CARMAGAZINE.com is serious about your privacy and ensures to protect your personal information. The following describes how we gather and use data. The personal information that CARMAGAZINE.com uses depends on your relationship with CARMAGAZINE.com and on what CARMAGAZINE.com services you use.

CARMAGAZINE.com collects and uses information to administer and improve our website. We may also use this information to detect and prevent faults and attacks on our network. We will also use all this information to assess what Carmagazine.com products and services may be of interest to individuals and to personalize our service and marketing.

If you are registered to use a CARMAGAZINE.com service we may contact you to obtain feedback on that service and any improvements we could make to it.

If you have agreed to such contact, CARMAGAZINE.com may contact you about our services to which you do not subscribe but which you may find of interest. You have the right to ask us at any time not to contact you. This can be done by contacting support@carmagazine.com.

If you are a registered user of our services CARMAGAZINE.com also gathers information about your use of our services, such as generic types of data accessed, times and volume of use of the services and traffic data. Traffic data includes logs, details of networks, data and systems accessed details of the sender and recipients of messages sent over our services, times and location of log on or access, duration of sessions, and similar usage or system data. Before you register with CARMAGAZINE.com , however, you can browse our web site anonymously.

CARMAGAZINE.com collects and updates information about users of its services, suppliers, account and IT managers and other individuals it deals within its day-to-day business. It may obtain this information via direct contact with you, from third parties such as your employer or another one of our suppliers and automatically via your use of our services.

Telephone calls to the CARMAGAZINE.com help desk may be recorded for quality control and regulatory purposes.

CARMAGAZINE.com may store your information in its databases, such as its Customer Relationship database, for reference. The information may be retained and used by CARMAGAZINE.com for a reasonable period, reflecting our need to answer queries or resolve problems, provide improved and new services and any data retention requirements of the law. This means we may retain information after an individual ceases to use Carmagazine.com or after the individual has ceased interacting with us. Except where the law, authorities or regulatory bodies require us to retain it for longer, we retain traffic data for a reasonable period after the traffic data was generated, including in some circumstances (such as with firewall logs or fault data) after any bill has been paid. The details of money laundering checks, user authentication or verification checks and details of trading or other regulated activity may be retained for so long as the law or the regulator requires or evidence of the trade is required.

Except where the law permits or unless you specifically agree, CARMAGAZINE.com does not sell or rent your personal data to anyone.

In some instances, we may pass information to third parties involved with the CARMAGAZINE.com website (such as our magazine clients or third party information and software providers) who wish to manage and check the distribution of their information/software and obtain payment for it. They may then match it with the data they have for this purpose.

If we sell this business division to another company your data may be transferred to the buyer along with the business for them to use in the same way.

Cookies enable us to collect information about how our website and services are being used and to manage them more efficiently. Until you have registered with our website, the cookie will only track general usage patterns and technical information about your computer type and will not be used to identify you individually. After registration, cookies will be used to collect information. You can turn off the ability to receive cookies by adjusting the browser in your computer but you should note that if you do so, this may materially distort the quality of service and data you receive. You therefore do this at your own risk. CARMAGAZINE.com also uses agents with your computer to assist with our diagnosis of technical problems and therefore to obtain information about software versions installed and data transmitted, for software compliance purposes and for you/your company to receive software updates, new releases or additional software. Sometimes you can refuse or remove these agents but that means you will not receive this additional software and may suffer service problems and you may lose all rights to support. We therefore do not recommend that you remove or tamper with these agents.

With our services you are given the opportunity to receive a related newsletter by email. You can at any time choose to stop receiving this newsletter by following the instructions on each newsletter.

Where advertising is served on to our website there may be cookies used to collect technical information and generic usage information but third party advertisers will not be able to relate this to you as an individual without your consent.

If the product you are using has digital certificates/certificate signatures then your name and related details may be displayed as part of any certificate issued to you. It will be seen by those to whom your certificate or signature is presented or who rely on it. Your details may also need to be entered into a related status directory of certificates issued.

CARMAGAZINE.com may intercept some email or mail addressed to individuals at CARMAGAZINE.com . We may do this for reasons related to security at CARMAGAZINE.com , its staff and others, for detection and prevention of crime and to identify correct recipients or to make sure mail is dealt with during staff absence. In the case of emails, we may reject, delay or remove content from emails which have a nature, content or attachments which may disrupt our systems or because they may pose security issues such as viruses. We may also filter out emails which contain certain content on the basis that content is offensive or the email is unwanted or spam.

The CARMAGAZINE.com website is international and therefore personal data may be made available internationally, including in countries which do not have data protection laws, or laws which provide as much protection as in the country of origin. We seek to require those to whom we transfer your data to protect it and your privacy.

Questions?
Any questions about privacy protection at CARMAGAZINE.com should be directed to support@carmagazine.com.