LASELL AUTO GROUP Privacy Statement

Effective JULY 22, 2023

Who we are

Our website address is: https://LASELL AUTO GROUP.com.

This Privacy Statement (Privacy Statement) is intended to help you understand the Personal Information that LasellAuto.com, LASELL AUTO GROUP LLC. Lasell Auto Group collects when you use or access any LASELL AUTO GROUP content, products, services, websites or mobile device applications (collectively, LASELL AUTO GROUP Services) and how we use it.

Protecting the Privacy of Minors

LASELL AUTO GROUP Services are not intended for use by minors, and we will not knowingly collect information about minors. If you are a minor, you are not allowed to use the LASELL AUTO GROUP Services or provide any information about yourself.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Collection of Personal Information

For purposes of this Privacy Statement, the term Personal Information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household. Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available from government records, and it also does not include deidentified or aggregated information.

In connection with the LASELL AUTO GROUP Services, LASELL AUTO GROUP may collect Personal Information about:

  • Users of LASELL AUTO GROUP Services intended for use by consumers (Consumers),

  • Employees of entities with which LASELL AUTO GROUP has a current or potential business relationship (Business Employees),

  • People who apply for a job at LASELL AUTO GROUP (Job Applicants).

LASELL AUTO GROUP may collect the following categories of Personal Information:

Category of Personal Information

Examples

Consumers

Business Employees

Job Applicants

Identifiers

Name, alias, address, unique identifier, IP address, email address

Yes

Yes

Yes

Personal Information in customer accounts

Name, telephone number, email address

Yes

Yes

No

Characteristics of protected classifications

Age, disability status, gender identity, military status

No

No

Yes

Commercial information

Records of products or services purchased, obtained or considered, other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies

Yes

Yes

No

Biometric information

Physiological, biological or behavioral characteristics used or intended to be used to establish individual identity

No

No

No

Internet or similar network activity

Browsing history, search history, information regarding a user’s interaction with an internet website, application or advertisement

Yes

Yes

No

Geolocation data

Zip code or physical location

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sensory data

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information

Yes

Yes

No

Professional or employment information

Current or past job history or job title(s)

No

Yes

Yes

Education information

Educational credentials or certifications

No

No

Yes

Inferences drawn from the foregoing Personal Information

Profile reflecting the user’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, aptitudes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sensitive Personal Information

Precise geolocation, credit or debit card information, account login

Yes, with consent

Yes, with consent

Yes, with consent

Sources of Personal Information

LASELL AUTO GROUP may collect Personal Information:

  • Directly from you,

  • Automatically through cookies, tags and other unique identifiers (collectively, Unique Identifiers),

  • From or through the business relationship between LASELL AUTO GROUP and you or your employer,

  • From LASELL AUTO GROUP’s service providers or

  • From third parties with your consent.

An organization with which LASELL AUTO GROUP has a current or potential business relationship may also make available to LASELL AUTO GROUP certain Personal Information of its Business Employees.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

CONSUMERS

BUSINESS EMPLOYEES

JOB APPLICANTS

Protection of Personal Information

LASELL AUTO GROUP maintains an information security program with administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect against unauthorized access to the Personal Information LASELL AUTO GROUP collects. Except as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, LASELL AUTO GROUP does not use, sell, share or disclose certain types of Personal Information that must be treated with extra security (for example, precise geolocation, government issued identification or demographic information) (Sensitive Personal Information). LASELL AUTO GROUP also does not sell information that specifically identifies you, such as your name, address, email address or telephone number. To protect against unauthorized access to your LASELL AUTO GROUP account, we strongly recommend that you use a unique password, protect your password, log out of your account and close your browser each time after using LASELL AUTO GROUP Services.

Updates to this Privacy Statement and Your Consent

LASELL AUTO GROUP may modify this Privacy Statement at any time. Any changes to the Privacy Statement will be posted here. Please check this Privacy Statement often for any changes. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Statement, please contact us at INFO@LASELLAUTO.com. You are consenting to the privacy practices described in the Privacy Statement each time you use the LASELL AUTO GROUP Services.

