Privacy Statement
Privacy is the ability of an
individual or group to stop information about themselves
from becoming known to people other than those whom they
choose to give the information. Privacy is sometimes
related to anonymity although it is often most highly
valued by people who are publicly known. Privacy can be
seen as an aspect of security, one in which trade-offs
between the interests of one group and another can
become particularly clear.
The right against unsanctioned intrusion of privacy by
the government, corporations or individuals is part of
many countries' laws, and in some cases, constitutions
or privacy laws. Almost all countries have laws which in
some way limit privacy, for example taxation normally
requires passing on information about earnings. In some
countries individual privacy may conflict with freedom
of speech laws and some laws may require public
disclosure of information which would be considered
private in other countries and cultures.
Privacy may be voluntarily sacrificed, normally in
exchange for perceived benefits, but often with little
benefit and very often with specific dangers and losses.
An example of voluntary sacrifice is entering a
competition; a person gives personal details (often for
advertising purposes), so they have a chance of winning
a prize. Another example is where information
voluntarily shared is later stolen or misused such as in
identity theft.
Here at Fast Cool Cars your privacy is very important to
us, and you can rest assured that we will never divulge
any information of any kind that is considered private
by you. This means that we will never rent, trade, or
sell any of our clients personal data. Thank you for
visiting Fast Cool Cars.
THELIGHTENERGY.COM CONSUMER PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY
- Date Last Revised: 03/30/2010
TheLightEnergy.com understands your concern with privacy
and the use of your personal information. Whether you
submit a purchase request for a vehicle or simply browse
through our website, we assure you that we are committed
to protecting your personal privacy.
This privacy and security policy discloses the privacy
practices for http://wwwTheLightEnergy.com. If you have
questions or concerns regarding this policy, you should
first contact us by e-mail at ronnielandry@gmail.com.
1. Information TheLightEnergy.com Collects:
TheLightEnergy.com collects email addresses of consumers
who communicate with us or through our authorized
vendors via e-mail. We also collect information on web
pages visited and other information that is provided by
consumers either on our site or in response to e-mail
communications from us. We also collect information
provided to us by consumers in purchase requests
submitted through our site or our authorized vendors'
sites ("Purchase Request Information"). Purchase Request
Information typically includes name, address, and phone
numbers, e-mail address and specific vehicle
information. In addition, consumers who express a desire
to apply for vehicle financing provide us with and
authorize us or our affiliate web sites to obtain from
third parties necessary financial information such as
credit reports ("Finance Information"). We do not
provide financing, but instead transmit those requests
to third-party vendors for consideration.
All information provided by consumers in any of the
above-listed ways or otherwise becomes the property of
TheLightEnergy.com once received by us and may be used
and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.
Framed Sections of Our Site:
TheLightEnergy.com maintains relationships with outside
service providers for some of the products and services
offered through our site. Certain of these service
providers are found on our Finance, Insurance, Warranty,
or other pages. The information these providers make
available may be presented in a "framed" format, where
the TheLightEnergy.com border will surround the pages
served by the service providers, or by directly linking
the user to the vendors' sites. In either case, the
service provider is prominently identified. Please be
aware that any information you provide on those framed
pages is provided directly to those service providers
and is subject to their security and privacy policies.
We encourage you to read the privacy policies of these
outside service providers because their privacy
practices may differ from ours.
Browsing on our Website:
If you browse through our site without entering any
personal data, we will gather and store certain
information about your visit. This information does not
identify you personally and cannot be linked back to you
unless you decide at some point to identify yourself.
If you are only browsing, we collect the following
information: IP address, the type of browser and
operating system used to access our site, the date and
time you access our site, the pages you visit
(click-through), and if you linked to our Web site from
another Web site, the address of that Web site, as well
as additional information related to your visit.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information:
Collected information is used to improve the content of
our website, customize the content or layout of our
website for individual users, provide services
requested, notify users of updates to the site and,
subject to the limitations set forth below, to develop
new products and services and to contact consumers for
marketing purposes.
Personalization:
TheLightEnergy.com offers its users the advantage of
personalization on our website by using cookies. (See
Cookies below.) Personalized services are offered in
designated areas of our website to users who register
with us. Examples of personalization include providing
information when prompted for services, the recordation
of used vehicle searches for easy updates, and the
provision of service reminders and recall information
for those users who request these options.
