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PRIVACY STATEMENT

Auto Buyers Consumer Services Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Auto Buyers Consumer Services (the “Broker”) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from Users of this Website.

Broker is committed to safeguarding the information Users entrust to Broker, and it believes every User should know how Broker utilizes the information collected from the Website. This Website is not directed at children under 13 years of age.

Personal Information We Collect

Broker may collect personally identifiable information (name, title, phone number, email address, the source who referred customer to our service, information concerning the vehicle which customer desires to obtain, information concerning customers trade-in vehicle) from Users in a variety of ways, including through online forms for ordering products and services, and other instances where Users are invited to volunteer such information. Information gathered from the Website may be combined and stored in a single central source.

Other Information We Collect

Broker may also collect information about how Users use our Website, for example, by tracking the number of unique views received by the pages of the Website, the domains from which Users originate, and User IP addresses. We may use “cookies” to track how Users use our Website. Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier that could help a site identify the User should they visit the website again. While not all of the information that we collect is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information when Users specifically submit their information to our Website. If Broker chooses to display banner ads on the Website, cookies may be used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by advertising companies to deliver targeted ads and tracking referrals.

How We Use Information

Broker and its trusted affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners may use personally identifiable information collected through the Website to contact Users regarding products and services, and otherwise to enhance Users’ experiences with Broker and such affiliates, independent contractors and business partners. Broker may also use information collected through our Website for research regarding the effectiveness of the Website and the marketing, advertising and sales efforts of Broker, its trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners.

Disclosure of Information

Broker may disclose information collected from Users to trusted affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners who will use the information for the purposes outlined above. We may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from Users to investors and potential partners. Finally, we may transfer information collected from Users in connection with a sale of Broker’s business.

Broker may disclose any and all information collected from User, including personally identifiable information, to autobuyers.net in connection with the operation of this website, certain financing inquiries, certain data storage services, and other services provided to Broker by autobuyers.net. autobuyers.net shall use, distribute, and store the information in accordance with the privacy policy.

Broker also reserves the right to disclose information if: (1) the disclosure is necessary or useful to our provision of services; (2) we believe in good faith the disclosure is required by law (such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order); (3) we believe in good faith the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, interests, or property; or (4) we are acting in good faith to protect an individual’s personal safety.

Accuracy of Information

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL OUR BUSINESS OR OUR WEBSITE PROVIDER OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES WHATSOEVER THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES ARISING FROM MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DETERIORATION OR CORRUPTION OF FILES, DELETION OR CORRUPTION OF EMAIL, ERRORS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF PROFITS, DEFECTS, VIRUSES, AND/OR DELAYS.

Your California Privacy Rights

Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2013 will receive information regarding 2012 sharing activities).

To obtain this information on behalf of Broker, please send us an email message with “Request for California Privacy Information” on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response.

Updating Your Information

It is important that we keep the most accurate, up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, if you believe that our records contain information that needs to be updated, you can email us to correct or update your contact information.

Children’s Privacy

Broker is not designed to attract individuals under the age of 13. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe that Broker has any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the contact points specified below.

Privacy Policy Revisions

Broker reserves the right to periodically revise this policy. Broker may, at its sole discretion, provide notice of any such policy change on its homepage, but such notice may only be posted for a limited time. Users are responsible for checking our Privacy Policy regularly to see if we have made any modifications.

Questions

Users may direct questions concerning this Privacy Policy by email to info@autobuyers.net.

(Adopted 10/1/2016)