BidBuyZoomCatalog

Terms of Use

Effective date: November 11, 2026

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of catalog.bidbuyzoom.com and the BBZ Catalog tools and services (the “Service”). The Service is operated by Ablepro, Inc. d/b/a BBZ Catalog (“BBZ Catalog,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By creating an account or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service for a company or other organization, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms for that organization.

1. Who may use the Service

You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into a binding agreement to use the Service. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials secure and for activity under your account. Tell us promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without permission.

2. The Service

BBZ Catalog provides tools to create, organize, edit, and export auction catalog information. Features may include AI-assisted writing, photo uploads, catalog spreadsheets, imports, bulk editing, and downloads for use with third-party auction platforms.

We may change, add, or discontinue features. We will make reasonable efforts to keep the Service available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation.

3. Your content and responsibilities

You retain ownership of the photos, catalog data, and other content you submit (“Your Content”). You are responsible for Your Content and for confirming that you have the rights and permissions needed to upload and use it.

You give BBZ Catalog permission to host, reproduce, process, modify, and transmit Your Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, and support the Service, including generating AI-assisted content and creating exports you request, and, for catalogs you choose to publish, as described in section 6.

You agree not to upload or use content that:

  • Infringes another person’s intellectual-property, privacy, or other rights.
  • Is unlawful, fraudulent, or misleading.
  • Contains sensitive personal information that is not needed for cataloging.
  • Disrupts the Service, attempts unauthorized access, or introduces malicious code.

You are responsible for reviewing your catalogs and keeping copies of important information and exports.

Photo storage. Ablepro, Inc. reserves the right to set a time limit for photo storage and to implement fees.

4. AI-generated content

AI features can generate titles, descriptions, categories, condition notes, estimates, or other suggestions based on information you provide. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or unsuitable for a particular item.

You must review and approve AI-generated content before relying on it, publishing it, or using it in an auction. BBZ Catalog does not authenticate items, appraise property, verify condition, or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of AI output.

You are responsible for auction listings, estimates, starting bids, item descriptions, and compliance with the rules of the auction platforms where you use exported content.

5. Third-party platforms and exports

The Service may create files or formats for use with BidBuyZoom, HiBid, LiveAuctioneers, or other third-party services. Those platforms are not controlled by BBZ Catalog. We do not guarantee that an export will be accepted by a third party or remain compatible with its systems, which may change.

Your use of a third-party platform is subject to that platform’s own terms and policies.

6. Public catalog pages and free marketing

Publishing a catalog is optional. Your catalogs stay private to your company until you publish them.

Free marketing. Publishing is free. A published catalog gets its own public page showing its public lots with their photos and descriptions, your company name, and, if you add them, your company website, the sale date, and a link to where bidders can bid. Published catalogs may also be listed on BBZ Catalog’s public catalog pages and on our related site BidBuySmart (bidbuysmart.com), including on your company’s BidBuySmart directory listing, and may be included in sitemaps so search engines such as Google can find them. We may match your company to its directory listing by its website or name. We do not charge for this, and we do not promise any number of views, visitors, bidders, or sales.

What is shown. Only lots that are switched on for the public page and have a title are shown. Consignor numbers, reserves, retail values, Buy Now prices, shipping amounts, sold prices, buyers, notes, and fields you mark private are not shown. You are responsible for checking what you publish, including photos that show things you do not want public, such as faces, addresses, or serial numbers.

Permission to show your catalog. By publishing a catalog, you confirm that you have the rights needed to publish its photos, descriptions, and other content, and you give BBZ Catalog and BidBuySmart a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide permission to host, display, reproduce, resize, and distribute it on those sites, in search results and link previews, and in sitemaps, for as long as it is published. This permission ends when you take the catalog down, except for copies that remain for a time in search engines or other sites’ caches, which we do not control, and in our backups until they are removed in the normal course.

Past sales stay up. A published catalog stays public after its sale date, shown as a past sale, until you take it down.

Taking a catalog down. You can take a catalog down at any time by returning it to Draft or archiving it. Its public address then shows a page saying the catalog is no longer available, with your company name and website. You can also switch individual lots off the public page.

Our right to remove. We may hide any published catalog or lot from the public pages, with or without notice, if we believe it breaks these Terms or the law, if we receive a complaint about it, or if it could harm others or the Service. When a company’s account is turned off, its catalogs are removed from the public pages.

Sales and bidding. BBZ Catalog and BidBuySmart only display your catalog. Bidding, sale terms, payment, pickup, shipping, and the items themselves are between your company and its bidders and buyers. You are responsible for the accuracy of what you publish and for following the laws and auction platform rules that apply to your sale.

Page views. We count visits to your public catalog pages and show you the totals. The counts are estimates and leave out known automated visitors such as search engine robots.

7. Pricing, payments, and refunds

Current prices, free allowances, lot packs, and promotional offers are shown on the Service or at checkout. Prices and offers may change for future purchases. A price change will not alter a completed purchase.

Paid features and lot credits may be processed by Stripe or another payment provider shown at checkout. You authorize the applicable provider to charge your selected payment method for purchases you make. Payment-provider terms and privacy practices also apply.

Unless a specific offer states otherwise, purchases are for the catalog features or credits described at checkout. Fees are nonrefundable except where required by law or expressly stated by us. If you believe you were charged incorrectly, contact us through the site’s Contact link.

8. Your account and cancellation

You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend or terminate an account if you materially violate these Terms, create a security risk, fail to pay applicable charges, or use the Service unlawfully.

Before closing your account, export any catalogs or content you wish to keep. After termination, we may delete account information and Your Content in accordance with our Privacy Policy and applicable law.

9. BBZ Catalog’s intellectual property

The Service, including its software, design, branding, and documentation, is owned by BBZ Catalog or its licensors and is protected by applicable intellectual-property laws. We grant you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the Service for your business or personal auction-cataloging purposes, subject to these Terms.

You may not copy, sell, sublicense, reverse engineer, or exploit the Service except as allowed by law or with our written permission.

10. Feedback

If you send suggestions or feedback, you allow us to use them to improve the Service without compensation or obligation to you.

11. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BBZ CATALOG DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

We do not guarantee that the Service will meet every requirement, that AI output will be accurate, that files will be accepted by third-party platforms, or that the Service will be uninterrupted or free of errors.

12. Limitation of liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BBZ CATALOG WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICE.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BBZ CATALOG’S TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS RELATED TO THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO BBZ CATALOG FOR THE SERVICE IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (B) US $100.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some parts of this section may not apply to you.

13. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to defend and indemnify BBZ Catalog and its employees, officers, and agents against third-party claims, losses, and reasonable costs arising from Your Content, your misuse of the Service, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights.

14. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Mississippi, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any legal action relating to these Terms or the Service must be brought in a state or federal court located in Mississippi, unless applicable law requires another location.

15. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will post the updated Terms on this page and revise the effective date. If you continue using the Service after the updated Terms take effect, you agree to the revised Terms. If you do not agree, stop using the Service.

16. General terms

If a court finds part of these Terms unenforceable, the remaining sections will remain in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. These Terms, together with any terms shown at checkout or in a specific offer, form the agreement between you and BBZ Catalog regarding the Service.

Contact us

For questions about these Terms, use the Contact link on catalog.bidbuyzoom.com.