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Group 1 Automotive (?we? or ?Dealer?) has created this Privacy
Policy to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. This policy sets forth how
we collect, protect, use and share information about you in connection only with
the website located at http://www.irasciondanvers.com
(the ?Site?) and does not apply to any other Dealer website or service. If you do
not agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, you may not access
or otherwise use this Site. We also direct you to our
Terms of Conditions and Use Statement, which governs your use of the Site.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
1. Personally Identifiable Information.
When using the Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain information that
could reasonably be used to identify you personally (?Personally Identifiable Information?).
Personally Identifiable Information may include your name, address, e-mail address,
telephone number, mobile telephone number and date of birth. For example, we may
collect Personally Identifiable Information when you request a quote, apply for
a loan, schedule a service visit or send us an e-mail or we seek feedback from you
about the Site or our products and services in the form of a questionnaire or survey.
We may also ask you to create a screen name and/or a password, where applicable,
and provide us with demographic information (such as information about your age
or gender), information regarding your interests or similar information.
We will only collect your Personally Identifiable Information when you voluntarily
provide it to us. You can always choose not to provide certain information, but
then you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in certain features
of the Site.
2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
When you visit the Site, we may also collect from you certain information that does
not identify you personally, such as an IP host address, the pages viewed, the browser
type, the Site usage, and other data which do not identify any individual personally
(?Aggregate Information?). When your computer contacts our web servers (for example,
when you visit the Site, view an HTML e-mail or download material from the Site),
Aggregate Information may be collected automatically. We also may determine the
applicable technology available to provide you with the most appropriate version
of a web page, e-mail or similar service.
HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
1. Personally Identifiable Information.
Except as explained below, when you share Personally Identifiable Information with
us, such information is used to: (i) inform you about our products and services
and changes affecting our products and services, which may include offers from us
and our affiliated companies, (ii) deliver the products or services you request
and (iii) improve and enhance the Site. If you provide Personally Identifiable Information
to us, we will take all reasonable and appropriate steps to protect it from unauthorized
disclosure.
In addition to the uses of Personally Identifiable Information explained above,
by giving us your telephone and/or mobile telephone number, you expressly authorize
us to contact you by telephone. If the number you provide is for a mobile telephone,
you expressly authorize us to send you text messages. Please be advised that your
wireless carrier may charge you for the receipt of such messages, and other charges
may apply. If you do not wish to receive such messages, you should not provide us
with your mobile telephone number. In addition, you may opt-out of receiving such
messages by following the opt-out procedures below.
We may also conduct joint promotions with other companies from time to time. We
may share with our promotional partners (and their service providers) certain Personally
Identifiable Information as necessary to conduct the promotion. We will not share
this information with our promotional partners for any other purpose unless you
provide us with your consent to do so.
We may also combine the information we collect about you at the Site with information
available to us from other sources. For example, you may provide Personally Identifiable
Information to us at other Dealer websites or our co-promoter or sponsors may provide
us with information, including Personally Identifiable Information, about users
who choose to participate in a promotional opportunity the co-promoter or sponsor
is offering with us.
Only in the following circumstances will we disclose your Personally Identifiable
Information to any third party who is not affiliated with, a business partner of
or a sponsor of Dealer without your express consent: (i) in connection with the
sale or merger of Dealer, (ii) as required by courts or administrative agencies,
and (iii) to the extent required to permit us to investigate suspected fraud, harassment
or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, the Site rules or policies,
or the rights of third parties or any other suspected conduct we deem improper.
2. Non-Personally Identifying Information.
We may use and disclose Aggregate Information to improve and enhance your experience
on the Site and for other purposes. For example, from time to time, we may use and
share Aggregate Information with third parties to show general demographic and preference
information among users of the Site. In these circumstances, the shared information
will neither contain nor be linked to any Personally Identifiable Information.
COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
The Site may use browser ?cookies.? Cookies are pieces of information that may be
placed on your computer by a website for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing
your communication and interaction with a particular website. We may use cookies
to customize your visit to the Site and for other purposes to make your visit more
convenient or to enable us to enhance our service. For example, we may use cookies
to track usage patterns on the Site or to analyze web activity. You may stop or
restrict the placement of cookies on your computer or remove them from your browser
by adjusting your web browser preferences. If you do so, you may still use the Site,
but you may not have access to certain of the Site?s features, and some features
of the Site may not function properly. We do not use cookies to automatically retrieve
Personally Identifiable Information from your computer without your knowledge.
In addition to cookies, the Site uses a variety of technical methods for tracking
purposes, including web beacons. Web beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded
in images on the pages of websites. We also use these technical methods to analyze
the traffic patterns on the Site, such as the frequency with which our users visit
various parts of the Site.
OPT-OUT POLICY
If you wish for us to remove your Personally Identifiable Information from our active
records, please [FOR CLIENT TO DETERMINE. FOR EXAMPLE, CLIENT COULD HAVE USERS
TO CLICK ON AN UNSUBSCRIBE LINK, SEND THE DEALER AN E-MAIL, ETC.].
Please be aware that we will process your request within a reasonable time after
receipt. You should also be aware that we are not responsible for removing your
Personally Identifiable Information from the lists of any third party who has previously
been provided with your information in accordance with this policy, such as a business
partner. In addition, your ability to opt-out from receiving marketing and promotional
material does not change our right to contact you regarding your use of the Site
or changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions of Use statement or other
policy or terms that affect you and your use of the Site.
SECURITY
The security of your Personally Identifiable Information is very important to us.
However, due to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that
communications between you and us, or information stored on the Site or our servers,
will be completely free from unauthorized access by third parties such as hackers,
and your use of the Site is at your own risk. We have put in place reasonable physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect, including
limiting access to the Personally Identifiable Information contained on our servers.
Only those employees who need access to your information to perform their duties
are authorized to have access to your Personally Identifiable Information. We also
recommend that you keep your information safe by, for example, memorizing your password
or securing it in a safe place (separate from your account information), logging
out of your user account, and closing your web browser once you leave the Site.
LINKS TO AND FROM OTHER WEBSITES
The Site may contain links to other websites not maintained by us, and other websites
may reference or link to the Site. These other websites may set their own cookies,
collect data, solicit Personally Identifiable Information, and/or have their own
privacy policies. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read
the privacy policies and terms and conditions of each and every website you visit.
We are not responsible for the practices or the content of other such websites,
expressly disclaims any statements or assertions made on such websites, including
without limitation, any failure on the part of any linked websites to comply with
any privacy policy posted on the website, and denies all liability associated with
your use of, and the content on, other such sites.
CHILDREN
The Site is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly
collect Personally Identifiable Information from children who are under the age
of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personally Identifiable
Information to us through the Site.
Consent to Transfer
The Site is maintained in the United States of America. If you are located in the
European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware
that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States.
By using the Site, participating in any of our services, and/or providing us with
your information, you consent to this transfer.
ACCEPTANCE AND CHANGES POLICY
By visiting the Site, you agree to the terms and conditions of the Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change, modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy
at any time without notice to you. We will post any changes to the Privacy Policy
here, so be sure to visit this page often. If at any time in the
future we plan to use your Personally Identifiable Information in a way that differs
from this policy, we will inform you here and provide you with the opportunity to
opt-out of such differing uses. Your continued use of the Site after we post changes
to this Privacy Policy means that you accept such changes.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices or this
Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:
Group 1 Automotive, Inc.
800 Gessner
Suite 500
Houston, Texas 77024
EFFECTIVE DATE
This Privacy Policy is effective and was last updated on 05/20/2008
Copyright ? 2008 Group 1 Automotive. All rights reserved.
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