Privacy Policy

We collect what we need to run the archive and your account, nothing to advertise to you, and we never sell it. There are no advertising trackers. We count page visits anonymously, without cookies, to see which parts of the site are used. You can delete your account and its data yourself at any time.

• Your account: email address, optional name, and a one-way hash of your password (never the password itself). If you sign in with Google: your Google account id, email and name as Google shares them.
• What you do here: the searches you run, the listings you value, the items you save, and sign-ins and outbound clicks — to show you your history and to keep the service working and fair.
• Without an account: to apply the limits on free use we count requests per connection using a salted, one-way fingerprint of your IP address; the address itself is not stored for this.
• Feedback you send: your message, the page you sent it from, and the email address and name if you give them, so we can act on it and reply. We keep it until it has been dealt with and for our records after.
• Technical logs: our hosting providers keep standard server logs (including IP addresses) for security and troubleshooting, for a short time.

One cookie keeps you signed in (it holds a random token; we store only its hash). A short-lived cookie protects the “Continue with Google” step. That is all — no advertising, tracking or analytics cookies. Visit counts (below) use no cookies at all.

• Vercel (website hosting) and Hetzner (database, Germany).
• Vercel Web Analytics (anonymous visit counts: the page’s path without its query, the referring site, and your browser, device type and country; no cookies, nothing that identifies you, IP addresses not stored).
• Vercel BotID (on the sign-up and feedback forms only: checks, from signals your browser sends when you submit, that a person and not an automated script is sending it).
• Resend (sending account emails such as confirmations and password resets, and passing feedback on to us).
• Google (only if you choose “Continue with Google”).
• OpenAI (reads the listing you ask us to value; no account details are sent).

Each handles data only to provide its service to us.

Account data is kept while your account exists. When you delete your account, your account details, saved items and sign-in sessions are removed straight away; anonymous usage totals may be kept without anything that identifies you.

You can see your saved items and history on your account page, and delete your account there. To ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or anything else under Canada's privacy law (PIPEDA) or the law where you live, write to info@patersonauctioneers.com.

The archive is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

We will update this page when what we collect changes; the date above shows the latest version.