DEALERSHIP
WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY
Premier Performance Group, LLC's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of its users and recognize the importance of protecting the personal information it collects about its users. Premier Performance Group, LLC, would like to assure its users that this privacy policy meets the requirements of the various privacy laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.
YOUR USER INFORMATION
All personal information
collected at www. CreditWorkshop.net (the “Web Site”) by Premier
Performance Group, LLC, and/or its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries,
affiliated companies and/or promotional partners or agencies (collectively,
"PPG") will be utilized primarily for internal purposes with the goal
of enhancing the user’s online experience.
PPG collects information in
several ways including, without limitation, primarily the following:
(1) Some personal information is
gathered when you register to participate in or receive information via
electronic mail or otherwise about: automobiles in general, your automobile,
automobile insurance, general and personal automobile maintenance, general and
personal finance, general and personal credit, automobile dealerships, quotes,
research, statistics, advice, Web sites, games, contests, sweepstakes,
promotional events and/or any other event that takes place on the Web
Site. During such registration, PPG may
ask for information such as, without limitation, a user’s name,
electronic mail address, birth date, gender, zip code and country, and other
optional information that may be particular to that registration process;
(2) PPG collects information on its
users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on the information
provided to PPG from the registration described in (1) above, from PPG's server
log files, from surveys, from cookies (see below) and from IP addresses (see
below). PPG does this to better
understand and serve its users. This
collected information/research is generally compiled and analyzed on an
aggregated basis;
(3) For reasons such as improving
personalization of PPG's service, PPG might collect information about its users
from other sources and add it to PPG's account information; and
(4) PPG also sometimes collects updated
delivery and address information from its shippers or other sources so that PPG
can correct its records and deliver or communicate more easily.
PPG uses and/or
discloses collected information in several ways, including, without
limitation, primarily the following:
(1) PPG may use electronic mail
addresses or other personally identifiable information to contact users who
directly communicate with PPG, to, among other things, fulfill prizes,
track/verify compliance with PPG policies as well as federal, state, local and
other laws, and/or to solicit editorial comments and feedback. For example, PPG may use such information to
notify users that they have won a game, contest or sweepstakes or to provide a
requested electronic mail newsletter or provide other requested
information;
(2) PPG may match aggregated user
information with third party data in order to better serve the interests of its
users;
(3) PPG may disclose aggregated user
statistics in order to describe PPG's services to prospective partners, advertisers
and third parties and for other lawful purposes, in order to, among other
things, make better alliances and provide a better user experience on the Web
Site;
(4) PPG may use a user’s
personally identifiable information for editorial purposes. For example, PPG may use information provided
by a user to PPG as part of an online survey conducted by PPG;
(5) Unless a user tells PPG that he/she
would prefer not to receive electronic mail from PPG, PPG may use collected
personal information to send you electronic mail about PPG's and/or other
companies’ products, promotions or services. A user may choose not to provide certain
information, but then that user might not be able to take advantage of many of PPG's
features;
(6) In some instances, collected
personal information may also be used by PPG for additional marketing and
promotional purposes relating to the Web Site or other properties;
(7) PPG may use cookies and IP addresses
as set forth in more detail below; and
(8) PPG may disclose user information to third parties when PPG has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) PPG's rights or property, other Web Site users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. PPG may disclose user information when PPG believes in good faith that the law requires it.
PPG may use agents to carry out its
activities:
PPG may employ other companies and
individuals to perform functions on its behalf.
Examples include, without limitation, fulfilling orders, sending postal
mail and electronic mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists,
analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, delivering packages and
providing customer service. They may
have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may
not use it for other purposes.
Other than as set forth above, it is
PPG's current policy not to share any personally identifiable information
provided by users with other third parties, unless specified at the time of
collection or with the user’s consent.
