a User Agreement

a Privacy Policy

“Membership is a privilege not an entitlement”(ebay,2010)

ebay are not AUCTIONEERS(ebay,2010) but

Figure 1

A new ebay member you must accept the terms and conditions in both

and

so what are you in for ?

its handy to know that

must be 18 years or older to join

only an online venue,

communicate

anything, anytime,

anywhere. (ebay,2010)

almost

(ebay,2010)

offer,

by agreeing to the User Agreement & Privacy Policy

in order to buy,sell and

so

Figure 2

allowing members to with each other

you allow ebay to

use Your Information

full name

user ID

address

city

state

country

postcode

email

phone no

you have also expressly consented for ebay to use and disclose your information at their absolute sole discretion to

government

law enforcement

third parties

data stored on US servers

The primary purpose for information collection: “to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safer and customised trading experience.”

(ebay,2010)

and Your Information also includesFigure 3

ebay affiliates and subsidiaries

(ebay,2010)

PaypalSkypeGumtree

to verify who you are

(ebay,2010)

such as

are collected and stored

granting ebay a licence to use Your Information in any media now known or not currently known (ebay,2010)

you have your responsibilities

yourbidding sellingbuying

behaviourdiscussion boardscafeschat roomsfeedback

activitiesFigure 4

plus

with a “non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable” (ebay ,2010) right to use Your Information.

MON ITORED

Ot

you are

protect your user ID and password

complete all transactions

incomplete transaction could result in liability to seller and ebay

binding contracts between buyers and sellers

liability onus on members

Figure 5

you are legally responsible for all your activities

don’t involve yourself in fraud

pay your fees

(ebay,2010)

not to be

the risk taker

So don’t interfere with ebay’s ISP’s or upload viruses, worms, programming routines or malicious code

so don’t

Figure 6

become

threateningharassingdefamatorydeceptive

fulfill your obligations to ebay

You

no spam

(ebay,2010)

intellectual property rights or copyright

eBay’s Privacy Policy states, "we can (and you authorise us to) disclose our User ID,name, street address, city, state, postcode, country, phone number, email, and company name to eBay VeRO Program participants as we in our sole discretion” (ebay,2010)

ebay is responsible for

eBbay veRO Program participants

legitimate sellers can be targeted not knowing exactly why

Figure 7

breach trademark,

can report you to ebay

because

sellers report competitors fοr non-existent violations

program can cause problems

could result insuspended orterminatedaccount

(Make money on ebay,2010)

or court action

nothingalmost

meanwhile

ebay disclaims any liability in transactions

disputes

any court proceedings

A licenYou grantormation is

no warranty

Figure 8

no guarantee that a transaction will actually be completed

mediation

loss or damage

arbitration

no guarantee personal information or private communications will always remain private (ebay,2010)

ebay will automatically track some of your behavior within its site

url details of visited site before entering ebay and the site you go to next.

what browser and ip address you use

install

Figure 9

ebay acts as a passive conduit of Your Information

for online distribution and publication. (ebay,2010)

all personal correspondence

monitor and store

ebay will also

be aware of identity theftFigure 10

your user ID, email, contact details given to other members

J

j

(ebay,2010)

Local Shared Objects (LSO), commonly called flash cookies.

gives you, at no additional cost, free,

hard to removedifficult to findlarge 100 kb file holds more infono expiration date respawning of deleted HTTP cookies

Web site hosts and advertisers do not like relying on HTTP cookies.

(Kassner,2009)

easy to remove, short life

so be aware

cookies on your hard drive

(Sotani, Canty, Mayo, Thomas, & Hoofnagle , 2009)

Figure 11

“merely visiting some websites can cause Flash data from a third party advertiser to be stored on the user’s computer, often unbeknownst to the user”. (Soltani,2009)

traffic counts are rendered inaccurate

(Cooper,2010)

Improves trackingof user

ebay disclosing personal information to advertisers and third parties who

use profiling to better target you as a potential customer

happy bidding !

of

ebay or related entities may ring you offering promotions

Figure 12

ad banners product offeringscommunicationsadmin notices

with

(ebay,2010)

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