Effective Date: September 12, 2026
Last Updated: October 18, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how BuySellNames, operating as BuySellNames (“BuySellNames,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, stores, discloses, and otherwise handles personal information when you use our website, marketplace, accounts, forms, communications, and related services (collectively, the “Platform”).
By using the Platform, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information that you provide directly to us, information generated through your use of the Platform, and information received from service providers or other users.
Account Information
When you create or manage an account, we may collect:
- Name
- Display name
- Username
- Email address
- Password credentials in hashed or otherwise protected form
- Profile photograph or avatar
- Biography
- Website
- Social links
- Account preferences
We do not intend to store your plain-text password.
2. Seller and Listing Information
When you create or manage a listing, we may collect:
- Listing title
- Business or project name
- Website or domain
- Description
- Screenshots
- Uploaded images
- Business category
- Asking price
- Revenue information
- Profit information
- MRR or ARR
- Traffic
- Customer or subscriber information
- Business age
- Reason for selling
- Assets included in the transaction
- Other information you voluntarily include
Information included in a published listing may become publicly accessible.
Do not include confidential information, passwords, API keys, private customer information, financial account credentials, or other information that should not be publicly disclosed.
3. Buyer and Marketplace Activity
We may collect information relating to your use of the marketplace, including:
- Listings viewed
- Searches
- Filters
- Saved listings
- Seller inquiries
- Messages or contact requests
- Listing submissions
- Listing edits
- Upgrade purchases
- Account activity
This information may be used to operate and improve the Platform.
4. Communications
If you contact us or another marketplace participant through the Platform, we may process information contained in those communications.
This may include:
- Name
- Message contents
- Listing referenced
- Date and time
- Technical metadata associated with the communication
We may retain communications for support, security, fraud prevention, dispute handling, legal compliance, and marketplace moderation.
5. Payment Information
If you purchase paid services, such as listing upgrades, payment processing may be handled by a third-party payment processor.
Depending on the payment provider, we may receive:
- Payment status
- Transaction identifier
- Amount
- Billing country
- Limited billing information
- Last four digits or payment-method type
- Invoice or receipt information
We generally do not need to receive or store complete payment-card numbers.
Payment processors handle payment information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
6. Technical and Device Information
When you use the Platform, we or our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
- IP address
- Browser
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring URL
- Pages visited
- Date and time
- Approximate geographic region
- Session information
- Cookies
- Error logs
- Security events
This information may be used for security, analytics, troubleshooting, performance, and fraud prevention.
7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Platform may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
- Authentication
- Account sessions
- Security
- User preferences
- Analytics
- Form functionality
- Performance
- Fraud prevention
Where required by applicable law, non-essential cookies will be used only after obtaining appropriate consent.
You may be able to manage cookies through your browser or any cookie-preference tools we provide.
Blocking certain cookies may affect Platform functionality.
8. How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Operate the Platform
- Create and maintain accounts
- Publish listings
- Manage listing submissions
- Moderate listings
- Facilitate buyer and seller communications
- Process paid upgrades
- Provide customer support
- Send transactional communications
- Prevent fraud
- Protect accounts
- Investigate abuse
- Maintain security
- Improve Platform performance
- Understand marketplace usage
- Develop new functionality
- Enforce our Terms of Service
- Comply with legal requirements
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We will not use personal information for materially incompatible purposes without an appropriate legal basis or consent where required.
9. Transactional Emails
We may send emails necessary to operate the Platform, including:
- Account verification
- Password reset
- Security notifications
- Listing submitted
- Listing approved
- Listing rejected
- Listing requires changes
- Buyer inquiry
- Seller notification
- Payment receipt
- Upgrade confirmation
- Important changes to the Platform
Transactional communications may not always include an unsubscribe mechanism where the message is necessary to provide the service you requested.
10. Marketing Communications
We may send marketing communications where permitted by applicable law.
Where required, we will obtain consent before sending commercial marketing messages.
You may unsubscribe using the link provided in a marketing email or by contacting us.
Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending transactional or account-related communications.
11. Public Information
Certain information may be publicly visible through user profiles and marketplace listings.
