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Privacy Policy for CRcarsforsale.com


Last updated July 29,2006

CRcarsforsale.com may be contacted by writing to: WM Development, 702 B Ave, Vinton, IA 52349 or ONLINE. We respect your privacy and we do our best to see that all users of our websites respect other users privacy also by way of complying with our Terms of Use which prohibit solicitation of the advertisers for any purpose other than to purchase their advertised property. We NEVER publish our advertisers email address in the display of their advertisements at our Sites in order to avoid it being harvested and sold. We offer an email privacy feature where advertisers can still receive direct internet email while at the same time keeping their email address completely private. We will appreciate it if any user who finds another user violating our Terms of Use would notify us about that event so that we may contact them about our Terms of Use which we do attempt to monitor and enforce.

Users who simply browse the site to read about our services or to view the advertisements of other users displayed at the Sites or third party companies/service providers advertising their services at the Sites are referred to herein as "Passive Users".

Users who register with us to specifically request that we provide them some kind of service other than advertising their property for sale at our Site (for example those users who request notification of new advertisements placed here by other users) or those users who register through us to specifically request the services of some third party advertiser/service provider for whom we provide all or part of the service request/order/payment processing services at our Site are herein referred to as "Registered Users".

Users who register with us for the specific purpose of advertising property for sale by way of such advertisements being displayed on our site and/or also distributed for display at other third-party website(s) and/or publications(s) are herein referred to as "Advertisers".

Specific information pertaining to the types of information which we may collect, the purposes for collection of that information, and the possible recipients of that information along with information for the users ability in some cases of opting out of certain uses or recipients of the information collected is provided on a By User Group Category basis below after the general information sections.

Cookies Generally

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to a users computer when they visit some pages of the Site. These cookies themselves do not collect any information, the cookies simply store some of the non-sensitive information (like by way of example the URL which the user first came to one of our Site from) which either you or your browser had already given to us in connection with your use of the Site. The cookies are only readable by the Site which issued them so no one else can get that information from the cookie and we do not share the information contained on them with anyone else but it is conveniently available to us during the time you are using the Site (a Session Cookie) to enable you to participate in our Site interactive features or when you return for a subsequent visit our Site can simply read that non-sensitive information from it (a Persistent Cookie) without needing to collect it again. Personally Identifiable or otherwise Sensitive Information is NOT stored in our cookies. The purposes of using these cookies includes enabling some of the Sites interactive functions to work and also to avoid needing to collect certain information numerous times from the user during the process of using the Sites. We also use cookie technology to track the way in which customers arrive at and use the site so that we can evaluate our own advertising efforts and to assist our evaluation of the Site's functionality features to continue to improve the Site and to better develop them to generally suite the users needs better or to enhance the users convenience.

Personally Identifiable Information Generally

Personally Identifiable Information is herein referred to as that information which specifically identifies you or identifies where to find or contact you. This Personally Identifiable Information is provided to us by Registered Users when you register at our Site to request some service either from us (like the notification of new listing service for example) or when you register at our Site to request some service from a third-party service provider/advertiser at our Site where we handle the registration/ordering/payment process for said third-party. This Personally Identifiable Information is provided to us by Advertisers when you register an ad for property for sale at our Site. No Personally Identifiable Information is requested from Passive Users and none is gathered other than the ordinary web logging information which occurs for all users. CRcarsforsale.com does not sell, distribute, or release your individual Personally Identifiable Information to other companies or vendors except as you have authorized in the process of registering to request the service or registering to place the advertisement (for example in the case of Advertisers the contents of the advertisements themselves are specifically authorized by the Advertiser and intended to be displayed to the public at our Site along with the public display of whatever contact information which the Advertiser choose to include in that display and also said advertisements are authorized by the Advertiser and intended to be distributed by CRcarsforsale.com to other third-party website(s) or publication(s) at the discretion of the user for further additional display to the public at such third party website(s) or publication(s) also similarly including the desired contact information selected by the Advertiser to be published and in the case of Registered Users the Registered User authorizes and intends that their Personally Identifiable Information be delivered by CRcarsforsale.com to the third-party service provider who is the principal in that transaction and who is actually providing the service which the Registered User specifically requested).