TheLightEnergy.com may track consumer interest in goods
and services marketed to users who are members of the
on-site personalization area. This information is used
solely by TheLightEnergy.com and its affiliated
companies for business purposes.
Purchase Request Information and Finance Information:
Purchase Request Information is used to transmit to
third parties requests for products or services and to
contact consumers regarding vehicle purchases.
Similarly, Finance Information is used to transmit to
third parties requests for vehicle financing. Typically,
in either case the information is transmitted to
dealers, manufacturers, lenders or fulfillment entities,
as applicable, who may be in a position to respond to
your request. As part of the request process, we may
verify the information you provide, or obtain omitted
address or other contact information, from third
parties.
Occasionally, in the case of Purchase Request
Information or Finance Information, when
TheLightEnergy.com. or its affiliates does not have a
dealership or lender available to assist you, we may
forward your request information to a dealer or lender
through another automotive referral service. Your
submission of the request authorizes us to do this. Any
Purchase Request Information or Finance Information
forwarded in this way becomes subject to the security
and privacy policies that are posted on the websites of
those referral services.
Similarly, Purchase Request or Finance Information
transmitted to a dealer, manufacturer, lender or
fulfillment entity becomes the property of that dealer,
manufacturer, lender or fulfillment entity, in addition
to TheLightEnergy.com. The information is used to
process your purchase request or financing application
and to provide you with information about goods and
services. Any request to opt out of future dealer,
lender, manufacturer or other third-party communications
must be made directly to that third party.
Other Uses:
We also share your personal information with our
affiliated companies in order to identify products or
services in which you may have interest, to improve our
user experience and generally to engage in market
research and for other internal business purposes. We
also may aggregate your personal information with
others' information and prepare reports on site usage,
purchase history or other factors for sale or
distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and
include no personally identifying information. Finally,
we may use your personal information to send you email
or postal communications regarding products or services
offered by us or by third parties with whom we have
relationships in which we think you may be interested.
We do not share, sell, trade, or rent your personal
information to third parties for unknown reasons.
Special Sections of Our Site:
TheLightEnergy.com offers classifieds on its site. Any
information you disclose in these classifieds is
available to all TheLightEnergy.com visitors and may
increase the risk of receiving "spam" or unsolicited
email from other parties. Be careful and use discretion
when disclosing information online.
If you choose to submit a Consumer Review of something,
you will be able to request that your name, email
address and a list of reviews in your household be
shown. If you do not give that permission, your personal
information will not be displayed.
3. Third Parties That May Receive Your Personal
Information:
In addition to our own internal uses of your
information, we may provide your personal information to
non-affiliated third parties under one of several
circumstances:
To provide you with services or products that you have
requested (such as, for example, transmittal of Purchase
Request Information to dealers, manufacturers,
fulfillment third-parties and other automotive referral
services, or transmittal of Finance Information to
potential lenders);
To our advertiser clients solely to assess the
effectiveness of ad campaigns we have provided for them;
To contractors or service providers who may provide
services or perform functions on our behalf, in which
case those service providers may use your information
only for the purposes provided and not disclose it to
any third party except upon our direction;
To enforce our rights or as required by law or order of
a court or government agency; and
On occasion, unless you opt-out (as described below), to
other third parties who may wish to send you e-mails
regarding services or products that you may find of
interest or for other reasons that are disclosed to us
and that we believe to be appropriate and consistent
with our commitment to prevent abuse of your personal
information.
4. Your Right To Opt Out of Communications From Us
and Others:
You always have the option of removing yourself from
further marketing contact from us. If at any time you
choose to opt out of any category of email, you can
click on the remove link at the bottom of the e-mail.
Alternatively, you may email Customer Service at
ronnielandry@gmail.com.com with the word "Remove" in the
subject line and we will remove you from all further
email and postal mail marketing communication within 5
business days. In addition, those consumers who submit a
purchase request or financing request to us are given
the opportunity at the time they provide their
information to decide what types of offerings of
products or services they wish to receive or to opt-out.
