Last Updated: December 1, 2022
Effective Date: December 1, 2022
Cars Trucks Roads is a website. This Privacy Policy Statement is about how we collect, use, and share information and how you can exercise the privacy rights available to you. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at privacy@carstrucksroads.com.
- Information we collect
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Like many websites, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
- How we use your information
We use personal information collected via our website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We collect, retain and internally use information you provide us for various purposes, including, without limitation, to: correspond with you regarding our website; inform you of developments in our company or with our services that we believe may be of interest to you; customize your use of the website’s services; send you news alerts; monitor website traffic patterns and website usage; comply with applicable laws; enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements; maintain or administer the services, perform business analyses or for other internal purposes to improve the quality of our business, the website and other products and services we offer; and protect the rights, property or safety of the website, our users and others. The information, including the personal information, you provide to us may be used for any purpose we deem appropriate and may be given or disclosed to our affiliates, partners, vendors, advertisers, licensees and third parties. You acknowledge that you understand when you disclose personal information on or in connection with your use of our services, such information can be monitored, collected and used by us or others and may result in unsolicited messages from other users or third parties. We may use demographic and preference information to allow advertising on the website to be targeted to the users for whom they are most pertinent. This means users may see advertising that is most likely to interest them, and many advertisers send their messages to people who are most likely to be receptive, improving both the viewer’s experience and the effectiveness of the advertising. We may use your information to show you relevant ads both on our services and elsewhere, and measure the effectiveness and reach of ads. We may share your information for other purposes or to other parties with your consent.
- When we may disclose your information
We may provide your information, including your personal information, to third parties, such as service providers, contractors and advertisers, for a variety of purposes, including, without limitation, for direct marketing purposes. We reserve the right to disclose to third parties all of the information that we collect online about you and other visitors. We may share in aggregate, statistical from non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website, traffic patterns and Site usage with our partners, affiliates, investors, advertisers or other third parties. We may disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law or may disclose such information in response to a request from a law enforcement agency or authority, subpoena, court order or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may share information with third parties in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Terms of Use or as otherwise required by law. In the future, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, we may include your information among the transferred assets. We may share your information with third party advertising companies to target and serve some of the advertisements that appear on our website, and these companies likewise may use their own cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect information from users of our website. These companies may use that information, sometimes in conjunction with similar information gathered from other websites, to deliver advertisements on this website, tailored to match the interests of consumers. The collection and use of information by these companies is governed by the relevant third party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our privacy policy.
- Links to third party websites
Our website may offer links to other websites, including links embedded in advertisements and links to various news sources that are not under the control of Cars Trucks Roads. Such links to other websites may have information policies and practices different from ours. In addition, certain companies associated with the website may have their own privacy policies. We do not own or control such companies and websites and are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of websites that we do not own or control.
- How we protect your information
We use reasonable industry-accepted technology and controls to protect your data from disclosure to unauthorized third parties. Although these measures are typically effective, use of the Internet and related computer systems is inherently vulnerable to unauthorized access or “hacking.” No guarantee can be given that all information you provide to us will not be accessed by unauthorized persons. Thus, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
- Consent
By using this website, you consent to our collection and use of personal information you choose to provide to us.
- Opting out
If, at any time, you prefer not to receive email marketing information or newsletters from us, simply follow the unsubscribe options at the bottom of each email.
- Users aged under 18
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using our website, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the website. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at privacy@carstrucksroads.com.
- Notice to California Residents
a. Marketing
California law permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we have disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared such information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to privacy@carstrucksroads.com
b. Do Not Track
Under California law, website operators are required to disclose how they respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms that provide consumers with the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information of a consumer over time and across third party websites and apps, to the extent the operator engages in that collection. At this time, we do not track our customers’ personally identifiable information over time and across third-party websites and apps. This law also requires website and app operators to disclose whether third parties may collect personally identifiable information about their users’ online activities over time and across different websites and apps when the users use the operator’s website or app. We do not knowingly permit third parties to collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different web sites and apps when a consumer uses our website.
c. Privacy Rights
This section only applies to individuals who are residents of California under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). We do not discriminate against California consumers who exercise their privacy rights under this section. We do not sell the personal information of California consumers. We collect the following categories of personal information about California residents, as defined by the CCPA: Inferences, Identifiers, Commercial Information, Electronic Network Information
We collect these categories of personal information for the purposes described above in the section titled “How We Use Your Information”. We may share personal information with our service providers and contractors, as well as other third parties, as outlined above in the section titled “When We May Disclose Your Information”. We may share personal information for a business purpose to: Advertising networks, Affiliates or subsidiaries, Business Partners, Government Entities, as may be needed to comply with law or prevent illegal activity, Internet service providers, Joint marketing partners, Operating systems and platforms, Other service providers, Payment providers and financial institutions, Professional services organizations (including auditors and law firms), Social networks.
