Cookies are small data files placed on your computer device. The data stored in the cookie is retrieved by the website to notify us your previous activity. Web beacons or pixel tags are small electronic image placed on a web site, typically used in combination with cookies, that allow us to know if you have viewed particular page or image.

We use cookies and web beacons, sometimes in together with each other, to provide certain features and services, such as:

• Promoting and enforcing trust and safety

• Allowing you to enter your password less frequently

• Remembering your preferences

• Presenting information that’s targeted to your interests

• Measuring the effectiveness of our sites, services, content, and advertising

• Facilitating conversation threads and other services on discussion boards (these cookies are placed by our board service providers)

• Providing other services and features that are available only through the use of cookies

• Monitor the traffic patterns of users from one eBay page to another and to improve site performance.

Our Use of Cookies and Web Beacons

We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies. You are always free to decline cookies if your web browser permits. However, if you decline cookies, you may not be able to use certain eBay features, and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a session. You should consult the help section of your browser software or browser ad-on technology for the specific instructions on blocking, deleting, tracking or disabling cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you log out of your account or close your browser. Persistent cookies remain in your browser.

We use Flash cookies, which are cookies written with Flash technology, to help ensure that your account security is not compromised and to spot irregularities in behavior to prevent your account from being fraudulently taken over.

We protect our cookies so that only we can interpret them by assigning them a unique identifier that can only be interpreted by us.

Service Providers

We work with other companies, known as service providers, who may place cookies or web beacons on our websites. These service providers help us operate our websites and provide you with additional products and services. eBay does not permit any of these service providers to collect personal information using cookies or web beacons on our websites. These service providers may use cookies or web beacons to help us deliver our own content and compile anonymous web site metrics and analytics. These service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with eBay and other legal restrictions on their use of any personal information.

We participate in cookie-based ad networks and exchanges operated by Yahoo, Blue Kai and Google. Although these companies use some anonymous information about you to display ads, we do not permit these companies to collect any personal information about you. Blue Kai and Google use cookies to collect anonymous information, which may be used to tailor the advertising you see on the eBay sites or elsewhere on the web. Yahoo may also use anonymous information we send them to display ads on our sites. Yahoo may also use anonymous information about its own users to select ads to serve on our pages. Click these links to learn more about Yahoo’s, Advertising.com's, Blue Kai’s and Google’s business practices and privacy policies, including how to decline participation in these programs.

Other Third Parties

We do not permit third-party content on eBay (such as item listings) to include cookies or web beacons. If you believe a listing might be collecting personal information or using cookies, please report it to spam@eBay.com.