DEALERSHIP
WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
Easy Auto Credit Help.com's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of its users and recognize the importance of protecting the personal information it collects about its users. Easy Auto Credit Help.com would like to assure its users that this privacy policy meets the requirements of the various privacy laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
YOUR USER INFORMATION
All personal information collected
at www.EasyAutoCreditHelp (the “Web Site”) by Easy Auto Credit Help.com
and/or its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, affiliated companies and/or
promotional partners or agencies (collectively, "Easy Auto Credit Help.com")
will be utilized primarily for internal purposes with the goal of enhancing the
user’s online experience.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com collects
information in several ways including, without limitation, primarily the
following:
(1) Some personal information is
gathered when you register to participate in or receive information via
electronic mail or otherwise about: automobiles in general, your automobile,
automobile insurance, general and personal automobile maintenance, general and
personal finance, general and personal credit, automobile dealerships, quotes,
research, statistics, advice, Web sites, games, contests, sweepstakes,
promotional events and/or any other event that takes place on the Web
Site. During such registration, Easy
Auto Credit Help.com may ask for information such as, without limitation, a
user’s name, electronic mail address, birth date, gender, zip code and
country, and other optional information that may be particular to that
registration process;
(2) Easy Auto Credit Help.com collects
information on its users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on
the information provided to Easy Auto Credit Help.com from the registration
described in (1) above, from Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
server log files, from surveys, from cookies (see below) and from IP addresses
(see below). Easy Auto Credit Help.com
does this to better understand and serve its users. This collected information/research is
generally compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis;
(3) For reasons such as improving
personalization of Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
service, Easy Auto Credit Help.com might collect information about its users
from other sources and add it to Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
account information; and
(4) Easy Auto Credit Help.com also
sometimes collects updated delivery and address information from its shippers
or other sources so that Easy Auto Credit Help.com can correct its records and
deliver or communicate more easily.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com uses
and/or discloses collected information in several ways, including, without
limitation, primarily the following:
(1) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may use
electronic mail addresses or other personally identifiable information to
contact users who directly communicate with Easy Auto Credit Help.com, to,
among other things, fulfill prizes, track/verify compliance with Easy Auto
Credit Help.com policies as well as federal, state, local and other laws,
and/or to solicit editorial comments and feedback. For example, Easy Auto Credit Help.com may
use such information to notify users that they have won a game, contest or
sweepstakes or to provide a requested electronic mail newsletter or provide
other requested information;
(2) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may match
aggregated user information with third party data in order to better serve the
interests of its users;
(3) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may
disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe Easy Auto Credit Help.com's services to prospective partners, advertisers
and third parties and for other lawful purposes, in order to, among other
things, make better alliances and provide a better user experience on the Web
Site;
(4) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may use a
user’s personally identifiable information for editorial purposes. For example, Easy Auto Credit Help.com may
use information provided by a user to Easy Auto Credit Help.com as part of an
online survey conducted by Easy Auto Credit Help.com;
(5) Unless a user tells Easy Auto Credit
Help.com that he/she would prefer not to receive electronic mail from Easy Auto
Credit Help.com, Easy Auto Credit Help.com may use collected personal
information to send you electronic mail about Easy Auto Credit Help.com's and/or other companies’ products,
promotions or services. A user may
choose not to provide certain information, but then that user might not be able
to take advantage of many of Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
features;
(6) In some instances, collected
personal information may also be used by Easy Auto Credit Help.com for
additional marketing and promotional purposes relating to the Web Site or
other properties;
(7) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may use
cookies and IP addresses as set forth in more detail below; and
(8) Easy Auto Credit Help.com may disclose user information to third parties when Easy Auto Credit Help.com has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Easy Auto Credit Help.com's rights or property, other Web Site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Easy Auto Credit Help.com may disclose user information when Easy Auto Credit Help.com believes in good faith that the law requires it.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com may use
agents to carry out its activities:
Easy Auto Credit Help.com may employ
other companies and individuals to perform functions on its behalf. Examples include, without limitation,
fulfilling orders, sending postal mail and electronic mail, removing repetitive
information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing
assistance, delivering packages and providing customer service. They may have access to personal information
needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Other than as set forth above, it is
Easy Auto Credit Help.com's current policy not to
share any personally identifiable information provided by users with other
third parties, unless specified at the time of collection or with the
user’s consent.
