Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite Inc. (“Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite“) operates afie.ca and may operate other websites. It is Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on afie.ca blogs/sites. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s websites choose to interact with Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite in ways that require Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at afie.ca to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s behalf or to provide services available at Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite website and have supplied your email address, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite uses cookies to help Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite identify and track visitors, their usage of Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite website, and their website access preferences. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite’s sole discretion. Automotive Finance & Insurance Elite encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a afie.ca account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.