What personally identifiable information
does AutSmogTest.com.com collect from me?
AutSmogTest.com collects information in several
ways from different parts of our network of web sites.
Some personal information is gathered when you register.
During registration, AutSmogTest.com ! asks for your
name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation,
industry and personal interests. The more information
you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better
we are able to customize your experience. Once you register
you are no longer anonymous to AutSmogTest.com
! - you are given a AutSmogTest.com! ID and are able
to take full advantage of AutSmogTest.com!'s many offerings.
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal
information at other times, including (but not limited
to) when you enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion
sponsored by AutSmogTest.com ! and/or our many
partners; when you make a purchase using AutSmogTest.com
! Shopping; when you make travel arrangements using
AutSmogTest.com! Travel; when you post a AutSmogTest.com
Classified ad; when you submit a listing for a web site;
and when you report a problem with one of our sites
or services. If you contact AutSmogTest.com !
we may keep a record of that correspondence. AutSmogTest.com
! also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that
we use for research purposes. Wherever AutSmogTest.com
! collects personal information we make an effort to
include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
What are cookies and how does
AutSmogTest.com use them?
As part of offering and providing customizable and
personalized services, AutSmogTest.com uses cookies
to store and sometimes track information about you.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your
browser from a web server and stored on your computer's
hard drive. All sites on AutSmogTest.com where
you are prompted to log-in or that are customizable
require that you accept cookies. (See "What are
my choices regarding collection, use and distribution
of my information?" for more information on cookies.)
Generally, we use cookies to:
(1) Remind us of who you are and to access your account
information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver
to you a better and more personalized service. This
cookie is set when you register or "Sign In"
and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our
services. AutSmogTest.com also uses cookies to
store your zip code for other services, such as Yellow
Pages.
(2) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing
AutSmogTest.com is given a unique cookie which
is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage,
usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered
user, and to help target advertisements based on user
interests and behavior.
(3) Assist merchants in AutSmogTest.com Stores
to track visits to and business at their stores, and
to process the items in your shopping basket. This information
collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream"
or "click trail" and may also describe which
pages you have seen in each merchant's store.
(4) Track your progress and number of entries in some
of our promotions, sweepstakes and contests. When a
AutSmogTest.com -hosted promotion uses cookies,
the information written to the cookie indicates the
player's progress through the promotion, and may be
used to track entries, submissions, and status in prize
drawings.
(5)
Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of AutSmogTest.com
's network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting
patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand
how our users' habits are similar or different from
one another so that we can make each new experience
on AutSmogTest.com a better one. We may use this
information to better personalize the content, banners,
and promotions that you and other users will see on
our sites.
Advertising
networks that serve ads onto AutSmogTest.com may
also use their own cookies.
AutSmogTest.com
also collects
IP addresses for system administration and to report
aggregate information to our advertisers. In addition,
AutSmogTest.com Mail includes IP addresses in
outgoing mail message headers.
How does AutSmogTest.com
use my information?
AutSmogTest.com 's primary goal in collecting
personal information is to provide you, the user, with
a customized experience on our network of sites. This
includes personalization services, interactive communications,
online shopping and many other types of services, most
of which are completely free to you. In order to provide
services free of charge, we display advertisements.
By knowing a little about you, AutSmogTest.com
is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and
content, and hence better service, to you.
In our role of delivering targeted advertisements,
AutSmogTest.com plays the middleman. Advertisers
give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience
they want to reach (for example, males over 35 years
old). AutSmogTest.com takes the advertisement
and displays it to users meeting that criteria. In this
process, the advertiser never has access to individual
account information. Only AutSmogTest.com has
access to individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement
targeting is done with banner ads as well as promotional
email through AutSmogTest.com Delivers. You will
only receive special offers via email from AutSmogTest.com
if you have indicated in your account preferences that
you would like to receive them. You can change your
account preferences at any time.
AutSmogTest.com does research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behavior based on the information provided
to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our
server log files or from surveys. We do this to better
understand and serve our users. This research is compiled
and analyzed on an aggregated basis. AutSmogTest.com
may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business
partners.
Who is collecting information?
When you are on a AutSmogTest.com site and are
asked for personal information, you are sharing that
information with AutSmogTest.com alone, unless
it is specifically stated otherwise. For example, some
AutSmogTest.com services, like AutSmogTest.com
Travel, are offered in conjunction with a partner company.
In order to provide this co-branded service to you,
it is necessary for us to share your personal information
with our partner company. If data is being collected
and/or maintained by any company other than AutSmogTest.com
, you will be notified prior to the time of the data
collection or transfer. If you do not want your data
to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer
by not using that particular service.
