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Our core privacy principles
Your privacy is important to us. Read the privacy principles that apply to eBay sites worldwide.


Full Privacy Policy
Read our comprehensive privacy policy to learn how we use and protect your personal information.

Notification preferences
Decide how you would like to be contacted by eBay.

Our core privacy principles
eBay's core privacy principles remain the same worldwide.

  1. We will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes and will only disclose your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy and/or with your explicit consent.


  2. Third parties are not permitted to sell the information we provide to them, to market directly to you, or to disclose it in any other way without your explicit consent.


  3. We share your personal information with Internal Service Providers for our operations only to facilitate or outsource an eBay service or operation when absolutely necessary and under confidential restrictions.


  4. We share your personal information with other eBay members in accordance with our Privacy Policy to help facilitate transaction and to allow members to contact you.


  5. We disclose limited personal contact information to verified requests by law enforcement and government officials who conduct criminal investigations, and require a subpoena for additional personal information, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.


  6. We give you choices about how you wish to be contacted in the Preferences section of My eBay.


  7. We will provide you with notice if our privacy policy changes and an opportunity to reject such changes.


  8. We let you change your personal information so that you can keep it up to date.


  9. Other eBay companies that have access to your personal information in accordance with the policy are required to protect your personal information at least as strictly as we do.


  10. We use safe, secure technology and other privacy protection programs to keep your personal information secure on eBay.