TheCarConnection.com is committed to protecting the privacy of all its readers. As a result, you have the right to view the privacy policy of this site.

You can visit TheCarConnection.com without having to identify yourself or reveal any personal information.

If you choose to identify yourself (by providing identifiable personal information), you can be assured such information will be used only to improve our ability to serve you. That information will not be passed to any third-party vendors, affiliates or associates unless you are expressly asked, and then specifically authorize such use.

This statement does not apply to advertisers, vendors or others who appear on our website but who operate independently of TheCarConnection.com. It is advised that readers first check the individual privacy policies of such third parties before providing personal information.

What May TheCarConnection.com Collect?

At various times, readers may be asked to provide information such as personal or professional interests, demographics, comments on their experience with our site and/or services. Such data may be used to help us improve our content and services, to allow readers to participate in site-related activities and events, or to receive mailings, news and other updates, such as the regular WhatsNew@TheCarConnection.com mailing.

As such, that information may be used to provide the stated services or, on an aggregate basis, to compile demographic profiles that might be used for advertising purposes. Under no conditions would TheCarConnection.com provide data identifying specific individuals in the absence of your express approval, given by the reader at the time such data was collected. TheCarConnection.com will not sell, rent or lease its mailing lists or personal information files.

Should you authorize our use of any personal data, whether for the site. s mailing lists or other purposes, you will have a right to update or to opt out using clearly stated procedures.

What Are Our Policies Regarding Third Parties?

Links to third party sites are provided solely as a convenience to our readers. If you use these links, you will leave TheCarConnection.com. It is not possible to review all such sites and we have no control over, nor do we take responsibility for, their individual content or privacy policies.

Advertisers, survey groups and those linked to or from TheCarConnection.com may seek to obtain additional information from readers. As such, they may serve "cookies," conduct surveys, request personal information or take actions not covered by our privacy policy. Such information will not be gathered by or on behalf of TheCarConnection.com unless clearly authorized and stated in such solicitations. If you choose to do business with vendors in TheCarConnection.com. s TCC Mall, for example, you may be asked to provide such parties with personal information, including credit and credit card data. Such actions will be covered only by that party' s own privacy policy.

As such, if you decide to provide any of these outside parties with credit information and other personal information, you do so entirely at your own risk.

What About "Cookies"?

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that my be served to you while visiting a Web site, and which are then stored on your computer's hard drive.

It is possible you will be served cookies by advertisers on TheCarConnection site. It has become a standard practice in the Internet community, one which most advertisers insist on. TheCarConnection has no control over such advertiser policies and does not normally participate in this practice. At times, an advertiser may choose to share broad demographic data, (but not personally identifying information), collected through such Cookies with TCC in order to develop an overview of the site and its users.

Be advised that most current Web browsers, including Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, automatically accept Cookies. But they also offer a user the ability to block them, as well. Doing so will prevent you from using few, if any of the features of this site.

Third Party Advertising

We use MaxOnline, AlmondNet and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit AlmondNet, MaxOnline or click here.

Third Party Cookies

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

How May Readers Communicate With Us?

As noted, you have the right to opt out of any services or update any data collected by TheCarConnection.com. Where appropriate, such as with the WhatsNew@TheCarConnection.com mailing, specified procedures to update your personal information or opt out of the service may be spelled out.

Other requests, comments or questions may be addressed to us by e-mail at Letters@TheCarConnection.com. You may also correspond by standard post at Privacy Policy, TheCarConnection.com, 22 Cambridge Blvd., Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069.

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