Autoservicesdirect.com Privacy Policy

Autodirectservices.com has created this privacy policy because we care about protecting your privacy and following the laws that protect your privacy. This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data gathered on the Autodirectservices.com website (the "Site") and does not apply to any other websites or offline point of contacts, if any, between you and Autodirectservices.com or any other company. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on December 29, 2005. Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time. By using this Site, you also agree to our Terms of Use.

Your IP Address. Like most business websites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Cookies. The Site uses cookies to identify you when you are on the Site, to keep track of your activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests as well as to save your password.

Collection and Use of Personal Information. This Site is not intended for use by persons under the age of thirteen. Individuals who are under the age of thirteen are expressly prohibited from submitting personally identifiable information to autoservicesdirect.com or posting to the Site any personally identifiable information about themselves.

Autoservicesdirect.com collects and stores personal information in several ways at different parts of our Site. This information may include your legal name, email address, age, address, telephone number(s), and with respect to potential advertisers or vendors making use of the site, financial information, User ID, User Password and other self-identifying information. We collect this information in order to provide you with our services more easily, and in a more personalized manner. We may make message boards and discussion forums available to you. If you choose to voluntarily disclose certain information on any such public area of the Site, this Privacy Policy will not cover such disclosure of information. We urge exercising caution when disclosing information on public message boards or discussion forums.

We also may request certain information using online order forms for products and services. On the order forms, we may collect contact information, financial information, demographic information, and method of payment and, if applicable, a credit or debit card number. We may also collect information about you in surveys or for sweepstakes and contests on the Site and information about the searches you perform and the pages you visit on the Site. We may also monitor, on an anonymous aggregate basis, patterns of use in connection with emails that it sends out, including which links are clicked on in our email communications. We may also automatically collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address to help diagnose problems and for system administration. Autoservicesdirect.com reserves the right to request any additional information necessary to establish and maintain your account for use of the Site.

Autoservicesdirect.com may use your information to send you promotional materials about Autoservicesdirect.com and its partners. We may also use your information to contact you, if necessary. By providing any personal information to this Site, you fully understand and expressly consent to the collection and processing of that information in the U.S. and in any other country.

Your Information May Be Shared. Autoservicesdirect.com will not sell, rent or barter your personal information other than to its business partners as set forth herein. However, we may from time to time aggregate statistical information regarding our customers, traffic patterns and site usage, or sell our research, which may contain aggregate information. In addition, we may report aggregate information to our advertisers. Such aggregate information will not individually identify any user. In order to provide you with co-branded services, and to improve our features, we will sometimes share your information with our partners. We reserve the right to disclose any information if such action is necessary (a) to conform to the requirements of the law or to comply with legal process or subpoena served on us (b) to protect and defend the legal rights or property of autoservicesdirect.com, the Site, or its users, or (c) in an emergency, to protect the health and safety of its users or the general public. We further reserve the right to release any information concerning any user if that user participates (or is reasonably suspected of participating) in any illegal activity, even without a subpoena, warrant, or other court order. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution. It is possible that autoservicesdirect.com could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that autoservicesdirect.com would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service. Notice of any such event (to the extent it occurs) will be posted on the website, and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Request to Limit Receipt of Updates and Offers. You may occasionally receive information about the products or services offered by us or by our partners or other companies. We believe that these updates are interesting and informative. You may contact us at info@autoservicesdirect.com to request that you no longer receive such information. In updates that we send to you, we may also include an option to discontinue receipt of future updates. Autoservicesdirect.com reserves the right to limit any registrations or services on our Site to those who will accept our information and to those who will provide the requested information.

Our Security Precautions, Location of Information. The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the countries in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in the United States.

How You Can Access, Update Or Delete Your Information. As part of your use of the Site, you are responsible for maintaining and updating, as applicable, your account Registration Data with current, accurate and complete information. You may view, update and/or edit the Registration Data you have provided to Autoservicesdirect.com by logging in to your account and following the appropriate instructions.

Links. The Site may also contain links to other web sites and advertising. The privacy policies of those web sites and advertisers may significantly differ from that of our Site. It is your responsibility to contact such web site operator or advertiser directly to determine their privacy. We may offer links to other services that are offered by us, which may have special policies relating to use of information that differ slightly from this Policy. If this is the case, you will be able to check the Privacy Policy applicable to your use of those other services.

Contact Us. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site you may contact us at info@autoservicesdirect.com.