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General Statement Information About Our Organization and Website Personally Identifiable Information We Collect From You and Methods of Collection How We Use the Personally Identifiable Information We Collect Aggregate (Non-Personally Identifiable) Information We Collect From You and Methods of Collection How We Use the Aggregate (Non-Personally Identifiable) Information We Collect: Sharing Your Information
Links to Other Sites Children's Privacy Contacting Us
1. General Statement
This privacy statement explains our on-line policies and practices pertaining
to customer information. It is through this disclosure that we intend to provide
you with a level of comfort and confidence in how we collect and use information
through this website, and how you can contact us if you have any questions
or concerns. It is our sincere hope that through this communication of our
data handling practices we will help facilitate a trusting and long-lasting
relationship with you.
This site integrates other web sites and may be integrated into other web sites. We urge you to review
the privacy policy on each site requesting information from you before providing
your information, especially those that require personal or financial data.
For instance, this site integrates an on-line financing application to provide
you with specific financial services that you may request, so be sure to review
that privacy statement.
2. Information About Our Organization and Website
This Privacy Statement describes the way that this website collects and uses the
personal and non-personal information about you that we collect or that you
provide through this website. This website is provided for
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd., 901 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94109.
The business purpose of this website is to provide you on-line information about our dealership and
our products and services. This On-Line Privacy Statement outlines the information
we may collect and how we may use that information in the course of conducting
our business. This statement describes the protections in place against collecting
and using children's data.
3. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect From You and Methods of Collection
During a normal visit to our site, no personally identifiable information
about you is collected through any means or data flow channels. We do not
collect any personal information about you such as your name, address, telephone
number, email address, and credit card number (if you place an order with
us) unless you provide it to us voluntarily. If you opt not
to provide us with personal information, you can still access our websites;
however you may be unable to participate in certain promotions, have a purchase
order fulfilled or receive product information (such as a quote on a product)
or qualify for a credit application.
Our primary goal in collecting
personal information from you when you visit British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. is to provide
you the functionality and services that you need to have a meaningful and
customized experience while using the site features. Personal data includes
information that is particular to you such as street address, phone number,
and e-mail address. We collect personal information in order to fulfill your
request for services and products. For instance, when you indicate the wish
to have us contact you, personal information such as name, mailing address,
email address, type of request and possibly additional information, is collected
and stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data and is used to
fulfill the request. In some of your requests, an email notification may be
generated to inform you of receipt of the request. This is the case when you
choose email as the method of communication for fulfilling the request. The
notification does not include personal information.
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. collects
different types of customer information from a number of sources in meeting
your products and services needs. We collect information to: identify you;
learn about your situation; help us assess requests for products and services,
confirm facts about you and help us deliver requested products and services.
We may obtain customer information from a variety of sources.
4. How We Use the Personally Identifiable Information We Collect
Personally identifiable information collected on British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. or other integrated
sites may be used to:
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Fulfill a site user request such as send marketing or promotional materials, including e-mails,
or other information
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Fulfill and deliver an order for goods or services such as a request for quote
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Respond to your comments or requests for information
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Meet a request for or to develop new products or services
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Contact you if necessary in the course of processing or shipping an order for products or services
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Generate site analytics to help improve our site layout, content, product offerings and services
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Compile user data that is stored in our or other corporate databases and that may be used
for marketing and other permissible and appropriate purposes
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Match personal data collected here with data about you collected offline
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Comply with legal requirements
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Other permissible business uses
5. Aggregate (Non-Personally Identifiable) Information We Collect From You
and Methods of Collection
During a normal visit to our site, no personally identifiable information
about you is collected. All information on our site is free to browse at your
leisure without the need for you to provide us with any personal information.
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. does collect "aggregate" information, which is non-personally
identifiable information. This means that we do not track these items on an
individual basis that identifies you, but rather accumulate this info on an
aggregate basis that includes all site visitors. Non-personal information
includes tracking the site pages visited or the amount of time spent on our
site.
Our primary goal in collecting aggregate information is to be able to perform site metrics that allow us
to improve the functionality of the website. We need to collect aggregate
information in order to track page visits, recognize peak usage times and
analyze potential site redesign.
When you visit our website
a server housing the pages automatically generates a "session log."
We use session logs to help us determine how people travel through our site.
