This privacy statement covers the website LocalCarsForLess.com and applies to all information about you collected through the Site. We built this Site to connect consumers like you with auto dealers and other third parties ("Vendors") who can respond to your requests for information about automobiles and related services. To enable this functionality, we allow you to provide us with information about yourself that we pass on to those Vendors. We may use information we learn about you to present you with other offers, improve the Site and other uses we describe in this statement. We encourage you to carefully read this privacy statement so you know how we use the information that we collect through the Site. By using the Site, you agree to our use of your information consistent with this statement.

Information We Collect and How We Use it

Information You Submit to Us Through Forms, Etc.

When you fill out a form on the Site to contact Vendors or communicate with us (a "Request"), we collect all of the information in your Request, which may include your name, address, email, phone number and other personal information. Information contained in a Request may be used or disclosed in the following ways:

  1. We will pass the information provided in your Request to each Vendor you selected or to an auto manufacturer or other third party that will pass the information along to the Vendor. The Vendor will use the information from your Request, including your personal information, to contact you in connection with your Request. IF YOU SUBMIT A REQUEST ON THE SITE, THE VENDORS YOU SELECT MAY CONTACT YOU DIRECTLY VIA EMAIL, TELEPHONE, AND FAX. YOU MAY ALSO RECEIVE TELEMARKETING CALLS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SUBMITTING A REQUEST ON THIS SITE, EVEN IF YOU ARE ON THE NATIONAL DO NOT CALL REGISTRY OR ANY OTHER DO NOT CALL REGISTRY. Vendors or others to whom we provide your information may also use the information in your Request to market other products or services to you or in other ways in accordance with their own privacy guidelines. Note that the way Vendors, auto manufacturers, or other third party to which we forward your Request use your information is not under our control and is subject to the privacy policies of those parties.
  2. We may use the information contained in your Request to contact you, including via email, with marketing offers that may be of interest to you from this Site or others. We may also contact you to thank you for your Request, conduct satisfaction surveys or other administrative purposes.
  3. We may use the information contained in your Request for our internal purposes unrelated to any transaction, such as to help improve the Site, better understand our customers' needs or to develop new offerings in which you may be interested.
  4. We may provide your information to our affiliates or to other third parties to contact you, including via email, with marketing offers, to use in connection with their marketing and advertising activities, or to use for their internal business purposes such as statistical analysis and reporting.
  5. We (or the Vendors that have received your information) may share or use your information in response to or to comply with with legal orders and government requests, as needed to support auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions, to combat fraud or criminal activity, and to protect our rights or those of our affiliates.
  6. We may combine the information in your Request with other information, including personal information about you from other sources. We may do this for a number of reasons, including improving the quality of your Request, matching you with the best Vendor, customizing the Site or offers to you, or for internal analysis and research purposes.

When you make a Request, you expressly consent to such disclosure and use of the information you submit, including your personally identifiable information. If you do not want your personally identifiable information shared as described above, then you should not submit a Request - once your Request has been submitted, you will not have the opportunity to opt out of the disclosure of your information in connection with that Request.

Information We Collect Without Action By You

In addition to the information about you contained in your Request, there is information we learn about you through your interaction with the Site or other websites, advertisements and emails. This information generally does not identify you personally, but we may associate it with personal information from a request, in which case we will use and disclose the combined information as we would information contained in a Request. The information we collect without any action by you includes:

  1. Cookies. Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when you return to the Site and help us provide a customized experience. Cookies set on your device though this Site may include our cookies as well as those of third party advertising networks.
  2. Site Usage Details and IP Address. As you navigate to and through this Site, we may collect details of your visit, including navigation data, location data, logs, the resources that you access, and information about your internet access device and connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
  3. Web beacons. Web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear gifs) are electronic images, tags or scripts that allow a website to access cookies and help track general usage patterns of visitors to a website. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information, such as cookies, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed. We use web beacons on this Site as well as other websites and in emails we send and advertisements we present to you. We also allow third party advertisers and advertising networks to place web beacons on this Site, which they may use to track your navigation across the internet.

