MyPriceQuote: Consumer Privacy /
Security Policy.
Date of Last Revision: 04/20/2008
PriceDealers, LLC. doing business as
MyPriceQuote.com understands your concern with privacy and the use of your
personal information. Whether you submit a purchase request for a vehicle or
simply browse through our website, we assure you that we are committed to
protecting your personal privacy.
1. Information MyPriceQuote.com
Collects:
MyPriceQuote collects email addresses of
consumers who communicate with us or through our authorized vendors via e-mail.
We also collect information on web pages visited and other information that is
provided by consumers either on our site or in response to e-mail
communications from us. We also collect information provided to us by consumers
in purchase requests submitted through our site or our authorized vendors'
sites ("New and Used Auto Purchase Request Information"). New and
Used Auto Purchase Request Information typically includes name, address, and
phone numbers, e-mail address and specific vehicle information. In addition,
consumers who express a desire to apply for vehicle financing provide us with
and authorize us or our affiliate web sites to obtain from third parties
necessary financial information such as credit reports ("Finance
Information"). We do not provide financing, but instead transmit those
requests to third-party vendors for consideration.
All information provided by consumers in
any of the above-listed ways or otherwise becomes the property of MyPriceQuote
once received by us and may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.
Browsing our Website:
If you browse through our site without
entering any personal data, we will gather and store certain information about
your visit. This information does not identify you personally and cannot be
linked back to you unless you decide at some point to identify yourself.
If you are only browsing, we collect the
following information: IP address, the type of browser and operating system
used to access our site, the date and time you access our site, the pages you
visit (click-through), and if you linked to our Web site from another Web site,
the address of that Web site, as well as additional information related to your
visit.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
Collected information is used to improve
the content of our website, customize the content or layout of our website for
individual users, provide services requested, notify users of updates to the
site and, subject to the limitations set forth below, to develop new products
and services and to contact consumers for marketing purposes.
Purchase Request Information and Finance
Information
New and Used Auto Purchase Request
Information is used to transmit to third parties requests for products or
services and to contact consumers regarding vehicle purchases. Similarly,
Finance Information is used to transmit to third parties requests for vehicle
financing. Typically, in either case the information is transmitted to dealers,
manufacturers, lenders or fulfillment entities, as applicable, who may be in a
position to respond to your request. As part of the request process, we may
verify the information you provide, or obtain omitted address or other contact
information, from third parties.
Occasionally, in the case of New
and Used Auto Purchase Request Information or Finance Information, when
MyPriceQuote does not have a dealership or lender available to assist you, we
may forward your request information to a dealer or lender through another
automotive referral service. Your submission of the request authorizes us to do
this. Any Purchase Request Information or Finance Information forwarded in this
way becomes subject to the security and privacy policies that are posted on the
websites of those referral services.
Similarly, New and Used Auto Purchase
Request or Finance Information transmitted to a dealer, manufacturer, lender or
fulfillment entity becomes the property of that dealer, manufacturer, lender or
fulfillment entity, in addition to MyPriceQuote. The information is used to
process your purchase request or financing application and to provide you with
information about goods and services. Any request to opt out of future dealer,
lender, manufacturer or other third-party communications must be made directly
to that third party.
Other Uses:
We may use your personal information to
send you email or postal communications regarding products or services offered
by us or by third parties with whom we have relationships in which we think you
may be interested. We do not share, sell, trade, or rent your personal
information to third parties for unknown reasons.
3. Third Parties That May Receive Your
Personal Information:
In addition to our own internal uses of
your information, we may provide your personal information to non-affiliated
third parties under one of several circumstances:
- A. To
provide you with services or products that you have requested (such as,
for example, transmittal of a New and Used Auto Purchase Request
Information to dealers, manufacturers, fulfillment third-parties and other
automotive referral services, or transmittal of Finance Information to
potential lenders);
- B. To
contractors or service providers who may provide services or perform
functions on our behalf, in which case those service providers may use
your information only for the purposes provided and not disclose it to any
third party except upon our direction;
- C. To
enforce our rights or as required by law or order of a court or government
agency; and
- D. On
occasion, unless you opt-out (as described below), to other third parties
who may wish to send you e-mails regarding services or products that you
may find of interest or for other reasons that are disclosed to us and that
we believe to be appropriate and consistent with our commitment to prevent
abuse of your personal information.
4. Your Right To Opt Out of all
Communications From Us:
You always have the option of removing
yourself from further marketing contact from us. If at any time you choose to
opt out of any category of email, you can click on the remove link at the
bottom of the e-mail. Alternatively, you may email Customer Service at
optout@mypricequote.com with the word "Remove" in the subject line
and we will remove you from all further email and postal mail marketing
communication within 5 business days. You may also opt-out at any time by
clicking here.
