Our Privacy Policy
As a valued prospective customer, or customer, we
want to provide you with our policy regarding use of your information
and our privacy policy.
By using our website or any of our offerings,
products or services that we may provide, you agree to the terms of the
Privacy Policy.
We are not responsible for the privacy or use of any
information you reveal or post in any public forum or other websites;
nor are we responsible for any of the privacy practices of websites
that are operated, hosted, controlled or owned by any third parties.
TRUST CERTIFICATION ?
The purchase of a motor vehicle requires us to
obtain, verify and process nonpublic personal information. Most of the
information we obtain is required by Federal and State Laws to better
protect your true identity and to reduce instances of identity theft
and fraud. Other information we collect may be used to determine your
credit worthyness, and we may also obtain information from a
credit-reporting agencies, and third parties such as employers,
references and insurance companies.
Even cash purchases require that we obtain some
non-public information from you to confirm proper reporting to Federal
and State Agencies and compliance with OFAC and other Federal Laws.
What information do we collect:
We collect information from you when you use our web
site, enter information on our site, place an order, subscribe to our
newsletter, respond to our survey or fill out a form on our website.
In order to use our web site tools any data that you
provide will be deemed voluntarily provided at your sole option and
decision to do so.
When requesting information or registering on our
site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter and provide: your name,
email address, mailing address, phone numbers, non-public personal
financial information such as credit score, credit history, income
level, past, present and status of debts you owe or have owed in the
past, age and date of birth, business and employment information,
sources of income and previous employers and educational history,
credit references, family or friends references.
As is the common practice, we as most web sites, use
cookies and Action Tags to enhance your experience, gather general
visitor information, and your visits to our website. Please refer to
the ‘cookies” section below for more information about cookies and how
we use them.
We may also collect information that by itself may
not be used to personally identify you, such as demographic, vehicle
history or vehicle driving habits, IP addresses, browser types, domain
names, and other statistical data involving the use of our website.
This non-personal information may be used to help us
to better understand who uses our website and to improve and market
our website in general and our products and services, in particular.
We may also collect non-personal identifiable
information by the use of internet log files which record data such as
your IP address, browser types, domain names and other statistical
data. This information may be used to analyze trends, to assist in the
administration of the website, to monitor the website and to gather
demographic information.
Email or Refer a Friend
If you so request, we will automatically send your
friend an e-mail containing the information you requested that we send,
and if you so provide, we will use that person’s nonpublic personal
information.
How do we use your information:
Any of your provided information we collect from you may be used in any of the following ways:
Personalize your interaction with use and better respond to your requests and individual needs and concerns:
To improve our website and our offered services and products based on your feedback
To improve customer service to more effectively respond to your requests.
To process transactions
To send periodic emails and notices to the email you
have provided that may involve updates, company and product news and
updates and promotions of related products or services.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site features.
How we protect your information:
We implement a variety of security measures to
maintain the safety of your personal information. We safeguard
nonpublic information according to industry procedures. We maintain
physical and electronic safeguards that comply with State and Federal
law. We reasonably restrict access to your nonpublic information to
only those employees, agents or outside contractors/vendors whom need
to know the information to provide product or service to you. We
prohibit by policy our employees and agents from disseminating
nonpublic information about you to others in a way that would violate
applicable law or our Privacy Policy.
If applicable, we will reasonably provide a variety
of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal
information that you provide.
Some but not all and at some but not all instances
we use a variety of security measures including password protected
databases, SSL (Secure Sockets :layered) technology to endure that your
information is reasonably encrypted. We also use a reasonably secure
server and only allow those authorized limited access to our data bases
and require the information to be confidential.
Cookies and Action Tags: As noted we use them and
they are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to
your computers if you so allow that enables the sites or service
providers systems to recognize your information and capture and recall
certain information, and used to identify your web browser, activities
of your computer on our website and your activity regarding our
promotional efforts.
We may also use cookies to conduct marketing and
promotional programs for our commercial use, better address
advertisements and promotions to your browser that may be of interest to
you, or to determine the popularity of some of our products and
services.
We may link the information stored in the cookies to
personally identify information you have provided. There may be
instances when third parties place cookies on your computer and if so
you should consult the Privacy Policies of any of those third parties.
Action Tags also known as GIF tags are used to help
track anonymous website usage information. Action Tags are invisible to
you, and any portion of the website including commercial promotions or
e-mail sent on our behalf, may contain action tags. Unlike cookies,
action tags are not placed on your computer.
