INTRODUCTION

At buyacarandsave.com, we value our customers and are committed to protecting your privacy, as well as safeguarding the information we receive and maintain about you. We do not sell information about you to others. We only share it as expressly allowed by law. Consequently, you do not need to notify us not to share information about you, because we have chosen to limit this for you. This Notice will help you understand what information we collect, how we use it, and the ways we maintain your privacy and the security of personal information about you.

buyacarandsave.com is a vehicle buying service of Quick Credit Auto Group, Inc., a licensed Texas used motor vehicle dealer.  All transactions pertaining to the purchase and/or financing of any vehicle will be made through Quick Credit Auto Group, Inc. 

THE INFORMATION buyacarandsave.com COLLECTS
We collect the following types of information about you:

*                   Demographic or identifying information (name, address, phone number and e-mail address)

*                   Credit related information (your workplace, debts and income)

*                   Transactional information (license and registration)

*                   Non-transactional information (responses from surveys).

This information is gathered from the following sources:

*                   You, in credit applications and other transaction forms

*                   Reports from consumer reporting agencies (also known as credit bureaus)

*                   Current and previous transactions or experiences with us or our affiliates (purchase of a vehicle, vehicle service history)

*                   Current and previous transactions or experiences with other third parties (relating to your credit, or other relationships with them and to confirm employment or insurance)

*                   Our websites (from transactions, surveys, site navigation, cookies*, image tags** , or other technology used to remember information you enter on our website.

*                   Other third parties for marketing programs (demographic firms, direct marketing database firms)

*                   The following only applies to Website users: If any information we have about you is incorrect, we will gladly correct it. Simply contact us noting the incorrect information and the correction. We reserve the right to verify the correctness of this information. Please note that in the event we amend the Privacy Policy, posting the amendment will serve as notice to you of that change and the policy will note its effective date. The effective date for this Privacy Policy is March 8, 2008.

THE INFORMATION WE SHARE
buyacarandsave.com and Quick Credit Auto Group, Inc., does not sell information about you to other companies. We only share the information as allowed or required by law. A detailed description follows below.

           

Necessary Third Parties
We may share the information described above with third parties, including our affiliates, when needed to provide products and services you have requested or already have with us. Examples of this include sharing information about you with the Department of Motor Vehicles to title your vehicle, and with financial institutions to obtain financing for your purchase.

Third Party Service Providers
We may share the information described above with third parties, including our affiliates, who perform services for us or act on our behalf. Examples include companies that send you information on our behalf about products and services, and companies that process payments for us.

Affiliates
We may share the information described above, except for credit related information not based on our own transactions and experiences (e.g. credit bureau reports), among its affiliates as allowed by law. Credit related information not based on our own transactions and experiences is only shared among affiliates when permissible under the law.

Unaffiliated Third Parties
We do not share the information described above with third parties outside of the buyacarandsave.com/Quick Credit Auto Group, Inc.,  family unless it is allowed or required by law. For example, we may disclose information about you in connection with a fraud investigation, to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, or in connection with a merger or sale of all or part of our business. In the event of an extraordinary event we may have to share information about you outside of an exception allowed under the law. In such an event, we will notify you and give you an opportunity to opt out.

THE SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Employees are only authorized to access personal information about you when it is necessary to perform their job duties. Our employees are trained to maintain the privacy and security of personal information about you in compliance with applicable regulations. We also maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you.

We may change this policy at any time, and will notify you of changes as required by law.

*A "cookie" is a small text file that a website can place on your computer’s hard drive in order to collect information about your activities on the website. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you have the option to change your browser to decline them. We use cookies on certain pages of our website, but these cookies are not used to identify anonymous site visitors. Our cookies enable you to proceed smoothly through our site and enable us to know whether you’ve visited our site before to eliminate some steps that are directed to new visitors.

**Image tags work in conjunction with cookies. An image tag, also referred to as a clear GIF or web beacon, is a small image file that may be located on select pages on our website.