SCOPE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
At usedcars.com we take privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy describes our policies for handling the information about you that we collect and receive through this website. You can visit usedcars.com without revealing who you are or providing any personal information about yourself. By using this website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to practices of businesses that we do not own or control or people we do not employ.
In addition, this website may contain links to other websites, such as automotive research, financing or insurance websites, and we are not responsible for the content, policies or privacy practices of such websites.
Usedcars.com is a Participant in the TRUSTe Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to advance privacy and trust in the networked world. As this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices monitored for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us at usedcars@dealix.com. If you do not receive acknowledgment of your inquiry, or if your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Information You Submit to Us
At usedcars.com, we introduce used car shoppers like you to used car retailers, retail networks or financing companies. We collect information that you submit to us through this website ("Submitted Information"), including personal information you may submit to us in connection with requesting an automobile price quote, financing or insurance, responding to surveys or contacting us by email. Submitted Information typically includes name, address, and phone numbers, email address, and may also include information regarding potential trade-in vehicles, employer and employment status, social security number, residence information, bankruptcy status, date of birth, household income and availability of a cosigner.
Passively Collected Information
As you browse our website we collect certain information about your visit and your Internet activities through the use of cookies, web beacons and from your browser. This information does not consist of personally identifiable information, but includes your browsing history on this site or certain other sites, your IP address, browser type and other information.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We do use cookies on this site. We do not link the information we store in cookies to personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies. Browsers usually provide the option to disable this feature. We use cookies in the event it creates a better user experience.
Third-Party Cookies and Web Beacons
We use a third-party service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate to track usage and volume statistics. We have no access or control of these third party cookies.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here:
http://www.advertising.com/Privacy.html
http://www.networkadvertising.org/
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you provide us with Submitted Information in connection with a used car price quote or financing request, we will forward your Submitted Information in one of the following ways:
- Directly to one of our participating automobile dealers who is selling the used car you have requested information about;
- To one of our business partners (generally an automobile manufacturer or another network of participating automobile dealers) who will then forward your Submitted Information on to the automobile dealer selling the used car you have requested information about; or
To one of our business partners who can respond to your request for information about automobile financing or insurance (we do not provide financing or insurance directly, but instead transmit those requests to third-party vendors for consideration). In addition to directly or indirectly forwarding your Submitted Information to an automobile dealer, we may use your Submitted Information in the following ways:
- We may use your information for internal purposes unrelated to any transaction, such as to help improve our website, better understand our customers' needs or to develop new offerings in which you may be interested;
- We may aggregate your personal information with information from other visitors to prepare reports (that do not include personally identifying information) on site usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or distribution to others; and
The company does not share, sell, rent or trade your PII with third parties for promotional purposes except as described in this policy.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SITE
You will receive communications from our partners regarding the information you specifically request information from us that we submitted to them.
You may obtain a survey from us by email after submitting your information. You will be able to opt-out of receiving future surveys from usedcars.com by clicking unsubscribe on the bottom of the email.
LEGAL DISCLOSURE
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site
TELL-A-FRIEND
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Usedcars.com does not store this information.
Your friend may contact us at usedcars@dealix.com to request that we remove this information from our database.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we, usedcars.com are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
YOUR CONSENT
Prior to providing us with any of your Submitted Information you can change your mind and cancel the submission by exiting the website. Once you submit your information to us through our website we may use it for any of the purposes mentioned above without first obtaining your consent. You do not have the choice of opting out, or requesting that we do not use your information, for any of the purposes mentioned above once you submit it to us. If you submit an application or request information about financing or insurance, you expressly authorize us and our third party partners to contact you in connection with each such request regardless of whether or not the number you provide us is listed on a "Do Not Call" list.
ACCESS
If you would like to access and update your PII to correct or update inaccuracies, please log onto the site and re-populate the form to modify your information and resubmit your request.
Should you want to modify information previously provided, please contact us.
INFORMATION SECURITY
We maintain industry standard physical, electronic and other procedural safeguards to comply with applicable privacy laws to guard your nonpublic personal information. We also assess new technology for protecting sensitive customer information on an ongoing basis. When we forward your Submitted Information to an automobile dealer in our network, we ask that dealer to commit to use your Submitted Information only to respond to your request for information. However, please note that when you Submitted Information is forwarded to an automobile dealer or other third party provider, your information is no longer under our control will be handled according to the security and privacy policies of that dealer or third party provider which may differ from ours.
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
OTHER INFORMATION
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or privacy policies, please feel free to contact us. You can also reach us by writing us at Dealix Corporation, 720 Bay Road, Suite 200, Redwood City, CA 94063.