Privacy
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FACTS
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What does Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer do with your personal information?
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Why?
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Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.
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What?
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The types of personal information we collect and share depends on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:
- Social Security Number and Income
- Account balances and payment history
- Credit history and credit score
When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.
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How?
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All financial companies need to share customer’s personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below we list the reasons financial companies can share their customer’s personal information; the reason Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.
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Reasons we can share your personal information
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Does Dealership Share?
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Can you limit this sharing?
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For our everyday business purposes-
Such as to process your transaction, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigation, or report to credit bureaus.
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Yes
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No
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For our marketing purposes-
To offer our products and services to you
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Yes
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No
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For our joint marketing with other financial companies
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No
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We do not share
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For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes-
Information about your transaction and experiences
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No
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We do not share
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For our affiliates’ to market to you
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No
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We do not share
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For non-affiliates to market to you
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No
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We do not share
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What we do
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How does Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer protect my personal information?
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To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal laws. These measures include computer safeguards, secured files, and buildings.
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How does Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer collect my personal information?
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We collect your personal information, for example, when you
- Show us your driver’s license
- Pay us by check or Credit Card
- Apply for a loan in person or online
- Apply for financing in person or online
- Provide account information
We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.
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Why can’t I limit all sharing?
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Federal law give you the right to limit only:
- Sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – Information about your creditworthiness
- Affiliates from using your information to market to you
- Sharing for non-affiliates to market to you
State law and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing
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Definitions
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Affiliates
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Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial or non-financial companies.
- Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer has no affiliates
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Non-Affiliates
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Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and non-financial companies.
- Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer does not share with non-affiliates so they can market to you
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Joint Marketing
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A formal agreement between non-affiliated financial companies that together market financial products or service to you.
- Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer doesn’t jointly market.
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Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer does not read any of your private online communications.
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer and Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer family of Web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer collects and uses your personal information to operate the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer and its affiliates. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer, in order to determine what Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer pages, or register with Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer site or services, a cookie helps Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Gates Ford Lincoln Kia secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Gates GMC Buick CT Dealer. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem