Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network Privacy Statement
We gather certain types of information about the visitors to the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network*, and we believe our visitors should fully understand how we obtain and use that information. This Privacy Statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement, you should contact us directly.
Your Personal Information
The submission of your personally identifiable information (e.g., your name, your address, your e-mail address, your telephone number) is required for you to receive services, products or information you request from us and the companies with which we do business. We refer to such personally identifiable information, as well as any other information that you voluntarily provide to us about yourself on the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network that we combine with your personally identifiable information, as your "Personal Information."
Your Personal Information will be shared between us and the companies with which we do business to fulfill your request, such as motor vehicle dealers. If you provide your Personal Information to obtain price quotes for vehicles and other related information, your Personal Information may be provided by us to the dealers of those vehicles (and/or their affiliates and agents), who may use that information to contact you. Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network cannot control, and is not responsible for, the manner in which any of such companies or other entities use your Personal Information.
In certain locations on the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network where we obtain your Personal Information we may include "check boxes" for the purpose of soliciting your consent to disclose your personal information, receive special offers and/or other information from us and other entities selected by us. By either "checking" those boxes, or leaving these check boxes "checked," you are choosing to receive commercial communications from us and/or those other entities, and you will be authorizing us to provide your Personal Information to those other entities. In that event, you may receive information from us or from other companies by e-mail, U.S. mail or other means.
If you do not give your consent, either in the manner described in the preceding paragraph or in another manner, your Personal Information will not be shared by us with other entities, except as follows:
- We may disclose your Personal Information, without first notifying you or obtaining your consent, to third-party service providers who assist us to improve our data or our services or to better understand their value to our visitors or to the companies with which we do business;
- We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties if we determine that disclosure is or may be required by law or legal process, is or may be reasonably necessary to honor the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network commitments to you or to take appropriate action if a visitor is determined by us to have violated our visitor agreements, or is or may be reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of our company, the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network Automotive Network, our visitors or other individuals or entities.
- We may disclose to third parties portions of the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network's log files that show which "Internet service provider" a visitor has used or other visitor information. That information may enable third parties to discover, through that Internet service provider, the identity of a visitor.
While we will not use your Personal Information to contact you or distribute your Personal Information to third parties unless you have given us your consent or as otherwise outlined above, we may use both your Personal Information and other information we may have about you (such as your IP address) or your use of the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network (such as which pages you have visited or your zip code) to customize or enhance your experience on the Cash For Clunkers Automotive website, including the display of advertisements.
Information About Our Use of "Cookies"
Cookies are pieces of information that a websites transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you're on our website. We may use information from cookies to make improvements and updates to our website and to tailor our services to our visitors needs.
Third-Party Ad Servers
We may use companies like DoubleClick Inc., a third-party advertising company, to serve advertisements for the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network. We may also sometimes use other third-party advertising companies and advertising networks. DoubleClick and these other third-party advertising companies and advertising networks may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We also may place "web beacons" on pages of the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network which, in conjunction with cookies utilized by our third-party advertising companies, are used to target advertisements on the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network and other Web sites. Web beacons, sometimes called "pixel tags," are small strings of code that are placed on Web pages. Use of our third party advertising companies' cookies is subject to their own privacy policies. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies to target advertisements to you, you may view DoubleClick's privacy policy or to opt-out of the use of these cookies and web beacons you may visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Links to Other Web Sites
The Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network contains links to other websites not operated by us, including sites where you can obtain automotive products and services. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network and the information we collect, and we are not responsible for the privacy polices or practices of any other websites. For additional information about those links, please review our Visitor Agreement.
Certified Dealers and Regional Headquarters
We allow dealers to post the certification logo on their website so consumers can learn about the C.A.R.S. program and provide information from our websites to regional dealers who sign up for our marketing program to educate local consumers. These dealers may not adhere to the standards we promote and we are not liable for their failure to do so.
We do not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external companies and do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information of these companies. Use of any information obtained from these companies and their respective websites is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, pricing, process, or service by trade name, trademarks, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by us.
Surveys
Occasionally we may conduct visitor surveys to better target our content to our audience or for the benefit of third parties with whom we do business. Accordingly, sometimes the aggregate survey results are shared with our partners. We will never share any survey information about specific responses with any third party unless that individual consents.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, please contact us.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Statement. Changes will be effective when the updated Privacy Statement is posted on the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network website; provided, however, that (i) information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the provisions of this Privacy Statement that applied at the time the information was collected, and (ii) no such change shall be applicable to any dispute between you and us that arises prior to the time such change is effective. Accordingly, you should visit this page periodically to review its provisions. Your continued use of the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network following the posting of changes to this Privacy Statement will mean you accept those changes.
*The Cash for Clunkers Automotive Network includes:
www.CashForClunkersHeadquarters.com, www.ConsumerAssistanceToRecycleAndSave.org, www.Clunkerz.com,
www.DineroPorSuCarcacha.com, and
any other Web site that we identify as a part of the Cash For Clunkers Automotive Network.
Revised June 23, 2009











