Privacy Policy
General
The following privacy policy describes the information that is collected by SAVE100BUCKS.COM and how that information is used. This privacy policy is effective as of November 16, 2009 and will remain in effect until such date as the policy may be modified by SAVE100BUCKS.COM in its sole discretion. Any such changes will be posted on the SAVE100BUCKS.COM website solely by modifying the privacy policy available on the site. Your use of the SAVE100BUCKS.COM web site constitutes your agreement to the privacy policy as in effect at that time.
Please know that SAVE100BUCKS.COM will not sell, rent or otherwise provide your personal information to any third party without your express, prior consent.
Information SAVE100BUCKS.COM Collects
You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to visit and use the site except, in certain circumstances, your zip code. In order to be eligible to “Save $100 bucks,” however, you must register by providing your name, email address and zip code. Also, in order to receive payment of any money from Save100Bucks.com you must also provide us with your mailing address. All such information provided to SAVE100BUCKS.COM is referred to herein as “Personal Information”. In addition, if you choose to register with SAVE100BUCKS.COM, we may collect certain information that you voluntarily decide to provide with regards to your intentions of buying a new or used car, how soon you plan to purchase a car, if you are considering buying or leasing the car and what make and model you are interested in.
Like most major websites, SAVE100BUCKS.COM uses “cookies.” A “cookie” is a small piece of text that a web server stores on your computer in order to make your experience better upon return visits to that website. For example, SAVE100BUCKS.COM uses a cookie to allow you to avoid having to provide your zip code each time you enter SAVE100BUCKS.COM into your Internet browser and to save the results of certain actions you take on SAVE100BUCKS.COM. In addition SAVE100BUCKS.COM uses cookies to aggregate information about our users to allow us to see how our visitors navigate the site in order to make improvements in the site’s design. Cookies are not a program and do not allow us to access any information on your computer other than the information that we initially placed there. We do not link this information to your personally identifiable information.
In addition, we have web logs which collect standard information each time we serve a page on the SAVE100BUCKS.COM site. The web logs provide SAVE100BUCKS.COM with information on our users Internet protocol address, the pages of SAVE100BUCKS.COM visited and a date and time stamp. This information allows us to administer the website and identify how it is being used.
Use of Information
If you provide us with your Personal Information and agree to receive offers, we may retain and use that information for several purposes such as providing information to various car dealers and similar uses as deemed necessary. For example, we may use your Personal Information to provide car dealers that are in our database with your specifications that match their inventor and your specifications. Further, your Personal Information may be used to ensure compliance with SAVE100BUCKS.COM’s policy, terms and conditions and applicable law. We may also use your Personal Information to make SAVE100BUCKS.COM easier for you to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing SAVE100BUCKS.COM to your particular location, preference or interests.
Opt-out Option
If you have chosen to receive communications by email from us but later wish to opt out of receiving such communications from us at any time, you can change your preference by logging in to SAVE100BUCKS.COM and changing your preference on your profile page. You may also contact us via the Contact Us form and advise us of your preference.
Maintenance of Information
Our web logs may be stored indefinitely. Although we use customary practices to store all information received from our users in a secure operating environment that is not available to the general public, no guarantee can be provided that such information might not become available to persons outside of SAVE100BUCKS.COM.
Disclosure of Information
Personal Information will be shared with auto dealers that participate on SAVE100BUCKS.COM if you submit such information as part of a request for a quote on a new vehicle or to receive additional information about a particular vehicle listed on our site by that dealer. We may also share with participating auto dealers information you choose to share with regards to your intentions of buying a new or used car, how soon you plan to purchase a car, if you are considering buying or leasing the car and what make and model you are interested in.
All information collected by SAVE100BUCKS.COM may be disclosed as required by law, by the rules of any governmental agency or if SAVE100BUCKS.COM otherwise becomes legally compelled (by oral questions, interrogatories, requests for information or documents, subpoena, civil investigative demand or similar process). SAVE100BUCKS.COM may also disclose such information as it deems necessary to enforce its rights, to ensure compliance with SAVE100BUCKS.COM Terms and Conditions and to avoid the violation of any party’s rights (including intellectual property rights, rights to privacy and rights not to be defamed in any way). Information may also be disclosed by SAVE100BUCKS.COM to law enforcement officers or others if SAVE100BUCKS.COM determines, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to protect the rights and safety of SAVE100BUCKS.COM’s employees, users and/or the public at large.
Linked Sites
As a courtesy to its users and to its participating auto dealers, SAVE100BUCKS.COM includes links to other sites. SAVE100BUCKS.COM has no control over such other sites and is not responsible for any content on such linked sites or for the use by such other sites of any information collected by those sites.