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At Aventura Motors, we value our customers and are committed to protecting your privacy, as well as safeguarding the information we receive and maintain about you. We do not sell information about you to others. We only share it as expressly allowed by law. Consequently, you do not need to notify us not to share information about you, because we have chosen to limit this for you. This Notice will help you understand what information we collect, how we use it, and the ways we maintain your privacy and the security of personal information about you.
The Aventura Motors family is made up of several companies, or "affiliates." As of the date of this Notice, these companies include, but are not limited to:
When we use the term Aventura Motors, us, or we, or our, it refers to each affiliate in the Aventura Motors family. |
THE INFORMATION Aventura Motors COLLECTS
We collect the following types of information about you:
- Demographic or identifying information (name, address, phone number and e-mail address)
- Credit related information (your workplace, debts and income)
- Transactional information (license and registration)
- Non-transactional information (responses from surveys, including the Aventura Motors Survey).
This information is gathered from the following sources:
- You, in credit applications and other transaction forms
- Reports from consumer reporting agencies (also known as credit bureaus)
- Current and previous transactions or experiences with us or our affiliates (purchase of a vehicle, vehicle service history)
- Current and previous transactions or experiences with other third parties (relating to your credit, or other relationships with them and to confirm employment or insurance)
- Our websites (from transactions, surveys, site navigation, cookies*, image tags**, or other technology used to remember information you enter on our website or your navigation through our websites)***
- Other third parties for marketing programs (demographic firms, direct marketing database firms)
- The following only applies to Website users: If any information we have about you is incorrect, we will gladly correct it. Simply us noting the incorrect information and the correction. We reserve the right to verify the correctness of this information. Please note that in the event we amend the Privacy Policy, posting the amendment will serve as notice to you of that change and the policy will note its effective date. The effective date for this Privacy Policy is July 5, 2006.
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THE INFORMATION Aventura Motors SHARES
Aventura Motors does not sell information about you to other companies. We only share the information as allowed or required by law. A detailed description follows below.
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Necessary Third Parties
Aventura Motors may share the information described above with third parties, including our affiliates, when needed to provide products and services you have requested or already have with us. Examples of this include sharing information about you with the Department of Motor Vehicles to title your vehicle, and with financial institutions to obtain financing for your purchase. Third Party Service Providers
Aventura Motors may share the information described above with third parties, including our affiliates, who perform services for us or act on our behalf. Examples include companies that send you information on our behalf about products and services, and companies that process payments for us. Joint Marketers
We also may share the information described above with financial institutions with whom we have a joint marketing agreement. A joint marketing agreement is an agreement between Aventura Motors and a financial institution so that we can offer you a product together. An example would be a private label credit card. Affiliates
Aventura Motors shares the information described above, except for credit related information not based on our own transactions and experiences (e.g. credit bureau reports), among its affiliates as allowed by law. Credit related information not based on our own transactions and experiences is only shared among affiliates when permissible under the law. Unaffiliated Third Parties
Aventura Motors does not share the information described above with third parties outside of the Aventura Motors family unless it is allowed or required by law. For example, we may disclose information about you in connection with a fraud investigation, to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, or in connection with a merger or sale of all or part of our business. In the event of an extraordinary event—such as a Aventura Motors bankruptcy—Aventura Motors may have to share information about you outside of an exception allowed under the law. In such an event, Aventura Motors will notify you and give you an opportunity to opt out. |
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THE SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Employees are only authorized to access personal information about you when it is necessary to perform their job duties. Our employees are trained to maintain the privacy and security of personal information about you in compliance with applicable regulations. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.
We may change this policy at any time, and will notify you of changes as required by law.
Important Information About Credit Reporting For Aventura Motors Auto Finance Customers
We may report information about your account to credit bureaus. Late payments, missed payments or other defaults on your account may be reflected in your credit report.
*A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive in order to collect information about your activities on the website. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you have the option to change your browser to decline them. We use cookies on certain pages of our website, but these cookies are not used to identify anonymous site visitors. Our cookies enable you to proceed smoothly through our site and enable us to know whether you’ve visited our site before to eliminate some steps that are directed to new visitors.
**Image tags work in conjunction with cookies. An image tag, also referred to as a clear GIF or web beacon, is a small image file that may be located on select pages on our website.
***At this time, Aventura Motors has contracted with the company WebSide Story and Google Analytics to collect information about how website users navigate our website. This information will not be disclosed and will be used only to generate anonymous visitor profiles, which do not contain personally identifiable information. The anonymous profiles are used to provide website users content specifically tailored to them. To opt out of WebSide Story’s collection of information about how you navigate our websites, please go to http://www.websidestory.com/privacy/overview.html#opt. Google Analytics does not provide an opt out option.
Aventura Motors may change what companies it uses to collect this type of information at any time. If we do, we will revise this policy to reflect this change and notify you as required by law. |
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