QuickCarQuote.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 QuickCarQuote.com Collects
QuickCarQuote.com 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 ("Purchase Request Information"). 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 ("Finance Information") such as credit reports. 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 QuickCarQuote.com once received by
us and may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.
Browsing on 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.
Personalization
QuickCarQuote.com offers its users the advantage of personalization on
our website by using cookies. Personalized services are offered in
designated areas of our website to users who register with us. Examples
of personalization include providing information when prompted for
services, the recordation of used vehicle searches for easy updates, and
the provision of service reminders and recall information for those
users who request these options.
QuickCarQuote.com may track consumer interest in goods and services
marketed to users who are members of the on-site personalization area.
This information is used solely by QuickCarQuote.com and its affiliated
companies for business purposes.
Purchase Request Information and Finance Information
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 Purchase Request Information or Finance
Information, when Autobytel 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, 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 QuickCarQuote.com. 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 also share your personal information with our affiliated companies
in order to identify products or services in which you may have
interest, to improve our user experience and generally to engage in
market research and for other internal business purposes. We also may
aggregate your personal information with others' information and prepare
reports on site usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or
distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and include no
personally identifying information. Finally, 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:
- To provide you with services or products that you have requested
(such as, for example, transmittal of Purchase Request Information to
dealers, manufacturers, fulfillment third-parties and other automotive
referral services, or transmittal of Finance Information to potential
lenders);
- To our advertiser clients solely to assess the effectiveness of ad
campaigns we have provided for them;
- 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;
- To enforce our rights or as required by law or order of a court or
government agency; and
- On occasion, unless you opt-out (as described below), to other third
parties who may wish to send you e-mails or postal communications
regarding services or products that you may find of interest.
7. Cookies and Web Beacons
QuickCarQuote.com 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 QuickCarQuote.com can access the
cookies that we set.
QuickCarQuote.com 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
QuickCarQuote.com.
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 provide
personalization services.
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
click-throughs 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 QuickCarQuote.com 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
QuickCarQuote.com, 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 or 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 post a prominent notice on our website notifying users
of the change. 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 QuickCarQuote.com 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 or Concerns?
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 Privacy admin at
admin@QuickCarQuote.com.
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