Privacy Policy
Last Updated November 2, 2012
Billion Auto respects your privacy and we understand our
responsibility to safeguard and preserve your personal information. You should review our Privacy Policy often to
view updates or changes on how we use and protect your personal information. By using the Billion Auto website, you agree
to the terms of this Privacy Policy and any updates.
Questions and Comments to Customer Service
Billion Auto welcomes your questions or comments. Please contact Billion Auto Customer Service
with any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or how it applies
to you:
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by email to info@billionauto.com;
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by telephone to 1-888-468-3469 (toll free in the U.S.) or 605-731-5190;
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by mail to Billion
Auto, Inc.
3015 S. Minnesota Ave.
Sioux
Falls, SD 57105
USA
Collection of Personal Information
Billion Auto collects the following personally identifiable
information:
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information entered on our site, including your name, email
address, mailing address, daytime telephone number and email addresses of your
friends and other potential customers;
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when you seek pre-qualification for financing, your social
security number and financial information;
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your responses to surveys or customer feedback or testimonials.
Billion Auto may also collect or access the following
information:
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demographic information, including your zip code, age, gender,
and preferences;
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information about computer hardware and software, including your
IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website
sites, all gathered automatically to make your use of the Billion Auto family
of websites more convenient;
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information collected by other sources which may be compared
with or added to your information.
Cookies/Website Function
Billion Automotive uses cookies to record information while you are on our website to remarket to site visitors,
whereby you may be served advertising related to the content of our site following your site visit.
This advertising is served on sites across the internet, and ad service is not confined to our site domain.
You may opt out of these cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Preferences Manager.
Billion Auto uses cookies to record information while you are on
our family of websites.
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A cookie is a small amount of data, with identifying information
that is sent to your browser from our website’s computers and stored on your
computer’s hard drive. It is a temporary
record.
If your browser settings do not allow cookies, the Billion Auto
website may not work. To correct the
problem, you should change your preferences to enable cookies.
Use of Personal Information
Billion Auto uses your personal information for the following
general purposes: communicating with you,
providing financing pre-qualification, customizing site displays for you,
making improvements to our website, and gathering general statistics regarding
the use of the Billion Auto family of websites.
Billion Auto tracks information about the websites and pages you
visit within the Billion Auto family of websites. This allows us to deliver customized
information and advertising to you when your online activity indicates an
interest in a particular type of vehicle or topic.
In order to provide financing pre-qualification or other
information you request, Billion Auto may share your personal information with
trusted third party service partners under confidentiality agreements.
Billion Auto may request email addresses from you for purposes
of marketing by the Billion Auto family of businesses. Billion Auto maintains email addresses on
marketing lists until a vehicle is purchased or until we receive, and have had
sufficient time to process, a request for removal of the email address.
Billion Auto may use surveys and other methods to obtain your
feedback about our website or vehicles. Billion
Auto may post your feedback, including personally identifiable information like
your name, on the website or use it in marketing and promotional materials. In
these instances, we may edit the feedback for length, grammar and to help protect
your privacy.
Billion Auto will store and process your personally identifiable
information on leased servers located in the United States. By using our website you consent to storage
of your information in the United States.
Disclosure
Billion Auto does not sell or trade your personally identifiable
information with third parties. Billion
Auto will share your information only with service partners working under
confidentiality agreements , or when you give us permission to do so.
Billion Auto may disclose information, including your personally
identifiable information, under special circumstances, including, but not
limited to, the following:
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it is necessary, in Billion Auto’s sole discretion, to comply
with applicable law or regulation, legal process or governmental request;
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it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action
regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential
threats to the physical safety of any person, or violations of applicable law
or contracts; or
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if Billion Auto were to merge with or be acquired by another
company. In either event, Billion Auto
will provide you notice before your information is transferred or becomes
subject to a different privacy policy.
Notice may be provided by posting the change to the Billion Auto
website.
Security Measures
Billion Auto uses established security standards and procedures to
help protect your personally identifiable information. For example, we use secure web hosting, secure
server sites and your financial information is protected by 128-bit Secure
Socket Layer (“SSL”) encryption when it is transmitted between your computer
and the Billion Auto website.
You understand that Billion Auto uses third party service
partners and transmits your financial information to them using SSL
encryption. Your personally identifiable
and financial information may be transmitted to service partners over various
networks. Billion Auto secures all
personally identifiable information on leased computer servers in a controlled,
secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
Despite all the security measures taken, the internet is not a
100% secure environment. Billion Auto
does not warrant the security of any information you transmit to its
website. Billion Auto does not and
cannot guarantee that the physical, technical, or managerial safeguards
maintained by us or our third party service partners will never fail or be
breached.
Ownership and Control of Information
You own all of your personally identifiable information. Billion Auto owns the proprietary information
(including the text, graphics, designs and trademarks) on its website along
with all demographic data and research collected through the website.
You may change or correct the information you supplied to Billion
Auto. If you update your information, we
may keep a copy of the information originally provided in our archives.
You may stop the delivery of future marketing emails from the Billion
Auto family of businesses by following the specific instructions contained in
each email for requesting removal of your email address from our lists.
You may also request the removal of your email address from our
marketing lists at any time by contacting Billion Auto Customer Service (using
the methods described in the Questions and Comments Section above).
Your Obligations
You undertake certain obligations when using the Billion Auto
website. Some of these obligations come
from applicable law and regulations, and others have become standard safety
measures for online activities.
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You must review the accuracy of the information you provide to Billion
Auto.
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You must comply with the current Privacy Policy and with any
other contract entered with us.
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You must respect the intellectual property rights of other
parties (in trademarks, photographs etc.).
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You must not post any information that may be deemed to be
unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, or obscene or that
otherwise violates another party’s rights.
If you fail to comply with these guidelines, we may deny you
access to the Billion Auto family of websites.
Linked Websites
You should review the privacy policies of websites you link to
from the Billion Auto website. We are not responsible for the privacy policies
or content on websites outside of the Billion Auto family of websites.
Consent and Changes to Policy
This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it
supersedes any earlier version. We may
occasionally update or modify this Privacy Policy. When a revision is made we
will revise the "last updated" date.
Billion Auto encourages you to review this Privacy Policy often to stay
up-to-date on any updates or changes.
Your continued use of the Billion Auto website represents your agreement
to any change to this Privacy Policy.