1. Introduction

Welcome to Articea. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our platform and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Information We Collect

We collect and process the following types of information:

• Identity Data: Full name, username, or similar identifiers
• Contact Data: Email address, phone number, billing address, delivery address
• Financial Data: Bank account and payment card details
• Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you, and other details of products you have sold
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions
• Profile Data: Your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To register you as a new seller and manage your account
• To process and deliver your transactions and manage payments
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes
• To enable you to participate in promotions or surveys
• To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you
• To use data analytics to improve our platform, products, services, marketing, customer relationships
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may interest you

4. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and applicable legal requirements.

6. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:

• Request access to your personal data
• Request correction of your personal data
• Request erasure of your personal data
• Object to processing of your personal data
• Request restriction of processing your personal data
• Request transfer of your personal data
• Right to withdraw consent

7. Third-Party Links

Our platform may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

8. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our platform and also allows us to improve our site. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

• Email: privacy@articea.com
• Address: Articea Privacy Team, [Your Address]