Carsala, Inc.
Privacy Use Policy
Updated Privacy Statement 04/21/2009
Carsala, Inc. is committed to protecting your Privacy. We have established this statement to communicate our information practices. This Privacy Statement applies to the Site www.Carsala.com. This website, operated by Carsala, Inc., is referred to henceforth as simply, the "Site". This Privacy Statement, describes the use, collection and disclosure of information in connection with this Site, and will continue to be referred to as the "Statement". This Statement describes our information practices surrounding your personal information and your choices in how it is used. "Personal Information" is defined as information that can be used to identify a person; such as their name, or email address. All information collected on the Site is utilized in providing you information and fulfilling your requests [the Service]
Carsala, Inc. is a Licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build users trust and confidence in the internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. Because Carsala, Inc. wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
For all questions and concerns pertaining to this Site, or Statement, please contact us at feedback@carsala.com. If your inquiry is not acknowledged within a reasonable time frame, or isn't addressed to your satisfaction, please contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then work as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
The parameters of this Statement do not describe Carsala, Inc.'s use, collection and disclosure of information through any other means other than this Site. This includes the information practices of any Affiliates, third-party distribution partners, or others who are not specifically liable to Carsala, Inc. Affiliate Site Privacy Policies and Terms of Use policies can be obtained from their respective websites. We recommend you read and understand these statements before using any Affiliate Sites.
By using this Site, you acknowledge that you have read this Statement and affirm that you are subject to Carsala, Inc.'s Terms of Use.
1. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
You are not required to disclose any personally identifiable information when simply visiting the Site, although Carsala, Inc. does automatically collect data about how you use the site. We will refer to this data as "Usage Data", and it includes non-personal information relative to your use of the site. For example, it may collect ZIP codes or the type of car you are looking for. This data is collected in order to provide you with better service.
Carsala, Inc. collects personal information only when you choose to make it available through the Site. When you select to use the Service, we collect your name, email address and phone number to service your request for car matches, as well as register you an account on the Site, when you select to obtain one. Your personal information is used exclusively for the purposes for which it was collected. We do not share personal information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
We provide users' of the Service the opportunity to "Refer a Friend" to our Site. When you select to refer a friend, we use that information to send a one time invitation encouraging the referred individual to visit our Site.
Carsala, Inc. posts testimonials of our customers on the Site. We acquire permission from our customers to post their name along with their testimonial prior to posting on our Site.
Information Sharing
We may be legally obligated under certain circumstances to disclose your personal information to third parties or other government agencies, such as if we discover illegal activity on the Site. Carsala, Inc. reserves the right to disclose information to its service providers, and law enforcement, or other government agencies, such as in complying with a formal request in a civil suit, judicial proceeding, court order or subpoena.
In the event of a sale, merger, or acquisition of some or all of Carsala, Inc.'s assets, your information could be part of the transferred information. In this event, we shall notify you via email of your choices, and the information practices that shall govern your personal information henceforth.
We employ the services of a third party agent to support our feedback forms on the Site. This form collects your name and email to log your question and the information collected on this form is under this privacy statement. This third party agent has no authorization to use your personal information beyond transferring feedback requests to Carsala.
2. Passive Information Collection
The Site automatically collects some Usage information and may customize your visit to our Site in the following ways:
Web Beacons – Web beacons (a.k.a. pixel tags, internet tags, clear GIFs, or single pixel GIFs) are electronic images embedded into a web page.
IP Address Logs – Carsala, Inc. logs Internet Protocol (IP) addresses—the location of your computer on the internet.
Cookies – Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive by a web browser, other computers, or servers to identify your computer and indicate whether you have visited a site previously. Cookies are automatically enabled on computers, but you can turn them off under the "internet options" of most computers—although your experience with the Site may not be as beneficial to you and some services may be unavailable. Cookies allow Carsala, Inc. to recognize you when you visit the Site, and can personalize your experience and help us serve you better.
Cookies, web beacons, and IP addresses can also be used to recognize certain aspects of Site usage, For example, what pages of the site you visit, or what type of web browser you are using, or Site research, analysis, development, administration, or other internal purposes, including the free and unrestricted ability to compile Usage Data which is aggregated and not tied to individual personally identifiable information.
We don't tie any personal information to cookies, or "Usage Data" automatically collected on the Site, nor do we share this information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Third Party Cookies - We may from time to time engage third parties to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from visitors to our Site to help us administer our Site and improve its quality. Such third parties may use cookies to help track visitor behavior. Such cookies will not be used to associate individual website visitors to any personally identifiable information.
3. Blog Disclosure
Carsala, Inc. offers a blog on the Site, where users' may post public comments. Any information you disclose in one of these comment areas may be made public, and so you should not include any personally identifiable information that you do not want other third parties to view or use. In such a case that you do post personally identifiable information such as your phone number on one of our message boards, you may receive unsolicited phone calls, or emails from third parties unaffiliated with Carsala, Inc. Carsala, Inc. is not responsible for the personal information a user may select to submit within this forum.
4. Security
The security of your personally identifiable information is Carsala, Inc.'s foremost concern. It is physically accessible only to authorized personnel in order that they may provide services allowed by this Statement, and is stored at a safe location. Carsala employs industry accepted standards and protocols in ensuring the safe transmission of your personal information.
5. Changes to this Statement
Any changes to this Statement will be posted on the Site in the Privacy Use link and this Statement will be identified as "Updated", with the date it was updated. In the event that we make a material change to the manner in which we use your collected personal information, we shall notify you by email. After such updates, your continued use of this Site constitutes acceptance that you have read and understand the changes made to this Statement.
6. Children
Children's privacy and its protection are especially important to Carsala, Inc. Carsala, Inc. does not knowingly collect any information from minors under the age of 13. . No information should be submitted to or posted at Carsala, Inc. by visitors younger than 13 years old. Carsala, Inc. is not responsible for the use of such information if it is made public on the Site, and encourages adult supervision of any minor's use of the internet.
7. Links
This Site contains links to other sites on the internet. While Carsala, Inc. encourages our business partners to adopt privacy policies that build users' trust and confidence in their site, Carsala, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites linked to the our Site or any third party products or services offered through our Site.
8. Access & Opt Out
This Site does not send promotional emails to users' of the Site nor any other kind of unsolicited communications. We reserve the right to send users' service and administrative emails considered a part of the Service. Given that these messages are not promotional in nature, you generally cannot opt-out of them.
Users' can access their personal information by signing into their account and making any modifications to their preferences they see fit.
9. Legal Disclosure
While Carsala does not disclose your personal information to third parties for their promotional purposes, there are specific instances under which we may be required to disclose information collected on the Site to third parties, or government agencies and law enforcement. We reserve the right to disclose information to our service providers, and to law enforcement or government agencies where a formal request is made; such as an in response to a civil suit, subpoena, court order or judicial proceeding. We also reserve the right to disclose information where it's necessary to protect the intellectual property rights, or personal safety of Carsala and its users' as we, in our sole and absolute discretion deem necessary and appropriate.
In the event of a divestment, of some or all of Carsala's assets, through a sale, merger or acquisition, users' personal information could be a part of the transferred assets. We shall notify you of any changes to the information practices governing your collected information by a prominent notice on the Site.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Use Statement, please email us at feedback@carsala.com.
or by mail: 2140 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 302, Berkeley, CA. 94704
