DEALERSHIP WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy applies to WisconsinAutoCredit.com, SayYesToCredit.com, and GreenbayAutoCredit.com

Our policy is to respect and protect the privacy of its users and recognize the importance of protecting the personal information it collects about its users.  Green Bay Auto Credit.com would like to assure its users that this privacy policy meets the requirements of the various privacy laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. 

YOUR USER INFORMATION

All personal information collected at www. Green Bay Auto Credit.com (the “Web Site”) by Green Bay Auto Credit.com and/or its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, affiliated companies and/or promotional partners or agencies (collectively, "Green Bay Auto Credit.com") will be utilized primarily for internal purposes with the goal of enhancing the user’s online experience. 

Green Bay Auto Credit.com collects information in several ways including, without limitation, primarily the following:

(1)   Some personal information is gathered when you register to participate in or receive information via electronic mail or otherwise about: automobiles in general, your automobile, automobile insurance, general and personal automobile maintenance, general and personal finance, general and personal credit, automobile dealerships, quotes, research, statistics, advice, Web sites, games, contests, sweepstakes, promotional events and/or any other event that takes place on the Web Site.  During such registration, Green Bay Auto Credit.com may ask for information such as, without limitation, a user’s name, electronic mail address, birth date, gender, zip code and country, and other optional information that may be particular to that registration process; 

(2)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com collects information on its users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided to Green Bay Auto Credit.com from the registration described in (1) above, from Green Bay Auto Credit.com's server log files, from surveys, from cookies (see below) and from IP addresses (see below).  Green Bay Auto Credit.com does this to better understand and serve its users.  This collected information/research is generally compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis; 

(3)   For reasons such as improving personalization of Green Bay Auto Credit.com's service, Green Bay Auto Credit.com might collect information about its users from other sources and add it to Green Bay Auto Credit.com's account information; and

(4)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com also sometimes collects updated delivery and address information from its shippers or other sources so that Green Bay Auto Credit.com can correct its records and deliver or communicate more easily.

 Green Bay Auto Credit.com uses and/or discloses collected information in several ways, including, without limitation, primarily the following:

 (1)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use electronic mail addresses or other personally identifiable information to contact users who directly communicate with Green Bay Auto Credit.com, to, among other things, fulfill prizes, track/verify compliance with Green Bay Auto Credit.com policies as well as federal, state, local and other laws, and/or to solicit editorial comments and feedback.  For example, Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use such information to notify users that they have won a game, contest or sweepstakes or to provide a requested electronic mail newsletter or provide other requested information; 

 (2)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may match aggregated user information with third party data in order to better serve the interests of its users;

 (3)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe Green Bay Auto Credit.com's services to prospective partners, advertisers and third parties and for other lawful purposes, in order to, among other things, make better alliances and provide a better user experience on the Web Site; 

 (4)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use a user’s personally identifiable information for editorial purposes.  For example, Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use information provided by a user to Green Bay Auto Credit.com as part of an online survey conducted by Green Bay Auto Credit.com;

 (5)   Unless a user tells Green Bay Auto Credit.com that he/she would prefer not to receive electronic mail from Green Bay Auto Credit.com, Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use collected personal information to send you electronic mail about Green Bay Auto Credit.com's and/or other companies’ products, promotions or services.  A user may choose not to provide certain information, but then that user might not be able to take advantage of many of Green Bay Auto Credit.com's features; 

(6)   In some instances, collected personal information may also be used by Green Bay Auto Credit.com for additional marketing and promotional purposes relating to the Web Site or other  properties;

 (7)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use cookies and IP addresses as set forth in more detail below; and

 (8)   Green Bay Auto Credit.com may disclose user information to third parties when Green Bay Auto Credit.com has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) Green Bay Auto Credit.com's rights or property, other Web Site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. Green Bay Auto Credit.com may disclose user information when Green Bay Auto Credit.com believes in good faith that the law requires it. 

Green Bay Auto Credit.com may use agents to carry out its activities:

Green Bay Auto Credit.com may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on its behalf.  Examples include, without limitation, fulfilling orders, sending postal mail and electronic mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, delivering packages and providing customer service.  They may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Other than as set forth above, it is Green Bay Auto Credit.com's current policy not to share any personally identifiable information provided by users with other third parties, unless specified at the time of collection or with the user’s consent.

