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Thank
you for visiting the Heller Ford website.
Heller
Ford is sensitive to your privacy concerns as a visitor to our
site, so we have prepared this information for you regarding
our privacy policy. By explaining our privacy policy to you,
we (Heller Ford) trust that this notice will allow you to better
understand how we keep certain information private and secure
while using it to serve you better. This notice is provided
to you as required by the federal Privacy Law and refers to
our policies and practices effective on and after July 1, 2001.
Our
website is made available to provide information to our customers
and the public about our firm, our services and products. Upon
entering our website, certain visitor information may be recorded
by our internet servers. This information is used to provide
an enhanced online experience for you. The only information
we collect during normal website usage is the name of your internet
service provider, the website that referred you to us, the pages
you requested, and the date and time of those requests. This
information is used to develop statistics and measure site performance
and activity so we may improve its usefulness to visitors. From
time to time, you may be issued a "cookie" which helps
track your session while online with us. During normal website
use, we do not collect or store any personal or confidential
information about you such as name, address, email address,
phone number, or social security number unless you voluntarily
provide it in connection with a purchase request. In that event,
the control, privacy and confidentiality of that information
is dealt with as described below.
WEBSITE
ACCESS
This site can be accessed anywhere in the world, but is intended
for use in Southern California. Likewise, our products and services
are offered primarily in Southern California.
SITE
CONTENT AND QUALITY
Heller Ford hyundai Suzuki makes every effort to include links,
material and information that is intended to be in good taste
and of good quality and reliability. Any links we may offer
to another site, or any site which may link to our site are
not endorsed by us in light of the fact that we cannot control
their content, quality and tastefulness.
LIMITS
OF LIABILITY
Heller Ford hyundai Suzuki can not and will not be responsible
for any damages or injury caused by, including, but not limited
to, any failure of performance, error, inaccuracy, omission,
delay in operation of transmission, virus or access or line
failure. Heller Ford Suzuki will not be liable for injury or
damages, including, but not limited to , special or consequential
damages or injury that may result from the use of, or the inability
to use, the materials in this site. While every effort has been
made to ensure accuracy in this site, this type of information
is always of a time-sensitive nature because of changing specifications,
changing product content, changing financial offers, changing
incentive offers, etc., from the various manufacturers we represent.
Therefore, this information should only be relied upon after
you have made personal contact with our product representatives
to confirm accuracy and validity. Heller Ford hyundai Suzuki
does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use
of this material in terms of its correctness, accuracy, reliability
or otherwise. This site may include technical inaccuracies,
typographical errors, require updating or the addition or deletion
of content, and Heller Ford hyundai Suzuki may make changes
or improvements at any time. Prices, content, technical information
and specifications are subject to change without notice.
PRIVACY
POLICY
The notice explains the following:
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Protecting the Confidentiality and Security of Consumer
Information.
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Who is Covered by the Privacy Policy; Revisions to the Policy
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The Types of Information We Have About You and Where It
Comes From
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Sharing Information with Affiliated Companies
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Sharing Information for Legal Business, and Joint Marketing
Purposes
- PROTECTING
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY OF CONSUMER INFORMATION
We
take seriously our responsibility to respect the confidentiality
and security of nonpublic personal information- called "Consumer
Information" in this notice. Our policy calls for safeguards
to protect Consumer Information from unauthorized access, alteration
and destruction. For example, our policies authorize access
to Consumer Information only by those who need access to do
their work. The same holds true for our affiliated companies,
which are companies that, now or in the future, we own (or control),
or are owned (or controlled) by, or are under common ownership
(or control) with. We also may maintain, as required by applicable
federal regulations, physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards
to guard your nonpublic personal information.
WHO
IS COVERED BY THE PRIVACY POLICY; REVISIONS TO THE POLICY
Our
privacy policy applies to individuals (and their legal representatives)
who are our consumers in connection with financial services
primarily for personal, family or household purposes, such as
leases, installment purchases of vehicles, and insurance. It
covers both current and former customers and treats them the
same. This notice also describes the privacy policy of our affiliated
companies, except as stated in separate notices they give you.
Consumers who transact financial services business with the
Dealership through the Internet may also be covered by privacy
policies that may be posted on the web sites they visit. Individuals
who transact business with us but who do not seek financial
services from us are not covered by our privacy policy or this
notice. We reserve the option of revising the notice and our
privacy policy from time to time, but we will give you notice
of the revised policy before disclosing Consumer Information
about you other than as described in this notice.
INFORMATION
WE COLLECT
We
collect and use information about you from various sources.
The amount and nature of the information collected and used
varies from transaction to transaction, but the information
can include the information described in the following five
types:
1.
Information from you. Information you provide to us on applications,
other forms, and by other means, such as your name, address,
social security number, assets, income, and debt;
2. Information from our experience and our affiliated companies'
experiences. Information about your transactions and account
experience with us or our affiliated companies, such as parties
to transactions, contract or lease balances, payment history,
and communications and correspondences;
3. Information from the experience of other parties. Information
from other outside sources regarding their employment, credit
or other relationships, account experience, or transactions
with you, or verifying representations with you, or verifying
representations made by you, such as your employment history,
credit balances, or your property or liability insurance coverage.
4. Information from credit reports. Information supplied by
consumer reporting agencies, such as information regarding your
creditworthiness or credit history.
5. Other general information. Other general information we obtain
about you (such as demographic information) that is not assembled
for the purpose of determining your eligibility for credit,
insurance, employment or other products or services.
SHARING
INFORMATION WITH AFFILIATED COMPANIES.
We
may disclose to our affiliated companies all of the information
we collect about you as described in each of the five categories
above. Our affiliated companies can be financial service providers
such as leasing companies, insurance companies and payment processing
companies and nonfinancial companies such as automotive repair
facilities and data processing companies. This sharing permits
us to give you superior service, make a wider range of products
available, and operate our business more effectively. We do
not share information with non-affiliated third parties, other
than described below under "Sharing Information for Legal
and General Business Reasons and for Joint Marketing."
Where they apply, we observe limits and restrictions set by
law as to sharing certain kinds of information with our affiliates.
For example, unless you authorized the sharing, we do not disclose
creditworthiness information about you from credit reports.
SHARING
INFORMATION FOR LEGAL AND GENERAL BUSINESS REASONS AND FOR JOINT
MARKETING.
We
may disclose any of the above five types of Consumer Information
to credit bureaus and similar organizations, and otherwise when
permitted by law. For example, this may include a disclosure
in connection with a subpoena or similar legal process, a fraud
investigation, recording motor vehicle registration and other
documents in public records, an audit or examination, or the
sale of your account to another financial institution. We may
also share any of the above five types of Consumer Information
outside of our affiliated companies if we have your consent,
such as when you've requested to be contacted by other companies
we work with.
We may also share all five types of Consumer Information above
with companies that work for us, possibly including some of
our own affiliated companies, to perform services for us or
function on our behalf. These companies may include financial
service providers such as banks, finance companies, insurance
companies and payment processing companies, and other organizations,
such as nonprofit organization that might provide education,
training, or certification services to businesses such as ours.
We may share any of the five types of Consumer Information above
with companies that work for us to provide marketing and other
services or with financial institutions with whom we have joint
marketing agreements, such as banks or financing divisions of
motor vehicle manufacturers. These companies act on our behalf
and, with the time required by law, will be required by our
policy to be contractually obligated to keep the information
that we provide to them confidential and to use the information
only to provide the services we've asked them to perform for
you or us.
Thank
you for reading this notice and learning about our privacy policy. |