ONTARIO TOYOTA DEALERS ASSOCIATION – PRIVACY POLICY

Definitions

When you read this Privacy Policy, the following words have the following meanings:

"Dealer" means the Ontario Toyota dealer you select, or if you do not select an Ontario Toyota dealer, your local Ontario Toyota dealer.

"our", "us", "we" or “OTDA” means Real People Selling Great Cars Automobile Dealers Association carrying on business as Ontario Toyota Dealers Advertising Association

"Privacy Policy" means this Privacy Policy.

"Site" means the realpeoplesellinggreatcars.ca Internet web site.

"you" and "your" means the user of the realpeoplesellinggreatcars.ca Internet web site.

Information regarding realpeoplesellinggreatcars.ca’s Privacy Practises

This Privacy Policy is designed to protect your personal information and describes our privacy practises regarding the personal information we receive from you during your visits to this Site.

Personal information is any information about an identifiable person other than the name, title, business address or telephone number of an employee of an organization.

By providing us with personal information you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to us to collecting, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any personal information.

Normal Site usage

You can visit this Site to read product, service and company information without telling us who you are or revealing any other personal information. During normal Site usage, unless you tell us who you are or reveal any other information, we do not collect or store any personal information about you such as your name, mailing address, email address or phone number. The only information we collect and store during normal Site usage is non-personally identifiable information such as the name of your Internet service provider, the type of the Internet browser you used, the referring web site, the pages you request and the date and time of those requests. We use this non-personally identifiable information to generate aggregate statistics regarding this Site's activity.

Cookies

Cookies are files that your web browser places on your computer's hard drive that permit us to tell whether, and if so, how many times, you have accessed this Site previously, your language of choice, your computer system's flash preference, and your selected Dealer.  Information collected using Cookies is non-personally identifiable information.

We may share aggregated demographic information about our Site visitors' traffic patterns and related information with reputable third-party vendors including our partners and advertisers.  This information is not linked to any personal information of an identifiable individual. Examples include reports on how many times a certain page was viewed, or how many distinct users used this Site.

Collection of personally identifiable information

The amount and type of personally identifiable information which you may be asked to provide during visits to this Site depends on how you use this Site. We only collect as much information from you as is necessary to fulfill the identified purpose of collection.  Such purpose will be revealed to you at or prior to the time of collection. 

We may collect and use your personal information:

  • to update and verify your personal information that may already be in our database;
  • to respond to your inquiries and comments including inquiries for information, brochures, and contact information for Dealers;
  • to enter you into our contest and promotions;
  • to send you newsletters and other promotional information, and/or e-mails provided you have subscribed to receive such marketing materials;
  • to comply with any laws or regulations and to cooperate with law enforcement inquiries; and
  • for any other purpose to which you consent.

Your Consent to the Disclosure and Use of Personally Identifiable Information

We use reasonable efforts to ensure we obtain the appropriate form of consent from you.  If there are other purposes for which we intend to use your personal information, beyond what you may reasonably expect, we will obtain further consent.

By providing personal information in such things as email requests, including requests for a brochure or assistance in contacting a Dealer, you consent to the collection and use of this personal information by us for the purpose of fulfilling your request.

When you enter one of our contests or promotions you will be asked to review the full contest rules and "I Agree".  By clicking “I Agree” you consent to our collection and use of your personal information for the purpose of administering the contest and contacting you should you be selected as a winner. 

Personal information is used solely by us. We will not disclose such information, other than as follows:

(a) to third party service providers with whom we have a contractual agreement, which includes appropriate privacy standards, for the purpose of (i) contest and promotion fulfillment and sending prizes to winners of contests; (ii) performing functions such as data processing, database services or information technology support; and (iii) marketing or providing any of our products or services; and
(b) to comply with any legal actions like a court order; to enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions of Website Use, or to protect the safety and security of guests and our Sites.
We will share personal information only with those who have agreed to follow policies that share our high standards of privacy protection. We disclose to third parties only as much personal information as is required to perform the task they have been retained for.

Links

This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by this Site. This Site contains links to other sites. When you click on links that take you to third party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties' privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the Internet, we are not responsible for the actions of third parties or for their privacy practises. We encourage the users of this Site to be aware when they leave this Site and to read the privacy policies of each and every web site with which they interact.

Retention of Personally Identifiable Information and Security

We retain personally identifiable information for the period of time required to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and for a period of time thereafter.

We have taken technical, contractual, organizational and physical security steps to protect the personal information collected from you on this Site with a level of security appropriate to the sensitivity of the personal information collected. Our security measures are periodically reviewed.

Contact Us to Review, Update or Delete Collected Information or Change or Withdraw Your Consent

You may review, update or correct the personal information that you provide to us through this Site, request it be deleted, or change or withdraw your consent to its use and disclosure, by contacting us as described below:

OTDAA – Privacy Directors at 1-888-353-4368

OTDAA email – info@otdaa.ca

Your personal information will be kept in files stored on our databases located in Toronto, Ontario.

Questions or Concerns

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies and procedures or about your personally identifiable information, or if you want further information about our privacy policies and procedures, please contact us as indicated above.

Children

We never knowingly solicit, collect, store or disclose information via this Site from children who are under 13 years of age.  No part of our Site is structured to attract anyone under the age of 13.  If a child under the age of 13 wishes to disclose to us personal information, he/she must provide us with his/her parent’s or legal guardian’s e-mail address so that we can obtain express consent.  If a child under 13 has already provided us with personal information, his/her parent or legal guardian may contact us for the purpose of correcting or deleting such information. 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right, at any time, to modify this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion, and you agree to be bound by any such modifications. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon our giving notice, which may be given by any means, including, but not limited to, posting on this Site. You agree to regularly review the Privacy Policy posted at this Site and to be aware of such modifications. Your use of this Site following any such modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy. If at any time, this Privacy Policy is no longer acceptable to you, you should immediately cease to submit any personally identifiable information to this Site.

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