AutoAds24.com (“we, us, our”) is providing this “Privacy Policy” because we believe in being transparent with respect to the information that we collect and use. This Privacy Policy governs our collection, use, sale and disclosure of information that is reasonably capable of being linked to an individual user (“you”), such as name, address, telephone number, and/or email address (“personal information”) collected through the AutoAds24.com website, mobile and other applications owned and operated by us (“site”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before providing us with any personal information. By using the site, you consent to the collection, use, sale and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described below. This Privacy Policy is in accordance with applicable law in place for United States of America. Please consult our site for privacy policies that may apply to your region.
This site is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18.
We collect the following kinds of personal information:
If you request to be contacted by a particular car seller, both we and that seller, as the case may be, may collect personal information provided by you through the text and chat functionalities that we provide and on the contact forms on our site, which may include your name, email address, postal code, and telephone number, so that the seller can contact you to consider a car purchase or request that you submit a dealer review.
If you are an individual user (and not acting on behalf of a car dealer) and you want to use our services to buy or sell a vehicle, we and/or business partners may collect information provided by you in connection with that transaction, for example to create your vehicle listing, to verify vehicle ownership, to confirm funds availability, to process payment, to populate purchase and sale documents, and to provide user support. We may collect this information in forms on our site, forms on third party sites made available from our site, or from a picture of your ID that you upload. This information may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, driver’s license number, photo, gender, date of birth, the last four digits of your social security number, bank name, and bank account and routing numbers.
If you register with us or subscribe to receive specific information or services on our site, in addition to the automatic information collected as described above, we will also collect registration information, such as name, email address, mail address, telephone number, username and password.
Registering with us will give you the ability to personalize your AutoAds24.com site experience. The benefits of registering will increase over time as we get to know you better and introduce new features. We encourage you to register so that you can experience everything that AutoAds24.com has to offer!
We gather information from your computer or handheld or mobile device when you visit our site. While you can take advantage of some of our site features without registration, we encourage you to register with us to take full advantage of our many personalization options in terms of your privacy and browsing preferences. If you don’t register, we automatically collect your IP address and information regarding your internet service provider or mobile carrier and the type of handheld or mobile device you use. We also use the following services:
We also use the following technologies to automatically collect information from you:
We, and other companies with whom we partner, use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as Flash (sometimes called “flash cookies”), and similar technology (“Tracking Technologies”) in connection with the use of our site, third party websites, and mobile applications. Tracking Technologies may have unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Tracking Technologies may transmit information about you and your use of the site, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have clicked on, advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers), page views and/or clicks, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session. You can learn more about cookies here.
You can set some cookie preferences through your device or browser settings but doing so may affect the functionality of the site.
The purposes for which we use Tracking Technologies on the site include:
Purpose | Explanation |
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Processes | Intended to make the site work in the way you expect. For example, we use a cookie that tells us whether you have already signed up for an account. |
Authentication, Security, and Compliance | Intended to prevent fraud, protect your data from unauthorized parties, and comply with legal requirements. For example, we use cookies to determine if a suspicious IP address (based on geography) is logged in through your account or if the account. |
Preferences | Intended to track how you use the site and remember information about how you prefer the site to behave and look. For example, we monitor and store your browsing activity on our site to customize your experience and better understand your vehicle shopping interests. |
Notifications | Intended to allow notices of information or options that we think could improve your use of the site. For example, send out notifications of price drop in a vehicle that you are interested or previously browsed on our site. |
Advertising | Intended to make advertising more relevant to users and more valuable to our advertisers. For example, we may use cookies to serve you interest-based ads, such as ads that are displayed to you based on your visits to other websites, or to tell us if you have recently clicked on an ad. |
Analytics | Intended to help us understand how visitors use our site. For example, we use a cookie that tells us how our search suggestions correlate to your browsing on our site. |
On our site, we may display applications or widgets from social media providers that allow interaction or content sharing by their users. These widgets, such as the Facebook® “Share” or “Like” button, are visible to you on the site page that you visit. This may allow the social media networks in which you participate to collect information about you, even when you do not explicitly activate the network’s application or widget while on our site. Please visit the applicable social media network’s privacy policy to better understand their data collection practices and the choices they make available to you.
In addition to social media networks, our site also contains references and links to third party web sites that may offer information of interest. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those web sites, and we recommend reviewing those web sites’ privacy policies individually.
We may acquire or obtain information from other sources as follows:
From third-party sources to update or supplement the information that you provide or that we collect automatically. This includes, for example, vehicle registration information and other information. We collect this information from public databases, private database, data aggregators, analytics vendors, advertising networks, and search information providers).
We use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, personalize your experience with the site, target our communications and advertisements so that we can inform you of products and services or other offers that may be of interest to you, provide private purchase and sale transaction services, prevent fraud, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes.
Interest-based advertising, also called “online behavioral” advertising. is customized based on predictions generated over time from your visits across different websites, including our site, devices and mobile applications.
These tools allow us to personalize our ads based on your browsing behavior on our site. Unless and until required by applicable law, our site does not recognize browser “do not track” signals. However, several of our partners who utilize these cookies, beacons and tools on our site enable you to opt out of this interest-based advertising.
Most of these companies are participants of the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) and/or the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). To learn more about the targeted ads provided by these companies, and how to opt out of receiving certain targeted ads from them, please visit: (i) for website targeted ads from DAA participants, https://www.aboutads.info/choices; (ii) for app targeted ads from DAA participants, https://www.aboutads.info/appchoices; and (iii) for targeted ads from NAI participants, https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. Opting out only means that the selected participants should no longer deliver certain targeted ads to you but does not mean you will no longer receive any targeted content and/or ads (e.g., in connection with the participants’ other customers or from other technology services).
You may also limit our use of information collected from or about your mobile device for purposes of serving targeted ads to you by going to your device settings and selecting “Limit Ad Tracking” (for iOS devices) or “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” (for Android devices).
Please note that if you opt out using any of these methods, the opt out will only apply to the specific browser or device from which you opt out. We are not responsible for the effectiveness of, or compliance with, any opt out options or programs, or the accuracy of any other entities’ statements regarding their opt out options or programs.
We also partner with Amazon to deliver advertisements. You can opt out of delivery of targeted advertising to you by Amazon. Please note that even if you opt out, you will continue to receive advertisements, but they will not be tailored to your specific interests.
We may also display interest-based ads to you when you are using Facebook and other social media platforms or websites.