
Log information
We may save certain information about you on file, such as your IP address, PayPal information, browser information, and cookies, in order to provide you with the services you requested, and maintain the security of our website.
Data Security
We employ numerous security measures to protect your personal information. We take measures to ensure against unauthorized access or use of your personal information. We restrict access to your confidential information to users who have authorized access to such information, and in accordance with these terms. We use Triple DES encryption when passing certain private information through our website.
Updating your information
We provide you with the option to update your account information. We may limit such updates in cases where all or portions of the data are outside of our control (for example, if you request to change your shipping address through Dualj, when your shipping address is stored on PayPal outside our control). We also may limit such information updates if they are repetitive, excessive, or extremely unreasonable. We do not allow users to change their account user name.
Acceptable Use
All users on Dualj are required to adhere to this privacy policy, and to limit their use of personal data they may acquire on Dualj to the use for which that information was intended and provided. Users may not create email lists, send spam, or share personal information about other users to anyone outside Dualj. Users may not collect, store, or transmit other user's personal data for any reason other than that for which the information was provided.
Legal Inquiries
Dualj will comply with any local, state, or federal investigations, and may provide your personal information to such authorities in the event of a legal investigation.