In each case, even if you decide not to receive offers
or other product or service information,
TheLightEnergy.com and its member dealers may use a
phone number or email address that you have provided to
contact you regarding your purchase. Additionally, phone
numbers may be used to conduct customer surveys
regarding individual experiences with TheLightEnergy.com-accredited
dealers. Phone numbers are made available only to
TheLightEnergy.com, its affiliates and member dealers,
lenders or manufacturers who receive your purchase
request.
The submission of a purchase or financing request itself
is permission for us to submit your Purchase Request
Information or Finance Information (as applicable) to
the third parties necessary to fulfill your request.
5. Security:
TheLightEnergy.com understands the importance of
security for our consumers. We use SSL (Secure Socket
Layer) encryption technology to protect personal data
such as credit card information and finance or insurance
application information during transmission, and
maintain other commercially reasonable precautions to
protect information that we store or retain.
6. Corrections or Changes to Your Personal
Information:
You may also make corrections and updates to your
personal information by contacting ronnielandry@gmail.com
7. Cookies and Web Beacons:
TheLightEnergy.com offers consumers the convenience of
online personalization by using cookies. Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that are transferred to your
computer's hard drive through your web browser. When
this information is stored on your hard drive, our
system is able to recognize your browser and in turn
customize web page content for you. (See
Personalization)
Cookies cannot be used to retrieve data from your hard
drive, obtain your email address or obtain sensitive
information about you. When a cookie is set, your
browser will check it for length, an expiration date,
and where it originated. Only TheLightEnergy.com can
access the cookies that we set.
TheLightEnergy.com allows our ad service company to set
cookies as well. These cookies can "recognize" a
consumer by a Unique identifier assigned at the time of
the first visit, and may be used to measure site and
page visits and browser version number, and browsing
activity. This information may be used to better serve
and provide advertising content on future visits and web
pages viewed during your browser sessions on our
websites. These cookies cannot obtain private
information like name, e-mail or other personal
information, and are not shared with TheLightEnergy.com.
We use a third party tracking service who sets cookies
on our site to track visits, page views and click stream
behavior. The third party tracking service reports this
data to us in aggregate so we can better understand our
users and to improve our site. This information is not
tied to any individual user.
If you prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will
explain how to disable cookies under the help portion of
the toolbar or notify you when you receive a new cookie.
However, if you choose to disallow cookies on your hard
drive, our Web site will not be able to provide
personalization services.
We also place "web beacons" on the website on behalf of
third parties. A web beacon is a small, transparent
image placed at various sections of our site to monitor
user traffic. The web beacon records the number of
click-throughs to the page where it resides and collects
users' IP addresses, time the page was viewed, type of
browser used, and existence of cookies from a previous
visit. However, the data collected by our web beacons
are used only in aggregated form, with no associated
identifying information, and TheLightEnergy.com does not
tie IP addresses to individual users or disclose the IP
addresses to any non-affiliated third party. Information
collected by web beacons is used only by
TheLightEnergy.com, its affiliates and authorized
vendors. If you do not wish such information to be
collected, you can choose to deactivate cookies on your
browser.
8. Changes or Revisions to This Policy:
If we are going to use your personally identifying
information in a manner different from that stated in
our privacy policy at the time of collection, we will
notify you via email. You will have a choice as to
whether or not to allow us to use your information in
this different manner. In addition, if we make any
material changes in our privacy practices that do not
affect user information already stored in our database,
we will revise this policy and update the date displayed
at the top of this policy to reflect that the policy has
been changed. In some cases we will also e-mail users
who have opted to receive communications from us,
notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.
In the event TheLightEnergy.com or its assets are
acquired, such as through merger, acquisition or similar
event, resulting in a change in ultimate control over
customers' personal information (other than through an
internal corporate reorganization or similar
transaction), customers will be notified promptly of
such change. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure
that the acquirer of our customers' personal information
respects the provisions of this privacy policy, although
this may not be possible in certain legal settings (such
as bankruptcy).
9. Questions or Concerns?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy,
security, opting-out of e-mail offers or understanding
how your personal information is being used, please
contact ronnielandry@gmail.com.
NOTHING IN THIS PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY IS INTENDED
TO CREATE OR PROVIDE ANY RIGHT OF ACTION FOR VIOLATION.
For any other issues, please contact our customer
service department at
ronnielandry@gmail.com
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