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Privacy Statement
MotorCars.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 contact
us at info@MotorCars.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,
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
zip code. We 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 may 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 if
any payment is required.
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 may send
you a 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. Our "Find
Your Car" feature, for example, won't work properly if you configure
your browser not to accept cookies.
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.
Data Collected in Connection with MotorCars.com may use the services
of, a third-party advertising company, to serve some of the
advertisements that you see on the pages of our site, to target
those ads, to serve and target promotions or other marketing
messages on this and other sites, and to collect, from our website
and other websites, anonymous tracking information. MotorCars.com,
and others can use, sometimes in conjunction with similar anonymous
information gathered through other websites, for marketing research,
for targeting advertising, and for other similar purposes. We also
may use software to serve our own ads and collect similar
information in the process, also using cookies, and collecting
information directly from our users.
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 MotorCars.com, we may provide your contact information to
our participating Dealerships.
LINKS AND FEATURES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER
PROVIDERS
To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we may feature
some products and services from time to time that come from other
providers. 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 MotorCars.com. As our
business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely
event that MotorCars.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
MotorCars.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. 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
MotorCars.com, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over
privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement and our Visitor's
Agreement. |
