Nigeria's Premium Car Buying and Selling Website
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how Carsfound4u collect, use, process and share personal information. Please note that your use of our Services is additionally subject to our Terms and Conditions.
For more details about the information we share with third parties and the recipients of such information, please refer to the How We Share Your Information section of this Policy. Please note that this Policy does not otherwise cover the use of personal information by third parties or their services, and we do not take responsibility for their privacy practices.
You may have certain rights or choices that relate to your personal information, including choices about how we share your personal information with others. For more information, please refer to the Your Choices and Rights section of this Policy.
OVERVIEW
Information We Collect and Use When you use or visit our Services.
We do collect information directly from you as a customer (e.g., when you use our site), only when you register as a customer with the intention of placing an advert with us.
How We Use Your Information We use your information to provide our Services, tailor your experience, show your advert to searching customers, send you marketing communications, provide you with more relevant offers that may be of interest to you, and for other purposes described below.
How We Share Your Information
We may share your information with our partners, social networking services and third-party services or applications.
We may also share information to provide and improve our Services, for our own marketing purposes, to facilitate offers and advertising from others that may interest you, and for other purposes as described below.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to help provide our Services, offer you a more personalized user experience and market our and third parties' products and services to you.
Your Choices and Rights
As a vendor/customer, you have choices about your personal information, and in some circumstances, you may be able and update your information, update location sharing options, exercise choices regarding cookies, and/or opt out of certain sharing of information with third parties.
Links to Other Websites
Our services may contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Carsfound4u.
Children
Our Services are not directed at or intended for use by children, nor do we knowingly collect information from children under 16 years of age.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or the way your personal information has been used, please contact us at [email protected]
Information we collect and use
Personal information” is data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be used to contact, or could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you. For purposes of this Policy, there is no meaningful distinction between the terms “personal information” and “personal data.”
Personal Information we collect from you.
As a vendor/customer when you visit or use our site we collect in addition to the details of your business, the following categories of personal information directly from you:
Personal details (such as your name and contact details)
Contact information (such as email address, address, phone number)
Account information (such as login credentials, including email address and password, and account settings)
Reviews you submit (including any screen name you publish under or any personal information you include about yourself or others in such review)
Other information you may provide (including other information you provide about yourself or others through our website or to which you provide us with access via third-party platforms)
We do not proactively collect sensitive personal information, such as health-related information.
How we use your information.
We use your personal information for the following purposes (“Purposes”), to:
Provide the Services, which includes providing you with the services, products, and functionality offered through our Services and fulfilling your requests.
Authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in to the Services and ensure the security of your account.
Communicate with you about your account or use of our Services, products, and/or functionality (e.g., soliciting reviews and feedback, sending alerts and notifications you have subscribed to, sending you information servicing and administrative emails or other notices required by law); respond to, or follow up on, your comments and questions; and otherwise provide customer service (see below for more detail on Electronic Communications)
Send you marketing communications, including communicating with you about services or products we offer.
Operate and improve our Services and develop new products and services, including using analytics to better understand how you use our Services for purposes of product, website, application and service development and to enhance the user experience.
Provide you more relevant advertising on and off our Services, including to show you personalized offers and advertising on and off our Services.
Protect against, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
Comply with our policies, procedures and legal obligations, including complying with law enforcement or government authority requests, addressing litigation-related issues, and exercising rights or obligations conferred by law.
As otherwise consented to by you and as required or permitted by applicable law. If you give your consent to any further use of personal information, you can withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us using the details set out below.
You have choices about your personal information, and in some circumstances, you may have the right to opt out or object to our uses of your personal information for these Purposes. For more information, or to exercise these or other rights (where available), see the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Electronic Communications. Consistent with the above Purposes and as permitted by applicable law, we may communicate with you via electronic messages, including email, text message, or mobile push notification to:
Send you marketing communications. In other situations, we may communicate with you about offers, promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us.
