PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for using CarsForSale! Your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy describes how CarsForSale collects, uses and handles your information when you use our website, software, and services (“Services”). By submitting personal information to CarsForSale, by conducting business with CarsForSale or by using CarsForSale Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy statement and expressly consent to the collection, processing, use and disclosure of your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
The CarsForSale Service is intended for use by an adult general audience. The CarsForSale Service is not directed to children under the age of 18 and CarsForSale does not knowingly solicit personal information from or market to children under the age of 18. If we learn that anyone under the age of 18 has provided any personal information through the CarsForSale Service, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly delete it.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to other companies' websites or services or links that you may access via the CarsForSale Service. Information collected or received by these third parties is subject to third-party privacy policies. If you are located outside the Republic of South Africa, please note that personal information collected via the CarsForSale Service may be transferred to the Republic of South Africa and other countries which might not provide an equivalent level of protection as the data protection laws in your own country.
Information We Collect and Usage
CarsForSale collects and uses Customer’s account, information like your name, email address, phone number, and physical address. CarsForSale may also collect, and associate with Customer’s account, information related to your dealership, such as dealer registration number, vehicle purchases and sales, and tax information. CarsForSale may also receive personal information from our business partners and other third parties. The information we collect is used to improve the content and quality of the CarsForSale Service.
CarsForSale uses information that is collected for the following general purposes:
- to process your applications and related documents required to become a contracted dealer and to make a decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of your applications;
- to verify the information that you provide to CarsForSale;
- to verify, evaluate and/or monitor your creditworthiness;
- to assist with the collection of any amounts owing by you to CarsForSale;
- to contact you in response to any transactions, requests, complaints or comments you may have;
- to contact you to provide you with information regarding CarsForSale's business;
- to provide advertisements to you through our website, email messages, mobile applications or other methods of communication;
- to administer surveys, contests or other promotional activities or events sponsored by us, our vendors or other third-party service providers;
- to help us to develop, evaluate and improve our sales and marketing strategies and techniques;
- to operate and improve our website;
- to provide third parties with information necessary to permit that third party to conduct business with CarsForSale and/or effectively provide you with services;
- to assist CarsForSale and third parties in evaluating the vehicle industry;
- to respond to legal process and reasonable inquiries from regulatory and/or investigative authorities.
Information is not shared with or sold to others for commercial purposes, except to provide the products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- It is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, where there is a violation of Terms And Conditions of the User Agreement, or as otherwise required by law, regulation or governmental request.
- We may share and/or transfer information in the event of a potential or actual acquisition of CarsForSale or its merger with another company.
- CarsForSale may use agents and contractors in order to help operate the CarsForSale Service. CarsForSale shares credit information concerning dealer with its affiliated companies, auctions and certain service providers. We require agents and contractors that have access to CarsForSale subscriber information to protect this information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and prohibit them from using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for the CarsForSale Service.
Services
When Customers use our Services, we store and process your information and information related to your use of the services (for example, photos, transaction history, feedback, signature, etc.) If Customer gives us access to Customer contacts, CarsForSale will store those contacts on our servers for Customer to use. This will make it easy for the Customer to buy and sell vehicles, send emails, and invite others to use the Services.
Cookies
CarsForSale also collects information from and about the devices the Customer uses to access the Services. This includes things like IP addresses, the type of browser and device you use, and identifiers associated with the Customer’s devices. Customer devices, depending on their settings, may also transmit location information to the Services. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, and is sent to your browser from a website computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are required to use the CarsForSale Service. We use cookies to record current session information. We may, from time to time, use similar technologies, including web beacons, pixel tags, flash objects, location tracking and/or third-party widgets for purposes of enhancing your web or mobile experience and/or for purposes of allowing you to share information on another platform, such as a social media platform. CarsForSale uses technologies like cookies to provide, improve, protect and promote our Services. For example, cookies help CarsForSale remember Customer’s settings to help navigate your experience for your next visit, understanding how Customers are interacting with our Services, and improving them based on that information. You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the Services.
Who We Share Information With
CarsForSale may aggregate data collected by the Services and sell that aggregated data to advertisers and other third parties. The aggregate data may or may not be anonymized.
Others working for CarsForSale. CarsForSale uses certain trusted third parties to help us provide, improve, protect, and promote our Services. These third parties will access Customer information only to perform tasks on our behalf and in compliance with this Privacy Policy.
CarsForSale may disclose your information to third parties if we determine that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with the law; (b) protect any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of CarsForSale or our Customers; or (d) protect CarsForSale property rights.
Other Customers
Our Services display information like your name, images and auction history to other reps and dealerships in places like your rep profile and notifications. Certain features let Customers make additional information available to other parties.
CarsForSale for Dealerships
A dealership administrator may have the ability to access and control associated CarsForSale Customer accounts. Please refer to your organization’s internal policies if you have questions about this.
Security
CarsForSale takes commercially reasonable technical, physical and administrative measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity and security of your personally identifiable information. Of course, we cannot guarantee the security of your personally identifiable information on the Internet. The password-protected areas of the CarsForSale Service are secured by industry standard encryption. However, it is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of your password(s) and other user credentials. You are also required to log-in to your CarsForSale account after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account.
Retention, Data Storage and Transmission
All personally identifiable information you provide to CarsForSale is secured on servers with restricted access. We reserve the right to use third-party agents and service providers, who are bound by strict confidentiality guidelines, to perform storage and processing functions. We will store your personal information for as long as there is a business need for it in accordance with applicable record retention policies and a range of legal and regulatory recordkeeping requirements.
To provide you with the Services, we may store, process and transmit information in locations outside the Republic of South Africa. Information may also be stored locally on the devices you use to access the Services.
Change of Control
If we are involved in a reorganization, merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that deal. We will notify you (for example, via a message to the email address associated with your account) of any such deal and outline your choices in that event.
Opt-Out, Changes and Questions
CarsForSale may periodically update this Privacy Policy. Consequently, you should review the Privacy Policy periodically. We may also notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your CarsForSale primary account holder account or by placing a prominent notice via the CarsForSale Service. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, if you would like to update personal information previously submitted to CarsForSale or request to have outdated personal information removed, or withdraw consent to the use or disclosure of your personal information, you may contact us by sending an email to support@carsforsale.co.za or contact our Privacy Officer at the following address: