This Privacy Statement is
provided by Autobytel UK Ltd (referred to as "us", "our" or "we" in this
statement) for the information of visitors (referred to as "you" or "your" in
this statement) to our web site.
We wish to demonstrate our firm commitment to your rights to privacy. This is
why we have drawn up the privacy guidelines set out below. You will probably
appreciate that these guidelines will need to change over time. We will post
changes to this page when such changes are necessary.
- Governing Law
The information contained in this Privacy Statement shall be
governed and construed in accordance with English law and be subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
- Who are we?
This web site is owned and controlled by Autobytel UK Ltd. The
full postal address is:
The Data Controller
Inchcape House
Langford Lane
Kidlington
Oxford
OX5 1HT
Telephone: 0845 125 5900
Fax: 01865 849 4152
E-mail address: contact-centre@autobytel.co.uk
Autobytel UK Ltd is registered in England and
Wales. The company registration number is 3470555. The registered office
of the company is Inchcape House, Langford Lane, Kidlington
Oxford, OX5 1HT.
- Data Protection Act
Autobytel UK Ltd has notified the Data Protection Commissioner
under the terms of the Data Protection Act that it may obtain information about
data subjects.
- Information gathered by us
You will appreciate that we need to gather some personal
information from you when you wish to buy our products or services. The full
details of the information we need is set out on the relevant forms throughout
the site.
- Any information that is gathered from visitors to or customers of this web
site is not sold, made available to, or otherwise distributed to third parties
for any purpose unless you give us permission to do so.
- We may, on occasions, collect additional personal information from surveys
and contests, which you will be under no obligation fill in or return to us.
- The information you provide will enable us to provide information about our
company to you and to contact you. We will only provide this information where
you indicate that you wish to receive further information from us on a regular
basis.
- We also collect demographic and profile data on our web site. This
information may be combined with other forms of information to permit us to
bring together, in aggregate form, information about the people who use our web
site. Such information will enable us to understand, in general terms, user
preferences in relation to the content of the web site and the effectiveness of
the advertising.
- Information that is automatically logged
When you enter our web site, we use your
Internet protocol ("IP") address to help diagnose problems with our server, to
administer our web site and to help identify you. We also have the ability to
know what type of operating system and browser software you use and to identify
the geographical location of your browser. Your IP address is also used by us to
gather broad demographic information and for other purposes, such as monitoring
visitor frequency.
- Cookies
You may be aware that there is a
technology called "cookies". This is a file that is transferred from the web
site to the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies to track your activities
on our web site. A cookie will not allow a web site operator to obtain
information of a personal nature that will identify yourself to us, such as your
name and address. We will only be aware of such information if you provide the
information to us or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide
this information automatically.
- What we do with the information we collect
The information in aggregate form permits
us to carry out an analysis of user behaviour in general. This allows us to
measure overall interest in our web site and to help us develop the web site to
make it more interesting in general terms. We will also be able to inform
advertisers how many users have clicked on to the various advertisements
displayed on our web site. The analysis we perform does not include any personal
information provided by you. We merely use the aggregate form of the information
for these purposes. We will not provide any personal information to any third
party unless you give us specific authority to do so.
You have the option on the relevant order form to indicate whether you wish
to receive promotional e-mail about the services that we and our advertisers
offer. We will not send you any such promotional e-mail if you do not indicate
your agreement to receive such information.
- Sharing information
We share the information we gather with advertisers
and other partners. The information we share comprises information in aggregate
form only. We do not share personal information about anybody unless we have
your specific permission to do so.
- Registration and order forms, surveys and contests
Our order forms, surveys and contests
ask you to provide us with your contact details, such as name, postal and e-mail
addresses.
The information you provide will enable us to provide information about our
company to you and to contact you. We will only provide this information where
you indicate that you wish to receive further information from us on a regular
basis.
- Telling you what information we hold about you
If you wish to know what information
we hold about you, please contact us. We will only send this information to the
address we have on file.
- Removing and correcting information
If you request the removal of your personal
information from our database or you wish us to amend or change the information
we hold about you on our database, we will remove or amend any such information
on your contacting us to request such a change (see point 2 for our full contact
details).
- Data quality
You may change and modify the information you have
previously provided to us by contacting us (see point 2 for our full contact
details).
- Contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, about
how we run the web site or concerning your dealings with our web site, please
send an e-mail to us at contact-centre@autobytel.co.uk.
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