Tampa Bay Used Cars
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
us.
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: (1) information
supplied by visitors to the site when they request us to find them a vehicle, and (2)
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. We use this information
to help you find the car you're looking for. When you request a car search and make a deposit, we may ask for information
on the car and on how you can be contacted. We may also ask for your credit card number and the
expiration date on your card. We use this information
to create your query 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 as available, 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 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.
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
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve
ads on our site. These companies may employ cookies and
action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons)
to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information
that these third parties collect via cookies and action
tags is completely anonymous.
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.
If you wish to review or update your profile (or to deactivate
your profile completely), contact
us and the Tampa Bay Used Cars staff will make your requested changes for you. After
asking us 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 Tampa Bay Used Cars. As our business grows,
we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event
that Tampa Bay Used Cars, 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 Tampa Bay Used Cars-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.
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 TampaBayUsedCars.Com, you agree that your visit,
and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy
Statement and our Visitor Agreement.
