Introduction
By explaining our privacy policy to you we (the Dealership) 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 Financial Privacy Law and refers to our policies and practices effective on
and after July 1, 2001.
This notice explains the following:
Protecting Confidentiality and Security of Consumer Information
We take seriously our responsibility to respect the confidentiality and
security of non-public personal information - called "Consumer Information" in this notice.
Our policy calls for safe-guards 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 affliliated companies that, now or in the future, we own (or control) or are owned (or controlled) by, or are under common owner-ship (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; Revisons To The Policy
Our privacy policy applies to individuals (and their legal representatives) who are
consumers or customers 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 this 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:
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 nonfiancial 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 nonaffiliated third parties, other than descrived
below under "Sharing for Legal and Routine 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 authorize the
sharing, we do not disclose crediworthiness 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, 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 functions on our behalf. These companies may include financial service providers such as banks, finance companies, insurance companies and payment processing compaines, and non-financial companies such as automobile manufacturers and data processing companies, and other organizations, such as non-profit organizations that might provide educational, training, or certification services to businesses such as ours. We may shareany 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, within 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 perform for you or us.
Thank you for reading this notice and learning about our privacy policy.