Promotions that run on AutSmogTest.com may be
sponsored by companies other than AutSmogTest.com
or may be cosponsored by AutSmogTest.com and another
company. Some or all data collected during a promotion
may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared,
you will be notified prior to the time of data collection
or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the
promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.
Currently, most AutSmogTest.com promotions are
limited to US or North American residents.
Please
be aware that AutSmogTest.com Internet access
partners, advertisers, and web sites that have links
on our site may collect personally identifiable information
about you. The information practices of those Internet
access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to
AutSmogTest.com are not covered by this privacy
statement.
With whom does AutSmogTest.com share my information?
As a general rule, AutSmogTest.com will not disclose
any of your personally identifiable information except
when we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires
it or under the circumstances described below. Please
see the Terms of Service or Use Agreements for each
of our products and services for more detailed information
about how your personal information may be shared. The
following describes some of the ways that your information
may be disclosed.
Business Partners & Sponsors: AutSmogTest.com
may disclose your personal information to business partners
or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you
prior to data collection or prior to transferring the
data. Details of shared use can be found in specific
Terms of Service or Use Agreements, and sweepstakes
and promotions rules. Some or all data collected during
a AutSmogTest.com promotion may be shared with
a sponsor. If personally identifying data about you
will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or
transfer the data.
Many promotions offer opportunities to request additional
information from sponsors. By requesting more information,
you give AutSmogTest.com permission to transfer
your personal information to the sponsor so they can
fulfill your request. In many instances, only your email
address will be shared. If more information will be
shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior
to the transfer.
AutSmogTest.com Stores & Shopping:
If you make a purchase from a store hosted by AutSmogTest.com
Store, or a merchant in AutSmogTest.com Shopping,
the information obtained during your visit to those
stores, and the information you give such as your credit
card number and contact information, is provided to
the merchants. This is to enable transactions to take
place.
Merchants listed in AutSmogTest.com Shopping
or site or in AutSmogTest.com Stores have separate
privacy and data collection practices. AutSmogTest.com
has no responsibility or liability for these independent
policies. For more information regarding the merchant,
their store, and their privacy policies, return to that
store's home page and click on their Information
link.
AutSmogTest.com Auctions: On the
AutSmogTest.com Auctions site, we currently provide
the information necessary to facilitate the auction
transaction between the buyer and the seller.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity
to receive materials or special offers from third parties.
If you opt-in to receive information from these third
parties, AutSmogTest.com will (with your permission)
share your name and email address with them .
Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate:
Under confidentiality agreements, AutSmogTest.com
may match user information with third party data. Also,
AutSmogTest.com discloses aggregated user statistics
(for example, 25% of our users are female) in order
to describe our services to current and prospective
partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and
for other lawful purposes.
Other: AutSmogTest.com may also disclose
account information in special cases when we have reason
to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be violating AutSmogTest.com 's Terms
of Service or may be causing injury to or interference
with (either intentionally or unintentionally) AutSmogTest.com
's rights or property, other AutSmogTest.com users,
or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
AutSmogTest.com may disclose or access account
information when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it and for administrative and other purposes
that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve
our products and services.
What are my choices regarding
collection, use, and distribution of my information?
AutSmogTest.commay, from time to time, send you email
regarding our products and services. In addition, if
you indicated upon registration that you are interested
in receiving offers or information from AutSmogTest.comand
our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail
about products and services that we feel may be of interest
to you. Only AutSmogTest.com(or agents working on behalf
of AutSmogTest.comand under confidentiality agreements)
will send you these direct mailings and only if you
indicated that you do not object to these offers. If
you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell
us when you give us your personal information. Or, at
any time you can easily edit your AutSmogTest.comAccount
Information to no longer receive such offers and
mailings. You will need your AutSmogTest.comID and Password
in order to access your AutSmogTest.com
Account Information.
On some types of AutSmogTest.com promotions,
we will ask for your email address in order to update
you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings.
When you participate in these types of promotions, you
automatically receive promotion-related email, unless
you choose the no-email option that some promotions
offer. Occasionally these promotion-related email messages
may include targeted advertisements.
You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying
your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept
all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or
to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies
you will be unable to use those AutSmogTest.com
services that require registration in order to participate.
These services include (but are not limited to): AutSmogTest.com
Mail, My AutSmogTest.com , Calendar, Chat, Message
Boards, and creating a portfolio in AutSmogTest.com
Finance. You can still use AutSmogTest.com Shopping
and AutSmogTest.com Auctions and many other AutSmogTest.com
sites even if you do not accept cookies.
