Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. - Privacy Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 1st, 2022

Revised Date: 07/07/2024

INTRODUCTION

Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. (“Nice Find Wholesale,” “us,” “we,” or “the provider”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and end-users. This Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, share and use personal information collected through our corporate websites (including https://nicefindwholesale.com ) and marketplaces within the Nice Find and Nice Find Wholesale network (the “Sites”) and any related Nice Find Wholesale application, marketplace service or tool (collectively, the “Services”), as well as in connection with our events, sales, and marketing activities. “You” and “your” or “the customer” and “the customer’s” means the individual using the Services and the entity that such individual represents.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, then please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Policy.

ABOUT NICE FIND WHOLESALE

Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. is headquartered in Illinois in the United States. We help businesses obtain reliable inventory for their businesses through our online marketplace solutions and services. Our goal is to equip our customers to buy and sell bulk lot liquidation inventory conveniently. Our customers include any individual or business (“Sellers”) and looking to bid on and purchase that inventory (“Buyers”). We also purchase inventory from other companies looking to liquidate their inventory.

For more information about us, please see the “About Us” section of our Site at https://nicefindwholesale.com.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

The personal information that we may collect about you generally fits into one of these categories:

Information that you provide to us. Any personal information that you provide to us voluntarily is able to be collected by us. This includes but is not limited to: information given when you apply to create an account to access the Services, bid on or buy products sold via the Sites, subscribe to marketing communications from us, submit enquires to us, and/or otherwise contact us. Your personal information may also be collected from you offline, such as when you attend one of our events, during phone calls with sales representatives, or when you contact customer support. The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

The information we collect may include but is not limited to:

• Financial information. This could include information such as credit card or bank account numbers and the address of the bank from which you will be wiring funds for purchases.
• Contact and personal information. This could include your first and last name, the name of the entity which you represent (if applicable), your email address, phone number, business address, fax number, business resale certificate number, and other customer information, including without limitation, the password chosen by you for access to the Services.
• Information you provide during a transaction related to the bidding, buying, or selling process. This may also include other transaction-based content that you generate or that is connected to your account as a result of a transaction you are involved in.

We do not, however, knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. We are not held responsible for collecting personal information from children under the age of thirteen should they utilize our Services or Site while claiming to be over the age of thirteen.

Information obtained from third parties. There may be occasions when we may receive personal information about you from third-party sources (this may include but is not limited to lists from Sellers who have provided Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. a list of buyers for their sites, tradeshow events, social media, etc.). 

This will only occur when we have checked that said third parties either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose your personal information to us.

Information collected from third parties could include your first and last name, the name of the entity which you represent (if applicable), your email address, phone number, business address, fax number, business resale certificate number, and other customer information, and we use the information we receive from these third parties to access the Services, bid on or buy products sold via the Sites, subscribe to marketing communications from us, submit enquires to us and/or otherwise contact us.

Automatically collected information. Anytime you choose to visit or utilize our Services, certain information will be automatically collected from your device. Depending on where you reside, this information could be considered personal information under relevant data protection laws. 

The automatically-collected information could include data such as your IP addresses, browser, and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, broad geographic location (e.g. country or city-level location), and other technical information. Information about how your device has interacted with our Sites, including pages accessed and links clicked could also be collected automatically.

Automatically-collected data or information is primarily used for the security and operation of our Services. This information also helps us to better understand the users (like you) who come to our Sites, where they come from, and what content on our Sites is of interest to them. We rely on this information in order to perform internal analytics and inform reporting processes that help to improve our Service for users like you, both now and in the future. 

Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies, as explained further under the heading “Cookies and Similar Technologies”.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

Your information is used by us according to the business needs listed below. 

We normally collect personal information from you where the processing is in our legitimate business interests (“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you (“Contractual”), where we have your consent to so (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”).

