1. OUR COMMITMENT TO PRIVACY
At Chicane Auto Services (thepitlane.ie), we respect the privacy of our users. This privacy statement details the personal information we collect, how we use your information and our legal basis for processing your information in compliance with the Republic of Ireland law and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
This Privacy Policy will be updated as and when our websites change as we take advantage of new technologies in order to improve our services. We would ask you to continue to check this Policy so that you keep up to date with any changes.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
a) Personal Information
We collect some types of “personal information” for certain legitimate business purposes, which include the following. When you sign up with us, we collect your name, email address, telephone number.
When you want to place your car for sale, we collect information about the vehicle such as registration number, odometer reading, finance status and images of the vehicle.
b) Non-personal information
When you are using our websites, we also collect “non-personal information”. This means information that cannot be used to identify you. This might include some demographic data, such as gender, age, income, profession, interests and technical information such as IP address, browser type, mobile device, operating system. Some non-personal information might also be collected due to the search terms you entered your browser to find our websites.
3. INFORMATION WE DON’T COLLECT
Credit/Debit Card Information/date of birth/race/sexual orientation.
4. WEB BROWSER COOKIES
Our Site may use ‘cookies’ to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
5. COOKIE POLICY
5.1 What is Cookie?
A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyse traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.
• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.
If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
5.2 How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards to how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and/or services in response to what you might need or want.
6. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
7. YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR
You have the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning your data or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability.
8. YOUR CHOICES AND OPT-OUTS
You can always opt not to disclose information to us, but keep in mind some information may be needed to register with us or to take advantage of some of our features.
9. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
10. LAW ENFORCEMENT RELATED DISCLOSURE
We may disclose personal information, or any information submitted via the Services, if we have a good faith belief that the disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce our agreements, policies and terms of service; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud or security issues; or (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Chicane Auto Services, its users, yourself or the public.
11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information of a child under 13 years old, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible.
12. IMAGE CONSENT
By uploading images to our website, you agree that the images may be used in connection with our business, including but not limited to, marketing and advertising purposes, without any further payment or notification to you. You also warrant that you have all necessary rights to upload and use the images and that the images do not infringe any third-party rights.
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