Privacy Policy

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1) Personal data, provided through voluntary registration.
2) Aggregated data, which tracks users as a whole.

Personal data may be requested when you sign up for Automotive Shopping Network's member services or register for contests, sweepstakes or other promotional programs offered on our service. We ask for this in order to provide you with the best Web experience possible. This information might include member name, password, age, gender, zip code and/or country information. Except as described below, it is not disclosed to parties other than Auto Protection and its parent companies in any way that personally identifies you without your prior permission.

Aggregated data, which tracks Automotive Shopping Network user activity as a whole rather than on an individual basis, is gathered through several methods. This tracking data follows Auto Protection's traffic in general, and is not used to identify you personally.


Aggregated tracking information helps us to determine which areas of our site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. Automotive Shopping Network does not track what you read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We may disclose such aggregated information to third parties such as our advertisers and partners.

How Automotive Shopping Network Uses Information
Automotive Shopping Network uses any personal information that's voluntarily given by you in order to enhance your experience, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. Auto Protection also uses information that you voluntarily provide in order to send electronic updates and quotes as described below.

Automotive Shopping Network will not disclose any information that personally identifies you to parties other than Automotive Shopping Network and its parent companies without your consent.

However there are some exceptions:

1) When the purpose and manner of disclosure is clearly defined in advance.
2) When the user requests information. For example, requesting insurance & auto quotes.
3) When we believe in good faith that disclosure is legally required or to protect our rights.

Auto Insurance Quote Application Information
This is information we receive from you through our free auto insurance quote application. It includes information such as: your name, address, and telephone number, driver’s license number, date of birth, length of employment, gender, marital status, prior insurance information, home ownership status, length of residency, vehicle descriptions, miles driven, and driving history. Application Information may be disclosed for insurance underwriting purposes.

Consumer Report Information
This is information an insurance company receives from a consumer reporting agency. It is used to confirm or supplement Application Information so that the insurance company may underwrite your insurance and provide an accurate quote. It may include motor vehicle reports, claims history reports, and credit report information. Consumer Report Information is disclosed only as deemed necessary to provide an auto insurance quote, and as permitted or required by law.

Auto Fleet Sales Shopping Request
Certain information that you provide about yourself when requesting an auto fleet quote may be shared with Automotive Shopping Network's partners. This information may include, but is not limited to, vehicle type, year, make model, mileage, price range and any other information we deem necessary in providing a competitive quote. This allows us to match your request with the most suitable dealer and offer fleet pricing and benefits.

Contests and Promotional Events
Automotive Shopping Network may occasionally offers contests and promotional events in which we request certain personal information on a voluntary basis. These contests and promotional events are conducted in full accordance with United States federal and state laws. The full rules and all information about such contests are clearly posted during the event, including how information gathered will be used.

Membership Services
To use Automotive Shopping Network's membership services -- such as the auction, you will be requested to register. During registration, you'll be asked to supply a member name and password, your first and last name and email address.  This data is considered highly confidential and is used only to retrieve your password if necessary.

Search Terms
As a measure of user interest, we track search terms that are entered into our site. We create aggregrate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows you to receive advertisements that are most relevant to you. An advertiser will not receive specific information that you clicked their ad unless you voluntarily permit us to do so.

Cookies and Tracking
A cookie is a small data file that Web sites commonly write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file contains information that can identify you anonymously in order to track traffic patterns on our site. The data is encrypted for your added security. Automotive Shopping Network uses cookies in certain areas in order to continually improve your experience. Cookies don't identify you personally, but rather identify your computer when you visit our site. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.

Your browser can be set to warn you before accepting cookies in this case, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use most areas within Automotive Shopping Network.

Google Ads and the DoubleClick DART Cookie

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
• Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Newsletters
Automotive Shopping Network offers free, electronic newsletters as a service to our users, based on a voluntary subscription. You will only receive a newsletter if you have requested it directly from our signup form. We do not sell newsletter mailing lists to any third parties, including advertisers or partners, however we do place ads within our letter.

Automotive Shopping Network Purchases
Information you provide about yourself during a purchase through our site is strictly confidential and is not used for anything other than the purchase and verification. This includes credit card and personal contact information. 

Forums and Public Communication
Please remember that while Automotive Shopping Network does not share any personal information gathered during registration to our discussion groups, any postings to our message boards or discussion areas become public information. Use caution when posting.

Automotive Shopping Network Advertisers and Partners
Automotive Shopping Network will not provide your personal information to anyone outside of Auto Protection and its parent companies except in the limited circumstances mentioned, and only then through voluntary submission.

However, Automotive Shopping Network cannot control the practices of other partners and advertisers. If you have provided personal information to a party or advertiser connected with Auto Protection and have not been informed by Automotive Shopping Network as to its purpose, contact them directly by going to their home page and looking for a company profile or information area.

It is important to note that Automotive Shopping Network contains many links to sites other than Automotive Shopping Network, and that those sites may not follow the same privacy policies as us. For instance, if you click an ad or a search result on Automotive Shopping Network, this will take you away from Automotive Shopping Network and to an entirely different site. This includes links from advertisers, content providers and partners who may use Automotive Shopping Network's Logo of a co-branding agreement. These sites may send their own cookies to you, and as a result, may collect data and ask for personal information that Automotive Shopping Network would not.

Changes to Policy
Automotive Shopping Network reserves the right to change this policy at any time with or without notifying members of the existence of a revised privacy policy. It is the members responsibility to keep up to date on any revisions to our privacy policy.

Delete/Deactivate Policy
You may unsubscribe to our electronic newsletter at any time simply by unsubscibing yourself in the same place you signed up. Or you may follow the instructions contained at the end of newsletters.