We’re Driving Gears, Inc. (“we”, “our”, “us”) and operate under the name AutoDealCloser.
This Privacy Notice explains how and why we use your personal information when you register to our marketplace (“Marketplace”), visit our website, and use our Marketplace or any other services we offer (“Services”).
If you get in touch via email or social media, we collect the following information with the purpose of responding to your questions or take necessary action:
To help improve your experience while using our Marketplace, we collect certain information:
Through third-parties such as our business and affiliate partners, we might collect certain information for market research purposes and for safeguarding the operation of our Platfrom. This information includes, but is not limited to the following:
If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your information because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using our Marketplace or Services.
This means using data in a way that you might expect us to, for a reason which is in your and/or our (or a third-party’s) interest and which doesn’t involved overriding your privacy rights.
We share your information with companies so they can help us provide our services (see “Who we share your data with”).
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
tell you about our services, and those of our partners via email if we think they’re of interest to you. You can unsubscribe from these by sending us an email;
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
We might share information about you with sellers that have registered to our Marketplace, their agents and third-party service providers, who will use that information in accordance with their own privacy policies. For example, in order AutoDealCloser to assist you throughout the whole process of purchasing a car, once you have selected a a particular listing in our Marketplace, information about you may be shared with the seller of that particular car (e.g. when you use a QR Code to select or search a car in the Marketplace).
We might share information about you, including personal information, with our affiliates, who will use it in accordance with their privacy policies.
We might share information about you, including personal information, with our affiliates, who will use it in accordance with their privacy policies.
We will keep your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
To determine how long we keep different categories of data, we consider why we hold it, how sensitive it is, how long the law states we need to keep it, and what the risks are.
You have a right to:
You can exercise all these rights by contacting our customer support via email at privacy@autodealcloser.com or by sending us a letter at 3538 Moonlight Ct, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362.
Please note that your request and choices may be limited in certain cases: for example, if fulfilling your request would reveal information about another person, or if you ask us to delete information which we are permitted by law or have compelling legitimate interests to keep.
You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us by using the unsubscribe link within each email, or by contacting us as provided below to have your contact information removed from our promotional email list. Even after you opt out from receiving promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive transactional and account-related messages.
You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from other companies who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative or who subscribe to the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. For more information about this practice and to understand your options, please visit: http://www.aboutads.info, http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and . http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit use of the advertising ID associated with your mobile device (e.g. Apple ID for Advertising or Google Advertising ID) for interest-based advertising purposes.
You can block sites from setting cookies for interest-based ads by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.
You can also use these opt-out options to limit use of your information for interest-based advertising by participating companies (but note we may work with companies that do not participate in these programs):
Some browsers have incorporated "Do Not Track" (DNT) features that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Services do not currently respond to browser DNT signals. You can use the range of other tools we provide to control data collection and use, including the ability to opt out of receiving marketing from us as described above.
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We have adopted a series of technical, organisational, and physical measures to keep it secure in our data centers and it is accessible only to authorized personnel as needed to perform operations governed by this notice.
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We have adopted a series of technical, organisational, and physical measures to keep it secure in our data centers and it is accessible only to authorized personnel as needed to perform operations governed by this notice.
The Services are controlled and operated from the United States, however, we collect information globally and may transfer, process and store your information outside of your country of residence, to wherever we or our third-party service providers operate for the purpose of providing you our Services and access to the Marketplace. Whenever we transfer your information, we take appropriate steps to protect it.
Some of the third parties described in this Privacy Notice, which provide services to us under contract, are based in countries that may not have equivalent privacy and data protection laws to the country in which you reside. When we share information of customers in the European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, we make use of the European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses for transfers to data processors.
In case you have concerns regarding our data processing practises you can write to us at privacy@autodealcloser.com If you feel we haven’t resolved your concerns in a satisfactory way, you may have the right to submit a complaint to the Data Protection Authority in the country where you live, where you work or where you feel your rights were infringed. You can find a list of all Data Protection Authorities here.
If you are a California resident, there are some additional rights that may be available to you under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”). This notice explains the tools that we have made available to you to exercise your data rights under the CCPA, such as the right to deletion and the right to request access to the categories of information we have collected about you. For more information on how to exercise your rights please visit “Your Rights” section of this notice. You will not be discriminated against for exercising any of your privacy rights under the CCPA. In order to protect your information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may require you to provide additional information for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not provide or delete your information.
We don't sell your personal information. We do share your information with others as described under “How we share information we collect” section of this notice. We've provided more information about how you can manage your advertising and do-not-track preferences, within this notice.
This notice describes the categories of personal information we may collect, the sources of that information, and our deletion and retention policies. We’ve also included information about how we may process your information, which includes for "business purposes" under the CCPA, such as to protect against illegal activities and offer you new Services. If you have questions about the categories of information we may collect about you, please be sure to visit the section of this notice called, “Information we collect.” For more details about our processing activities, please be sure to visit the section “How we use information we collect.”
If you have any questions or would like to exercise your rights under the CCPA, you can reach out to us at privacy@autodealcloser.com.
The Marketplace and our Services are not directed to individuals under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact the appropriate customer support team at privacy@autodealcloser.com.
We may change this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will send you an email to let you know. If you disagree with any changes to this Privacy Notice, you will need to stop using our Marketplace and Services immediately and contact us to close your AutoDealCloser account.
We encourage you to review our Privacy Notice whenever you use AutoDealCloser and our Services to stay informed about our data processing practices and how you can protect your privacy.
Your information is controlled by AutoDealCloser. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns about this notice. You can reach out however you prefer:
