Privacy Policy
At Auto Dealer we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Auto Dealer Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies except DoubleClick (DoubleClick Privacy Policy) and Postini (Postini Privacy Policy); collectively, Auto Dealer’s “services.” In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information. These notices can be found in the Auto Dealer Privacy Center.
Auto Dealer adheres to the US Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement, and is registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Safe Harbor Program.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at
Information we collect and how we use it
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as Auto Dealer Search. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide – When you sign up for a Auto Dealer Account or other Auto Dealer service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also request credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Auto Dealer services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
- Cookies – When you visit Auto Dealer, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user trends, such as how people search. Auto Dealer also uses cookies in its advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads across the web. We may set one or more cookies in your browser when you visit a website, including Auto Dealer sites that use our advertising cookies, and view or click on an ad supported by Auto Dealer’s advertising services.
- Log information – When you access Auto Dealer services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
- User communications – When you send email or other communications to Auto Dealer, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated Auto Dealer Services on other sites – We offer some of our services on or through other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Auto Dealer in order to deliver the service. We process such information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
- Gadgets – Auto Dealer may make available third party applications through its services. The information collected by Auto Dealer when you enable a gadget or other application is processed under this Privacy Policy. Information collected by the application or gadget provider is governed by their privacy policies.
- Location data – Auto Dealer offers location-enabled services, such as Auto Dealer Maps for mobile. If you use those services, Auto Dealer may receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a location (such as a cell ID).
- Links – Auto Dealer may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising. Read more information about.
- Other sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Auto Dealer services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results, sites that include Auto Dealer applications, products or services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
