Privacy Policy

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This policy will let you know:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;
2. What cookies are and how they are used;
3. How your information is used;
4. Who is collecting your information;
5. With whom your information may be shared;
6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;
7. What else you should know about your online privacy;

NOTICE: Click here for important information about safe surfing from the Federal Trade Commission.

What personally identifiable information does SafeCarGuide.com collect from me?

SafeCarGuide.com does not collect personally identifiable information from our users, although our server log files collect individual URLs.

What are cookies and how does SafeCarGuide.com use them?

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. We don't use cookies, although advertising networks that serve ads onto SafeCarGuide.com may use their own cookies. You have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies.

Automotive-Links.com also collects IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.

Third Party Advertising

We use MaxWorldwide and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

Third Party Cookies

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.

How does SafeCarGuide.com use my information?

SafeCarGuide.com uses data provided to us from our server log files to provide aggregated information useful to our advertisers and business partners.

In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, SafeCarGuide.com is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you. In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, SafeCarGuide.com plays the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 35 years old). SafeCarGuide.com takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting that criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads and pop-up ads.

Who is collecting information?

SafeCarGuide.com collects information only through its server log files.

Please be aware that SafeCarGuide.com advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those web sites linked to SafeCarGuide.com are not covered by this privacy statement.

Promotions that run on SafeCarGuide.com may be sponsored by companies other than SafeCarGuide.com or may be cosponsored by SafeCarGuide.com and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

With whom does SafeCarGuide.com share my information?

As a general rule, SafeCarGuide.com will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below..

Business Partners & Sponsors: SafeCarGuide.com may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Some or all data collected during a SafeCarGuide.com promotion may be shared with a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.

Merchants listed in SafeCarGuide.com: Each Merchant has separate privacy and data collection practices. SafeCarGuide.com has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on their information link.

Data in the Aggregate: SafeCarGuide.com discloses aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: SafeCarGuide.com may also disclose user information in special cases when we have 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) SafeCarGuide.com' rights or property, other SafeCarGuide.com users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. SafeCarGuide.com may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain and improve our products and services.

What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

On some types of SafeCarGuide.com promotions, we will ask for your email address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related email, unless you choose the no-email option that some promotions offer.

SafeCarGuide.com does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions or contests.

Additional Information

• Electronic Frontier Foundation - a civil liberties organization working to protect your rights online.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center - established to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
• Privacy Issues Page - from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
• The EPIC Cookies Page - definitions, links, and news.
• How to Protect Your Privacy - information from the Federal Trade Commission.

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