PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: May 12, 2020

This Privacy Policy by the Escondido Auto Park (“The Escondido Auto Park,” “our,” “we”) and applies to all users, complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).

The Escondido Auto Park strongly believes in respecting individuals’ right to privacy.  The Escondido Auto Park will never use your personal data, as defined below, for any use beyond that stated or the permissions you give us or as required by law.  This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) aims to give you information on how The Escondido Auto Park collects and processes your personal data when you use https://www.escondidoautopark.com/ (“Website”).

The Website is not intended for children (those aged 16 and under), and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.  Children under the age of 16 must provide opt in consent, with a parent or guardian consenting for children under 13.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits California residents who visit our Website or otherwise use our services to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.  To make such a request, please contact us using the contact information at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy or by submission using our online CCPA Form. 

As of January 1, 2020, California residents have the following additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (starting with Civil Code Section 1798.100):

  • You have the right to request information about: (1) the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which such Personal Information is collected; (3) our purpose(s) for collecting such Personal Information; and (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share such Personal Information. You can exercise that right by contacting us using the contact information at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy.  If you are being contacted directly by one of the car dealerships located in the Escondido Auto Park, as identified on our Website (“Dealership” or “Dealerships”), please contact that Dealership at the telephone number provided on the Escondido Auto Park website, or using the contact information provided by that individual Dealership.   
  • You have the right to request information about our disclosure for business purposes of your Personal Information to third parties.
  • You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information to third parties.  The Escondido Auto Park does not sell Personal Information of California residents to third parties.  However, as set forth herein, the Escondido Auto Park is not responsible for the use of your Personal Information by third parties, including Dealerships. 
  • You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information to the extent that California law does not otherwise allow us to retain such Personal Information.  You can exercise that right by contacting us using the contact information at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy.  If you are being contacted directly by one of our Dealerships, please contact that Dealership at the telephone number provided on the Escondido Auto Park website, or using the contact information provided by that individual Dealership.      
  • You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXERCISE ONE OR MORE OF THESE RIGHTS, PLEASE CONTACT US USING THE CONTACT INFORMATION AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR BY SUBMISSION USING OUR ONLINE CCPA FORM.

Authorized Agent. If you use an authorized agent to exercise your California Privacy Rights, we will require your authorized agent to provide written proof that they have the authority to act on your behalf as well and may require you to verify your identity before we respond to the authorized agent’s request. Please note that an “authorized agent” has the meaning given to it in Chapter 20 of the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations Section 999.326.

Verification of Requests. The Escondido Auto Park will need to verify your identity before it can respond to any request for information or deletion request provided above.  The extent of verification needed from you will vary depending on the type and sensitivity of the Personal Information collected by the Dealership, the risk of harm to the consumer, and whether the request seeks to obtain Personal Information or delete Personal Information.  The verification process may require you to identify a certain amount of your Personally Identifiable Information in order to verify your identity.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Where this Privacy Policy refers to “Personal Information” it is referring to data about you (or other living people) from which you could be identified as defined in Civil Code sections 1798.80(e), and 1798.140(o)(1) including “identifiers”, such as your name, email address, telephone number, your contact details and any other information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household or individual. We are not responsible for, and do not collect, Personal Information you provide directly to third parties, including Dealerships. 

The categories of Personal Information that we have used, transferred, exchanged, or disclosed including servicing your account and providing you customer service during the past 12 months includes the Personal Information you provided to us via our Website using email and online forms.   

The CCPA provides certain rights for California consumers.  If you are a consumer residing in California, you may ask us about the information we release to other organizations for their business and commercial purposes, as detailed below. 

HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

If you choose to complete the Escondido Auto Park’s online form in the “Contact Us” section of our Website, you will be asked to supply Personal Information.  If you choose to do so, that information will be forwarded to the Dealership you select using the online form.  The Dealership to which Personal Information is sent using our Website may use this information to target specific users with occasional emails informing you about commercial services provided by, and offers from, that Dealership and other third parties.  Further information regarding use of your Personal Information by Dealerships can be obtained by contacting the individual Dealership, and to the extent that Dealership posts a privacy policy on its individual website, can be viewed therein.   

The Escondido Auto Park will never use your data for anything beyond the reason stated and the permissions you grant us, to alter the emails which you receive from Dealerships, including unsubscribing from all email communications, please follow the links on any email communication you receive or contact the individual Dealership(s). 

