We, DealersOnlineUSA.com®, have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site (the "Site"). By accessing our Site, you consent to the collection and use of information by us. We will use any information we collect from you in accordance with our then-current version of this privacy statement. If we decide to change our privacy statement, we will post a new statement on our Site and update the statement date. Therefore, we encourage you to check the date of our privacy statement whenever you visit this Site to check if it has been updated.
Personally Identifying Information
Our Site provides consumers and vendors with information related to the buying and selling of vehicles; information related to the services of vehicle manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, financial institutions, and the like; information related to services you may be seeking; and connects buyers, sellers and others who desire to buy, sell or otherwise provide vehicle-related services. In order to provide these services, we collect information from consumers and use it for database and referral purposes and for forwarding to vehicle manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, financial institutions and other service providers who use the consumer's information to provide various products and services.
If you are a consumer or user of our services, we collect personally identifying information, including your name(s), address(es), phone number(s), e-mail address(es), and other personal information about you. If you submit credit card information it is received over an industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL). We use credit card information only to bill you for products and services you order from us and do not share it with anyone, except as may be necessary to process your transactions or comply with law.
If you are an industry-related product or service provider, who is in a business arrangement with us, we collect your contact and company information, including your name, company, address, phone number, e-mail address and general marketing information.
Regardless of whether you are a consumer, vehicle manufacturer, vehicle dealership, financial institution, or other business-related product or service vendor, information that identifies you personally is collected from our Site only if you supply it voluntarily by entering it on our Site. Additionally, we may collect information independent of this site from you to be merged with the information appearing on our site, but only if you supply it voluntarily to us by e-mail, facsimile, mail, phone or other means.
E-mail Addresses
We collect e-mail addresses as part of providing services. We will forward, exchange, and otherwise transmit emails between consumers, vehicle manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, financial institutions, or other business-related product or service vendors for valid business enterprise reasons. Emails sent to DealersOnlineUSA.com® are not private, nor is personal information entered into the DealersOnlineUSA.com® web site and we and other vendors and service providers will from time to time send you notices, promotional and informational communications, customer service information, and advertisements. By using this web site you are giving express permission to send you emails promoting products and services and you may opt-out at any time by sending a request to info@dealersonlineusa.com. Except as described in this policy, we will not disclose your e-mail address to any third party without your consent.
Aggregate Information
We collect aggregate information about you and your use of our services, including information about your computer configuration and your IP address. Such aggregate information includes, without limitation, site traffic, page views and impressions. This aggregate information may be correlated for our internal use only. However, we may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, sell or otherwise disclose or use any and all aggregate information, provided that, such information does not personally identify you.
Cookies
We currently use cookies to identify users and customize their experience on our site based on information they give us. Cookies are small pieces of information or files that are stored on a user's computer by the Web server through a user's browser for record keeping purposes. A cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any information from your computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather, it is an identifier used by the Web site that originally placed it in your hard drive. The actual contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same sites Web server in order to personalize, monitor or regulate the use of the site.
Use of Data
Personal information that you send to DealersOnlineUSA.com® or enter into the web site is not private and is used for various purposes, including customer service and for vehicle manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, financial institutions, or other business-related product or service vendors to send you promotional information. Your email address and your personal information is forwarded to, and used by, vehicle manufacturers, vehicle dealerships, financial institutions, or other business-related product or service vendors who may contact you by e-mail, telephone or by other means in order to provide you with their services, as well as other internet advertising and marketing.
We do not regulate how these third parties use your information and are not responsible for removing your information from any third party lists. Please contact the third party service providers directly to be removed from their lists.
Except as stated above, we do not disclose, sell, rent, loan, trade or lease any personal information collected at our Site to any other party. Please note that we reserve the right to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or by regulation to any responsible regulatory agencies, or if disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, respond to claims, or to protect rights, property or safety of our company, its employees, customers or the public.
Links
Our Site provides links to outside service providers or affiliates who may collect customer information for their own use. We have no ability to control the privacy and data collection practices of these sites. Please refer to the linked sites for a review of their privacy policies.
Security
We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain personally identifying information to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction by any unauthorized party. However, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable and do not guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that any information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. All information in vehicle listings is available to anyone with internet access.
Children
We do not intend, and this site is not designed, to collect personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years old, you should not register for or otherwise engage in our services.
Questions or Concerns
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact: Customer Service, DealersOnlineUSA.com®, at info@dealersonlineusa.com
This is our Privacy Statement containing information that applies to this web site and services offered herein. Last Update 7/1/2004.
