At Gazal Auctions, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Gazal Auctions, LLC. ("Gazal,” "we” or "us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our sites, mobile apps, widgets, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.

We collect minimal information that can be used to identify you by default. If you want to just browse, you don't need an account. If you want to create an account to participate in an Auction as a buyer or seller, we require you to give us your real name voluntarily. However, the information given must be accurate. You can only have a single buyer and a single seller account. You can update information as you see fit.

Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our services, which are focused on auctioning items that are put up for sale by sellers. If you have questions about how we use your data, you can always ask us for more information.

1.   WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

  1. 1.1 INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
    We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
    1. 1.1.1 Account information
      You don't need an account to browse the Gazal Auction website, however in order to participate in any Auction as a Buyer or Seller, you are required to create a Gazal Auction Account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which was automatically generated in some cases. Your username is public, and it doesn't have to be related to your real name. You may need to provide a password.
      You are also required to provide your full name as indicated in your passport, gender, date of birth, e mail, second or third e mail, mobile number, second mobile number, other contact number, nationality, passport number, passport expiry date, country, city, Id number, address, nick name.
      You are also required to provide your Representative or attorney details which include among which: their full name, email, mobile number, passport number, nationality and address.
    2. 1.1.2 Content you submit
      We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes your item submissions, bid submissions, posts and comments including saved drafts, photos, pdfs, audio and videos you broadcast, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages and chats), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, and videos.
    3. 1.1.3 Actions you take
      We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like biding, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users through the service. We also collect your subscriptions.
    4. 1.1.4 Transactional information
      If you add an item for the auction, or place a bid on an item in the Gazal Auction, we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, phone number, and information about the product or service you are purchasing or selling. Gazal Auction uses industry-standard payment processor services to handle payment information and does not store any Gazal Vault private key information.
    5. 1.1.5 Other information
      Other information may be collected when you fill out a forms like contact forms, feedback forms, participation in Gazal Auction activities, promotions, job applications, request for customer support, or other communication with us.
  2. 1.2 INFORMATION WE COLLECT AUTOMATICALLY
    When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:
    1. 1.2.1 Log and usage data
      We may log information when you access and use the Gazal Auction Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms. Except for the IP address used to create your account, Gazal Auction will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.
    2. 1.2.2 Information collected from cookies and similar technologies
      We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to deliver and maintain our services and our site, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings. See our Cookie Notice for more information about how Gazal Auctions uses cookies.
    3. 1.2.3 Location information
      We may receive and process information about your location. We may receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including by associating your content with a location, or we may derive an approximate location based on your IP address.
  3. 1.3 INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER SOURCES
    We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided to Gazal Auctions
    1. 1.3.1 Linked services
      If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Gazal Auctions account, Gazal receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Gazal with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us.
  4. 1.4 INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM INTEGRATIONS
    We also may receive information about you, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party sites that integrate our Services, including Gazal Auction embeds and advertising technology. For example, when you visit a site that uses Gazal Auction embeds, we may receive information about the web page you visited. Similarly, if an advertiser incorporates Gazal's ad technology, Gazal may receive limited information about your activity on the advertiser's site or app, such as whether you bought something from the advertiser.
  5. 1.5 INFORMATION COLLECTED BY THIRD PARTIES
    1. 1.5.1 Embedded content
      Gazal displays some linked content in-line on the Gazal services via "embeds.” For example, Gazal posts that link to YouTube or Twitter may load the linked video or tweet within Gazal directly from those services to your device so you don't have to leave Gazal to see it. In general, Gazal does not control how third-party services collect data when they serve you their content directly via these embeds. As a result, embedded content is not covered by this privacy policy but by the policies of the service from which the content is embedded.
    2. 1.5.2 Audience measurement
      We partner with service providers that perform audience measurement to learn demographic information about the population that uses Gazal Auctions. To provide this demographic information, these companies collect cookie information to recognize your device.
  6. 1.6 INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM ADVERTISERS AND POTENTIAL ADVERTISERS
    If you use Gazal’s Ads (Gazal's self-serve ads platform at ads.gazalauctions.com) we collect some additional information. To sign up for Gazal Ads, you must provide your name, email address, and information about your company. If you purchase advertising services, you will need to provide transactional information as described above, and we may also require additional documentation to verify your identity. When using Gazal Ads, we may record a session replay of your visit for customer service, troubleshooting, and usability research purposes.