NOTICE:
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LINKS
Users should be aware that when they are on any portion of the Web Site, they
could be directed to other Web sites and/or Online
materials that are beyond Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
control. There are links to other Web sites from this Web Site that take users
outside Easy Auto Credit Help.com's service. For
example, if users "click" on a banner advertisement, the
"click" takes users off the Web Site. This includes links from
advertisers, sponsors, and partners that may include Easy Auto Credit Help.com's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These
other Web sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit
personal information and have their own privacy policies. To ensure the protection of its users’
privacy while on the Web Site, Easy Auto Credit Help.com will make an effort to
provide a notice and a link to this privacy policy on all pages where
personally identifying information is collected.
Users should keep in mind that whenever they give out personal information
Online – for example, via message boards or chat rooms – that
information could be collected and used by people that users do not know. While
Easy Auto Credit Help.com strives to protect users’ personal information
and privacy, Easy Auto Credit Help.com cannot guarantee the security of any
information users disclose Online, and users do so at their own risk.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com's policy does not extend to
anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet or any Online
technology, and therefore beyond Easy Auto Credit Help.com's
control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or
governmental regulation.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN
THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com does not knowingly collect information from children
thirteen (13) years of age or younger.
If you are under thirteen (13), do not send any information about
yourself to Easy Auto Credit Help.com, including, information like your name,
address and/or electronic mail address. Easy
Auto Credit Help.com encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with
their children and to supervise their children’s activities on Easy Auto
Credit Help.com's sites. Easy Auto Credit Help.com
alerts parents that this Web Site features content exploring mature themes not
appropriate for children. This Web Site is not a Web site directed to children
under the age of 13. Easy Auto Credit Help.com suggests that parents consider
using parental control tools available from Online services and software
manufacturers that may help ensure a child friendly Online environment and help
direct their children to suitable, child-oriented Web sites. Further, Easy Auto
Credit Help.com request that all users to the Web Site that are under the age
of 13 not disclose or provide any personal information on this Web Site. In the event that Easy Auto Credit Help.com
discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided Easy Auto Credit Help.com
with his or her personal information, Easy Auto Credit Help.com will
immediately delete the child’s personal information from its system.
Because Easy Auto Credit Help.com does not knowingly collect such information, Easy
Auto Credit Help.com does not knowingly provide any personally identifying
information from its users under 13 years of age,
regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. Easy Auto Credit Help.com also does not
knowingly allow users under 13 years of age to be listed in any member
directory or to receive direct marketing communications from Easy Auto Credit
Help.com or to be sent third-party offers.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual’s
hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for the
user by saving the user’s preferences while the user is at the Web Site. Easy
Auto Credit Help.com never saves passwords or credit card information in
cookies.
By showing how and when users use a Web site, cookies help Easy Auto Credit
Help.com see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to this Web
Site are based on such data as total number of users and pages viewed. This
information is most easily tracked with cookies. Easy Auto Credit Help.com uses
the information from cookies to provide services better tailored to this Web
Site’s users.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that’s automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers – the big computers that "serve up" Web
pages – automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
Easy Auto Credit Help.com may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system
administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to
audit the use of our site. When users request pages from this Web Site, our
servers log the users’ IP addresses. Easy Auto Credit Help.com does not
normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means
that a user’s session will be logged but the user remains anonymous to
us. Easy Auto Credit Help.com can and will use IP addresses to identify a user
when Easy Auto Credit Help.com feels it is necessary to enforce compliance with
our house rules, terms of service, any law or regulation or to protect our
service, Web Site, customers, or others.
Some services within the Web Site, such as certain message boards, may display
IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Please review each service prior to use and only use those that
disclose information you are comfortable with sharing.
SECURITY
The importance of privacy and
security for all personally identifiable information associated with users is
of utmost concern to Easy Auto Credit Help.com. Easy Auto Credit Help.com
exercises great care in providing secure transmission of users’
information from the users’ personal computer to Easy Auto Credit Help.com's servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Easy
Auto Credit Help.com strives to protect users personal
information, Easy Auto Credit Help.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of
any information users transmit to Easy Auto Credit Help.com or from Easy Auto
Credit Help.com's Online products or services, and
users do so at their own risk. Once Easy Auto Credit Help.com receives
users’ transmission, Easy Auto Credit Help.com makes its best effort to
ensure the transmission’s security on Easy Auto Credit Help.com's systems. If credit card information is
transmitted, Easy Auto Credit Help.com uses industry standard, SSL (secure
socket layer) encryption.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By using this Web Site, users assent to this privacy policy. If users do not agree to this privacy policy, users must not use this or any of Easy Auto Credit Help.com's Web sites. Easy Auto Credit Help.com reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy policy at any time, so users are encouraged to review this policy from time to time. Users’ continued use of this Web Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean users’ acceptance of those changes.