Under the CCPA, California residents have the following rights (“Rights”) listed below. Your Right to Access and Right to Deletion are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the personal information, your account with us or the security of the business’s systems of networks.
Disclosure & Access Rights: California residents have the right to request that we disclose to them (i) the categories of personal information we have collected about them, (ii) the categories of sources from which personal information is collected, (iii) the business or commercial purpose for the information collection, (iv) the categories of third parties with whom we have shared personal information, and (v) the specific pieces of personal information we hold about an individual.
Deletion Rights: California residents have the right to have their personal information deleted, unless the personal information is necessary for us or our service provider to: complete a transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer; detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity (or prosecute those responsible); debug to identify and repair functionality errors; exercise or ensure the right of another to exercise free speech or another legal right; comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which compels the production of or access to electronic communication information or electronic device information with a search warrant;
engage in research in the public interest (if the consumer has provided informed consent); to enable solely internal uses aligned with the consumer’s expectations given their relationship with the business; comply with a legal obligation; otherwise use the information internally in a lawful manner compatible with the context in which the consumer provided it. Californians can exercise their privacy rights by contacting us at privacy@carstrucksroads.com or send send a written request to Cars Trucks Roads, Spencer Gasselin, LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste R Sheridan WY 82801
In some circumstances, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests to exercise certain privacy rights on your behalf. We will require verification that you provided the authorized agent permission to make a request on your behalf. You must provide us with a copy of the signed permission you have given to the authorized agent to submit the request on your behalf and verify your own identity directly with us. If you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of an individual you must attach authorization to act on the consumer’s behalf to the request. If you are a business, proof that you are registered with the Secretary of State to conduct business in California. If we do not receive both pieces of information, the request will be denied.
Response Time. We will handle request as required by California law. When a request is made, we will require you to verify your identity to protect your privacy and security. We may verify your identity by phone call or email. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity. We will respond to rights requests within 45 days following receipt at the e–mail or mailing address stated above. If we receive your request at a different e–mail or mailing address, we will respond within a reasonable period of time. Please note that we are only required to respond to each California resident rights request once per calendar year.
- European Users
For the purposes of European Economic Area data protection law, (the « Data Protection Law »), the data controller is: Cars Trucks Roads, Spencer Gasselin, LLC, 412 N Main St Suite 100 Buffalo, WY 82834 (dpo@carstrucksroads.com)
Use of Cookies. Our site places cookies on your device for a variety of purposes described above in this this privacy statement. Please refer to our privacy statement for more information about those cookies and how to prevent the use of cookies. If you have any questions about the cookies we set, please contact us at dpo@carstrucksroads.com.
Data Storage. The data that we collect from you is transferred to, and may be stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (« EEA ») that is not subject to equivalent Data Protection Law. For our purposes, the information we collect is processed and stored in the US.
We may transfer your personal information outside the EEA. Where your information is transferred outside the EEA, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is subject to appropriate safeguards, such as relying on a recognised legal adequacy mechanism, and that it is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
European site users have certain rights under certain circumstances: to be provided with a copy of your personal data held by us; to request the rectification or erasure of your personal data held by us; to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data (while we verify or investigate your concerns with this information, for example); to object to the further processing of your personal data, including the right to object to marketing (as mentioned in ‘our promotional updates and communications’ section); to request that your provided personal data be moved to a third party.
Your right to withdraw consent. Where the processing of your personal information by us is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent without detriment. You can withdraw consent online or by contacting us at dpo@carstrucksroads.com.
If your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority, (see http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.html).
- Changes to this Privacy Policy Statement
We may amend this Privacy Policy Statement from time to time. Please check back regularly to review your rights and to check the Effective date or Last Updated date listed below. If we make any substantive changes to this policy, we’ll announce it on our website.