AutoSeekAndSell.com respects the privacy of visitors to our website.
Please read this Privacy Statement carefully so that you understand
what information we collect through our website and what we do with
that information. If you have questions about this Privacy Statement,
please customerservice@autoseekandsell.com.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending
any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses,
and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. Our website
is not directed at children under 13 and we won't knowingly allow anyone
under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information; if you're
under 13, please don't provide any information about yourself on this
website.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information
supplied by visitors to the site when they list a car for sale, new
car price quote, auto finance quote, perform a search, enter a sweepstakes
or other promotional contest, or initiate a transaction, and (2) tracking
information gathered as visitors navigate through our website and review
our email newsletters and other email messages. Third-party providers
featured on or linked to by our website, such as vendors of products
and services offered through our site by third parties, may be gathering
information, as well, through processes we don't control.
Searches and Listings To make use of certain features on our
site, visitors need to provide limited information about themselves
and their interests so that we can tailor the information we provide
to their needs. For example, to help you find the car you want close
to home, we need to know what kind of car you're looking for and your
state, metro or zip code. We may ask you to provide this information
when you perform a search. We use this information to help you find
the car you're looking for. If you find a listing that interests you
and elect to send the seller an email through our website, we'll share
with the seller the contact information you supply through our online
form. If you call a dealer to inquire about a car listed on our site,
we may provide the dealer with the date, time, and duration of your
call, as well as the number from which the call originated. When you
list a car for sale, we ask for information on the car and on how you
can be contacted by potential buyers. We also ask for your credit card
number and the expiration date on your card. We use this information
to create your listing and to process your payment.
Sweepstakes and Other Promotions From time to time, we may
offer sweepstakes or other promotions on our website. If you enter a
sweepstakes or promotional contest, we'll ask you to provide information
about yourself (such as your name, address, and email address). Among
other things, we'll need this information to contact you if you win.
We may share this information with any co-sponsor of the contest or
sweepstakes, which we'll identify in the contest rules. If you don't
want us to collect the information requested in the contest or sweepstakes
registration form or to provide it to co-sponsors, please do not enter
the contest or sweepstakes.
Email Addresses If you provide us your email address, we'll
send you our monthly newsletter, and, from time to time, offers we think
may be of interest to you. Though we hope you'll find these informative
and useful, if you don't, you can always unsubscribe by following the
simple instructions included in each email. And you can opt out of receiving
the newsletter or other emails at all by indicating, when you list a
car for sale or inquire about a car listed on our website, that you'd
prefer not to get our newsletter or receive these offers.
Cookies To help us tailor our website to the needs and interests
of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by
placing a cookie, a small entry in text file, on your hard drive. The
cookie contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you've
visited. We aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other
users to track overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information
to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our
users. We also use cookies to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly
during a single visit to our site. Cookies don't reveal personal information;
the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply yourself. Cookies can't read unrelated data off your hard drive.
Our advertisers and those who provide products and/or services through
our site may also assign their own cookies, a process we don't control.
We don't have access to these cookies or to any information they contain.
The help function on most web browsers contains information on how to
set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable
cookies entirely. However, if you don't accept cookies, you won't be
able to take advantage of various features on our site that are available
to other visitors.
Browser Level Information Our web server automatically collects
limited information about your computer configuration when you visit
our site, including the type of browser software you use, the operating
system you're running, the resolution of your computer monitor, the
website that referred you, and your IP address. (Your IP address is
a numerical address that is used by computers connected to the Internet
to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you want
to view) can be transmitted to you. We also use IP address information
for systems administration and trouble shooting purposes. Your IP address
does not tell us who you are.) We use this information to make our site
as useful as we can for as many users as possible.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
When we present information to our advertisers -- to help them understand
our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website --
it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various
pages within our site. When you list your car for sale on AutoSeekAndSell.com,
we may provide your contact information to an affiliate partner, which
may use this information to contact you about listing your vehicle or
other related services. If you wish to review or update your profile
(or to deactivate your profile completely), send an email to customerservice@autoseekandsell.com
and the AutoSeekAndSell.com staff will make your requested changes for
you. After asking Customer Service to make the change for you (or to
deactivate your profile), please allow 24 to 48 hours for implementation.
Any credit card information you may provide to us is secured during
transmission over the Internet using industry-standard secure socket
layer (SSL) encryption and is stored on our secure servers. (See "Security,"
below.) We use your credit card information only to bill you for the
products and services you order from us. We don't share your credit
card information with anyone, except as may be necessary to process
your transactions.
LINKS AND FEATURES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER PROVIDERS
To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we feature some
products and services that come from other providers. Our finance, insurance,
warranty, and inspection services, for example, are made available through
cooperative arrangements with companies that specialize in providing
such services. We share with these third parties such information as
is necessary for them to provide the products or services. Of course,
our site includes links to other websites, and provides access to products
and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we don't
control. When you access another website or purchase products or services
or conduct other transactions through our website, use of any information
you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the
site you're visiting or the provider of such products or services. When
you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services
through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed
by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services.
The provider's privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can't find
the privacy policy of any of our provider partners via a link either
from their site's homepage or from the pages on which the products or
services are offered, you should contact the provider directly for more
information.
OTHER DISCLOSURES
We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release
is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement,
or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site,
our customers, the public or AutoSeekAndSell.com. As our business grows,
we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that SeekAndSellOline.com
Inc or AutoSeekAndSell.com, or one of its business units, or substantially
all of its assets is acquired by another company, information on our
visitors would be among the transferred assets. We also may allow others
to search some of our databases (our listings database, for example)
and to analyze the data they find there or aggregate it with other data,
either for their business purposes, or ours. Though some of the information
in our databases may be personally identifying (such as the contact
information included in a vehicle listing), we'll only allow searches
of the portions of our database that contain information that is otherwise
publicly available on our website.
SECURITY
Information we gather on our website is stored within AutoSeekAndSell.com-controlled
databases (or databases hosted on our behalf) on servers maintained
in protected environments. Any credit card information you provide us
is secured for transmission over the Internet using industry-standard
secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption. (Click
here to learn more about the SSL protocol.) However, no physical
or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the
security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information
you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the
Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a vehicle listing
is available to anyone with Internet access.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy
at some point in the future, we'll post the changes to this Privacy
Statement before they take effect. By visiting AutoSeekAndSell.com,
you agree that your visit, and any dispute over privacy, is governed
by this Privacy Statement and our Visitor Agreement.
Last updated 08/01/2003.