In this way, we can structure our pages so that the information most frequently
visited is easier to find. By tracking page visits, we can also determine
if the information we're providing is being used. The data generally gathered
is the Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you came (which contains
no personal information), the web site that referred you, the pages you visited
and the date and time of those visits.
When you view one of our websites or interactive advertisements, we may use "cookies" to
collect aggregate data. A "cookie" is a small text file that helps
us in many ways to make your visit to our website more enjoyable and meaningful
to you. For example, cookies avoid you having to log in every time you come
back to one of our websites. They also allow us to tailor a website or advertisement
to better match your interests and preferences. There are a couple different
types of cookies. A "session" cookie is stored only in your computer's
working memory (RAM) and only lasts for your browsing session. When you close
all your browser's windows, or when you shut down your computer, the session
cookie disappears forever. A "persistent" cookie is stored on your
computer's hard drive until a specified date, which could be tomorrow, next
week, or 10 years from now. Persistent cookies stay on your computer until
either a) they expire, b) they are overwritten with newer cookies, c) you
manually remove them. Most browsers can be configured not to accept cookies,
however, this may prevent you from having access to some site functions or
features.
6. How We Use the Aggregate (Non-Personally Identifiable) Information We Collect
Non-Personally identifiable information collected on British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. or other
integrated sites may be used to:
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Compile aggregate and statistical data to help in website design and to identify popular features
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Measure site activity to allow us to update our site to better meet user wants and needs
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. utilizes session log data and your personal and non-personal data for the purpose of
performing analytics on the users' experience while visiting this site. This analysis:
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Is performed on an aggregate level and does not identify you or your information personally
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Involves the use of a third party vendor acting on behalf of British Motor Car Distrs Ltd.
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Is performed in order to improve our website and the user experience
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May include the use of session and/or persistent cookies to track user movement across this
and other websites or to track other events within or across this and other websites
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May be shared with other entities where deemed appropriate
7. Sharing Your Information
Personal information you provide to us in the course of requesting a product
or service through this website may be gathered and stored in our database
and subject to applicable legal restrictions in one or more other associated
corporate databases and be used for purposes of contacting you for things
like promotional offers, marketing programs, or other communications from
this website or other associated websites.
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. does not sell, rent, share or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information
to others except as stated and as otherwise permitted by law.
We may share personal information that we collect about you with other companies within our family of companies
or subsidiaries. Our "family of companies" is the group of companies
related to us by common control or ownership. We share information within
this "family" as a normal part of conducting business and offering
products and services to our customers. We may also share personal information
with Ford Motor Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates who in turn may
share personal information that you provide to British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. as permitted
by applicable federal or state personal information sharing restrictions.
This sharing may be desirable in order to honor your request for a price quote
on a vehicle, to provide information for purposes of contacting you in the
regular course of business and for other permissible uses.
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. will disclose your personal information, without notice, if
required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary
to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served
on our dealership, our family of companies, Ford Motor Company including its
subsidiaries and affiliates or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights
or property of our dealership, our family of companies, Ford Motor Company
including its subsidiaries and affiliates and this site; and, (c) act under
exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our dealership,
our family of companies, Ford Motor Company including its subsidiaries and
affiliates, its web sites, or the public.
Site metrics for British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. may be shared within our family of companies and within Ford Motor Company
including its subsidiaries or affiliates. The information shared will be aggregate
data and will not include any of your personally identifiable information.
8. Links to Other Sites British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. provides links to other websites. We encourage you to review
the privacy statements of sites to which you are linked so that you can understand
how those sites collect, use and share your information. British Motor Car Distrs Ltd., 901 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA 94109
is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content or data handling
practices on other websites.
For instance, this site integrates an on-line financing application to provide you with specific financial
services that you may request. Be sure to review their privacy statement prior
to providing personal or financial data.
9. Children's Privacy British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. does not intend to collect personal information from children
under 13 years of age. If a child has provided us with personal information a parent or guardian
of that child may contact us (contact information shown below) if the parent
or guardian wants the child's information deleted from our records. We will
then make reasonable efforts to delete the child's information from the database
that stores information for British Motor Car Distrs Ltd..
10. Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments concerning this privacy statement for
British Motor Car Distrs Ltd. or have any questions regarding the contents of this website
please contact us at
(415) 776-7700.
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