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Privacy Policy
DEALERSHIP WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
karczford.com's
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. Karczford.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. Karczford.com
(the "Web Site") by Karczford.com and/or its parents,
affiliates, subsidiaries, affiliated companies and/or promotional
partners or agencies (collectively, "Karczford.com")
will be utilized primarily for internal purposes with the goal
of enhancing the user's online experience.
Karczford.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,
Karczford.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) Karczford.com collects information on its users'
demographics, interests and behavior based on the information
provided to Karczford.com from the registration described
in (1) above, from Karczford.com's server log files,
from surveys, from cookies (see below) and from IP addresses
(see below). Karczford.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 Karczford.com's service, Karczford.com might collect
information about its users from other sources and add it to
Karczford.com's account information; and
(4) Karczford.com also sometimes collects updated
delivery and address information from its shippers or other sources
so that Karczford.com can correct its records and
deliver or communicate more easily.
Karczford.com uses and/or discloses collected information
in several ways, including, without limitation, primarily the
following:
(1) Karczford.com may use electronic mail addresses
or other personally identifiable information to contact users
who directly communicate with Karczford.com, to,
among other things, fulfill prizes, track/verify compliance with
Karczford.com policies as well as federal, state,
local and other laws, and/or to solicit editorial comments and
feedback. For example, Karczford.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) Karczford.com may match aggregated user information
with third party data in order to better serve the interests
of its users;
(3) Karczford.com may disclose aggregated user
statistics in order to describe Karczford.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) Karczford.com may use a user's personally identifiable
information for editorial purposes. For example, Karczford.com may use information provided by a user to Karczford.com as part of an online survey conducted by Karczford.com;
(5) Unless a user tells Karczford.com that he/she
would prefer not to receive electronic mail from Karczford.com, Karczford.com may use collected personal
information to send you electronic mail about Karczford.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 Karczford.com's features;
(6) In some instances, collected personal information may also
be used by Karczford.com for additional marketing
and promotional purposes relating to the Web Site or other properties;
(7) Karczford.com may use cookies and IP addresses
as set forth in more detail below; and
(8) Karczford.com may disclose user information
to third parties when Karczford.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)
Karczford.com's rights or property, other Web Site
users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
Karczford.com may disclose user information when
Karczford.com believes in good faith that the law
requires it.
Karczford.com may use agents to carry out its activities:
Karczford.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 Karczford.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.
NOTICE:
Click here for important information about safe surfing from
the Federal Trade Commission.
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 Karczford.com's control.
There are links to other Web sites from this Web Site that
take
users outside Karczford.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 Karczford.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, Karczford.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 Karczford.com strives
to protect users' personal information and privacy, Karczford.com cannot guarantee the security of any information
users disclose Online, and users do so at their own risk.
Karczford.com's policy does not extend to anything
that is inherent in the operation of the Internet or any Online
technology, and therefore beyond Karczford.com's
control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable
law or governmental regulation.
Karczford.com DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION
FROM CHILDREN THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER.
Karczford.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 Karczford.com, including, information like your
name, address and/or electronic mail address. Karczford.com encourages parents and guardians to spend time online
with their children and to supervise their children's activities
on Karczford.com's sites. Karczford.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. Karczford.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, Karczford.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
Karczford.com discovers that a child under the age
of 13 has provided Karczford.com with his or her
personal information, Karczford.com will immediately
delete the child's personal information from its system.
Because Karczford.com does not knowingly collect
such information, Karczford.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. Karczford.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 Karczford.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. Karczford.com
never saves passwords or credit card information in cookies.
By showing how and when users use a Web site, cookies help Karczford.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. Karczford.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.
Karczford.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. Karczford.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. Karczford.com can and will use IP addresses
to identify a user when Karczford.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 Karczford.com. Karczford.com exercises great
care in providing secure transmission of users' information from
the users' personal computer to Karczford.com's servers.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while Karczford.com strives to protect users personal information, Karczford.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of
any information users transmit to Karczford.com or
from Karczford.com's Online products or services,
and users do so at their own risk. Once Karczford.com
receives users' transmission, Karczford.com makes
its best effort to ensure the transmission's security on Karczford.com's systems. If credit card information is
transmitted, Karczford.com uses industry standard,
SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By using this Web Site, users assent to this privacy policy.
If users do not agree to this privacy policy, users must not
use this or any of Karczford.com's Web sites. Karczford.com reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise
update this privacy policy at any time, so users are encouraged
to review this policy from time to time. Users' continued use
of this Web Site following the posting of changes to these terms
will mean users' acceptance of those changes.
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