AutoDirection takes your privacy
seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our
privacy policy.
What This Privacy Policy Covers
This policy
covers how AutoDirection treats personal information that
AutoDirection collects and receives, including information
related to your past use of AutoDirection products and services.
Personal information is information about you that is personally
identifiable like your name, address, email address, or
phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices of companies
that AutoDirection does not own or control, or to people that
AutoDirection does not employ or manage.
Information Collection and Use
General
AutoDirection
collects personal information when you register with AutoDirection,
when you use AutoDirection products or services, when you
visit AutoDirection pages or the pages of certain AutoDirection
partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes.
AutoDirection may combine information about you that we
have with information we obtain from business partners or
other companies.
When you register
we ask for information such as your name, email address,
birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and
personal interests. For some financial products and services
we may also ask for your address, Social Security number,
and information about your assets. Once you register with
AutoDirection and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous
to us.
AutoDirection
collects information about your transactions with us and
with some of our business partners, including information
about your use of financial products and services that we
offer.
AutoDirection
automatically receives and records information on our server
logs from your browser, including your IP address, AutoDirection
cookie information, and the page you request.
AutoDirection
uses information for the following general purposes: to
customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your
requests for products and services, improve our services,
contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting
for internal and external clients.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
AutoDirection
does not rent, sell, or share personal information about
you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except
to provide products or services you've requested, when we
have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
We provide
the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of
or with AutoDirection under confidentiality agreements.
These companies may use your personal information to help
AutoDirection communicate with you about offers from AutoDirection
and our marketing partners. However, these companies do
not have any independent right to share this information.
We respond to subpoenas, court
orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our
legal rights or defend against legal claims;
We believe
it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected
fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical
safety of any person, violations of AutoDirection's terms
of use, or as otherwise required by law.
We transfer
information about you if AutoDirection is acquired by or
merged with another company. In this event, AutoDirection
will notify you before information about you is transferred
and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
AutoDirection
may display targeted advertisements based on personal information.
Advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume
that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted
ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, men ages
28-35 from a particular geographic area.
AutoDirection
does not provide any personal information to the advertiser
when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by
interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to
the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption
that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the
ad.
AutoDirection
advertisers include financial service providers (such as
banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders)
and non-financial companies (such as stores, airlines, and
software companies, vs.).
Cookies
AutoDirection may set and access
AutoDirection cookies on your computer.
AutoDirection
lets other companies that show advertisements on some of
our pages set and access their cookies on your computer.
Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their
own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other
companies do not have access to AutoDirection's cookies.
AutoDirection uses web beacons
to access AutoDirection cookies inside and outside our network
of web sites and in connection with AutoDirection products
and services.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information
and Preferences
General
You can edit your AutoDirection
Account Information at any time.
Certain communications
from AutoDirection, such as service announcements, administrative
messages and the AutoDirection Newsletter, are considered
part of AutoDirection membership and you may not opt out
of receiving them.
We do not allow to delete your
AutoDirection account right now. It can experi but still stay
in our archive.
Confidentiality and Security
We limit access
to personal information about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact with that information
to provide products or services to you or in order to do
their jobs.
We have physical, electronic,
and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations
to protect personal information about you.
Your AutoDirection Account Information
is password-protected.
In certain areas AutoDirection
uses industry-standard SSLencryption to protect data transmissions.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
AutoDirection
may update this policy. We will notify you about significant
changes in the way we treat personal information by sending
a notice to the primary email address specified in your
AutoDirection account or by placing a prominent notice on
our site.
Questions and Suggestions
If you have questions or suggestions, please contact
us at: AutoDirection Inc.
