Change your privacy options
Learn about your privacy on Trade Me and how to change your privacy options.
Learn about your privacy on Trade Me and how to change your privacy options.
Your privacy
We care about your privacy and are committed to being transparent with how information about you is used and shared.
Any use and disclosure of your personal information will be in accordance with our privacy policy or any customisable settings you've chosen in any of our services.
What happens when you opt-in or opt-out of our 'privacy option'
It's up to you whether you want to opt-in or opt-out.
When you're opted in
When opted in, Trade Me can use and disclose your information:
- to show you, and allow others to show you, relevant third-party advertising both on Trade Me and off-site
- to advertise Trade Me services to you off-site
- to trusted third parties using Trade Me tailored products, subject to any customised settings you may have selected
- to providers of Trade Me affiliated services.
When you're opted out
When opted out, some of the functionality of Trade Me services and Trade Me affiliated services may be reduced, including:
- the third-party advertising you see may be less relevant to you
- we will not create an account for you in any Trade Me affiliated service, or use or disclose information that could identify you to any such service without your consent.
If you've got a Trade Me Jobs Profile and you opt out of allowing your personal information to be used or disclosed for a tailored product via our 'Privacy options' page, you'll still need to change your Job Profile settings if you want to restrict the information that's available to job recruiters via our candidate database service. You can change what's visible by adjusting between full, limited and hidden.
Change your privacy options
You can opt out of some uses and disclosures of your personal information. Changes to your privacy options may take up to 24 hours to take effect.
To change your privacy options on the new-look site:
1. Go to My Trade Me.
2. Select Settings from the left-side menu.
3. Under 'Profile' and 'Privacy options' switch on or off Opt in. If you can see the check mark, you're opted in.
To change your email address on the iOS app:
1. Go to My Trade Me.
2. Select profile-framed Profile & Account.
3. Under 'My Account', select Settings.
4. Select Privacy options.
5. Switch on or off Opt in. If you can see blue, you're opted in.
To change your email address on the Android app:
1. Go to My Trade Me.
2. Select profile-framed Profile & Account.
3. Under 'My Account', select Settings.
4. Select Privacy options.
5. Switch on or off Opt in. If you can see blue, you're opted in.