IndependentDealer.com Privacy Statement
IndependentDealer.com respects the privacy of visitors to our site.
Our goal is to respond to your inquiries, to provide better customer
service, and to provide products, services and other information
we believe may help meet your needs or be of interest to you. Because
we recognize that keeping your personal information private is important
to you, we would like to take this opportunity to explain our privacy
policies and practices.
The information gathered by IndependentDealer.com generally falls
into two categories:
(1) information supplied by visitors to the site when they register
or initiate transactions, and
(2) tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through the
IndependentDealer.com site. Third party providers featured on or
linked to by our web site, such as vendors of products and services
offered through our site, may be gathering the same kinds of information.
To make use of certain features on our site, visitors may need
to provide limited information about themselves and their interests
so that we can tailor the information we provide to their needs.
For example, if you wish to request information about our service
providers, products or services we offer or information posted on
our site, or in the event you decide to purchase a product or service
offered by us or one of our service providers, you will have to
provide information about yourself (such as your name, address,
telephone number and email address) so that we can contact you.
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. We will not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to provide us
any personally identifying information.
To help us tailor our site to the needs and interests of our visitors,
we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a cookie
on your hard drive. A "cookie" is an online device used
to determine when a visit to the site has occurred and 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.
A cookie does not reveal personal information or identify you by
name or address unless you have provided the information or set
up your computer to do so, nor do cookies read unrelated data off
your hard drive. The help function on most browsers contains information
on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie
or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you do not accept cookies,
you may not be able to take advantage of various features on our
site that are available to other visitors. Our web server also automatically
collects some information about you when you request pages from
our server, including your IP address. Your IP address is a number
that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify
your computer so that data (such as the web pages you request) can
be sent to you. Your IP address does not tell us who you are.
We may present information to our advertisers to help them understand
our visitors and confirm the value of advertising on our web site,
but it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic
to various pages within our site. From time to time, IndependentDealer.com
may share more particularized information on visitors to the site
with marketers of auto-related products and services that we believe
may be of interest to you. If you provide us with your email address,
we may also send you information from time to time and other offers
that we think may be of interest to you. You can always opt out
of having us share information about you with marketers and/or request
that we not send information or other emails to you by sending an
email to info@IndependentDealer.com.
We will take the appropriate measures to honor your request. Please
allow 48-72 hours for implementation.
To make our site more valuable to our visitors, we offer some products
and services in conjunction with other providers with which we have
cooperative arrangements. We may share with these third parties
such information as is necessary to provide the products or services
you request. Of course, our site includes links to other web sites,
and provides access to products and services offered by third parties,
whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access another
web site or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions
through our web site, use of any information you provide is governed
by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are 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, even if it
appears that you are on IndependentDealer.com pages throughout the
transaction. The provider's privacy policy may differ from ours.
If you cannot find the privacy policy of any of our service or product
providers via a link either from the site's homepage or from the
pages on which the products or services are offered, you should
contact the provider directly for more information.
We may occasionally release information about our visitors when
release is appropriate to comply with the law, to enforce our
Visitor
Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors
to our site, the public or IndependentDealer.com. As our business
grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event
that IndependentDealer.com or substantially all of its assets
are
acquired by another company, information on our visitors would
be among the transferred assets. We also may license other parties
to conduct automated searches of certain of our databases for collection,
aggregation or analysis of information for our or their business
purposes, which may include certain personally identifiable information,
but only such information that is otherwise publicly available
on
the IndependentDealer.com site.
Information gathered by IndependentDealer.com on the IndependentDealer.com
web site is stored within IndependentDealer.com-controlled databases
on servers maintained in protected environments. 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 will not be intercepted while being transmitted
to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include
in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting
area is available to anyone with Internet access. If you do not
want people to know your email address, for example, do not include
it in any message you post publicly.
If we need to change our Privacy Statement at some point in the
future, we will post the changes before they take effect. By visiting
IndependentDealer.com, you agree that your visit, and any dispute
over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Visitor
Agreement. If you have questions about this Privacy Statement,
please contact us at info@IndependentDealer.com. |