Credit Card Account Number Information Generally

We may accept credit card account number information in connection with Advertisers purchasing our own products and services online or in the process of Registered Users purchasing the products and services of some third party advertiser/service provider in cases where we handle the ordering and/or payment processing on their behalf. Processing of the credit card account number information as well as any purchase or financial information is protected by SSL encryption technology. Once processed, we do not retain any record of your credit card account number information on our computers at all, it is only recorded by our Credit Card Processor (Paypal) who operates one of the oldest payment systems on the internet and uses SSL encryption to be as safe as possible. However, since even using the most reputable Secure Encryption Technology companies available to process and store this sensitive information and the latest state of the art technology available no data transmission over the Internet or the storage of information on internet servers can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant its complete security.

Your credit card account information will not be distributed or disclosed except to the principal of a transaction processed at our Site unless we have your express permission or unless we in good faith believe that the law requires it.

All Users Generally

Some of the uses of information provided for herein offer the user continuing Privacy Selection options and in some cases an opt-in or an op-out option for that specific use of the information.

Our normal practices stated above and below of non-disclosure and/or non-contact without your prior approval or authorization (or subject to your ability to opt-out of such disclosure or contact as the case may be) as stated in our policies herein above or below may be varied in certain circumstances such that we may disclose the information that we collect about you and/or contact you without your prior authorization (or notwithstanding your having opted-out of such disclosure or contact as the case may be) when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities who may be causing injury to you, to us or to others, and may also disclose such information and/or make such contacts as we deem necessary when we believe that the law requires it, such as for example (but not limited to such example) for purposes of identifying violations of our Terms of Use. All users must expressly agree to comply fully with our Site's Terms Of Use as a pre-requisite to the use of our Site and we do reserve the express right to enforce those Terms of Use.

When you visit our Site, as with most websites, you should be aware that third-parties may at times be able to gather information from and about you. For example, third-party advertiser servers, advertising companies that place or server those banner advertisements on the Site and third-party companies offering products or services through the Site may use cookies and/or collect and use information about you and/or may collect information that you submit to them in connection with using their services (for example the third-party companies offering insurance quotes or loan services). In these cases, the third-parties will use any such information according to their own privacy policies and those may differ from our policies.

Passive Users - Specific Information

Passive users do not have access to any of the data we collect. The purpose(s) for collection of the information we gather are or may be as follows: 1) for the completion and support of the activity for which the data was provided and 2) for web site and system administration and 3) for research and development and 4) other uses - the monitoring and administering use of our Site for compliance with our Terms Of Use (see heading All Users Generally above for detail information for this item).

The information collected is retained for an indeterminate period of time and the recipient of the information is us or entities for whom we are acting as an agent.

The types of information which may be collected are as follows: 1) Computer information - like IP number and browser type, and 2) navigation and click-stream data - like pages are visited and how long users stay on each page, and 3) content - like the text of email or bulletin board postings, or survey responses, and 4) state management mechanisms - like automatically recognizing users who have visited before.

Registered Users - Specific Information

Registered Users have access to and may edit or delete the contact and other information they supplied to us during the registration for said services in regard to services we provide ourselves. The purpose(s) for collection of the information we gather are or may be as follows: 1) for the completion and support of the activity for which the data was provided and 2) for web site and system administration and 3) for research and development and 4) other uses - the monitoring and administering use of our Site for compliance with our Terms Of Use (see heading All Users Generally above for detail information for this item) and 5) for contacting visitors for marketing of services or products and notices of updates to our Site (Registered Users must opt-in for receiving any contacts under this item 5).

