Privacy, Trust and Terminology:
BayAreaAutoAuctions.com values its users tremendously, and we feel that privacy and trust are paramount. We recognize that you may be concerned about the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that we may collect when you use our site, also referred to in this policy as “the Website.” This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, how we collect this information, and what we do with it after we collect it. By using the Website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. As always, we appreciate feedback. If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Personally Identifiable Information:
If you fill out a form on our website we will use your personally identifiable information, such as your email address, to contact you regarding your inquiry. If you join our newsletter and request information about auctions you will receive auction notifications from us, which may also contain promotional links from our sponsors that are relevant to car buying, financing, etc. We may also share your email address with our trusted partners for the purpose of recommending relevant products and services we feel may benefit you.
Links to Other Websites:
Some of the clickable links on our website or in our newsletter may take you to other websites which are owned and operated by other organizations, auctioneers, agencies, etc. These websites are evaluated to ensure quality and functionality, however these websites have their own Privacy Policies which can be viewed on their websites. We have no control over those websites so please use proper diligence if you provide them with your information.
Newsletter/Mailing List:
Our newsletter is powered by Aweber. If you have signed up for our newsletter you can view information about how your information is kept safe here:http://www.aweber.com/permission.htm
Non-Personally Identifiable Information:
We may collect non-personally identifiable information in order to help us understand how you found and use our website (search engine and link tracking). This helps us analyze the effectiveness of our search engine presence, ads, and other sources of traffic. We may collect non-personal information from you, such as your browser type, the URL of the previous website you visited, your ISP, operating system, and your Internet protocol (IP) Address (“Non-Personal Information”). Non-Personal Information cannot be easily used to personally identify you.
Like the operators of most websites, we may use analytic and reporting technologies to record Non-Personal Information such as Internet domain and host names, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser software, operating system types, clickstream patterns, and the dates and times that the Website pages are accessed. We may also contract with online partners to help manage, monitor and optimize our Website and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising, communications and how visitors use the Website. To do this, we may use web beacons and cookies.
Cookies and Web Beacons:
A “cookie” is a very small text file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Most websites use cookies. We may use cookies to track your use of the Website, specifically what pages you visit and in what order, to help us understand how we can improve the overall user experience.
A “web beacon” is an often-transparent graphic image, usually no larger than a tiny pixel that is placed on a web page or in an e-mail that is used to monitor the behavior of the user visiting the Website or receiving the e-mail. Cookies and web beacons we use are not linked to Personal Information.
Conversion Tracking and Pixels:
Third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by following the steps here: hhttp://www.aboutads.info/choices/
Advertisements:
We may also use third party advertisements on BayAreaAutoAuctions.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies:
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (“interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
Options:
You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, please be aware that this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. You can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting by following the steps here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
You may be able to access third party websites belonging to other website operators directly from the Website. This Privacy Policy does not apply when you access third party websites. We cannot control how third parties may use Personal Information you disclose to them, so you should carefully review the privacy policy of any third party website you visit before using it or disclosing your Personal Information to its provider.
Changes:
We may make changes to the Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting a notice on the home page of the Website. If you receive notification of a change in our Privacy Policy, please review the new Privacy Policy carefully to make sure you understand our practices and procedures.
Policy Regarding Children Under the Age of 13:
BayAreaAutoAuctions.com complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA requires that web site operators never knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. BayAreaAutoAuctions.com is not intended for children under the age of 13, and BayAreaAutoAuctions.com does not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we discover personal data from a child under the age of 13, we will eliminate that data. You are not permitted to use the Website if you are under the age of 13. By using BayAreaAutoAuctions.com in any way, you agree to provide us with accurate information concerning your age or identity if we request it. You also agree not to assist children under the age of 13 in accessing BayAreaAutoAuctions.com or to attempt to contact children under 13 through the Website.