We’ve made changes to the eBay User Agreement (UK User Agreement | Ireland User Agreement) and eBay Privacy Policy (UK Privacy Policy | Ireland Privacy Policy).  These are effective immediately for new members and on 13 August 2008 for existing members.

If you accept the new User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you don't need to take any action. If you do not wish to accept the new User Agreement or Privacy Policy, please refer to our Help pages for instructions on how to close your eBay account.

Here’s a quick summary of the changes:

User Agreement updates

The primary changes to the User Agreement are:

New catalogue services
The agreement’s content and liability sections have been revised to accommodate new features that may give sellers catalogues of content and product descriptions, so they can easily include complete and up-to-date product information for the items they list.

Fee withdrawal from PayPal for fees overdue by 180 days
eBay will take fees that are overdue using a PayPal withdrawal if the balance has been overdue for 180 days and our other collection efforts have been unsuccessful. If eBay withdraws late fees, this will not alter the status of a seller’s PayPal account or funds remaining after the withdrawal.

Privacy Policy updates
We’ve made a few changes to the policy that allow us to offer new services, better tailor the services we provide, and help make our site safer.

Combating Fraud
We're increasing our efforts to combat fraud on the site with a variety of programmes which allow us to address malicious activities using our message systems, or to better authenticate you if you’re using an unfamiliar computer to prevent fraudsters from abusing your account. We're also making sure our disclosures about cooperating with law enforcement agencies allow us to respond in a timely manner to increasingly sophisticated fraudsters and criminals.

Streamlining Services
We’ve made some changes to the Disclosure section to allow our Customer Support team to help you with questions that also relate to our other companies, and streamline your use of the services provided by multiple members of the eBay corporate family. Some of our new programmes also mean you'll see eBay services and content in a lot of places (not just on the site), so we've made some changes to clarify where our policies apply.

Customising Your eBay Experience
You'll be able to sign in and change your advertising preferences in My eBay at any time using a new setting called AdChoice. In some cases, we may also use information from other companies to select the right audiences for our promotions. In the revised Privacy Policy (UK Privacy Policy | Ireland Privacy Policy), you’ll see a new Marketing section that describes in more detail our collection and use of information for these and all our marketing programmes.

Thanks for using eBay.

Regards,

The eBay Team