Privacy Policy
Posted by admin on July 13, 2009Privacy Policy
the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed
decisions when using our site and our products and services.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information:
personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an
individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis
as you and others browse our Web site.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your
practices when you use certain services on cal-car-insurance.com register for
email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on
how you see cal-car-insurance.com servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information:
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content
of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
Web Site Use Information:
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site utilizes a standard
technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and
Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used.
Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include
the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site,
and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site.
We, our advertisers, and ad serving companies may also use small pieces
of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine which
advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users
responded to them.
How Do We Use the Information That
You Provide to Us?
and expanding our business activities, providing customer service, and making
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about
important changes to our Web site, new services, and special offers we think
you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive
these offers by contacting us at support@cal-car-insurance.com.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous
unique identifier. When you visit a Web site, that site’s computer asks your
computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive
specifically designated for cookies.
Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s
preferences allow it, but to protect your privacy, your browser only
permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you,
not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you shop on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you
from other shoppers so your shopping cart is only available to you.
In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing
unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than
is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server’s
log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our
Web site and which parts of the site are most popular.
This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site
and better serve our customers.
Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and
we do not store any personal information that you provided to us in
your cookies.
We may enter into alliances, partnerships, or other business arrangements
including your name, address, telephone number, and email for the
that we think will be of interest to you.
We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not
limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments.
In connection with these offerings and business operations,
our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal
information for use in connection with business activities.
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business
offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the
transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also
transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures,
mergers, or any dissolution.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication.
For this reason, we request that you do not send private information
to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site
may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL),
128 bit encryption services, which are enabled by VeriSign, Inc.
Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS
instead of HTTP. Please contact us at support@cal-car-insurance.com
if you have any questions or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information
that we collect online and maintain in our database by contacting us
at support@cal-car-insurance.com
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law
or subpoena, or if we believe that such action is necessary to:
(a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or
Affiliated Parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property,
the Site, the users of the Site, and/or our Affiliated Parties;
(c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the Site,
us, or third parties.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to
or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein.
Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to
another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.
Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites
which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules
and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those
changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information
we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we may disclose it.