Disclosure of information:
As noted, as allowable by law we may sell trade or
otherwise share obtained information to third parties who assist us in
operating our website, conducting our business, and providing services
to you, provided those third party’s agree to keep this information
reasonably confidential and safeguarded. We may also release information
when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law, lawful
process or court order, enforce our site policies, or ours or others
rights, property and safety.
At times some website visitor information may be
provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, promotional or
other uses.
Affiliates:
We may disclose information including nonpublic
personally indefinable information about you to our Affiliates, which
means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is
controlled by or is under common control with NYAutoGiant, whether by
ownership, contract, management or otherwise. Any information relating
to you that we provide to our affiliates will by treated by those
affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may
share your information with our affiliates.
Outside Contractors/Third Party Vendors:
We may through the website offer you opportunities
to obtain products and services related to our offerings, such as
payment processing, fraud screening and detection and other applications
to the website including e-mail services. These outside contractors
may have access to collected information including non-public personal
information that you have provided. We will reasonably limit this
information to information reasonably necessary for the performance of
its functions provided to us.
We require these parties to reasonably protect the
privacy of your provided information and provide reasonable safeguards
to limit the unauthorized access to your provided information. Further,
those parties are not to use or disclose your nonpublic provided
information for any purposes other than those for which are reasonably
related to perform its services on our behalf.
Third Party Links:
We may include or offer third party products or
services on our website. Third party websites have separate and
independent privacy notices. We have no control or responsibility for
its content and activities.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We do not actively solicit nor transact business
with consumers residing in California. As such, if you are a consumer
residing in California we will reasonably endeavor to not intentionally
distribute your personal information to outside third parties without
your consent.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are reasonably in compliance with the
requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do
not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our
website, products and services are all offered to people who are have
attained the age of for a driver’s license and have reached the age of
lawful contractual capacity for the State of New York, 18 years of age
or older.
We urge all parents or guardians to participate in their children’s
exploration of the Internet and to teach and moiniter their children’s
usage and protect their nonpublic personal information.
CAN-SPAM Compliance
We have taken the reasonably necessary steps to
ensure that we are complaint with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 by not
sending out misleading information.
Online Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is in addition to the Privacy
Notice Policy provided for non-public consumer information collected
off-line. Annexed hereto and made a part hereof as an attachment is a
copy of our off-line Privacy Policy and its terms and conditions are
incorporated herein and made a part hereof as if fully reiterated
herein.
Sale of Business:
We reserve the right to transfer all your provided
information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger or other
transfer of all or substantially all of our assets and/or stock,
provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this
Privacy Policy as promulgated and effective on the date of
sale/transfer.
Your Consent:
By using our website, you consent to our use of your
provided information and to our privacy policy. Notwithstanding our
reasonable efforts to safeguard and protect against the unauthorized use
of any information you provided to us, you are advised and agree there
are always risks that others could find a way to thwart our
safeguards. As a result, we cannot and do not guarantee or promise that
under all circumstances and situations your provided information will
remain private and not compromised by unlawful or unauthorized acts of
others. Your use of our website and your submission of your information
will and is at all times done so at your own risk attendant with these
known risks.
Subsequent Restrictions:
By using our website and providing your nonpublic
information to us via the website you consent our use of same,
consistent with this Privacy Policy.
If you subsequently no longer wish to receive
communications from us you may notify us at the address and contact
provided below.
Be aware that it is not technologically possible to
remove each and every record and information you have provided to us
from our systems and data bases. The need to back-up our systems to
protect information from inadvertent loss request that copies of your
provided information may still exist in non-erasable form that will be
difficult or impossible for us to locate. We will take reasonably
practicable steps to comply with your requests.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post any of those changes on this page. This policy was last modified
on 2/3/2012
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy policy you may contact us using the information below:
Alexis Bezdelguina 1-631-789-2700 ext. 232
Michael Fariello 1-631-789-2700 ext. 314
Julissa Cruz 1-631-789-2700 ext. 319
Paul Lawal 1-631-789-2700 ext. 233
BY USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT AND ACCEPT THE TERMS OF OUR PRIVACY
POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS HEREOF, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OUR
WEBSITE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF OUR WEBSITE FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF
ANY CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY WILL MEAN THAT YOU CONSENT AND
ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES IN WHOLE, AS WELL.
Last Modified: 2/3/2012
© 2012 NYAUTOGIANT and Karl C. Seman, Attorney at Law