CAR24 Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how we handle your personal information. We
collect, use, and share personal information to help the CAR24 website
(“CAR24”) work and to keep it safe (details below). In formal terms, CAR24
acting itself and through its subsidiaries, is the “data controller” of your
personal information. This policy is effective January 1, 2008.
Collection.
Information posted on CAR24 is obviously publicly available. Our servers are
located in the United States, Canada and in the European Union. Therefore, if
you choose to provide us with personal information, you are consenting to the
transfer and storage of that information on our servers in the United States,
Canada and Europe. We collect and store the following personal information:
IP address,
email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service
used) sometimes financial information;
computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from CAR24
and ad data (all through cookies – you can take steps to disable the cookies
on your browser although this is likely to affect your ability to use the
site);
other information, including users IP address and standard web log
information.
Use.
We use users’ personal information to:
provide our services
resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
encourage safe trading and enforce our policies;
customize users’ experience, measure interest in our services, and inform
users about services and updates;
communicate marketing and promotional offers to you;
do other things for users as described when we collect the information.
Disclosure.
We don’t sell or rent users’ personal information to third parties for their
marketing purposes without users explicit consent. We may disclose personal
information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to
claims that a posting or other content violates other’s rights, or protect
anyone’s rights, property, or safety. We may also share personal information
with:
corporate affiliates who help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts
and provide joint services. (Our corporate affiliates will market only to
users who ask them to).
service providers who help with our business operations.
Using
Information from CAR24.
You may use personal information gathered from CAR24 only to follow up with
another user about a specific posting, not to send spam or collect personal
information from someone who hasn’t agreed to that.
Access, Modification, and Deletion.
You can see, modify or erase your personal information by reviewing your posting
or account status page. Contact customer support at
info@car24.ca to review any personal
information we store that is not available on CAR24. There may a charge
associated with such requests but these will not exceed the amounts permitted by
law. We delete personal information when we no longer need it for the purposes
we described earlier. We retain personal information as permitted by law to
resolve disputes, enforce our policies; and prevent bad guys from coming back.
Security.
We use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect your
personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure, but as you
probably know, nothing’s perfect, so we make no guarantees.
General. We may update this policy at any time, with updates taking effect when you next post or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. If we or our corporate affiliates are involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. Send questions about this policy to info@car24.ca