Purpose

The purpose of Escondido Auto Park’s collection of Personal Information is for Commercial Purposes (defined in the CCPA as “a means to advance a person’s commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction), customer service, website content personalization, system administration, technology management (including optimizing our websites and applications), information security and cybersecurity purposes, including detecting threats and our Everyday Business Purposes. 

“Everyday Business Purposes” encompasses the Business Purposes (as defined in the CCPA) and following related purposes for which personal information may be used:

  • To provide the information, product or service requested by the individual or as reasonably expected given the context in which the Personal Information was collected.
  • For identity and credit management, including identity verification and authentication, system and technology administration.
  • To protect the security and integrity of systems, networks, applications, and data, including detecting, analyzing and resolving security threats.
  • For fraud detection and prevention.
  • For legal and regulatory compliance.
  • For corporate audit, analysis and reporting.
  • To enforce our contracts and to protect against injury, theft, legal liability, fraud or abuse, to protect people or property, including physical security programs.
  • To de-identify the data or create aggregated datasets, such as for consolidating reporting, research or analytics.
  • For corporate governance, including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

Change of Purpose.

The Escondido Auto Park will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.  If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us using the contact information at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy.

If we need to use your Personal Information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your Personal Information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information.

Depending on how and why you provide us with your Personal Information.  We may also share it in the following ways:

  • if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of the Website or its visitors.
  • if we have first obtained your consent to do so, The Escondido Auto Park may share your information with our trusted partners so that they can provide information to you about products and services that may interest you by email.  If at any time you do not wish us to share your information in this way, then you can opt out any time by contacting us using the contact information at the conclusion of this Privacy Policy. 
  • With our service providers.  We will use third party service providers to undertake processing operations on our behalf, and this may require us to share your Personal Information with them.  These service providers provide us with a variety of administrative, statistical, and technical services.  We will only provide service providers with the minimum amount of Personal Information they need to fulfill the services we request, and we stipulate that they protect this information and do not use it for any other purpose.  We take these relationships seriously and oblige all of our data processors to sign contracts with us that clearly set out their commitment to respecting individual rights, and their commitments to assisting us to help you exercise your rights as a data subject.   

Links To Third Party Sites.

Please note that to the extent we provide links to third party websites that are not affiliated with The Escondido Auto Park such sites are out of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy, regardless of whether they use our branding or logo on their websites. If you access third party sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you that could be used by them, in accordance with their own privacy policies.  Once you leave our website, we suggest that you review the applicable privacy policy of the third-party website or application.  We are not responsible for the content or use of any websites or applications other than on our website or the privacy practices of those websites or applications.

Information that you make available to us and others via social media networks, forums, blogs, list serves, chat rooms or similar functionality is public information that we or others may share or use in accordance with the law.  You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any information in these areas, especially any personally identifiable information.

THE ESCONDIDO AUTO PARK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PERSONAL OR OTHER INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE IN A PUBLIC FORUM.  NOR IS THE ESCONDIDO AUTO PARK RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL OR OTHER INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING DEALERSHIPS AND SERVICE PROVIDERS.  THIRD-PARTY USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. 

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

Data Retention

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirement.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

The Escondido Auto Park may store your Personal Information on secure servers either on our premises or in secure third-party data centers.

Data Security

The Escondido Auto Park implements reasonable security measures to maintain the security of your Personal Information.  Please understand, however, that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you understand that any information you transfer to us electronically is done at your own risk.

If we learn of a security systems breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps.  By providing Personal Information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues.  We may post a notice via our website if a security breach occurs.  We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us, if at all, in these circumstances.  Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

Access and Correction

Access to information that we collect and maintain about you may be available to you.  To the extent we maintain any information about you, if you believe that information is inaccurate, subject to applicable law, please contact us to request that we correct, delete or amend your information.

DISPUTES

If you choose to visit our website, your visit and any dispute regarding privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and applicable law.   

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Statement to provide clarification or notice of changes to our practices.  If we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of this Privacy Policy.   We encourage you to periodically revisit our Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, you may contact us using the following methods:

Email: escondidoautopark@gmail.com

If you are being contacted directly by one of our Dealerships, please contact that Dealership at the telephone number provided on the Escondido Auto Park website, or using the contact information provided by that individual Dealership.   

WE DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

THE ESCONDIDO AUTO PARK IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF YOUR INFORMATION BY THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING DEALERSHIPS IN THE ESCONDIDO AUTO PARK.  DEALERSHIP, SERVICE PROVIDER AND THIRD-PARTY USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS NOT COVERED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.