Protecting your personal information
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Auto Excellence collects non–personally–identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Auto Excellence purpose in collecting non–personally identifying information is to better understand how Auto Excellence visitors use its website. From time to time, Auto Excellence may release non–personally–identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Auto Excellence also collects potentially personally–identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Auto Excellence does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally–identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Auto Excellence website choose to interact with Auto Excellence in ways that require Auto Excellence to gather personally–identifying information. The amount and type of information that Auto Excellence gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter to provide an email address. Those who engage in transactions with Auto Excellence by requesting vehicle service bookings, for example are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Auto Excellence collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor interaction with Auto Excellence. Auto Excellence does not disclose personally identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally–identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Auto Excellence may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Auto Excellence may monitor the most popular blogs on the site or use a third–party online analitics service to help identify trends. Auto Excellence may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Auto Excellence does not disclose personally–identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Auto Excellence discloses potentially personally–identifying and personally–identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Auto Excellence’s behalf or to provide services available at Auto Excellence’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Auto Excellence’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Auto Excellence will not rent or sell potentially personally–identifying and personally–identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Auto Excellence discloses potentially personally–identifying and personally–identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Auto Excellence believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Auto Excellence, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Auto Excellence website and have supplied your email address, Auto Excellence may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on at Auto Excellence and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Auto Excellence takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally–identifying and personally–identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Auto Excellence uses cookies to help Auto Excellence identify and track visitors, their usage of Auto Excellence website, and their website access preferences. Auto Excellence visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Auto Excellence website, with the drawback that certain features of the Auto Excellence website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads and Specials
Advertising material appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Auto Excellence and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our servers are filtered for spam and are by default marked as false positives. These entries are then checked by a human before approval for publication. Auto Excellence does not take any responsibility in the actions of the said human or of the content submitter and/or content. We endeavour to improve this service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Auto Excellence may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Auto Excellence’s sole discretion. Auto Excellence encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.