This may include:
- Display name
- Avatar
- Biography
- Website
- Public profile
- Listing information
- Seller activity
- Publicly displayed marketplace metrics
Information you publish may be indexed by search engines, cached, copied, shared, or archived by third parties.
You should assume that information submitted for public display can become widely available.
12. Seller Profiles
BuySellNames may provide public seller profiles.
Depending on the features enabled, these profiles may display:
- Display name
- Username
- Avatar
- Bio
- Website
- Member-since date
- Active listings
- Sold listings
- Marketplace activity
Users should avoid adding sensitive personal information to public profiles.
13. Information About Customers of Listed Businesses
Listings may describe names that come with customer databases, mailing lists, analytics, or subscriber information.
Sellers should not upload customer databases or disclose identifiable customer information to BuySellNames unless specifically required and legally permitted.
BuySellNames does not authorize buyers or sellers to unlawfully disclose, transfer, sell, or process personal information.
Responsibility for determining whether customer information may lawfully be transferred as part of an acquisition rests with the buyer and seller.
14. Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers for functions such as:
- Hosting
- Content delivery
- SMTP
- Form processing
- Payment processing
- Analytics
- Security
- Spam prevention
- Database infrastructure
- Backup
- Error monitoring
- Website screenshots
- Image processing
- Authentication
These providers may process information as necessary to perform services for us.
We expect service providers to handle personal information in accordance with applicable contractual and legal requirements.
15. Forum Software and Integrations
The Platform runs on MyBB forum software. Accounts, listings, private messages, notifications and moderation tools are provided by that software and the extensions we operate with it, together with service providers such as our hosting provider, our content-delivery and security network, and our email delivery provider.
Information you submit through these features is stored in the Platform's database or processed by the applicable service provider as described in this Privacy Policy.
16. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose personal information:
- To service providers
- To payment processors
- To hosting and infrastructure providers
- Where you direct us to do so
- Where necessary to facilitate a requested marketplace interaction
- To professional advisors
- To protect users or the Platform
- To investigate fraud or security incidents
- To enforce our agreements
- Where required by law
- In response to valid legal process
- In connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets
We do not disclose personal information merely because a third party requests it.
17. Sale or Transfer of the Business
If BuySellNames or substantially all of its assets are acquired, financed, reorganized, merged, or sold, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Any successor would be expected to handle applicable personal information subject to legal obligations and any commitments that continue to apply.
18. International Processing
Our service providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live.
As a result, information may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions.
Where required, we will use appropriate contractual, organizational, or legal safeguards for cross-border processing.
19. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for purposes including:
- Providing the Platform
- Maintaining accounts
- Processing listings
- Maintaining marketplace records
- Preventing fraud
- Resolving disputes
- Enforcing agreements
- Maintaining backups
- Satisfying tax, accounting, and legal obligations
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information.
Some information may remain in backups or legal records after account deletion where reasonably necessary or legally required.
20. Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your account by contacting us or using available account controls.
Deleting an account may not immediately remove:
- Previously published information copied by others
- Search-engine caches
- Legal or transaction records
- Security logs
- Information required to prevent fraud
- Information required by law
- Backup copies pending normal deletion cycles
We may anonymize certain information rather than delete it where permitted.
21. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include rights to:
- Access information
- Correct inaccurate information
- Request deletion
- Withdraw consent
- Object to certain processing
- Restrict certain processing
- Obtain information about disclosures
- Request data portability
- Lodge a complaint with an applicable authority
These rights vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to exceptions.
To exercise a privacy right, contact:
[PRIVACY EMAIL]
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
22. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.
However, no internet service is completely secure.
We cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, malware, or other security incidents will never occur.
Users are responsible for protecting their own credentials.
23. Children
BuySellNames is not intended for children who are not legally capable of entering into marketplace transactions.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children in circumstances prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe a child has improperly provided personal information, contact us.
24. Third-Party Links
The Platform may link to third-party websites.
Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
BuySellNames is not responsible for the privacy practices or security of third-party services.
25. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
The current version will display its effective or last-updated date.
Where legally required, we will provide additional notice or request consent before material changes take effect.
26. Contact
Questions or requests concerning privacy may be sent to:
BuySellNames
Privacy Contact: [NAME/TITLE]
Email: [PRIVACY EMAIL]
Address: [MAILING ADDRESS]