The information collected is retained for an indeterminate period of time and the recipient of the information is us or entities for whom we are acting as an agent. By way of example, if you register/order through our Site for a service/product which is provided by a third-party service provider (like insurance quotes) the principal in that transaction is the third-party service provider NOT CRcarsforsale.com and they are given the information as you have authorized us to do by registering for/ordering that third party service and their practices or policies may be different from ours.

The types of information which may be collected are as follows: 1) Computer information - like IP number and browser type, and 2) navigation and click-stream data - like pages are visited and how long users stay on each page, and 3) content - like the text of email or bulletin board postings, or survey responses, and 4) state management mechanisms - like automatically recognizing users who have visited before, and 5) unique identifiers - like your order number or registration number, and 6) online contact information - like your email address, and 7) financial information -like loan application information, and 8) physical contact information - like your mailing address or phone number which you may provide for some third-party service in connection with registering for it through our Site, and 9) purchase information - like your ordering and credit card account information for some third party service you may order through our Site.

Advertisers - Specific Information

Advertisers have access to and may edit or delete the contact and other information they supplied to us during the registration for said advertising. You may also remove any items of contact information from public display or distribution to any third-party website(s) or publications(s) either by editing that information at our Site or by way of deleting the advertisement from publication altogether at our Site, in which case it will also be promptly deleted from the said third-party web site(s) or publications(s) automatically without further action. The purpose(s) for collection of the information we gather are or may be as follows: 1) for the completion and support of the activity for which the data was provided and 2) for web site and system administration and 3) for research and development and 4) other uses - the monitoring and administering use of our Sites for compliance with our Terms Of Use (see heading All Users Generally above for detail information for this item) and 5) for contacting visitors for marketing of services or products and notices of updates to our Site (Advertisers must Opt-In to receive any contacts under this item 5).

The information collected is retained for an indeterminate period of time and the recipient of the information is us and/or entities acting as our agents or entities for whom we are acting as an agent. Also, the Advertisers advertisement content is published at our Site for the public to view as authorized by the Advertiser by way of placing the order for the advertisement. Additionally, the advertisement may be distributed to other third-party website(s) and/or publication(s) for additional public display as well as also authorized by the Advertiser. The Advertisers may edit the content of the information which is displayed to the public at our Site and/or distributed to those third-party web site(s) and/or publication(s) for public display and Advertisers may opt in or out of this public display at our our Site and/or the third-party web site(s) and/or publication(s) by way of editing or deleting your advertisement.

The types of information which may be collected are as follows: 1) Computer information - like IP number and browser type, and 2) navigation and click-stream data - like pages are visited and how long users stay on each page, and 3) content - like the text of email or bulletin board postings, or survey responses, and 4) state management mechanisms - like automatically recognizing users who have visited before, and 5) unique identifiers - like your order number or advertising listing number, and 6) online contact information - like your email address, and 7) physical contact information - like your mailing address or phone number, and 8) purchase information - like your ordering and credit card account information.

Interaction with our Terms of Use

Nothing herein is intended to supercede or modify in any way any provision of our Site's published Terms of Use which are published at Terms Of Use and which every user must accept and agree to in order to view or use our Site in any way. The purpose of this Privacy Policy statement is to provide the detail information provide herein and explain what kind information we collect, the different capacities in which we collect it, what we may do with it, and how it is distributed, released, or safeguarded. In the event any provision herein is found to be in conflict with any provision of our Terms of Use it is explicitly stipulated and understood to be intended that the provisions of the Terms of Use shall be and are controlling. In the event the Terms of Use should in some imaginable or eventual real circumstance render any provision herein inaccurate by way of being inconsistent with the Terms of Use then CRcarsforsale.com reserves the right to correct such inconsistent provision herein and as the sole remedy to that inconsistency undertake to use its best efforts to destroy any information that had been collected by reason of said inconsistency upon written request from any user affected by such circumstance unless we are required by any law, regulation, or governmental authority to keep such information or it is the subject matter of any then pending or threatened litigation or is relevant to any criminal investigation.