OtownAutos respects the privacy of visitors to our site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand our privacy practices. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@otownautos.com.

Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We won't knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personally identifying information.

The information gathered by OtownAutos.com falls into two categories:

(1) Information supplied by visitors to the site when they register or initiate transactions.

(2) Tracking information gathered as visitors navigate through the OtownAutos.com site.

Third party providers featured on or linked to by our web site, such as vendors of products and services offered through our site, may be gathering the same kinds of information.

To make use of certain features on our site, visitors need to provide limited information about themselves and their interests so that we can tailor the information we provide to their needs. For example, to help you find the car you want close to home, we need to know your zip code and what kind of car you're looking for at what price. We ask you to provide this information when you perform a search. From time to time, OtownAutos may offer sweepstakes or other promotions on the site. If you enter a sweepstakes or promotional contest, you'll have to provide information about yourself (such as your name, address, and email address) so that we can contact you if you win. We may share this information with any cosponsor of the contest (identified in the contest rules). If you don't want us to collect the information requested in the contest registration form or to provide it to contest cosponsors, please do not enter the contest.

If you provide us your email address, we'll send you our monthly newsletter, and, from time to time, other offers we think may be of interest to you. Though we hope you'll find these informative and useful, if you don't, you can always unsubscribe by following the simple instructions included in each email. And you can opt out of receiving the newsletter or other emails at all by indicating, at the time you give us your email address, that you'd prefer not to get our newsletter or receive these offers.

To help us tailor our site to the needs and interests of our visitors, we keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a small entry in text file, called a cookie, on your hard drive. The cookie contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you've visited. We aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other users to track overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our users. We also use cookies to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly when you visit our site. Cookies don't reveal personal information; the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies can't read unrelated data off your hard drive. The help function on most browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely. However, if you don't accept cookies, you won't be able to take advantage of various features on our site that are available to other visitors.

Our web server automatically collects some information about you when you request pages from our server, including your IP address. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers connected to the Internet to identify your computer so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you. Your IP address does not tell us who you are.

OtownAutos.com uses the services of third parties to serve advertisements that you see on the pages of our site, to target those ads, to serve and target promotions or other marketing messages on this and other sites, and to collect anonymous tracking information called "clickstream" data from this and other web sites that can be aggregated and used for marketing research and similar purposes. These third parties use cookies much as we do, and they collect information directly from our users.

When we present information to our dealers and our advertisers -- to help them understand our audience and confirm the value of advertising on our web site -- it is usually in the form of aggregated statistics on traffic to various pages within our site. From time to time, OtownAutos.com may share more particularized information on visitors to the site with marketers of auto-related products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. Please indicate on the pages on which we collect information if you'd prefer we not share such information with them. If you wish to change your election or to review or update your profile (or to deactivate your profile completely), Contact Us and the OtownAutos.com staff will make your requested changes for you. After asking Customer Service to make the change for you (or to deactivate your profile), please allow 24 to 48 hours for implementation.

To make our site more valuable to our visitors, we offer some features in conjunction with other providers. Our finance, insurance and used car appraiser, for example, are made available through cooperative arrangements with providers that specialize in operating such services. We share with these third parties such information as is necessary to provide the products or services. Of course, our site includes links to other web sites, and provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we don't control. When you access another web site or purchase products or services or conduct other transactions through our web site, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you're visiting or the provider of such products or services. When you provide information in the course of obtaining products or services through our site, use of any information you provide may be governed by the privacy policy of the provider of those products or services, even if it appears that you're on OtownAutos pages throughout the transaction. The provider's privacy policy may differ from ours. If you can't find the privacy policy of any of our provider partners via a link either from the site's homepage or from the pages on which the products or services are offered, you should contact the provider directly for more information.

We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce our Visitor Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, the public or OtownAutos.com. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that OtownAutos.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets. We also may license other parties to conduct automated searches of certain of our databases (such as the database of vehicle listings) for collection, aggregation or analysis of information for our or their business purposes, which may include certain personally identifiable information (such as contact information for sellers of particular vehicles), but only such information that is otherwise publicly available on the OtownAutos.com site. Information gathered by OtownAutos.com on the OtownAutos.com web site is stored within OtownAutos.com-controlled databases on servers maintained in protected environments. However, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won't be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a message you post to any chat room, forum or other public posting area is available to anyone with Internet access. If you don't want people to know your email address, for example, don't include it in any message you post publicly.

The Web is an evolving medium. If we need to change our privacy policy at some point in the future, we'll post the changes before they take effect. By visiting OtownAutos.com, you agree that your visit, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy and our User Agreement.

If you feel that your right have been violated in any way do not hesitate to let OtownAutos know by contacting us. We want every visit you make to OtownAutos as private as possible.