Privacy is the ability of
an individual or group to stop information about themselves from
becoming known to people other than those whom they choose to
give the information. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity
although it is often most highly valued by people who are
publicly known. Privacy can be seen as an aspect of security,
one in which trade-offs between the interests of one group and
another can become particularly clear.
The right against unsanctioned intrusion of privacy by the
government, corporations or individuals is part of many
countries' laws, and in some cases, constitutions or privacy
laws. Almost all countries have laws which in some way limit
privacy, for example taxation normally requires passing on
information about earnings. In some countries individual privacy
may conflict with freedom of speech laws and some laws may
require public disclosure of information which would be
considered private in other countries and cultures.
Privacy may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally in exchange for
perceived benefits, but often with little benefit and very often
with specific dangers and losses. An example of voluntary
sacrifice is entering a competition; a person gives personal
details (often for advertising purposes), so they have a chance
of winning a prize. Another example is where information
voluntarily shared is later stolen or misused such as in
identity theft.
Here at TextingnDriving your privacy is very important to us,
and you can rest assured that we will never divulge any
information of any kind that is considered private by you. This
means that we will never rent, trade, or sell any of our clients
personal data. Thank you for visiting TextingnDriving.
TEXTINGNDRIVING.COM CONSUMER PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY - Date
Last Revised: 07/02/10
TextingnDriving.com understands your concern with privacy and
the use of your personal information. Whether you submiting
something or simply browsing through our website, we assure you
that we are committed to protecting your personal privacy.
This privacy and security policy discloses the privacy practices
for http://wwwTextingnDriving.com. If you have questions or
concerns regarding this policy, you should first contact us by
e-mail at ronnielandry@gmail.com.
1. Information TextingnDriving.com Collects
TextingnDriving.com collects email addresses of consumers who
communicate with us or through our authorized vendors via
e-mail. We also collect information on web pages visited and
other information that is provided by consumers either on our
site or in response to e-mail communications from us. We also
collect information provided to us by consumers in purchase
requests submitted through our site or our authorized vendors'
sites ("Purchase Request Information"). Purchase Request
Information typically includes name, address, and phone numbers,
e-mail address and specific vehicle information. In addition,
consumers who express a desire to apply for vehicle financing
provide us with and authorize us or our affiliate web sites to
obtain from third parties necessary financial information such
as credit reports ("Finance Information"). We do not provide
financing, but instead transmit those requests to third-party
vendors for consideration.
All information provided by consumers in any of the above-listed
ways or otherwise becomes the property of TextingnDriving.com
once received by us and may be used and disclosed as permitted
in this Policy.
Framed Sections of Our Site
TextingnDriving.com maintains relationships with outside service
providers for some of the products and services offered through
our site. Certain of these service providers are found on our
Finance, Insurance, Warranty, or other pages. The information
these providers make available may be presented in a "framed"
format, where the TextingnDriving.com border will surround the
pages served by the service providers, or by directly linking
the user to the vendors' sites. In either case, the service
provider is prominently identified. Please be aware that any
information you provide on those framed pages is provided
directly to those service providers and is subject to their
security and privacy policies. We encourage you to read the
privacy policies of these outside service providers because
their privacy practices may differ from ours.
Browsing on our Website
If you browse through our site without entering any personal
data, we will gather and store certain information about your
visit. This information does not identify you personally and
cannot be linked back to you unless you decide at some point to
identify yourself.
If you are only browsing, we collect the following information:
IP address, the type of browser and operating system used to
access our site, the date and time you access our site, the
pages you visit (click-through), and if you linked to our Web
site from another Web site, the address of that Web site, as
well as additional information related to your visit.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
Collected information is used to improve the content of our
website, customize the content or layout of our website for
individual users, provide services requested, notify users of
updates to the site and, subject to the limitations set forth
below, to develop new products and services and to contact
consumers for marketing purposes.