The ways we may use the personal information we collect include but are not limited to: 

• To provide access to and use of our Services (for our Business Purposes, Contractual purposes, and/or with your Consent).
• To respond to your requests for support or to provide you with information you have requested about Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. or any of our Services (for our Business Purposes, Contractual purposes, and/or with your Consent).
• To enable us to notify you if you post the winning bid in an auction and/or confirm your purchases (for Contractual purposes and/or with your Consent).
• To provide our Sellers, service providers, and/or partners with information about your purchase and/or to confirm your purchases to entities who require such information to ensure the successful fulfillment of any purchases you make through the Services (for Contractual purposes and/or with your Consent).
• To send you information about your relationship or transactions with us and other service-related information, including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages (for our Business Purposes, Contractual purposes, and/or with your Consent).
• To communicate with you and to personalize our communications with you (for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent). For example, we may contact you by phone or email, or other means (where this is in accordance with your marketing preferences) to inform you about auctions, products, services, special offers, or other promotional information related to our Services that we believe will be of interest to you. For more information about managing your marketing preferences, please see the “Your Data Protection Rights.”
• To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches, and potentially prohibited or illegal activities and enforce our agreements and policies (for our Business Purposes and/or Legal Reasons).
• For other Business Purposes such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and enhancing, customizing, and improving our Services.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us”.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipient parties for the following purposes:

With Sellers: If you are purchasing inventory through the Services, Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. may share such information with the Sellers from whom you bid on or buy products via the Services, as necessary to ensure successful fulfillment of any bids and/or purchases you make via the Services.

Service Providers: Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. may use other companies to perform services on its behalf and which require access to your information to do that work. Examples include but are not limited to: hosting data, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, facilitating some aspects of the Services, sending email, fulfilling purchase requests, and providing payment processing services. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personal information solely for purposes that are described in this Policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information.

Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. Group Companies: We may share your information with our parent companies, subsidiaries, and/or affiliates for use and processing purposes described in this Policy.

Special Circumstances: There may be instances when Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. may disclose personal information without providing you with a choice in order to protect the legal rights of its Sellers, Nice Find Wholesale, LLC., or any of their affiliates, employees, agents, and contractors; to protect the safety and security of visitors to our Site; to protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; or to comply with the law, governmental request, judicial proceeding or other legal processes (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

Business Transfers: If Nice Find Wholesale, LLC. or any Seller sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or business transfer, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, we may transfer your personal information to a potential buyer (and its agents and advisors) in connection with that transaction.

HOW NICE FIND STORES YOUR INFORMATION

Your personal information is retained by us for as long as it is necessary and relevant for the aforementioned purposes. When there is no longer an ongoing and legitimate business necessity to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it. If this is not possible (which may occur in a situation where your information is stored in a backup archive, as just one example), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

Note: We retain the right to retain personal information from closed accounts for Legal Reasons. Some examples of this include complying with national laws, collecting fees owed, troubleshooting problems, preventing fraud, resolving disputes, assisting with any investigations, enforcing our customer agreements and/or taking other actions permitted or required by applicable national laws. 

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

You have the following data protection rights:

• If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided under the “How to Contact Us” heading below.
• You have the right to opt out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of other forms of marketing (such as postal marketing or telemarketing), then please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to Contact Us” heading below.
• Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
• You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. 
• Please note: Our services are available to customers within the United States of America. If you are visiting our site from outside of the United States of America, you may have different national protection rights than those which apply to our website and customers. As a company within the United States of America, we are not held responsible for data protection laws or regulations of other countries or localities. Please use our services at your own risk and with the understanding that you are visiting Sites based in and operating out of the United States of America. (Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and certain non-European countries (including the US and Canada) are available here.) If you are a resident in the European Economic Area visiting our site, the “data controller” of your personal information is Nice Find Wholesale, LLC.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

SECURITY

We have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures designed to protect the security of any personal information in our possession against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our site is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Your personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective). Our base of operations is the United States, and our Services are available to those within the United States. If you are accessing our Sites or requesting our Services within another country, you may have differing data protection laws. Your information may be processed in a variety of locations around the world - we have taken the appropriate measures to safeguard your personal information in accordance with this Policy. 