With your consent, where required, we may contact you at the mobile phone number that you provide to us by way of direct dial calls, autodial and pre-recorded message calls, and text messages in connection with the above Purposes.
Our Role as Data Controller.
For purposes of the rule of law and similar data protection regimes, we generally act as a data controller, meaning we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal information. To learn more about how a travel partner may use your personal information, you should review its privacy notice.
When we use personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we take steps to ensure that your rights to your personal information are not infringed. You can contact us using the details set out in the How to Contact Us section below for more information about the steps we take to ensure these rights are not infringed. You also have the right to object to such processing as described in the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Consent.
To the extent that a legal ground described above would not apply to processing of your personal information by us, we will seek your consent for such specific purpose in accordance with applicable law (such as sending direct marketing messages by electronic means, like email, without an exception from the requirement to obtain consent).
Aggregate Information. We aggregate personal information collected directly from you, information generated about you by us, and information obtained from third parties (with your consent, where required) with personal information collected about other users in order to produce general statistics that cannot be linked to you or any other specific user. Information that has been aggregated and de-identified is no longer considered “personal information” and may be subsequently used for any purpose.
Anonymized Information. We may process information that cannot be linked to you or any other specific user using any means available to us, either because it was collected anonymously or has been subsequently anonymized. Information that is anonymous or has been anonymized is no longer considered “personal information” and may be subsequently used for any purpose.
How we share your information
We disclose any information we collect (or otherwise generate or obtain) as follows:
We may share your information with our partners to provide the services, which may include marketing or advertising purposes.
Reviews you submit.
If you provide us with a review, you authorize us to publish it on all our Services under the screenname you provided and to share it with travel partners. You also authorize us to aggregate your review with other reviews.
With other service providers. We share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services or functions on our behalf (see below for more detail on Sharing with Other Service Providers).
In the event of a corporate transaction. We may disclose or transfer your information to a third party if we sell, transfer, divest, or disclose all or a portion of our business or assets to another company in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction, or proceeding.
To protect rights and property.
We may disclose your information to third parties when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, our property, the integrity of the Services, personal safety, or the interests of you or any other person, and to detect, prevent and/or otherwise address fraud, risk management, security or technical issues.
To comply with and as required by law. We may disclose your information to government authorities or other relevant third parties in order to comply with applicable legal requirements, judicial proceedings, court orders, legal process, or lawful requests from governmental authorities.
Aggregate information. We share aggregate statistical data for the improvement of our Services. We may also share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties at our discretion.
At your request.
We also share your information as directed or requested by you, or subject to your consent.
In some circumstances, you may have the right to opt out or object to our sharing of your information with certain third parties. For more information, or to exercise these or other rights, see the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Provide customer support services.
Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud and misuse of our services, other illegal activities, and data breaches.
Analyse how users use our independent and affiliated platforms, including so that we may improve existing products and services and develop new features, products, and services that may be of interest to our users.
Ensure compliance with applicable law.
How we store and protect your information.
CARSFOUND4U maintains commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Retention.
We may retain your personal information for as long as your account is active and for a period thereafter to allow you to re-activate your account without loss of information.
We may also retain your personal information as necessary to:
Maintain logs and business records for analysis, security, and/or audit purposes, comply with record retention requirements under the law, deal with any complaints regarding the Services; and comply with our legal obligations, protect or defend our rights, resolve disputes and enforce our contracts
Cookies
When you use or visit the Services, we collect information about your usage and activity using cookies, web beacons, and other technologies.
Third parties may also view, edit, or set their own cookies. We and our third-party service providers, affiliates, and other business partners may also place web beacons for these third parties.
The use of these technologies by third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by this Policy, except as required by law. See our Cookies Policy for more details.
Your choices and rights
Email.
If you no longer want to receive marketing and promotional emails from CARSFOUND4U, you may click on the “unsubscribe” link in such emails to opt out of future marketing email communications.
If you have a CARSFOUND4U account, you may also opt out of marketing emails in your account settings. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from one or all our Services, we will still send you service-related communication.
