Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how FiredPlace.com collects, uses, and protects your personal information. By using FiredPlace.com, you consent to the data practices outlined in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

1.1. Personal Information: When you register for an account, we may collect personal information such as your name, email address, date of birth, and payment information.

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

1.2. Profile Information: Users have the option to provide additional profile information, including but not limited to, profile pictures, bios, and other details.

1.3. Content: We collect the content you create, upload, or share on FiredPlace.com, including posts, comments, and marketplace listings.

1.4. Usage Data: We collect information about how you interact with the Service, such as your activity, preferences, and the devices you use.

 

2. Use of Information

2.1. Monetization: We use the information you provide to facilitate revenue-sharing programs, allowing users to monetize profiles and posts.

2.2. Marketplace Transactions: Your personal and transaction information is used to facilitate buying and selling activities on the marketplace.

2.3. Communication: We may use your contact information to communicate with you about your account, transactions, and relevant updates.

2.4. Improvement of Services: We use collected data to analyze and improve our services, including enhancing user experience and developing new features.

 

3. Sharing of Information

3.1. Third-Party Partners: We may share information with third-party partners, such as payment processors, to facilitate transactions and provide certain services.

3.2. Legal Compliance: We may disclose information in response to a legal request, to protect our rights, or to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

3.3. Anonymized Data: Aggregated and anonymized data may be shared for analytics, research, and marketing purposes.

 

4. Security

We implement security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

 

5. Your Choices

5.1. Account Settings: You can manage your account settings and privacy preferences through the FiredPlace.com platform.

5.2. Opt-Out: You can opt-out of certain communications by adjusting your notification preferences.

 

6. Children's Privacy

FiredPlace.com is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child, we will take steps to delete the information.

 

7. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

 

8. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

 

9. Log Files

FiredPlace.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

 

10. Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Fired Place uses 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

11. Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to FiredPlace.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

 

12. Our Advertising Partners

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

13. Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of FiredPlace.com.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Fired Place, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Fired Place has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

 

14. Third Party Privacy Policies

Fired Place's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

 

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices. We will notify users of any material changes, and the updated policy will be effective upon posting.

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

 

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 3/20/2024.