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Effective Date: 1/1/2017

At our dealership, Silicon Auto Group, we take your privacy seriously and are dedicated to protecting your privacy online. We have crafted a privacy statement to help you understand the terms and conditions regarding the collection and use of certain types of information we gather from visitors to our sites. This statement reveals the kinds of information we collect, how we utilize it, and how you can access and modify any data that we have collected about you at any time.

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Guiding Principles:

Our dealership respects the privacy of individuals who visit our websites, send us e-mail, or participate in features/services we offer online. Therefore, our online privacy policy is guided by the following principles: 1. Our dealership maintains a strict "no-spam" policy. Subscribers to our e-mail services (or any other feature/service found on our website) will not receive unsolicited e-mail messages from us. 2. Our dealership collects information online primarily to provide our visitors with a more relevant experience on our sites. We will make every reasonable effort to avoid excessive or irrelevant collection of data. 3. Our dealership will take reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard and secure any information you provide to us (e.g. data will be stored in protected databases on secured servers with restricted access). 4. Our dealership will not share any information you've provided to us with anyone without your consent other than to provide the service you've requested. At the time you register for any such service, you will be notified of, and asked to consent to, the sharing of your information with any particular third party necessary to the provision of the requested service.

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Non-Personally Identifiable Data:

Anytime you visit our Web site, we may gather certain non-personally identifiable information regarding the means you use to access our site. This information may include the type and version of your browser, your service provider, your IP address and any search engine you may have used to locate the site. We use this information to help diagnose problems with our server, administer the Web site, and compile broad statistical data. In addition, we gather certain navigational information about where you go on our Web sites. This information enables us to determine which areas of the Web sites are most frequently visited and helps us to tailor the sites to the needs and interests of our online visitors. Such information is gathered by us in the aggregate and will not be associated with a specific individual without that individual’s consent.

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Information Voluntarily Provided:

When you visit our website, we collect certain non-personally identifiable information about the ways you access our site. This information may include the type and version of your browser, your service provider, your IP address, and any search engine you used to find the site. We use this information to diagnose problems with our server, manage the website, and compile general statistical data. Additionally, we collect specific navigational details about your interactions with our website. This helps us identify which areas of the website are most popular and enables us to customize the site to better meet the needs and interests of our online visitors. We collect this information in an aggregated form and it will not be linked to any specific individual without that individual's consent.

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Information Collected from Other Sources:

In order to improve our understanding of your needs and interests, we may, in the future, obtain information about you from other sources. We will request assurance from any provider of such information that it has been collected and maintained in compliance with all state and federal laws. Any such information will be handled by us in accordance with the guidelines outlined in this privacy policy, as well as any other personal information you have provided.

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Disclosure of Personal Information:

In the future, we may receive information about you from other sources to better understand and respond to your needs and interests. We will request that any provider of such information ensures that the information has been collected and maintained in compliance with all state and federal laws. Any such information will be handled by us in accordance with the standards outlined in this privacy policy, as well as any other personal information you have provided.

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Business Partners:

​Our dealership may partner with select retailers and other companies at various times to provide expanded services to our site visitors. As part of such a relationship, we may share with these companies the use of certain interactive Web site functions (i.e. the E-Mail Reminder Service). Information provided by site visitors through the use of such interactive functions may be available to both our dealership and our partners.

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Agents:

Please be aware that our dealership may enlist the services of other companies and individuals to handle specific tasks on our behalf. This may include managing email services and conducting promotional activities. These third parties will only have access to the personal information necessary to carry out these tasks and are prohibited from using or retaining the information for any other purpose. Subscribers or visitors to our site will never receive unsolicited email messages from these third-party agents.

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Business Transfers:

In the event that our dealership sells or transfers a particular portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of the assets of our dealership are acquired, consumer information may be transferred as part of the acquisition.

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Compliance with Law/Safety:

​Our dealership may disclose specific personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect the users of our Web sites, the sites themselves, or the public.

 

With Consent:

Other than as set forth in this Privacy Policy, you will be notified when any personally-identifiable information about you may be shared with third parties, and you will be given the opportunity to decline to share that information.

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Use of Cookies:

Our dealership may use a browser feature known as a “cookie.” Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing you with a customized browsing experience. Our dealership uses cookies to provide you with the convenience of not having to reenter information, such as user IDs and passwords, multiple times during your visits to our Web sites. Cookies can also be utilized to help us provide you with information targeted to your interests, based upon your prior browsing on our Web sites. The “help” section of the toolbar on most browsers will inform you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you upon the receipt of a new cookie, or how to disable the use of cookies completely. As our Web sites have been designed to take advantage of the use of cookies. Should you configure your browser to decline their use, certain features of our Web sites may not function correctly and you may be required to renter any user IDs and passwords more frequently.

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Accessing Our Web Sites from Outside of the United States:

If you are visiting our Web site from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our Web server and other internal systems located within the U.S.

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External Links:

Our Web sites contain links to other sites. Our dealership is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from one of our Web sites.

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Passwords:

The personal data record created through your registration with our Web site can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties.

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Public Forums:

Our Web sites may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users at various times. Please remember that, unless otherwise stated, any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information in these areas.

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opt-out Procedures:

You may always opt-out of receiving future communications from our dealership. Our sites allow users to opt-out of receiving such communications at the point where personal information is requested, or through other means as identified.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

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Contacting the Web Sites:

If you have questions concerning this Privacy Policy or the practices of these sites, you may contact us.