Online Security Statement
At Car Financial Services, Inc., we recognize the importance of safeguarding your information, and accordingly have adopted this Online Security statement to serve as the basis for our online security policies and procedures. It demonstrates our commitment to providing protection to visitors of our web site. The following information is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard information you may provide to us at, or to others through, our web site and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. We have also included copies of our Dealer Privacy Policy and Consumer Privacy Policy on this page for your information.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our web site you may provide two types of information: (1) information you knowingly choose to disclose which is collected on an individual dealer basis and (2) web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site. If you choose to correspond with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and all responses sent through our web site. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications as we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.
How Do We Use Information We Collect From Cookies and Web Server Logs?
Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us track the various paths followed by users of our web site as they move from one page to another while on our site. This is explained in more detail in the website Terms of Use section of our site. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our web site and evaluate our web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual e-mail address or any personally identifying information about you.
How Do We Use the Other Information that
You Provide To Us?
If you provide personally identifying information to us, such as by email correspondence with us, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our web site, new services offered by Car Financial Services and its related companies and special offers we think you may find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of personal information. You have the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send application information through our web site, a secure server software which we have licensed from Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) encrypts all information you input before it is sent. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches its destination. Other e-mail that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as social security or account numbers through an unsecured e-mail. Sensitive communications should be transmitted by calling toll free 1-800-984-9188.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security. We utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection Practices. Periodically, our operations and business practices are reviewed for compliance with corporate policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and Expectations. Our corporate values, ethical standards, policies and practices are committed to the protection of your information. In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information and the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we may collect online and maintain in our database by calling toll free 1-800-984-9188. You may request that we correct or modify your personally identifiable information by calling toll free 1-800-984-9188 and providing documentation or information that credibly demonstrates the error in your personal information.
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, web site traffic patterns and related web site information to our related companies or reputable unrelated third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data. All unrelated companies that may have authorized access to information have agreed to treat such information confidentially.
How Do We Protect Children?
We do not knowingly solicit data from nor knowingly market to children. Our web site is directed to existing and potential business partners. Parents can use various readily available software packages to prevent their children from accessing web sites which they deem to be inappropriate. Parents can choose to utilize this and other methods to limit the web sites to which their children have access.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to the Car Financial Services Web Site?
We are not responsible for the information practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site. Please see the Terms of Use page for more information. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, our online security and privacy policy statements are no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site’s own rules and policies. Please read those rules and policies carefully before proceeding to use such sites.
Your Consent
By using our web site, you consent to our collection and use of information as described in this Privacy Policy statement. If we change our online security and privacy policies or procedures, we will post those changes on our web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.