Personalization
TextingnDriving.com offers its users the advantage of
personalization on our website by using cookies. (See Cookies
below.) Personalized services are offered in designated areas of
our website to users who register with us. Examples of
personalization include providing information when prompted for
services, the recordation of used vehicle searches for easy
updates, and the provision of service reminders and recall
information for those users who request these options.
TextingnDriving.com may track consumer interest in goods and
services marketed to users who are members of the on-site
personalization area. This information is used solely by
TextingnDriving.com and its affiliated companies for business
purposes.
Purchase Request Information and Finance Information
Purchase Request Information is used to transmit to third
parties requests for products or services and to contact
consumers regarding vehicle purchases. Similarly, Finance
Information is used to transmit to third parties requests for
vehicle financing. Typically, in either case the information is
transmitted to dealers, manufacturers, lenders or fulfillment
entities, as applicable, who may be in a position to respond to
your request. As part of the request process, we may verify the
information you provide, or obtain omitted address or other
contact information, from third parties.
Occasionally, in the case of Purchase Request Information or
Finance Information, when TextingnDriving.com. or its affiliates
does not have a dealership or lender available to assist you, we
may forward your request information to a dealer or lender
through another automotive referral service. Your submission of
the request authorizes us to do this. Any Purchase Request
Information or Finance Information forwarded in this way becomes
subject to the security and privacy policies that are posted on
the websites of those referral services.
Similarly, Purchase Request or Finance Information transmitted
to a dealer, manufacturer, lender or fulfillment entity becomes
the property of that dealer, manufacturer, lender or fulfillment
entity, in addition to TextingnDriving.com. The information is
used to process your purchase request or financing application
and to provide you with information about goods and services.
Any request to opt out of future dealer, lender, manufacturer or
other third-party communications must be made directly to that
third party.
Other Uses
We also share your personal information with our affiliated
companies in order to identify products or services in which you
may have interest, to improve our user experience and generally
to engage in market research and for other internal business
purposes. We also may aggregate your personal information with
others' information and prepare reports on site usage, purchase
history or other factors for sale or distribution to others.
Those reports are aggregated and include no personally
identifying information. Finally, we may use your personal
information to send you email or postal communications regarding
products or services offered by us or by third parties with whom
we have relationships in which we think you may be interested.
We do not share, sell, trade, or rent your personal information
to third parties for unknown reasons.
3. Third Parties That May Receive Your Personal Information
In addition to our own internal uses of your information, we may
provide your personal information to non-affiliated third
parties under one of several circumstances:
To provide you with services or products that you have requested
(such as, for example, transmittal of Purchase Request
Information to dealers, manufacturers, fulfillment third-parties
and other automotive referral services, or transmittal of
Finance Information to potential lenders);
To our advertiser clients solely to assess the effectiveness of
ad campaigns we have provided for them;
To contractors or service providers who may provide services or
perform functions on our behalf, in which case those service
providers may use your information only for the purposes
provided and not disclose it to any third party except upon our
direction;
To enforce our rights or as required by law or order of a court
or government agency; and
On occasion, unless you opt-out (as described below), to other
third parties who may wish to send you e-mails regarding
services or products that you may find of interest or for other
reasons that are disclosed to us and that we believe to be
appropriate and consistent with our commitment to prevent abuse
of your personal information.
4. Your Right To Opt Out of Communications From Us and Others
You always have the option of removing yourself from further
marketing contact from us. If at any time you choose to opt out
of any category of email, you can click on the remove link at
the bottom of the e-mail. Alternatively, you may email Customer
Service at ronnielandry@gmail.com with the word "Remove" in the
subject line and we will remove you from all further email and
postal mail marketing communication within 5 business days. In
addition, those consumers who submit a purchase request or
financing request to us are given the opportunity at the time
they provide their information to decide what types of offerings
of products or services they wish to receive or to opt-out.
In each case, even if you decide not to receive offers or other
product or service information, TextingnDriving.com and its
member dealers may use a phone number or email address that you
have provided to contact you regarding your purchase request for
a vehicle. Additionally, phone numbers may be used to conduct
customer surveys regarding individual experiences with
TextingnDriving.com-accredited dealers. Phone numbers are made
available only to TextingnDriving.com, its affiliates and member
dealers, lenders or manufacturers who receive your purchase
request.
