The Used Car Search Privacy Policy
All personal information collected and used from the TheUsedCarSearch.com
web site is processed in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Online Advertisements
In order to place an advertisement on the TheUsedCarSearch.com web site,
you will need to register. We will require you to supply your name, telephone
number, e-mail address, postal address and postcode. You will also be
required to supply payment details and your vehicle registration. Registrants
are also presented with the option of supplying their mobile number, insurance
renewal dates, and the make and model of any cars owned. Credit Card information
is collected over a secure connection and handled by www.Protx.com.
Vehicle Searches
In order to conduct a vehicle search on the TheUsedCarSearch.com web site,
we will require you to supply a postcode and a selection of identifying
criteria matching your chosen vehicle, for example make, model and price.
USE OF INFORMATION
General
We will not share your information with other companies unless you make
a finance application. Any finance Application is made though AUF Group:
AUF Group
St. James Court
Wilderspool Causeway
Warrington
WA4 6PS
The information you provide will be used by AUF Group to try to establish
a line of credit for the applicant. By submitting a finance application
you consent to credit checks being carried out by AUF Group and other
credit reference agencies. All customer details are retained on a 128
kb encrypted database which means that all electronic data held by the
Company is only accessible by those authorised personnel within the Company.
Please note that your information will be stored and processed on our
computers in the United Kingdom. AUF Group will hold and transmit your
information in a safe, confidential and secure environment. AUF Group
will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties for
their marketing purposes without your explicit prior consent.
This Privacy Policy applies to this website (the "Site") and
any records, either paper based or electronically stored. Your details
as supplied to us in any application form will only be submitted to affiliate
funding sources for the purposes of obtaining the credit facility that
you have requested.
AUF Group and theusedcarsearch.com may use personally identifiable information
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyse
site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customise the
Site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and
better tailor it to meet your needs. We may use your information to contact
you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to
your interests, such as product offerings and communications relevant
to your use of the Site.
We may use third parties that we refer to as affiliate funding sources
to facilitate or outsource one or more elements of our services (e.g.,
search, identity verification, surveys, affiliate and reward programmes)
and therefore we may provide some of your personally identifiable information
directly to them. These affiliate funding sources are subject to confidentiality
agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use
of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate
the specific outsourced finance related operation, unless you have explicitly
agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses.In some
instances, the affiliate funding sources may collect information directly
from you. If you provide additional information to an affiliate funding
source directly, then their use of your information is governed by their
applicable privacy policy. The customer always retains an absolute right
to refuse any advice which we may, in all good faith, offer.
When you register with our site, we ask you whether you would like to
receive our email newsletters detailing changes to the site, offers and
services from third party companies via email and/or via post that we
feel may be of interest to you. You have the ability to opt-out of receiving
all or any of these offers during registration.
You have the right to access all personal information supplied to TheUsedCarSearch.com
and rectify any inaccuracies on the information held (a charge of £10
may be administered). Further enquiries should be made to enquiries@TheUsedCarSearch.com
or sent to our contact address:
TheUsedCarSearch.com Ltd.
27 Seymour Terrace,
Seymour Street,
Liverpool,
L3 5PE.
T: 0151 703 1075.
F: 0151 703 1076.
Online Advertisements
Telephone numbers and email addresses supplied as part of a vehicle advertisement
will be published within the relevant advertisement for the duration of
the booking, to enable a potential buyer to contact the seller. The postcode
is collected in order to provide a positioning on each vehicle within
our database, thereby enabling potential buyers to locate vehicles for
sale within a set radius of their chosen location.
Credit card information is used solely for the purpose of payment processing.
We retain no record of credit card details.