| Nameyourcar.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. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected
online through the Nameyourcar.com website and does not describe the ways
in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through any
means other than our website. If you have questions about this Privacy Statement,
please contact our customer service.
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
"Email Seller" form. If you do not wish to share your email
address or other contact information with the sellers who advertise on
our website, you should not use our "Email Seller" contact form.
Many of the dealer listings that appear on our website include toll-free
telephone numbers that can be used to contact the dealership that is selling
the advertised vehicle. If you call a dealer using one of these toll-free
numbers, we may provide the dealer with the date, time, and duration of
your call, as well as the number from which your call originated. If you
wish to contact a dealership that advertises on our website without disclosing
this information, please contact the dealer by email or by dialing its
local telephone number. 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 ad and to process your payment.
Email Addresses If you provide us your email address, we may email you
about our website or our services, or to inquire about your experience
using our website or sites operated by others. From time to time, we'll
also send you emails that may include automotive information, special
promotions and other commercial offers that we think may be of interest
to you. Though we hope you'll find these communications 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
these types of commercial offers 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 receive these communications.
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.
Web Beacons To help us keep track of how many users are visiting particular
pages within our website, and how many users are accessing particular
listings that we distribute, we may place a small file, called a web beacon,
on some of our pages and on some of the listings we distribute. These
web beacons allow us to track the number of users that view our pages
and our listings, but they don't reveal any personally identifying information
about individual users. Advertising networks with which we are affiliated
may also use web beacons on our site to gather similar anonymous "clickstream"
information, which is used to deliver targeted advertising messages to
our visitors. (See "Data Collected in Connection with Ad Serving
and Targeting," below, for more information regarding the information
collection practices of these advertising networks.)
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 Ad Serving and Targeting Nameyourcar.com
works with a leading third-party advertising company, Commission Junction.
Their services include targeting and serving some of the advertisements,
promotions, or other marketing messages you see on the pages of our site
and other websites. Anonymous tracking information called "clickstream"
data is collected from our website and other websites so that Commission
Junction, Nameyourcar.com, and others can use such information, sometimes
in conjunction with similar anonymous information gathered through other
websites, to deliver advertisements targeted to the perceived interests
of consumers. This clickstream data does not identify you personally and
does not include your name, address, email address or telephone number,
but it may include the Internet Protocol ("IP") address of your
computer. Clickstream data is used for marketing research, targeting advertising,
and other similar purposes. We also use Commission Junction software to
serve our own ads and collect similar information in the process. Commission
Junction also uses cookies and/or web beacons to collect anonymous information
directly from our users. If you would like to know more about Commission
Junction information gathering practices and opt-out procedures, please
see the privacy statement on the Commission Junction website. To opt out
of Commission Junction ad targeting program, please go their website.
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. 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 or comply with law. We may collect, or have
a third party collect on our behalf, aggregated statistical information
about how visitors use and navigate around our site, such as the number
of users who visit various pages within the site, what they click on,
whether they scroll up or down on particular pages, fill out forms, etc.
This aggregated information does not identify you personally. We use this
information to improve our site. We may also disclose this aggregated
information to third parties.
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. 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 Nameyourcar.com. As our business grows, we may
buy or sell various assets. To ensure that the email marketing preferences
of our visitors are honored, we may share email addresses collected on
our website with advertisers (or their designated agents) for the limited
purpose of identifying and removing from our distribution lists and/or
the advertiser's distribution lists the email addresses of any persons
who have "unsubscribed" or otherwise indicated a preference
not to receive commercial electronic mail messages from, or transmitted
on behalf of, the relevant advertiser. In the unlikely event that Nameyourcar.comm
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 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. When we use other
companies to help us operate our site or improve the services we offer
to you, we may provide them with information about our visitors that is
necessary for them to perform their services. We require that these companies
commit to use the information only to perform the services that we request.
SECURITY
Information we gather on our website is stored within Nameyourcar.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
on this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect
the date of the amendment. By visiting Nameyoucar.com you agree that your
visit, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement
and our Visitor Agreement. |