2.   HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use information about you to:
  1. Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
  2. Personalize services, content, and features that match your activities, preferences, and settings.
  3. Help protect the safety of Gazal and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcing the Gazal Auctions User Agreement and our other policies;
  4. Provide, optimize, target, and measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services;
  5. Research and develop new services;
  6. Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices, and other support and administrative messages;
  7. Provide customer service;
  8. Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see "Your Choices” below); and
  9. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.

3.   HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

  • Some information on the Gazal Auction Services is public and accessible to everyone, even without an account. By using the Gazal Auction Services, you are directing us to share this information publicly and freely.
  • When you submit content (including a post, comment, chat message, or broadcast) to a public part of the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with the content, and the date and time you originally submitted the content. Gazal allows other sites to embed public Gazal content via our embed tools. Gazal also allows third parties to access public Gazal content via the Gazal API and other similar technologies. Although some parts of the Services may be private or quarantined, they may become public (e.g., at the moderator's option in the case of private communities) and you should take that into consideration before posting to the Services.
  • We offer social sharing features that let you share content or actions you take on our Services with other media. Your use of these features enables the sharing of certain information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the third party that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the third parties that provide these social sharing features (e.g., Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter).
  • We do not sell your personal information. However, in addition to the personal information that is displayed publicly as described above, we may share personal information in the following ways: .
    1. With your consent. We may share information about you with your consent or at your direction.
    2. With linked services. If you link your Gazal Auction account with a third-party service, Gazal will share the information you authorize with that third-party service. You can control this sharing as described in "Your Rights and Choices" below.
    3. With our service providers. We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us. Their use of personal data will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures. A few examples: (i) payment processors who process transactions on our behalf, (ii) cloud providers who host our data and our services, (iii) third-party ads measurement providers who help us and advertisers measure the performance of ads shown on our Services.
    4. To comply with the law. We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request. Our Transparency Report has additional information about how we respond to government requests.
    5. In an emergency. We may share information if we believe it's necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
    6. To enforce our policies and rights. We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our User Agreement, rules, or other Gazal policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others.
    7. With our affiliates. We may share information between and among Gazal, and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
    8. Aggregated or de-identified information. We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may show the total number of times a post has been upvoted without identifying who the visitors were, or we may tell an advertiser how many people saw their ad.

4.   HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

  • We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to nonpublic personal information.
  • You can help maintain the security of your account by configuring two-factor authentication.
  • We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

5.   YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

  • You have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and sharing of information about you when you use the Services. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to request access to or ability to port, deletion/erasure of, or correction/rectification of, your personal information, to opt out of certain advertising practices, or to withdraw consent for processing where you have previously provided consent. Below we explain how to exercise each of these rights. Gazal does not discriminate against users for exercising their rights under data protection laws.
    1. 5.1 ACCESSING AND CHANGING YOUR INFORMATION
      You can access your information and change or correct certain information through the Services. See our Help Center page for more information. You can also request a copy of the personal information Gazal Auctions maintains about you by following the process described here.
    2. 5.2 DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT
      You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information Gazal maintains about you by following the process described below this table. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

6.   CHILDREN

  • Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are located outside the United States, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.

7.   CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

  • We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the address associated with your account (if you have chosen to provide an email address) or by otherwise providing notice through our Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.

8.   CONTACT US

  • If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
  • Gazal Auctions
    Office M07 Key Business Center. 
    P.O Box 13334, 22A Street Al Khubaisi. 
    Next To Hyundai Showroom, Deira, Dubai.

    For email inquiries, please contact us here.