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Auto-Data.net Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement

Last update: 01 March 2023

We updated our privacy policy, including additional information required under applicable data protection regulations including the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The data controller of your data is AUTOMOTIVE DATA LTD. You can contact us at info@auto-data.net

Privacy Policy

Submission of personal information is not required to browse Auto-Data.net. The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to detail what personal data we obtain, how we obtain it and why. Also, it describes your rights and the options we provide for you to access, update or otherwise take control of your personal data that we retain and process.

Categories of Personal Data we Collect

Auto-Data.net processes your email address.

The legal ground to process and retain your email address is to ensure the security of your account if you forget your password.

We do not send promotional emails. We may send you service-related emails. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may opt out this option into your account.

Auto-Data.net also processes your chosen username and your chosen password when you create your Auto-Data.net account.

The legal ground to process and retain your username and password is to allow you to login into your account.

Additional Personal Data that is processed:

Auto-Data.net processes your IP address when you create your account. The legal ground to process and retain your IP address is to abusive "spam"-like behavior.

Personal Data that is processed when you communicate with Auto-Data.net via the contact form on the site:

Auto-Data.net processes your email address. The legal ground to process and retain your email address is to provide you a high-quality support experience.

Automatically collected information

When you visit Auto-Data.net, we may automatically record certain information from your device by using various types of technology, including cookies, "clear gifs" or "web beacons". This information may include IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites visited just before visiting Auto-Data.net, the pages or other content on Auto-Data.net, and the dates and times of the visits, access, or use.

We use this information to improve your experience with Auto-Data.net. Furthermore, we use this information to promote safety and security, by monitoring suspicious activity or violations of our terms. Such processing is based on our legitimate interest in helping ensure the safety of our services.

Public Information

We do not made any part of information into your account publicly available.

Cookies

We inform you that Auto-Data.net uses cookies and/or similar technologies to store some information about your preferences and account. When you log into your account, we store your username and hashed password in our cookies.

You can remove or reject cookies using your browser's settings. If you do this, some services and features will not work.

More information about "cookies" can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/faqs/cookies.html

Third Party Cookies created when you visiting Auto-Data.net:

We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyze how users use and interact with Auto-Data.net. It counts the number of visitors and tells us things, such as the typical time of stay on the site or the average number of pages a user views.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your anonymized IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Children

Submission of any information is not required to browse Auto-Data.net. To create an account at Auto-Data.net, persons MUST be at least 16 years old. If we discover that, we have collected the personal data from a child under the age of 16, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. If you know of or have reason to believe anyone under the age of 16 has provided us with any personal data, please contact us.

Security of the Data

Auto-Data.net stores all website data within the European Union, furthermore all the data and information is backed-up.

Auto-Data.net follows accepted standards to protect the information submitted to us. Auto-Data.net maintains appropriate technical and physical safeguards to protect Personal Data. This includes, firewalls, password protection and other access and authentication controls.

We also use SSL technology to encrypt data during the transmission through public internet and our servers.

No method of transmission over the Internet or of electronic storage is 100% secure. Auto-Data.net cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or store on our servers and you do so at your own risk! Also, Auto-Data.net cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If you believe your Personal Data has been compromised, please contact us immediately!

If Auto-Data.net learns of a security systems breach, we will inform you and the authorities of the occurrence of the breach in accordance with applicable laws.

Personal Data Retention. Accessing and Modifying Your Personal Data. Deleting off your account.

During the creation of an Auto-Data.net account, your email address, username and password will only be retained if you respond within 24 hours to the confirmation email, sent to the email address, provided during the registration. If no response is received after 24 hours, your email address, username and password will be permanently deleted.

We will retain your personal data for a 60 months after your last use of your account.

You can access and modify your personal information by visiting your user account.

To gain access to, correct or to delete your Auto-Data.net user account, visit your user account.

If you reside in the European Union, under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to:

Access, correct or delete your personal data. Receive your personal information in a standard machine-readable format. Object to, and restrict the further processing of your personal information. Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Ads policy of Auto-Data.net

We have third-party advertising companies serving ads to you when you visit Auto-Data.net. These companies may store information about your visits to our website and to other websites to provide you with relevant advertisements about goods and services.

These companies may employ cookies and other identifiers to measure advertising effectiveness.

You can opt out of participating in interest-based advertising networks but opting out does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It just means that will no longer receive customize ads based on your interests and web usage patterns using cookie-based technology.

Learn more how Google uses information from sites or apps https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Google Analytics will associate the visitation information that it collects from auto-data.net and/or apps with Google information from accounts of signed-in google users for the purpose of ads personalisation. This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history and data from sites that partner with Google – and is used to provide aggregated and anonymised insights into auto-data.net users' cross device behaviours. Such data may be accessed and/or deleted by end users via My Activity. These features are also subject to the Advertising Features policies.

Privacy Policy Updates

Our Privacy Policy will be updated as we add new features to Auto-Data.net and/or new technologies or aplicable laws are introduced.

When significant changes are undertaken or if we are required by law, we will provide notice of the changes.