Privacy Policy for buyingcars.com.au

The privacy of our visitors to buyingcars.com.au is important to us.

buyingcars.com.au is published by Web Publications Pty Ltd (ABN 38 084 463 507) of PO Box 1608, Croydon North, Vic 3136.

If you have concerns about your privacy while visiting our web site you may contact Web Publications Pty Ltd as follows:

Web Publications Pty Limited
PO Box 1608
Croydon North Vic 3136

Telephone: (03) 9761 7622 (International +61 3 9761 7622)
Facsimile: (03) 9725 7960 (International +61 3 9725 7960)

At buyingcars.com.au, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit buyingcars.com.au, and how we safeguard your information.

Opting Out of our Database

If you would like to opt out of our mailing list or database, please use the contact information above, or call (03) 9761 7622 during AEST business hours.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as Bigpond or iiNet), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include saving search settings or previous information you have submitted to simplify the enquiry process.

We also use third party advertisements on buyingcars.com.au to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Melbourne real estate ads to someone in Melbourne, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google's DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests ("interest based targeting"). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Sydney, you may see Sydney hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Used Car Enquiries

When you submit a car enquiry about a vehicle or request the details of a seller of a vehicle the information you submit including your name, email address, telephone number and any additional comments you have made will be sent via the Internet to Carsguide.com.au who will then forward the information you have submitted on to the seller of the vehicle by email.

If appropriate the seller may contact you directly by either the telephone number or email address that you have provided.

The information you provide will be retained by us to ensure that multiple enquiries are not sent to the seller of the vehicles you submit enquiries about. If you would like us to modify or delete your information from our database please contact us using our contact information above. If you wish to stop receiving telephone calls or emails from the seller of the vehicle please contact the seller directly.

We will not sell any of the information you provide us to any other parties and will not add your email address to any mailing lists unless you have specifically authorised us to do so.

For further information about Carsguide's Privacy Policy go to http://www.carsguide.com.au/static/privacy_policy