At the Buy, Sell and Trade we are committed to protecting your privacy. Our goal is to make your online experience with us, easy, safe and secure. Wherever possible we allow you to give us as much or as little personal information as you feel comfortable providing. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information.
To browse through our classified ads, we do not require that you provide any personal information. To use our member services and submit classified ads through our website, you need to become a BSTOnline member or provide personal information. This requires you provide your e-mail address, postal code and phone number and that you select a user name and password. The phone number is used as your primary contact for all your classified ads.
If you wish to change, remove, or review your membership information, simply log in, select the "Edit Your Account Info" and submit your account changes. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to ensure that your personal information is not accessible to any unauthorized party.
When you type in your personal information, buyselltrade.ca establishes a secure connection with your browser so your information is ‘encrypted', or scrambled, on a special server. This means that any third party that may view the message will not be able to read the information contained within it. All these processes take place behind a “firewall” which protects your information from unauthorized users such as hackers.
A cookie is a very small piece of text that is placed on your computer's hard drive. The purpose of a cookie is to let us know when someone visits our website. This text, by itself, merely tells us that a previous visitor has returned; it doesn't tell us anything about who you are, your e-mail address, or anything personal.
Cookies help us evaluate how people use our site, what areas they frequent and what areas they don't. In addition, cookies allow a web site to ask membership questions only once. As a result, the next time you return to the web site you will not need to enter membership information again. Cookies are incapable of doing anything to your hard drive.
You can still access the classified ads on our site if your browser is set to not accept cookies; however; if you wish to submit a classified ad or use our member services you will need to allow a cookie to be set, or access will not be granted.
Buyselltrade.ca offers businesses advertising opportunities on our website. These are primarily in the form of rectangular banner or square button advertisements, which are located on various pages of the site. We provide advertisers with general information about our audience, which helps to provide advertisements that are relevant to the site. We do not, however, provide advertisers with any information about specific individuals.
We gather site usage information and traffic patterns to help us develop the design and layout of the site and to continuously improve your experience when using BSTOnline. We may share aggregate, non-personal, statistical information regarding our customers, traffic patterns and site usage with our advertisers. Without your express permission, we will NEVER reveal your personal identity or preferences.
To improve the design and layout of the site, we collect non-personal information such as IP address, ISP and Browser information. This is for internal use only, and we do not share it with any third parties.
We may also offer you the opportunity to subscribe to email newsletters on topics that we believe are of interest to our visitors. If you have opted to receive a particular newsletter, you may always unsubscribe later if you decide not to receive further mailings of the newsletter from us. See "Opting Out" below.
A final note: The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect.
We provide links to a number of other sites that we believe can offer you useful information and services. However, we are not responsible for the privacy policies of or any actions of any third parties that control the activities of such third-party sites. We suggest contacting the relevant parties controlling these sites or accessing their online policies for the relevant information about their data collection.
If you have comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please direct them to our Customer Service Department.
Write to us at:
Buy Sell & Trade Customer Service Department 41 Nicol Street Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 4S7