The submission of a purchase or financing request itself is
permission for us to submit your Purchase Request Information or
Finance Information (as applicable) to the third parties
necessary to fulfill your request.
5. Security
TextingnDriving.com understands the importance of security for
our consumers. We use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption
technology to protect personal data such as credit card
information and finance or insurance application information
during transmission, and maintain other commercially reasonable
precautions to protect information that we store or retain.
6. Corrections or Changes to Your Personal Information
You may also make corrections and updates to your personal
information by contacting ronnielandry@gmail.com.
7. Cookies and Web Beacons
TextingnDriving.com offers consumers the convenience of online
personalization by using cookies. Cookies are alphanumeric
identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive
through your web browser. When this information is stored on
your hard drive, our system is able to recognize your browser
and in turn customize web page content for you. (See
Personalization)
Cookies cannot be used to retrieve data from your hard drive,
obtain your email address or obtain sensitive information about
you. When a cookie is set, your browser will check it for
length, an expiration date, and where it originated. Only
TextingnDriving.com can access the cookies that we set.
TextingnDriving.com allows our ad service company to set cookies
as well. These cookies can "recognize" a consumer by a Unique
identifier assigned at the time of the first visit, and may be
used to measure site and page visits and browser version number,
and browsing activity. This information may be used to better
serve and provide advertising content on future visits and web
pages viewed during your browser sessions on our websites. These
cookies cannot obtain private information like name, e-mail or
other personal information, and are not shared with
TextingnDriving.com.
We use a third party tracking service who sets cookies on our
site to track visits, page views and click stream behavior. The
third party tracking service reports this data to us in
aggregate so we can better understand our users and to improve
our site. This information is not tied to any individual user.
If you prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will explain
how to disable cookies under the help portion of the toolbar or
notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, if you choose
to disallow cookies on your hard drive, our Web site will not be
able to provide personalization services.
We also place "web beacons" on the website on behalf of third
parties. A web beacon is a small, transparent image placed at
various sections of our site to monitor user traffic. The web
beacon records the number of click-throughs to the page where it
resides and collects users' IP addresses, time the page was
viewed, type of browser used, and existence of cookies from a
previous visit. However, the data collected by our web beacons
are used only in aggregated form, with no associated identifying
information, and TextingnDriving.com does not tie IP addresses
to individual users or disclose the IP addresses to any
non-affiliated third party. Information collected by web beacons
is used only by TextingnDriving.com, its affiliates and
authorized vendors. If you do not wish such information to be
collected, you can choose to deactivate cookies on your browser.
8. Changes or Revisions to This Policy
If we are going to use your personally identifying information
in a manner different from that stated in our privacy policy at
the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will
have a choice as to whether or not to allow us to use your
information in this different manner. In addition, if we make
any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect
user information already stored in our database, we will revise
this policy and update the date displayed at the top of this
policy to reflect that the policy has been changed. In some
cases we will also e-mail users who have opted to receive
communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our
privacy practices.
In the event TextingnDriving.com or its assets are acquired,
such as through merger, acquisition or similar event, resulting
in a change in ultimate control over customers' personal
information (other than through an internal corporate
reorganization or similar transaction), customers will be
notified promptly of such change. We will make reasonable
efforts to ensure that the acquirer of our customers' personal
information respects the provisions of this privacy policy,
although this may not be possible in certain legal settings
(such as bankruptcy).
9. Questions or Concerns?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy,
security, opting-out of e-mail offers or understanding how your
personal information is being used, please contact ronnielandry@gmail.com.
NOTHING IN THIS PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY IS INTENDED TO
CREATE OR PROVIDE ANY RIGHT OF ACTION FOR VIOLATION.
For any other issues, please contact our customer service
department at ronnielandry@gmail.com