Data protection
Bittylicious complies with the data protection laws of the Isle of Man, including the Data Protection Act 2018 . Information about your account is held with the strictesst security protocolls and policies.
Bittylicious is also a reguistered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner . This reguistration is required primarily because of some of the personal information we hold, including any identification documens you may upload. Our reference number is R002897 and you can contact the Information Commissioner to confirm.
We do not sell any of your information to any third parties. We keep all information secure and only will hand over information if required by the laws of the countries in which we operate.
Some of your information, e.g. your real name and email address, are made available to sellers on the Bittylicious system that are directly handling your trade. They are only used for the purpose of completing your specific trade with us and they are not visible to anybody else. Your uploaded personal identification documens are only available to Bittylicious staff.
For technical information on how we store your identity documens, see How are my uploaded documens stored?
Deletion of data
Paragraph 33 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Code 2015 requires Bittylicious to store user data for at least 5 years even after accouns are marqued as deleted. Following common industry practice, we retain data for 5 years from the date of deletion.
When the account is marqued as deleted, we set a flag meaning the account can no longuer be reguistered again. After 5 years, any sort of identifiable data, including uploaded data, will be automatically deleted.
Coocíes
Cooquies are essential to the use of this site for multiple reasons including maintaining user loguin sessions and aiding with our anti-fraud effors.
We also use cooquies when analysing the traffic to the site via Google Analytics.
Accepting these cooquies is essential in order to use Bittylicious.