Third Party Websites

You may access LASELL AUTO GROUP Services through third party websites or social media (collectively, Third Party Websites). By accessing LASELL AUTO GROUP Services through a Third-Party Website, you may be allowing such Third Party Websites to view any information you provide to LASELL AUTO GROUP. If you are concerned about accessing LASELL AUTO GROUP Services through a Third Party Website, you can instead access LASELL AUTO GROUP Services directly through LASELL AUTO GROUP websites or mobile device applications (collectively, LASELL AUTO GROUP Applications). LASELL AUTO GROUP Applications and LASELL AUTO GROUP emails may include links that allow you to access Third Party Websites. LASELL AUTO GROUP does not control the collection, use or disclosure of any information on such Third Party Websites or the content on such Third Party Websites.

Personal Information Received from Third Parties

This Privacy Statement does not describe the collection or use of Personal Information when LASELL AUTO GROUP receives Personal Information from third parties in connection with services provided by LASELL AUTO GROUP to such third parties as a service provider. In those instances, LASELL AUTO GROUP will use and disclose Personal Information provided by the third parties in accordance with the agreements entered into between LASELL AUTO GROUP and such third parties.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information about Consumer

  1. LASELL AUTO GROUP collects and uses Personal Information to operate its business and provide, develop and improve LASELL AUTO GROUP Services, including:

  • To fulfill the request for which the information is provided;

  • To communicate with you in connection with your LASELL AUTO GROUP account (for example, to provide services or notify you about LASELL AUTO GROUP products and services, the benefits available to you through your LASELL AUTO GROUP account and other special offers and promotions);

  • To effectively plan communications and marketing campaigns;

  • To provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors and improve the usability and effectiveness of LASELL AUTO GROUP Services;

  • To personalize and improve your experience with LASELL AUTO GROUP Services by making recommendations and delivering content, products and services that might be of interest to you;

  • To display targeted advertisement on Third Party Websites;

  • To fulfill our business purposes, including internal record keeping and administration and

  • To prevent unauthorized or unlawful use of the LASELL AUTO GROUP Services and protect the rights, property, security and safety of our users, LASELL AUTO GROUP and LASELL AUTO GROUP Services.

  1. LASELL AUTO GROUP collects Sensitive Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Precise geolocation to provide information about vehicle dealers and services shops in your then-current location and

  • Payment card information to process your purchase of vehicle history reports.

LASELL AUTO GROUP does not store precise geolocation information or complete payment card information.

  1. LASELL AUTO GROUP may disclose Personal Information:

  • To our service providers as necessary for our business purposes (for example, to provide LASELL AUTO GROUP Services, process credit card transactions, analyze data, serve and measure ad impressions, provide marketing assistance and measure unique visitors);

  • As necessary to defend against legal claims or otherwise protect our rights;

  • To third parties as required by law or judicial proceeding and

  • As requested by you, such as when you submit a request for information from a vehicle dealer through a LASELL AUTO GROUP Application, except that LASELL AUTO GROUP has no control over the subsequent use or disclosure of the Personal Information by such third parties.

  1. LASELL AUTO GROUP may share Personal Information collected through Unique Identifiers:

With third parties to help build a profile of your interests and for cross context behavioral advertising, cross device linking or for other purposes similar to serving targeted advertising (collectively, Targeted Advertising). To learn more or to make choices about such use of your Personal Information for Targeted Advertising, please click here: https://youradchoices.com/.

The third parties with which LASELL AUTO GROUP may share information for purposes of Targeted Advertising include, without limitation, LASELL AUTO GROUP and/or Firebase Analytics from Google. To learn more about how Firebase Analytics from Google collect and use data and to opt out, please visit their privacy pages https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may also opt out of receiving Targeted Advertising by changing your browser options to either stop accepting cookies or prompt you before accepting a cookie from any website.

  1. If you disclose Personal Information when you review products or services (including third party products and services) or submit content or materials intended for public postings, the information may be viewable by others.

  2. You may update or change your Personal Information by contacting LASELL AUTO GROUP here.

  3. You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from LASELL AUTO GROUP:

  • At any time by using the link included on all marketing emails;

  • By contacting LASELL AUTO GROUP at info@lasellauto.com.