NOTICE:
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LINKS
Users should be aware that when they are on any portion of the Web Site, they
could be directed to other Web sites and/or Online
materials that are beyond PPG's control. There are links to other Web sites
from this Web Site that take users outside PPG's service. For example, if users
"click" on a banner advertisement, the "click" takes users
off the Web Site. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors, and partners
that may include PPG's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other Web
sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal
information and have their own privacy policies. To ensure the protection of its users’
privacy while on the Web Site, PPG will make an effort to provide a notice and
a link to this privacy policy on all pages where personally identifying
information is collected.
Users should keep in mind that whenever they give out personal information
Online – for example, via message boards or chat rooms – that
information could be collected and used by people that users do not know. While
PPG strives to protect users’ personal information and privacy, PPG cannot
guarantee the security of any information users disclose Online, and users do
so at their own risk.
PPG's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of
the Internet or any Online technology, and therefore beyond PPG's control, and
is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental
regulation.
PPG DOES NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF
AGE OR YOUNGER.
PPG does not knowingly collect information from children thirteen (13) years of
age or younger. If you are under
thirteen (13), do not send any information about yourself to PPG, including,
information like your name, address and/or electronic mail address. PPG encourages parents and guardians to spend
time online with their children and to supervise their children’s
activities on PPG's sites. PPG alerts parents that this Web Site features
content exploring mature themes not appropriate for children. This Web Site is
not a Web site directed to children under the age of 13. PPG suggests that
parents consider using parental control tools available from Online services
and software manufacturers that may help ensure a child friendly Online
environment and help direct their children to suitable, child-oriented Web
sites. Further, PPG request that all users to the Web Site that are under the
age of 13 not disclose or provide any personal information on this Web
Site. In the event that PPG discovers
that a child under the age of 13 has provided PPG with his or her personal
information, PPG will immediately delete the child’s personal information
from its system.
Because PPG does not knowingly collect such information, PPG does not knowingly
provide any personally identifying information from its users under 13 years of age, regardless of its source, to any
third party for any purpose whatsoever. PPG
also does not knowingly allow users under 13 years of
age to be listed in any member directory or to receive direct marketing
communications from PPG or to be sent third-party offers.
USE OF COOKIES
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an
individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make
Web-surfing easier for the user by saving the user’s preferences while
the user is at the Web Site. PPG never saves passwords or credit card
information in cookies.
By showing how and when users use a Web site, cookies help PPG see which areas
are popular and which are not. Many
improvements and updates to this Web Site are based on such data as total
number of users and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with
cookies. PPG uses the information from cookies to provide services better
tailored to this Web Site’s users.
Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your
browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that’s automatically
assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the Web. Web servers – the big computers that "serve up" Web
pages – automatically identify your computer by its IP address.
PPG may collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to
report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our
site. When users request pages from this Web Site, our servers log the
users’ IP addresses. PPG does not normally link IP addresses to anything
personally identifiable, which means that a user’s session will be logged
but the user remains anonymous to us. PPG can and will use IP addresses to
identify a user when PPG feels it is necessary to enforce compliance with our
house rules, terms of service, any law or regulation or to protect our service,
Web Site, customers, or others.
Some services within the Web Site, such as certain message boards, may display
IP addresses along with the message poster’s name and message. Please review each service prior to use and only use those that
disclose information you are comfortable with sharing.
SECURITY
The importance of privacy and
security for all personally identifiable information associated with users is
of utmost concern to PPG. PPG exercises great care in providing secure
transmission of users’ information from the users’ personal
computer to PPG's servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the
Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while PPG strives to
protect users personal information, PPG cannot ensure
or warrant the security of any information users transmit to PPG or from PPG's
Online products or services, and users do so at their own risk. Once PPG
receives users’ transmission, PPG makes its best effort to ensure the
transmission’s security on PPG's systems. If credit card information is
transmitted, PPG uses industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By using this Web Site, users assent to this privacy policy. If users do not agree to this privacy policy, users must not use this or any of PPG's Web sites. PPG reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy policy at any time, so users are encouraged to review this policy from time to time. Users’ continued use of this Web Site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean users’ acceptance of those changes.