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GaddiBazaar.com respects the privacy of visitors to our website. Please
read this Privacy Statement carefully so that you understand what information we
collect through our website and what we do with that information. This Privacy
Statement applies only to information collected online through the
GaddiBazaar.com website and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or
use information obtained offline or through any means other than our website. If
you have questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact
Customer Service .
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY OF CHILDREN
Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any
information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone
numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. Our website is not directed
at children under 13 and we won't knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us
any personally identifying information; if you're under 13, please don't provide
any information about yourself on this website.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The information we gather falls into two categories: (1) information supplied
by visitors to the site when they list a car for sale, perform a search, enter a
sweepstakes or other promotional contest, or initiate a transaction, and (2)
tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through our website and
review our email newsletters and other email messages. Third-party providers
featured on or linked to by our website, such as vendors of products and
services offered through our site by third parties, may be gathering
information, as well, through processes we don't control.
Searches and Listings To make use of certain features on our
site, visitors need to provide limited information about themselves and their
interests so that we can tailor the information we provide to their needs. For
example, to help you find the car you want close to home, we need to know what
kind of car you're looking for and your zip code. We ask you to provide this
information when you perform a search. We use this information to help you find
the car you're looking for. If you find a listing that interests you and elect
to send the seller an email through our website, we'll share with the seller the
contact information you supply through our online "Email Seller" form. If you do
not wish to share your email address or other contact information with the
sellers who advertise on our website, you should not use our "Email Seller"
contact form. Many of the dealer listings that appear on our website include
toll-free telephone numbers that can be used to contact the dealership that is
selling the advertised vehicle. If you call a dealer using one of these
toll-free numbers, we may provide the dealer with the date, time, and duration
of your call, as well as the number from which your call originated. If you wish
to contact a dealership that advertises on our website without disclosing this
information, please contact the dealer by email or by dialing its local
telephone number. When you list a car for sale, we ask for information on the
car and on how you can be contacted by potential buyers. We also ask for your
credit card number and the expiration date on your card. We use this information
to create your ad and to process your payment.
Email Addresses If you provide us your email address, we may
email you about our website or our services, or to inquire about your experience
using our website or sites operated by others. From time to time, we'll also
send you emails that may include automotive information, special promotions and
other commercial offers that we think may be of interest to you. Though we hope
you'll find these communications informative and useful, if you don't, you can
always unsubscribe by following the simple instructions included in each email.
And you can opt-out of receiving these types of commercial offers at all by
indicating, when you list a car for sale or inquire about a car listed on our
website, that you'd prefer not to receive these communications.
Cookies To help us tailor our website to the needs and
interests of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by
placing a cookie, a small entry in text file, on your hard drive. The cookie
contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you've visited. We
aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other users to track
overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information to improve our site by
making it more responsive to the needs of our users. We also use cookies to make
sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly during a single visit to our site.
Cookies don't reveal personal information; the only personal information a
cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies can't read
unrelated data off your hard drive. Our advertisers and those who provide
products and/or services through our site may also assign their own cookies, a
process we don't control. We don't have access to these cookies or to any
information they contain. The help function on most web browsers contains
information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie
or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you don't accept cookies, you won't
be able to take advantage of various features on our site that are available to
other visitors. Our "Find Your Car" feature, for example, won't work properly if
you configure your browser not to accept cookies.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
When we present information to our advertisers-to help them understand our
audience and confirm the value of advertising on our website--it is usually in
the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site.
Any credit card information you may provide to us is secured during transmission
over the Internet using industry--standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption
and is stored on our secure servers. (See "Security," below.) We use your credit
card information only to bill you for the products and services you order from
us. We don't share your credit card information with anyone, except as may be
necessary to process your transactions or comply with law. We may collect, or
have a third party collect on our behalf, aggregated statistical information
about how visitors use and navigate around our site, such as the number of users
who visit various pages within the site, what they click on, whether they scroll
up or down on particular pages, fill out forms, etc. This aggregated information
does not identify you personally. We use this information to improve our site.
We may also disclose this aggregated information to third parties.
LINKS AND FEATURES OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER PROVIDERS
To make our website more valuable to our visitors, we feature some products
and services that come from other providers. Our finance, insurance, warranty,
and inspection services, for example, are made available through cooperative
arrangements with companies that specialize in providing such services. We share
with these third parties such information as is necessary for them to provide
the products or services. We have a strategic marketing relationship with our
sister company, Trader Publishing Company, the publisher of Auto Trader
Magazine. When you visit our site to purchase a combination print ad (in Auto
Trader Magazine) and online ad (on GaddiBazaar.com), you may be redirected to a
web page hosted by Trader Publishing to complete your transaction. (You can tell which
site hosts the page you're viewing by looking at the location bar at the top of
your web browser. If it says "GaddiBazaar.com," you're on a page hosted by
GaddiBazaar.com. If it says "traderpub.com," you're on a page hosted by Trader
Publishing.) Of course, our site includes links to other websites, and provides
access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies
we don't control. When you access another website or purchase products or
services or conduct other transactions through our website, use of any
information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the
site you're visiting or the provider of such products or services. When you
provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through our
site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy
of the provider of those products or services. The provider's privacy policy may
differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of our provider
partners via a link either from their site's homepage or from the pages on which
the products or services are offered, you should contact the provider directly
for more information.
OTHER DISCLOSURES
We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is
appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect
the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, our customers, the
public or GaddiBazaar.com. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various
assets. To ensure that the email marketing preferences of our visitors are
honored, we may share email addresses collected on our website with advertisers
(or their designated agents) for the limited purpose of identifying and removing
from our distribution lists and/or the advertiser's distribution lists the email
addresses of any persons who have "unsubscribed" or otherwise indicated a
preference not to receive commercial electronic mail messages from, or
transmitted on behalf of, the relevant advertiser. In the unlikely event that
GaddiBazaar.com LLC, one of its business units, or substantially all of its
assets is acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be
among the transferred assets. We may allow others to search some of our
databases (our listings database, for example) and to analyze the data they find
there or aggregate it with other data, either for their business purposes, or
ours. Though some of the information in our databases may be personally
identifying (such as the contact information included in a vehicle listing),
we'll only allow searches of the portions of our database that contain
information that is otherwise publicly available on our website. When we use
other companies to help us operate our site or improve the services we offer to
you, we may provide them with information about our visitors that is necessary
for them to perform their services. We require that these companies commit to
use the information only to perform the services that we request.
SECURITY
Information we gather on our website is stored within
GaddiBazaar.com-controlled databases (or databases hosted on our behalf) on
servers maintained in protected environments. Any credit card information you
provide us is secured for transmission over the Internet using industry-standard
secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption. Click here to learn more
about the SSL protocol on webopedia.com. However, no physical or electronic
security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers
or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be
intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any
information you include in a vehicle listing is available to anyone with
Internet access.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at
some point in the future, we'll post the changes to this Privacy Statement on
this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the date
of the amendment. By visiting GaddiBazaar.com, you agree that your visit, and any
dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Statement and our Visitor Agreement.
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