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AUTIVO PRIVACY POLICY
(last updated
August 10, 2007)
This policy describes the types of information Autivo
gathers from its users of the Autivo Web site at www.autivo.com and how that
information is used. Please read this policy carefully before you provide us
with any personal information. If you have questions about this policy, please
email us at privacy@autivo.com.
Information
We Collect
We log your IP address in
order to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Web site and
track usage statistics. Your IP address may vary each time you visit, or it may
be the same, depending on whether you access our site through an always-on type
of Internet connection (e.g., cable modem or DSL), or through a dial-up
connection (e.g., AOL or Earthlink). Either way, it would be extremely difficult
for us to identify you through your IP address, and we make no attempt to do so.
If you reached our site by clicking on a link or advertisement on another site,
then we also log that information. This helps us maximize our Internet exposure,
and understand our users' interests. All of this information is collected and
used only in the aggregate; that is, it is entered into our database, where we
can use it to generate overall reports on our visitors, but not individual
reports that identify you personally.
We also place a small text
file known as a "cookie" on your computer's hard drive. A cookie may contain
information that allows us to track your path through our Web site and to
determine whether you have visited us before. However, unless you register with
us, it contains no personally identifiable information that would allow us to
identify you. Cookies cannot be used to read data off of your hard drive, and
cannot retrieve information from any other cookies created by other Web sites.
We use cookies in this manner to help us understand how visitors use our site,
and to help us to improve our site. You may refuse to accept a cookie from us by
following the procedures specific to your Web browser. Although you may do so,
you may find that your browser reacts strangely when visiting not only our Web
site, but other Web sites as well. Since cookies don't provide us with any
information from which we can identify you, we suggest you allow us to place one
on your computer.
We may use Web beacons on our
site or other sites and may permit third parties to place them on our site to
monitor the effectiveness of advertising or for other legitimate purposes. A Web
beacon, also known as a "Web bug," is a small, graphic image on a Web page,
Web-based document or in an e-mail message that is designed to allow the site
owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a site. Web beacons are often
invisible to the user because they are typically very small (only 1-by-1 pixel)
and the same color as the background of the Web page, document or e-mail
message. Web beacons are represented as HTML IMG tags in the Web page; users can
click on "view profiles" of the Web page to see whether the page is using a Web
beacon. Web beacons collect the IP address of the computer that the Web beacon
is sent to, the URL of the page the Web beacon comes from and the time it was
viewed. Web beacons can also be linked to personal information. For example,
advertising networks use Web bugs to add information to a personal profile of
what sites a person is visiting and to determine what banner ads to display
based on the profile. Another use of Web bugs is to provide an independent
accounting of how many people have visited a particular Web site. Web bugs are
also used to gather statistics about Web browser usage at different places on
the Internet.
We also give you the option
to give us your email address and other personal information so we can send you
relevant automotive industry news and information on behalf of Autivo, our
affiliates or third parties.
How We Use The Information We
Collect
We use the information we
collect to help you:
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find the most relevant
information by organizing the Web site optimally
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find relevant automotive
industry news and information via email (if you have registered your email
address)
You can control whether you
receive such emails by following the instructions at the end of each email we
send. You may also opt-out by sending an email to privacy@autivo.com We may also
use the information you provide to allow us to contact you for administrative
purposes; for example, to tell you about changes to our privacy policy.
We may also use certain
information that you provide in order to present you with advertising that you
may find interesting. This benefits both of us. It benefits us because
advertising helps pay the bills, and we can charge our advertisers more if they
know that their ads will be seen by somebody more likely to find them useful. It
benefits you because you see advertising that may actually be interesting to
you, rather than annoying.
Disclosure Of Information
Autivo does not rent or sell
personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies,
except when we have your consent to do so, as necessary to complete a
transaction you have requested, for marketing purposes (unless you have chosen
not to receive such communications, in certain business transactions), when
required by law, or when permitted to protect our rights or property. We reserve
the right to use in any manner and disclose any non-personal information that we
collect including cookie and traffic data. We do not combine personal
information with any of the non-personal information gathered on our site.
We may release personal
information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g.,
a lawful subpoena, warrant or court order); to enforce or apply our policies; to
initiate, render, bill, and collect for amounts owed to us; to protect our
rights or property, or to protect our user from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful
use of, our site or services; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency
involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person
requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records without
delay.
We may use third party
service providers to assist us with the administration of the site or otherwise
perform services on our behalf, including transaction processing and sending
email. Such third parties may be supplied with or have access to your personal
information solely to provide services to us or on our behalf.
We may use third parties,
called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our
behalf. These third-party ad servers may collect and use non-personally
identifiable information about your visits to our site in order to present
advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more
information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by
third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp.
Information about our users
and the site is a business asset of Autivo. Therefore, information about our
users, including personal information, will be disclosed as part of any merger
or acquisition, creation of a separate business to provide the site, our
services or fulfill products, sale or pledge of company assets as well as in the
event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information
would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company.
Security
We use commercially
reasonable security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the
information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee the protection of
information against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration or
that your information may be not be disclosed or accessed by accidental
circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others. You should be aware that we
have no control over the security of other sites on the Internet you might
visit, interact with, or from which you buy products or services.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so.
If we make significant changes that affect the use or disclosure of your
personal information, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the
changes and to give you the opportunity to cancel your registration.
Contact Us
Autivo, Inc.
info@autivo.com
http://www.autivo.com
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