Effective Date: September 21, 2026
Last Updated: September 21, 2026

Blake Bowen Auctions, Inc. (“Blake Bowen Auctions,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit or use our website, participate in our auctions, register as a bidder, purchase items, consign property, contact us, or otherwise interact with our services.

By using our website or providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Depending on how you interact with Blake Bowen Auctions, we may collect information such as:

When you register for an auction, create an account, contact us, consign property, make a purchase, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect:

• Full name
• Mailing address
• Email address
• Telephone or mobile phone number
• Billing and shipping information
• Auction registration information
• Bidder or customer account information
• Information about items you consign or purchase
• Communications you send to us
• Other information you voluntarily provide

Payment information may be collected and processed by our payment processors or auction-platform providers. We may not directly store complete credit card or other payment-card information unless necessary for the transaction and permitted by applicable law.

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Pages viewed
• Date and time of visits
• Referring website
• General website usage information
• Other technical information necessary for website operation, security, and analytics

This type of information may be used to maintain website security, improve our website, understand website traffic, and improve our services.

We may use information we collect to:

• Provide and operate our auction services
• Register and manage bidder accounts
• Process bids, purchases, payments, and transactions
• Communicate with bidders, buyers, sellers, and consignors
• Provide information about auctions, listings, pickup information, invoices, and transactions
• Coordinate shipping, delivery, pickup, or other services
• Respond to questions, requests, and customer-service inquiries
• Process consignments and communicate with consignors
• Send auction announcements, newsletters, promotions, or other communications when permitted by law
• Improve our website, services, and customer experience
• Detect, prevent, and address fraud, unauthorized activity, or security issues
• Comply with legal and regulatory requirements
• Enforce our terms, policies, and agreements
• Protect the rights, property, and safety of Blake Bowen Auctions and others

When you register for or participate in an auction, information associated with your bidder account may be collected and processed by Blake Bowen Auctions and/or the third-party auction platform used to conduct the auction.

Auction-related information may include your name, contact information, bidder number, bidding activity, purchases, invoices, payment information, and other information necessary to administer the auction.

Auction records may be retained as necessary for business, accounting, legal, tax, regulatory, dispute-resolution, and recordkeeping purposes.

If you purchase property or merchandise through one of our auctions, we may collect information necessary to complete and document the transaction.

This may include your name, contact information, purchase information, payment status, invoice information, and pickup or delivery information.

We may share necessary information with payment processors, shipping companies, delivery providers, auction technology providers, or other service providers when necessary to complete your transaction.

If you consign property or assets for auction, we may collect information necessary to establish and manage your consignor relationship.

This may include your name, contact information, property information, photographs, descriptions, ownership or consignment documentation, payment information, and other information necessary to conduct the auction.

We may use this information to market and sell consigned property, communicate with you regarding the auction, process proceeds, maintain records, and fulfill legal or contractual obligations.

Our website and third-party service providers may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

These technologies may help us:

• Operate and secure our website
• Remember preferences
• Understand how visitors use our website
• Analyze website traffic
• Improve website functionality
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing

You may be able to control or disable cookies through your web browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of our website.

We may use third-party companies and service providers to help operate our business and website.

These may include providers for:

• Online auction and bidding services
• Payment processing
• Website hosting
• Website analytics
• Email and text communications
• Advertising and marketing
• Shipping and delivery
• Customer relationship management
• Fraud prevention and security

These third parties may receive information necessary to provide their services to us. Their use of information may also be governed by their own privacy policies.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services you use in connection with our auctions.

We do not sell your personal information for money.

We may disclose personal information when reasonably necessary to operate our business, including to:

• Employees and authorized representatives
• Auction-platform providers
• Payment processors
• Website and technology providers
• Shipping and delivery providers
• Professional advisers
• Marketing and communication providers
• Government agencies or law-enforcement authorities when legally required
• Other parties when necessary to protect our rights, property, customers, or business

We may also disclose information when necessary to comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, or other lawful request.

If you provide your email address or telephone number, we may use it to communicate with you regarding auctions, purchases, consignments, account information, services, or other business-related matters.

Where permitted by law, we may also send promotional communications, including auction announcements, newsletters, and special offers.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the communication.

For text messages, you may opt out by following the instructions provided in the message or by contacting us directly.

Please note that even if you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send transactional or service-related communications when necessary, such as information regarding an auction you have registered for, a purchase, payment, invoice, or other transaction.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information electronically is completely secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We encourage users to take reasonable precautions to protect their account information and passwords.

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, provide our services, maintain business and transaction records, resolve disputes, comply with legal or regulatory obligations, and enforce our agreements.

The length of time information is retained may vary depending on the type of information and the circumstances in which it was collected.

Our website and auction services are not directed toward children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through our website. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us using the information provided below.

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, including auction platforms, payment services, social-media websites, shipping providers, or other websites.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party website you visit.

Blake Bowen Auctions may maintain accounts or pages on third-party social-media platforms.

If you interact with us through social media, information you provide may be collected and used by the applicable social-media platform according to its own privacy policy.

We may also use social-media platforms to advertise our auctions and services.

Depending on applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the ability to:

• Request information about the personal information we maintain about you
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion of certain information
• Opt out of certain marketing communications
• Ask questions about how your information is collected or used

Some information may be exempt from deletion or access requests when we are required or permitted by law to retain it, or when it is necessary for legitimate business purposes.

To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the information below.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our business, website, services, technology, or applicable laws.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Your continued use of our website after an updated Privacy Policy is posted means that you acknowledge the updated policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, please contact us:

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Disclaimer: This Privacy Policy is provided as a general website privacy-policy template and is not legal advice. Blake Bowen Auctions, Inc. should review and customize this policy to accurately reflect its actual website, auction platform, payment processors, marketing practices, text-message practices, cookies/analytics, and applicable federal and state requirements before publishing it.