In addition, those consumers who submit
a purchase request or financing request to us are given the opportunity at the
time they provide their information to decide what types of offerings of
products or services they wish to receive or to opt-out.
In each case, even if you decide not to
receive offers or other product or service information, MyPriceQuote and its
member dealers may use a phone number or email address that you have provided
to contact you regarding your purchase request for a vehicle. Phone numbers are
made available only to MyPriceQuote, its affiliates and member dealers, lenders
or manufacturers who receive your purchase request.
The submission of a purchase or
financing request itself is permission for us to submit your New and Used Auto
Purchase Request Information or Finance Information (as applicable) to the
third parties necessary to fulfill your request.
5. Security:
MyPriceQuote understands the importance
of security for our consumers. We use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption
technology to protect personal data, finance and insurance request information
during transmission, and maintain other commercially reasonable precautions to
protect information that we store or retain.
6. Corrections or Changes to Your
Personal Information:
You may also make corrections and
updates to your personal information using third party verification services.
7. Cookies and/or Web Beacons:
MyPriceQuote offers consumers the
convenience of online personalization by using cookies. Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive
through your web browser. When this information is stored on your hard drive,
our system is able to recognize your browser and in turn customize web page
content for you.
Cookies cannot be used to retrieve data
from your hard drive, obtain your email address or obtain sensitive information
about you. When a cookie is set, your browser will check it for length, an
expiration date, and where it originated. Only MyPriceQuote can access the
cookies that we set.
MyPriceQuote allows our ad service
company to set cookies as well. These cookies can "recognize" a
consumer by a Unique identifier assigned at the time of the first visit, and
may be used to measure site and page visits and browser version number, and
browsing activity. This information may be used to better serve and provide
advertising content on future visits and web pages viewed during your browser
sessions on our websites. These cookies cannot obtain private information like
name, e-mail or other personal information, and are not shared with
MyPriceQuote.
We use a third party tracking service
who sets cookies on our site to track visits, page views and click stream
behavior. The third party tracking service reports this data to us in aggregate
so we can better understand our users and to improve our site. This information
is not tied to any individual user.
If you prefer not to accept cookies,
most browsers will explain how to disable cookies under the help portion of the
toolbar or notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, if you choose to
disallow cookies on your hard drive, our Web site will not be able to function
properly.
We also place "web beacons" on
the website on behalf of third parties. A web beacon is a small, transparent
image placed at various sections of our site to monitor user traffic. The web
beacon records the number of clicks to the page where it resides and collects
users' IP addresses, time the page was viewed, type of browser used, and
existence of cookies from a previous visit. However, the data collected by our
web beacons are used only in aggregated form, with no associated identifying
information, and MyPriceQuote does not tie IP addresses to individual users or
disclose the IP addresses to any non-affiliated third party. Information
collected by web beacons is used only by MyPriceQuote, its affiliates and
authorized vendors. If you do not wish such information to be collected, you
can choose to deactivate cookies on your browser.
8. Changes/Revisions to This Policy:
If we are going to use your personally
identifying information in a manner different from that stated in our privacy
policy at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a
choice as to whether or not to allow us to use your information in this different
manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices
that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will
revise this policy and update the date displayed at the top of this policy to
reflect that the policy has been changed. In some cases we will also e-mail
users who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the
changes in our privacy practices.
In the event MyPriceQuote or its assets
are acquired, such as through merger, acquisition or similar event, resulting
in a change in ultimate control over customers' personal information (other
than through an internal corporate reorganization or similar transaction),
customers will be notified promptly of such change. We will make reasonable
efforts to ensure that the acquirer of our customers' personal information
respects the provisions of this privacy policy, although this may not be
possible in certain legal settings (such as bankruptcy).
9. Questions/Concerns/Inquiries:
If you have any questions or concerns
regarding privacy, security, opting-out of e-mail offers or understanding how
your personal information is being used, please contact our Consumer Service
Department at cs@mypricequote.com. You can also write to us at: 1920-117
Centerville Tpke, Virginia Beach, VA 23464.
10. Affiliate/Partner Programs:
If you have an interest in becoming a affiliate or partner on any similar
websites you may be planning or would like to develope, please contact us with
your idea. We will review your request and reply with the disposition of your
request as soon as possible. All contacts regarding affiliate or partnerships
should be directed via email to partner@mypricequote.com.