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Your Privacy Is Important!

Your privacy on the Internet is important to us, and because we gather certain types of information about our users, we want you to understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. If you have any question please contact us.

What Information Do We Gather?

Auto Protection gathers two types of information about users:

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 Auto Protection'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 Auto Protection 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. Auto Protection 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 Auto Protection Uses Information!

Auto Protection 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 newsletters, warranty quotes via email or by telephone, or mailers.

Auto Protection will disclose information that personally identifies you to parties other than Auto Protection in the following situations:

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

Auto Service Contract Quote Application Information

This is information we receive from you through our free auto service contract quote application. It includes information such as: your name, address, and telephone number and vehicle details. Application Information may be disclosed to other call centers / advertisers for purpose of providing a quote if coverage is or is not not available by us.

Contests and Promotional Events

Auto Protection 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.

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. Auto Protection 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 Auto Protection.

• 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

Auto Protection 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.

Auto Protection 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

Auto Protection Advertisers and Partners

Auto Protection 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 Auto Protection 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 Auto Protection contains many links to sites other than Auto Protection, 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 Auto Protection, this will take you away from Auto Protection and to an entirely different site. This includes links from advertisers, content providers and partners who may use Auto Protection'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 Auto Protection would not.

Changes to Policy

Auto Protection 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.