Hassett Auctioneers Privacy Policy

At Hassett Auctioneers we are committed to ensuring the privacy of your information.

We understand that as a customer or visitor using our site, privacy and the security of your confidential information when online is very important to you. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to outline our practices in this area.

Some of the technical terms used in our privacy statement are explained at the end of this section.

The Information we collect
As you browse through our web site, our web server collects information about your visit, not about you personally. We gather and monitor statistics such as:

This information is anonymous and no attempt will be made to identify visitors. So, for example, on a specific day we can identify that our site has forty thousand visitors. However we know nothing about these visitors in terms of email addresses or any other personal information.

We will only ask for personal information from which you can be identified (such as your name, address, email address etc.) where the information is required for a specific purpose e.g. enquiring about a particular property. This gathering of information is consistent with our current business and telephone practices.

Use of "Cookies"
A cookie is a small piece of information, which a web site stores through your web browser on your PC that it can later retrieve when you log back on to the site. This means that the site will remember your preferences and possibly even your name!

www.hassettauctioneers.com does not use cookies. This is to further protect the confidentiality, anonymity and security of your personal information.

Disclosure of Information
Hassett Auctioneers will not divulge customer information to a third party unless:

Security of Information
At www.hassettauctioneers.com we understand how important the security and confidentiality of your information is to you. Keeping customers' information secure is a top priority for us. Our goal is to protect your information on the Internet in the same way as we would over the phone or at our offices.

Some technical terms explained

Firewall:
A method for keeping a network secure. Firewalls are commonly used to give users secure access to the Internet as well as to separate a company's public web server from its internal network.

Cookies: A "cookie" is a small text file or a small piece of information, which a web site stores through your web browser on your PC that it can later retrieve when you log back on to the site. www.hassettauctioneers.com does not use "cookies"