Specifically, our Site servers are located in the United States and in Germany, and our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal information we may process it in any of these countries.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies (small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that we put on your computer) and other similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take through our Services, in our Sites, and within our advertising or e-mail content.

 We use the term “cookies” or “similar technologies” interchangeably in our policies to refer to all technologies that we may use to store data in your browser or device or that collect information or help us to identify in the manner described in this Policy.

When you visit our Sites or use our Services, we may send one or more cookies to your browser. They enable us to store information about your device that is then used for matching certain other device-related information that we collect via the browser. This helps us to, amongst other things, remember your user preferences and maximize and analyze the performance of our Services. We also use cookies to provide, enhance and personalize certain aspects of our Services. Cookies are also used for targeting purposes as described below.

You may disable or block any cookies, but if you do so, you may not be able to access certain functions or features of our Sites or Services.

Our use of these technologies falls into the following categories:

Enhancing or Assuring Functionality. These cookies allow us to improve your experience when visiting our Sites or Services. This may include but is not limited to: remembering choices you make, such as: remembering your username, preferences, and settings; remembering if you have reacted to something on or through the Services, so you’re not asked to do it again; remembering if you’ve used any of our Services before; restricting the number of times you are shown a particular advertisement; remembering your location, and enabling social media components like Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.

Operational Necessity. These are cookies that are required in order for our Sites and Services to operate functionally. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided. For example, these cookies are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security. They also allow users of our Services to make use of our functions such as shopping carts, saved search, or similar functions. 

Advertising or Targeted Related. These cookies record your visit to our Services, the pages you have visited on our Sites, and the links you have clicked. They gather information about your browsing habits and remember that you have visited a Site. We (and third-party advertising platforms or networks) may use this information to make our Services, content, and advertisements displayed on our Sites more relevant to your interests (this is sometimes called “behavioral” or “targeted” advertising). These types of cookies are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

To find out more about interest-based ads and your choices, visit these sites: Digital Advertising Alliance, the Network Advertising Initiative, and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe and these links: http://www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

Assisting or Analyzing Performance. These cookies assess the performance of our Services, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how visitors use and interact with our Services, for instance, which pages on our Sites they go to most often. These cookies also enable us to personalize content and remember your preferences (e.g., your choice of language, country, or region). These cookies help us improve the way our Sites work and provide a better, personalized user experience. Some of our performance-related cookies are managed for us by third parties. However, we don’t allow the third party to use the cookies for any purpose other than those listed above.

Third-Party Analytic Software

We may use a variety of Third-Party Analytic Software in order to help us analyze visits to our Site and how our Services are utilized. 

One of these services is Google Analytics, a tool of Google Inc. Google Analytics, as well as other analysis tools, use cookies to track visitor interactions. These cookies are essentially text files being saved to your computer. These cookies help us analyze important data regarding user activity on our Sites and Services.

You can visit Google’s help pages or privacy policy to see more information about these cookies. 

You can also choose to delete or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. By doing so, however, you may not be able to access all parts of our Services or Sites until you have allowed cookies again. If you have not blocked cookies, our system will automatically issue cookies upon visiting our Sites or Services. It is your responsibility to decide whether you will allow, delete, or block cookies on your internet browser, and your responsibility to take the necessary precautions to do so. This process is different for every web browser. 

To find out more about cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org

CHANGES TO POLICY

This Policy may change from time to time, and you can see when it was last updated at the top of this policy. Please try to review this page from time to time so that you can keep up to date with any changes.

If we make any material changes, we will make every effort to post a prominent notice on the Site and/or notify you via email or notification on the Services.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our Policy, you may contact us at support@nicefindwholesale.com or by postal mail at 609 Airport Rd, 60542, North Aurora, Illinois USA.

Revised Date: 07/07/2024