Push Notifications (on Mobile Devices).
You can use the settings on your mobile device to enable or turn off mobile push notifications from us.
Text Messages.
If you no longer want to receive text messages from us, reply STOP (or as otherwise instructed) to the text message. If you have a CARSFOUND4U, you may also adjust your account settings to opt out of text messages.
Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising.
To exercise choices regarding cookies set through our websites or Services, as well as other types of online tracking and online advertising, see our Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising Policy for more details. We currently do not employ technology that recognizes “do-not-track” signals from your browser.
Location information.
If you use our Services, we automatically collect approximate location information about you (such as your city) or, with your consent, precise geographic location data from your mobile device when the app is running and when it is not running, depending on the choices you make when you are asked to consent to our collection of location information.
The technologies we use to determine your location may include IP address mapping, cell tower position, Wi-Fi position and GPS signals.
We may use and store this information to provide and improve features of our Services, for example, to tailor our Services on a needs-based manner to better facilitate your requests (such as helping you find the places of interest closest to you) and to provide you with more relevant content in the sites you visit (such as sending you marketing communications relating to goods or services in your current city).
CARSFOUND4U does not have control over your device settings, but we do recommend enabling location services on your device so you can take advantage of the location-based features and functionality offered.
Please see the Your Rights and Choices section below for more information about how to adjust your preferences, including those related to location information.
Sharing with third parties.
As described above in the How We Share Your Information section, we share your information with third parties for their own purposes or work with those partners to support their own marketing purposes. You can opt out of sharing your information with:
Our group companies, for their own marketing purposes; partners, for their own marketing purposes, including sending marketing communications and providing targeted advertising, promotions, and other offers and other business partners, who use information for their own marketing purposes.
Access and Correction of Your Information.
If you have created an online account with us and would like to update the information you have provided to us, you can access your account to view and update your information. You may also contact us as described in the How to Contact Us section below.
Legal Rights.
Where applicable under local law, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information: the right to access personal information we hold, and in some situations, the right to have that personal information corrected or updated, erased, restricted, or delivered to you or a third party in a usable electronic format (the right to data portability).
Where applicable, you may also object to how we use your personal information if the legal basis for processing that information is our legitimate interest.
Where we are using your personal information based on your consent, and where applicable under local law, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Where you have granted consent to receive direct marketing communications from us, and where applicable under local law, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
If you wish to exercise the legal rights you may have under applicable law, please submit your request by using our feedback form. So that we can better process your request, please provide the email you use to log into your CARSFOUND4U.
If you do not have an account with us, please provide the email you used to make requests or to use our Services.
Where applicable, you may also have the right to register a complaint to your local data protection authority.
For residents of the EU and UK, contact the EU data protection authorities.
For residents of other countries, if you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint after first contacting us, you may wish to contact your relevant national office for handling such matters.
International Transfer of Information.
Information about you may be transferred to, or accessed by, entities located around the world as described in this Policy.
Some of these entities may be in countries that do not provide an equivalent level of protection for personal information as your home country.
We have put in place safeguards to provide adequate protection for transfers of certain information, in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place, or to request a copy of these safeguards, please contact us using the contact details listed in the How to Contact Us section below.
Links to other Websites
Our Services contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by us.
This Policy only applies to information collected by our Services. We have no control over these third- party websites, and your use of third-party websites and features are subject to privacy policies posted on those websites.
We are not responsible or liable for the privacy or business practices of any third-party websites linked to our Services, including those of our group companies.
Your use of third parties' websites linked to our Services is at your own risk, so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked third-party websites when you leave one of our Services.
Children
Our Services are not directed at or intended for use by children.
We do not knowingly collect information from, children under 16 years of age.
If you become aware that your child or any child under your care has provided us with information without your consent, please contact us at using the contact details listed in the How to Contact Us section below.
Changes to this policy
Except to the extent limited by applicable law, we will update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices, legal requirements, and other factors by prominently posting notice of the update on our Services.