We use and disclose the cookie, web beacon and other data we automatically collect in the following ways:

  1. We may use the information to tailor the advertising we deliver to you. For example, we may use cookie and web beacon information to identify you when you are visiting another site and therefore display advertisements to you.
  2. We may use automatically collected information to customize your experience on the Site, for example, by tailoring the content of the site to highlight the type of automobiles you searched for during a prior visit.
  3. We may combine the information with other information you submit through a Request, in which case it may be used or disclosed as described above.
  4. We may use the information for our internal business purposes or those of our affiliated companies, such as improving the Site, better understanding user interaction with the Site and our services or analyzing traffic sources.
  5. We may share the information with third parties such as advertisers, advertising networks or others for their use. Once shared with the third party, the use of automatically collected information by the third party is governed by their privacy practices and is outside the scope of this privacy statement.

YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES

The central purpose of this Site is to collect Requests and share them with Vendors and others. Accordingly, your ability to use this Site without the potential use and disclosure of information described above is limited. You always have the option of not visiting the Site or submitting Requests. Your use of the Site and submission of Requests is voluntary. You can, however, exercise the following choices with respect to certain information about you that we collect and use:

  1. Cookies. If you do not wish for cookie information to be collected when you visit the Site, you may set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or may not function properly.
  2. Email Offers From Us. If you do not wish to receive email offers or newsletters from us, you can opt-out of receiving email information from us (other than emails related to the completion of your Request or other transactional communications) by using the unsubscribe process in the email. You can also opt-out of receiving email offers from us at any time by entering your email address on this page—http://LocalCarsForLess.com/unsubscribe —or by sending an email (from the address you wish us to opt-out) to info@LocalCarsForLess.com. Please note that if you request to opt-out of receiving emails from us and subsequently submit a Request, we will assume that you wish to reinstate your relationship with us and we will use your information as described in this statement, unless you subsequently request to opt-out.
  3. Email Offers From Others Advertising For Us. If you receive email offers advertising the Site because of your relationship with another website or entity, then the email you receive should contain an option to opt-out of receiving future emails from that sender. While we ask that any third party that distributes our email advertisements to their users inform us of your opt-out so that we can update our list, to ensure that you are opted out of receiving email offers from us as well as the third party, please enter your email address on this page— http://LocalCarsForLess.com/unsubscribe—or send an email (from the address you wish us to opt-out) to info@LocalCarsForLess.com.
  4. Online Behavioral Advertising. Many third-party advertising networks engage in behavioral advertising, that is, delivering advertising based on information gathered about you through cookies and web beacons that track your activities across multiple websites. Some of these advertising networks participate in the Network Advertising Initiative and/or the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can request that participating companies not deliver behavioral advertising to you by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and following the directions.

CHILDREN

This Site is targeted at adults that are interested in purchasing an automobile or related services, and we do not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

We specifically and expressly reserve the right to disclose, lease, sell, assign or transfer information we collect about you, including your personally identifiable information collected through this Site to third parties in connection with a contemplated or realized sale, acquisition, merger, consolidation, reorganization, bankruptcy or other corporate change involving us and/or our affiliates.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

This Privacy Statement only addresses our use and disclosure of information we collect about you. Other websites that may be accessible through this Site have their own separate privacy policies and business practices governing their collection, use, and disclosure of data. Additionally, as noted above, Vendors and others with whom we may share information about you, including personally identifiable information, have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy statements provided by all third parties prior to providing them with information or taking advantage of an offer or promotion.

CHANGES

From time to time, we may revise this privacy statement. The effective date noted at the top of this statement is used to alert you to recent changes.

CONTACTING US

If you would like to opt-out of receiving email advertisements from us, please enter your email address on our unsubscribe page: http://LocalCarsForLess.com/unsubscribe

Alternatively, you may send an email (from the address you wish us to opt-out) to info@LocalCarsForLess.com. If you have questions specifically about this privacy statement, or otherwise wish to contact us, please contact us at info@LocalCarsForLess.com.