CruisinForCars.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 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:
- 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
- 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 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. 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 Ad Serving and Targeting
CruisinForCars.com uses the services of DoubleClick, a leading
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 called "clickstream" data that
DoubleClick, CruisinForCars.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 use DoubleClick software to
serve our own ads and collect similar information in the process.
DoubleClick also uses cookies, and it collects information directly
from our users. If you would like to know more about DoubleClick's
information gathering practices and "opt-out" procedures, please see
the privacy statement on the DoubleClick website
(http://www.privacychoices.org). To opt out of DoubleClick's ad
targeting program, please click here
(http://www.privacychoices.org/optout.htm).
- 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 CruisinForCars.com, we may provide your contact information
to our sister company, Trader Publishing Company, which may use this
information to contact you about listing your vehicle for sale in
one of its Trader magazines. If you wish to review or update your
profile (or to deactivate your profile completely), send an email to
Customer Service and the CruisinForCars.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 CruisinForCars.com. As our
business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely
event that CruisinForCars.com LLC, 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
CruisinForCars.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
CruisinForCars.com, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over
privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement and our Visitor
Agreement.
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