Changes to our Privacy Policy will be effective when posted and the new effective date will be identified.
If we make any changes to the Privacy Policy that materially impact previously collected personal information about you, we will make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent to any such changes as may be required by law.
To request a copy of this Policy, or to request a copy of the Privacy Policy in place at the time you signed up for an account, please contact us at the details below.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Policy or the way in which your personal information has been used, please contact us using our feedback form or by email at [email protected]
Cookies and interest-based advertising
What are Cookies?
Cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as beacons, scripts, web beacons and tags (which together we refer to as “cookies”), are small bits of text, usually stored on a user's computer hard drive or within a browser. They enable a website to remember information about the user's visit to the website. On mobile websites and mobile applications, we use device IDs and / or Advertising IDs in a similar manner to which we use cookies.
We and certain third-party partners (as described below) use cookies on our websites, our mobile applications and within emails or other communications we send to you (we refer to these together as our “Sites”).
To the extent the cookies we use for these purposes lead to the processing of your personal information, details about how we use that personal information and your rights over that personal information are discussed in our Privacy Policy.
What types of Cookies are used on our Sites and what do we use them for?
We use “first-party cookies,” i.e., those that are used solely by us or by third parties who act only on our instructions or on our behalf. These types of cookies are used for our own analysis of our own Sites, or to provide functionality such as remembering your language preference.
Other cookies on our Sites are used both by us for the purposes described in this policy and by third parties for purposes where those third parties may wish to combine information from our Sites with information from other sites to improve their services. For example, these types of cookies may be used for interest-based advertising purposes.
The cookies used on our Sites, by either us or by third parties, can be “session” cookies, or “persistent” cookies. “Session” cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and are used for things like ensuring you are kept logged in as you navigate around our Sites. “Persistent” cookies remain stored on your device or browser even after you close it. These cookies are used, for example, to recognize you when you come back to our Sites.
Description of how we use cookies.
What choices do you have?
Required
To provide a secure log-in to our Sites.
To keep you logged in so that you do not have to log in repeatedly to access different pages of the Sites.
Required cookies are necessary for our Sites to operate.
On some platforms, you can delete all cookies, but this may affect the basic functionality of the Sites.
Functional
To recognize you if you have visited previously, and remember your preferences from past visits, such as your language preference.
To track when you search or make any purchase on websites.
To improve our Sites and our offerings by helping us to understand how users use the Sites and to analyse trends which appear in that data.
For example, we make changes to the user interface if we can see that certain pages are difficult for many users to navigate.
We also collect broad information about how our users use the Sites, for example, to understand which aspects of our Sites and our services are particularly popular, so that we can make improvements going forward.
To personalize your experience of our Sites, for example, by showing you offers on our homepage or in emails that are most relevant to you based on your previous visits to our Site.
Where required by law, functional cookies will only be used on the Sites where you have given your consent to their use.
You can opt out of our use of Google Analytics by downloading the browser add-on.
Advertising (e.g., Google DoubleClick, Google Ads, Oath, Bing Ads)
To recognize you if you have used our services on another device. We combine information received from multiple devices to determine if you are using a new device, so that we can continue to provide you with a personalized experience on our Site.
To enable you to post to social media sites and other platforms, for example, to allow you to access a particular social media page to post a comment or a “like.”
To collect information for use in advertising on our own Sites and on third party sites which you may visit. Such information is based on your preferences and your usage of our Sites.
We have included more information about our use of advertising cookies below.
Where required by law, advertising cookies will be used only on the Sites where you have given your consent to their use.
See the section entitled “Your Cookie Choices” below to learn more about how to withdraw your consent to advertising cookies.
You can opt out of our use of Google Analytics by downloading the browser add-on.
Our Advertising Cookies
We work with third parties that place cookies on our Sites to provide their services, including:
Ad Targeting. We work with third-party advertising companies to serve ads while you are visiting our Sites and to permit these companies to place and access their own cookies on your computer in the course of serving advertisements on our Sites.