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 LINKS

Users should be aware that when they are on any portion of the Web Site, they could be directed to other Web sites and/or Online materials that are beyond Green Bay Auto Credit.com's control. There are links to other Web sites from this Web Site that take users outside Green Bay Auto Credit.com's service. For example, if users "click" on a banner advertisement, the "click" takes users off the Web Site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and partners that may include Green Bay Auto Credit.com's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other Web sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information and have their own privacy policies.  To ensure the protection of its users’ privacy while on the Web Site, Green Bay Auto Credit.com will make an effort to provide a notice and a link to this privacy policy on all pages where personally identifying information is collected.

Users should keep in mind that whenever they give out personal information Online – for example, via message boards or chat rooms – that information could be collected and used by people that users do not know. While Green Bay Auto Credit.com strives to protect users’ personal information and privacy, Green Bay Auto Credit.com cannot guarantee the security of any information users disclose Online, and users do so at their own risk.

Green Bay Auto Credit.com's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet or any Online technology, and therefore beyond Green Bay Auto Credit.com's control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

Green Bay Auto Credit.com DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER.

Green Bay Auto Credit.com does not knowingly collect information from children thirteen (13) years of age or younger.  If you are under thirteen (13), do not send any information about yourself to Green Bay Auto Credit.com, including, information like your name, address and/or electronic mail address.  Green Bay Auto Credit.com encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to supervise their children’s activities on Green Bay Auto Credit.com's sites. Green Bay Auto Credit.com alerts parents that this Web Site features content exploring mature themes not appropriate for children. This Web Site is not a Web site directed to children under the age of 13. Green Bay Auto Credit.com suggests that parents consider using parental control tools available from Online services and software manufacturers that may help ensure a child friendly Online environment and help direct their children to suitable, child-oriented Web sites. Further, Green Bay Auto Credit.com request that all users to the Web Site that are under the age of 13 not disclose or provide any personal information on this Web Site.  In the event that Green Bay Auto Credit.com discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided Green Bay Auto Credit.com with his or her personal information, Green Bay Auto Credit.com will immediately delete the child’s personal information from its system.

Because Green Bay Auto Credit.com does not knowingly collect such information, Green Bay Auto Credit.com does not knowingly provide any personally identifying information from its users under 13 years of age, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever.  Green Bay Auto Credit.com also does not knowingly allow users under 13 years of age to be listed in any member directory or to receive direct marketing communications from Green Bay Auto Credit.com or to be sent third-party offers.

USE OF COOKIES

Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make Web-surfing easier for the user by saving the user’s preferences while the user is at the Web Site. Green Bay Auto Credit.com never saves passwords or credit card information in cookies.

By showing how and when users use a Web site, cookies help Green Bay Auto Credit.com see which areas are popular and which are not.  Many improvements and updates to this Web Site are based on such data as total number of users and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. Green Bay Auto Credit.com uses the information from cookies to provide services better tailored to this Web Site’s users.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.

USE OF IP ADDRESSES

An IP address is a number that’s automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers – the big computers that "serve up" Web pages – automatically identify your computer by its IP address.

Green Bay Auto Credit.com may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site. When users request pages from this Web Site, our servers log the users’ IP addresses. Green Bay Auto Credit.com does not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that a user’s session will be logged but the user remains anonymous to us. Green Bay Auto Credit.com can and will use IP addresses to identify a user when Green Bay Auto Credit.com feels it is necessary to enforce compliance with our house rules, terms of service, any law or regulation or to protect our service, Web Site, customers, or others.

Some services within the Web Site, such as certain message boards, may display IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Please review each service prior to use and only use those that disclose information you are comfortable with sharing.

SECURITY

The importance of privacy and security for all personally identifiable information associated with users is of utmost concern to Green Bay Auto Credit.com. Green Bay Auto Credit.com exercises great care in providing secure transmission of users’ information from the users’ personal computer to Green Bay Auto Credit.com's servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Green Bay Auto Credit.com strives to protect users personal information, Green Bay Auto Credit.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information users transmit to Green Bay Auto Credit.com or from Green Bay Auto Credit.com's Online products or services, and users do so at their own risk. Once Green Bay Auto Credit.com receives users’ transmission, Green Bay Auto Credit.com makes its best effort to ensure the transmission’s security on Green Bay Auto Credit.com's systems. If credit card information is transmitted, Green Bay Auto Credit.com uses industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS