Privacy Policy of The Car Shop

Privacy Policy

• Requests for Unit Quotes
  If you request a unit price quote, you may be asked to provide Personal Information such as your name, address, telephone number, zip code, email address and other transactional information related to the desired unit purchase. Your Personal Information may be used to contact you with the requested quote or to request additional information. While not required, you may voluntarily provide financial information so that a determination can be made regarding units that meet the parameters of your requested unit quote or your pre-qualification for financing, if interested.
  
  
• Monthly Payment Calculations
  If you use the digital retailing tool to calculate your estimated monthly payment, you are not required to provide Personal Information unless you decide to contact the dealer to obtain additional information about the unit you are interested in. If you decide to contact the dealer, you will be asked to provide your name, email address, shipping address and phone number. Your Personal Information will be used to contact you regarding your inquiry.
  
  
• Log Files
  We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic and geographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are only linked to Personal Information if you submit a form requesting additional information.
  
  
• Surveys and Contests
  From time to time, this website may offer contests or request information from you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you are not obligated to disclose the Personal Information requested such as your name, email address, mailing address, or demographic information (i.e., age, zip code). If you elect to participate in a contest, the contact information provided will only be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will only be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this website.
  
  

• Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
  
  
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
  
  
• Speed up your searches.
  
  
• Recognize you when you return to our website.
  
  

• Cookies (or browser cookies). Our website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
  
  Cookies can be used for various purposes such as to detect whether your device has accessed a particular online service before. We use cookies on pages to make your visit to our website more enjoyable and to enable the use of certain functions, including the ability to identify units that has been previously viewed on your device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Opt-Out & Unsubscribe below.
  
  
• Web Beacons. Pages of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  
  

• to operate our website and deliver the products and/or services you have requested, and for marketing purposes. If you do not provide Personal Information we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from providing products and/or services to you.
• for more than one legitimate interest depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your Personal Information. For example, if you complete an online purchase, we may collect your information to perform our contract with you, but we may also maintain your Personal Information after your transaction is complete so that we can quickly and easily respond to any questions about your order. As a result, our collection and processing of your Personal Information is based upon your consent, our need to perform a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business. A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.
• to help diagnose problems with our server, administer the website, conduct attribution reporting, personalize user experiences (including advertising or certain targeted features, such as showcasing previously viewed units), and compile broad statistical data.
• to share data with trusted partners or advertisers to help perform statistical analysis, to perform ad measurement services on our behalf, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, to arrange for deliveries, or for marketing purposes. All such third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
• may share Personal Information with third parties or allow them to collect Personal Information from our website or services if those third parties are authorized service providers or business partners who have agreed to our contractual limitations as to their retention, use, and disclosure of such Personal Information.
• to share lead data or analytics with original equipment manufacturers with whom we partner. This data may be shared with original equipment manufacturers so they can perform statistical analysis and measure dealer performance.
• to create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• to inform you of other products or services available from us or our affiliates.
• to contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
• to assist you in locating a unit or dealer near you.
• to respond to you regarding the reason you contacted us, or future marketing. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via phone or email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, changes to this Privacy Policy, or to send you website and service announcement updates which contain important information about the service. We may also communicate with you to provide requested services and in regard to issues relating to their account via e-mail or phone.
• certain navigational information about where you go on our website, in order to determine what services or products are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within our website to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Such information is gathered by us in the aggregate and will not be associated with a specific individual except in connection with specific services and operations such as attribution reporting and maintenance of customer accounts.
• to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA or CPRA

• Our affiliates;
• Service providers we use to help deliver our services to you, such as payment service providers;
• to share data with trusted partners or advertisers to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, to arrange for deliveries, or for marketing purposes. All such third parties are prohibited from using your Personal Information except to provide these services to us, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
• Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies and data aggregators;
• Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers;

• Category A: Identifiers.
• Category B: Personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual.
• Category C: Commercial information.
• Category D: Internet or other similar network activity.
• Category E: Geolocation data.
• Category F: Professional or employment-related information.
• Category G: Inferences drawn from other Personal Information.

• Access your personal information held by us;
• Learn more about how we process your personal information;
• Have us correct inaccurate personal information;
• Erase or delete your personal information;
• Restrict our processing of your personal information;
• Receive the personal information you provided to us;
• Transfer your personal information to another controller, to the extent possible;
• Object to any processing of your personal information;
• Opt out of certain disclosures of your personal information to third parties;
• If you’re under the age of 16, or such other applicable age of consent for privacy purposes in relevant individual jurisdictions, opt in to certain disclosures of your personal information to third parties;
• Not be discriminated against for exercising your rights described in this Section;
• Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you; and
• Withdraw your consent at any time (to the extent we base processing on consent), without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on such consent before its withdrawal.

• If you contact us directly via email, please include the name of the dealership in your email.
• We may require that you provide us with certain information in order to verify your identity. We may ask you to provide:
• Enough information to identify you (e.g. your full name, email address and phone number)
• A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
• You may also opt out of receiving promotional communications at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” number in texts.
• To opt-out of the use of your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes, you may update your preferences by visiting the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the website footer.

• You can find out how to manage or delete the information Meta collects by visiting: Meta Privacy Policy - Privacy Center | Manage your privacy on Facebook, Instagram and Messenger
• You can opt out of Google user-based advertising functions by visiting: Ad Settings (google.com)

• The categories of Personal Information we have collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information, if any; and
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

• Retain any Personal Information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
• Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered Personal Information; or
• Provide the Personal Information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

• sold or shared and the categories of the third parties we may have sold or shared Personal Information to; and/or
• disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of third parties with whom your persona information may have been shared.

• Delete your Personal Information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your Personal Information from their records.
• Please note that we may not delete your Personal Information if it is necessary to:
• Complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your Personal Information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.