AutSmogTest.com does not sell or rent user information
to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection
or transfer if your data will be shared with a third
party and you will always have the option of not permitting
the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data
to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular
service or not to participate in certain promotions
or contests.
What is AutSmogTest.com
's policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete
my personally identifiable information?
You may edit your AutSmogTest.com
Account Information and your public
AutSmogTest.com Profile
at any time by using your AutSmogTest.com ID and
password. If you have forgotten your password, pleaseclick
here to request a new password. For all other problems
signing in to AutSmogTest.com , please click
here and complete this form.
Your AutSmogTest.com account can be deleted or
deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able
to access any members-only area of the AutSmogTest.com
network, including your AutSmogTest.com Mail account
(if you have one). If you saved the confirmation email
you received when you first created your AutSmogTest.com
account, you can use the URL provided in that message
to delete your account at any time. Please contact
Info@AutSmogTest.com for further instructions
about deleting or deactivating your AutSmogTest.com
account. Residual information will remain within our
archive records.
If you are participating in a AutSmogTest.com
promotion and you wish to update your email address
on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion
and cease receiving promotion-related email, please
contact Info@AutSmogTest.com
How does AutSmogTest.com
protect my personal financial and health-related information?
Keeping your personal financial and health-related
information private is vitally important to us. As with
all information, AutSmogTest.com will never rent
or sell your personal financial or health-related information.
This includes information kept in your AutSmogTest.com
Portfolio or
. Knowing that you use certain services or features
may help us to offer you better and more relevant content
and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable
information, we do not make this available to any third
parties without your permission. Any user statistics
that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners
regarding financial product or service usage on AutSmogTest.com
are provided in the aggregate only and do not include
any personally identifiable information about any individual
user.
Please note that there are several places on the AutSmogTest.com
network of Web sites where you can transmit credit card
information in order to complete a purchase transaction
or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a
credit card number we transmit that credit card number
in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL
(secure socket layer) encryption.
What security precautions are
in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration
of my information?
Your AutSmogTest.com Account Information and
AutSmogTest.com
Profile are password-protected so that you and only
you have access to this personal information. You may
edit your AutSmogTest.com Account Information
and
AutSmogTest.com Profileby
using your AutSmogTest.com ID and password.
We recommend that you do not divulge your password
to anyone. AutSmogTest.com will never ask you
for your password in an unsolicited phone call or in
an unsolicited email. Also remember to sign out of your
AutSmogTest.com account and close your browser
window when you have finished your work. This is to
ensure that others cannot access your personal information
and correspondence if you share a computer with someone
else or are using a computer in a public place like
a library or Internet cafe.
As a global company AutSmogTest.com has international
sites and users all over the world. When you give AutSmogTest.com
personal information, that information may be sent electronically
to servers outside of the country where you originally
entered the information, such as to the United States
or other countries. In addition, that information may
be used, stored and processed outside of the country
where you entered that information. Whenever AutSmogTest.com
handles personal information as described above, regardless
of where this occurs, AutSmogTest.com takes steps
to ensure that your information is treated securely
and in accordance with the relevant Terms of Service
and this Privacy Policy.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet
or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your
personal information, AutSmogTest.com cannot ensure
or warrant the security of any information you transmit
to us or from our online products or services, and you
do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission,
we make our best effort to ensure its security on our
systems.
What about children's privacy?
Naturally, the safety of children is very important
to us. AutSmogTest.com recommends that parents
and kids try our Kids web page a web guide designed
especially for users between the ages of 7 and 12.
All the Links in our website , are operated by different
organizations that have their
own privacy policy
for children and AutSmogTest.com is not
responsible for their content and their policy in any
shape or form .
Under
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, no web
site operator is permitted to require a child under
the age of 13 to disclose more information than is reasonably
necessary to participate in an activity as a condition
of participation. AutSmogTest.com abides by this
requirement.
AutSmogTest.com does not share personally identifying
information about users who are under the age of 13
with business partners or other third parties. AutSmogTest.com
will not contact users who are under the age of 13 about
special offers or for marketing purposes. All AutSmogTest.com
account holders, including parents and children with
AutSmogTest.com Family Accounts, are subject to
this Privacy Policy.
What else should I know about
my privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose
personal information online - for example on message
boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information
can be collected and used by others. In short, if you
post personal information online that is accessible
to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages
from other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining
the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.
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