THIS POLICY LAST UPDATED – 1/09/2023

Who We Are

Sells.org Classifieds Local Listings By County is Operated by MYSTANKY LLC out of the State of New Jersey. Our Founder has been operating in the IT industry since 1999. Our policy here describes how we receive, collect and handle that information. This Policy applies to all of the services and offered by Sells.org or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, MYSTANKY LLC “services”).

Sells.org Classifieds is committed to safeguarding your online data and privacy. Please read our privacy policy to understand how your personal information could be treated as you use the Sells.org Classifieds. This policy may possibly change from time to time so please be sure check back frequently.

What Personal Data We Collect & Why We Collect It

In this section Sells.org notes what personal data we collect from users and site visitors. This may include personal data, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data about cookies.

Personal data is not just created by a user’s interactions. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

Some personal information is gathered during registration. During registration, we ask for your name plus email address. Our system will also ask for your street address, city, state/province, zip/postal code, country, telephone number, and the URL of your web site, and numerous custom fields depending on category, although only fields that are marked with an asterisk (*) on the registration field are required. This information assists you in navigating the system by automatically filling in certain forms with your information so that you don’t have to continually re-enter it. Once you register you are no longer anonymous on Sells.org Classifieds & you will have a login access for full account management access.

We may also archive and keep on file any support ticket requests to better serve your account in the future.

Why we use users’ personal information:

• Resolve account issues and troubleshoot tech problems
• Customizing user’ experience on site, measuring popularity of our services and informing users about service updates
• Display promo marketing offers to you in relation to your location and desired categories chosen
• Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising
• Ensuring the technical functioning and navigation within our site

Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.

Comments

At the current time of this writing we will not be utilizing commenting features on the platform. This could in time change but we will inform users if such changes are made.

Media

All uploaded files are usually publicly accessible and Reviewed before posting live. You do need a registered account to post any media to this website.

Listing & Contact Forms

Any information sent through these forms are for only listings purposes. If you have a users spamming though your form please let us know so we can blacklist the account.

Cookies & Analytics

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies that originate from their sites. We have no access or control over those cookies.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?

As you use the Site, the website uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting the Site and which parts of the Site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve the Site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

Location: The Sells.org site is geared specifically toward facilitating transactions between sellers and interested buyers who are within proximity to those sellers. For example, we use your location info to determine that you are in Philadelphia so that we can prioritize and deliver listings from Philadelphia or places nearby to you. As such, the collection of users’ location information is absolutely essential to providing you with the best and most useful marketplace experience we can.

When you access our Service through a mobile device or application, we and a third party partner may receive or collect and store the advertising identification number associated with your device and, depending on your mobile device settings, your geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (such as latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of your mobile device. You may enable or disable the collection of this data at any time using the settings on your mobile device by: (a) deleting the app or adjusting the in-app settings of the app if the app makes that option available; or (b) deleting or resetting the applicable mobile advertiser ID by limiting ad tracking on your device. You may also use the Digital Advertising Alliances “AppChoices” application (available at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices) to opt out of participating third party advertising networks who target advertising to your mobile device based on your mobile advertising identifier. 

Device Information: When you access the Sells.org via your mobile device or computer, we collect and may share data we collect about you including unique identification numbers associated with mobile devices or through its API (including, for example, a Unique ID for Advertisers (“IDFA”), Unique ID for Vendors (“IDFV”), Google Ad ID, or Windows Advertising ID), mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device operating system brand and model, battery life, and, depending on the user’s mobile device settings, the geographical location data, including GPS coordinates (e.g. latitude and/or longitude) or similar information regarding the location of the mobile device (“User Data”) with our third party partners, that enables us to provide you with information, advertisements, or offers specific to your location and interests.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Site contains links to other websites on the Internet. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the information collection and use and privacy practices of such other websites and third parties. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every other website that may collect your personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by us from the Site.

We use third party companies to serve advertisements when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to the Site, these companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer or use other technologies such as pixel tags. Our privacy policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad-serving company may collect from you. These companies have their own policies as to record keeping and data retention.

We use Google Analytics on the Site; information on how this collects and processes data can be found at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. In addition, we have enabled certain Google Analytics advertising features that utilize cookies. These features enable us to obtain certain demographic and interests data for visitors to the Site.

In addition, we may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding certain products and services. When you make an inquiry about certain listings on the Site (e.g., job listings from recruiters), you are expressly choosing to, and opting-in to, have us transfer your personally identifiable information to our third party service partners, and for such third party service partners to provide your personally identifiable information to other businesses who provide products or services that match your inquiry. The third party service partners may contact you regarding your inquiry.

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

Notice of New Services or Change In Service

Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to the Site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.

Account Deletion Methods

Please contact our SUPPORT with a username, account email or listing ID. We may call the contact number on file to confirm this is the original ad poster before doing a total account deletion.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Sells.org keeps form entries for six months, analytics records for a 2 years, and customer purchase records for ten years.

Linked Sites

Our site may contain links to various other websites. We assume no responsibility for the content or practices of websites linked through our websites and such linking should not suggest or imply any affiliation or endorsement by MYSTANKY LLC of the linked website. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our websites.

Contact Information

The provided email is the contact method for privacy-specific concerns. privacy@sells.org

Additional Information

User Profiles and Submissions

Certain user profile information, including your username, phone number, location, and any image content that such user has uploaded to the Services, may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Services or address your request for our Services. Please remember that any content you upload to your public user profile, along with any Personal Information or content that you voluntarily disclose online in a manner other users can view (in messages etc.) becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by anyone. Your user name may also be displayed to other users if and when you send messages or comments or upload images or products through the Services and other users can contact you through messages and comments.

Business Transfers

We may choose to buy or sell assets, and may share and/or transfer user information, including Personal Information, in connection with the evaluation of and entry into such transactions. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.  We may also share your information, including Personal Information, Demographic Information and usage information with our patent, subsidiaries and affiliates.

By using the Site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on the Site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.

How We Protect Your Data

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Childrens Privacy Protection

We believe that protecting the privacy of children is very important. Our websites are not designed to attract individuals under the age of 13. Use of our websites is restricted to those over the age of 13. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe that sells.org has any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the contact points specified below.

What Data Breach Procedures We Have In Place

We follow industry standards and practices to safeguard all of the information, anonymous and personal, that we collect. If users have any questions about the security at our websites, users can contact us thru Support

California Residents

As of January 1, 2005, California law permits users that reside in California to request certain information regarding the disclosure of personal information collected by sells.org to third parties for marketing purposes.