Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.blackbirdauctions.com
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Blackbird Asset Services, LLC (“Blackbird”) invites you to view, use and download information from Blackbird’s web site, conditioned upon your agreement to comply fully with the following Terms and Conditions of Use which Blackbird, in its discretion, may modify from time to time:
Email Privacy Policy
We have created this email privacy policy to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy and the protection of your information.
Why did you receive an email from us?
If you received a mailing from us, (a) your email address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future (“opt-in”), or (b) you have registered or purchased or otherwise have an existing relationship with us, or (c) we obtained your email address from an outside vendor or public source for the sole purpose of informing you of a specific sale event. We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings. If you would like to be removed from our list, please use the unsubscribe link in the email, or contact us to be removed from our marketing database.
How we protect your privacy
We use security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.
Data Sharing and Usage
We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information and to contracted service providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with you.
E-mail submissions over the Internet may not be secure. Please consider this fact before e-mailing any information. With respect to any communications you make to Blackbird, including but not limited to questions, comments, suggestions, feedback, and the like, you (i) understand and agree that Blackbird reserves the rights to respond or not respond, in its discretion, to any questions submitted by you; (ii) understand and agree that such content will be deemed non-confidential; (iii) agree not to submit content that is infringing or that contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with or otherwise adversely affect the operation of another’s computer, or surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; and (iv) grant to Blackbird the unrestricted and irrevocable right to use, copy, modify, publish, perform, transmit and display such content via any media, and waive any moral rights you may have in such content. Blackbird shall be free to use such content, including any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in such content, for any reason whatsoever.
Internet Bidding
Blackbird uses several outside vendors to provide software tools to allow real-time or internet-only auction sales. These vendors may have site-specific terms of sale that are not outlined here. Users of these online bidder services that would like to review our third-party provider terms of sale are asked to send an email requesting such terms to auctions@blackbirdauctions.com. Blackbird does not guarantee the performance or accuracy of the web content of any outside vendor, software provider or other third party. See Third-Party Information below.
Restrictions on Use
You may download, reproduce and retransmit material displayed on this web site for non-commercial, personal use. If you do so, you agree to retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not use, distribute, modify, transmit, or post the content of the Blackbird web site for public or commercial purposes, including any text, images, audio, or video without Blackbird’s written permission.
Trademarks and Copyrights
This web site and its content are owned by Blackbird or its affiliates or agents and are protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. All content, trademarks, services marks, trade names, logos, and icons are proprietary to Blackbird or its affiliates or agents. Nothing contained on this web site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on this web site without the written permission of Blackbird or such third party that may own the trademarks displayed on this web site. Your use of the trademarks displayed on this web site, or any other content on this web site, except as provided herein, is strictly prohibited.
Third-Party Information
Links to other web sites operated by other entities are included as a convenience to you. Blackbird makes no representation regarding the content or accuracy of any other web site, which you may access through this one. Blackbird is not responsible for the content found on other web sites, which is linked from this page.
Disclaimer of Warranties
ALL CONTENT ON THIS WEB SITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU ON AN “AS IS” “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Blackbird makes no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, or reliability of any content available through this web site. You are responsible for verifying any information before relying on it. Use of the web site and the content available on the web site is at your sole risk. Blackbird makes no representations or warranties that use of the web site will be uninterrupted or error-free. You are responsible for taking all necessary precautions to ensure that any content you may obtain from the web site is free of viruses. Some states do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you.
Limitation of Liability
Your use of the web site or any content on the web site is at your own risk. Blackbird specifically disclaims any liability, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising out of or in any way connected with access to or use of the web site, even if Blackbird has been advised of the possibility of such damages, including but not limited to reliance by any party on any content obtained through the use of the web site, or that arises in connection with mistakes or omissions in, or delays in transmission of, information to or from the user, interruptions in telecommunications connections to the web site or viruses, whether caused in whole or in part by negligence, acts of god, telecommunications failure, theft or destruction of, or unauthorized access to the web site, or related information or programs. Some states do not allow the limitation of liability, so the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.
Violations and Additional Policies
Blackbird reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of the rules and regulations set forth in this web site, including the right to block access from a particular Internet address to the web site.
Governing Law
These terms and conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws provisions. Blackbird makes no representation that the information in the web site is appropriate or available for use in other locations, and access to the Blackbird web site from territories where the content of the Blackbird web site may be illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access the Blackbird web site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. These Terms and Conditions of Use and all documents incorporated herein by reference constitute the entire agreement between Blackbird and you with respect to the Blackbird web site. If any part of these Terms and Conditions of Use is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Questions: If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions of Use, please contact us at auctions@blackbirdauctions.com.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.