These companies may use information obtained through their cookies (which does not include your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our Site and other websites, in combination with information about your searches and interests from other online sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
We also allow certain third parties (as described in our Privacy Policy to collect web log data from you (which may include IP address, where permitted, and information about your browser or operating system), when you visit our Site, or to place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads or content.
The cookies may reflect de-identified usage data or other data linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, for example, your email address, that we may share with third parties solely in hashed, non-human readable form.
Advertising Analytics/Measurement. We make use of analytics cookies as part of our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our Sites after they have been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party websites.
Our Site uses Google Analytics 360 Suite, including Google Analytics Advertising, which are web analytics and analytics advertising services provided by Google, Inc., which use third party cookies.
Where required, our Sites have activated the IP address anonymization functionality so that the IP address of the user is shortened by Google. Our Sites also use the following Google Analytics Advertising features: Google Remarketing, Google Segments, Google Ads Manager and Google Ads. These features use third party cookies to collect information about our website traffic by tracking users across websites and across time and generating reports for us to better understand our website users and to create audiences for our advertisements based on such understanding.
Remarketing Pixel Tags.
In addition, we may share website usage information about visitors to our Site with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our Site.
For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place pixel tags (also called clear gifs) on some of the pages you visit on our Sites.
We will then use the information that is collected using these pixel tags to serve you relevant advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet.
These advertisements may be based on your interests, for example, on the basis of specific searches you conducted on our Sites during earlier browsing sessions.
Other Cookies
Our partners, who provide certain features on our Site or display advertising based on your browsing activity, also use Local Storage such as HTML5, to collect and store content information and preferences.
Please note that different web browsers offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage.
Mobile Devices, Anonymous Device Identifiers and Hashed IDs. We and/or third parties that we have engaged may collect and store a unique identifier matched to your mobile device, in order to deliver customized ads or content while you use applications or surf the internet, or to identify you in a unique manner across other devices or browsers. In order to customize these ads or content, we or a third party may collect de-identified usage data or other data about you which you have either voluntarily submitted to us, for example, your email address, or has been passively collected from you, such as your device identifier or IP address, where permitted. However, if we share your email address, we share it solely in hashed, non-human-readable form.
Your Cookie Choices
We provide you with choices over the use of cookies as described in this policy.
When you first visit our Site, where required by law, you will have the option to give your consent to the advertising and functional cookies we use, or to refuse your consent to our use of those cookies by clicking on the [X] within that disclosure.
Browsers.
Most browsers accept cookies by default. You may be able to change the settings to have your browser refuse certain cookies or notify you before accepting cookies. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your browser which are usually located within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" facility. Some third parties also provide the ability to refuse their cookies directly by clicking on an opt-out link, and we have tried to indicate where this is possible in the table above.
You can also find more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Mobile Devices. If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your mobile applications, please refer to your device’s operating system settings and follow instructions below.
iOS users: To use the "Limit Ad-Tracking" option, follow the instructions provided by Apple here: Apple Support Centre.
Android Users: To use the "opt-out of interest-based advertising" option, follow the instructions provided by Google here: Google Play Help
You may also consider downloading the DAA AppChoices Mobile App to manage online behavioural advertising technology.
If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your mobile device browser, you can follow the steps in relation to Browsers outlined above.
Do-Not-Track Signals.
We currently do not employ technology that recognizes “do-not-track” signals from your browser.
Please keep in mind that, without cookies, you may not have access to certain features on our Site, including access to your profile/account and certain personalized content.
Removing all cookies from your computer could also affect your subsequent visits to certain websites, including our Site, by requiring that, for example, you enter your login name when you return to that website.
Please note that even if you exercise any of the choices described above, you will still see ads, but they will not be based upon the information collected through these tracking technologies, and therefore not necessarily relevant to your interests.
Privacy Policy.
Please review our privacy policy for additional details about how we collect, use, and disclose information in connection with our Sites, including personal information obtained from cookies.
Contact.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please use our contact us form.
