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California Auto Auctions - Privacy & Security

Privacy Policy and Important Notices


Thank you for visiting CaliforniaAutoAuctions and reviewing our policy notices. We have integrated these statements into a single page for ease of use.

Privacy Policy

This notice provides CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com's policy regarding the nature, purpose, use and sharing of any information collected via this Web site. The information you provide on a CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com site will be used only for its intended purpose. We will protect your information consistent with the principles of the Privacy Act.

Submitting information is strictly voluntary. By doing so, you are giving CaliorniaAutoAuctions.com your permission to use the information for the intended purpose. If you do not want to give CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com permission to use your information, simply do not provide it. However, not providing certain information may result in CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com's inability to provide you with the information or services you desire.
There are several types of information we collect. These include:
  • Automatically Collected Information
  • Information Collected for Tracking and Cutomization (Cookies)
  • Personal Information
  • Information from Children

CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com never collects information for commercial marketing. We will only share your information with other companies affiliated with our own corporation, or as otherwise required by law. CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com never creates individual profiles or gives your information to any private organization not affiliated with our site.

Automatically Collected Information

We collect and temporarily store certain technical information about your visit for use in site management and security purposes. This information includes:
  • The Internet domain from which you access our Web site
  • The IP address (a unique number for each computer connected to the Internet) from which you access our Web site;
  • The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) used to access our site;

  • The operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
  • The date and time you access our site;
  • The URLs of the pages you visit;
  • Your username, if it was used to log in to the Web site; and
  • If you visited this Web site from another Web site, the URL of the forwarding site.
This information is only used to help us make our site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are retained temporarily as required for security and site management purposes only.

Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

A cookie is a small file that a Web site transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the Web site that provided it, and no other Web site can request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.

CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com Web sites may use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through the site, or to allow you to customize your preferences for interacting with the site. A few CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com Web sites may also make use of persistent cookies to remember you between visits so, for example, you can save your customized preference settings for future visits. Each CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com site using persistent cookies identifies itself as doing so.

At no time is your private information, whether stored in persistent cookies or elsewhere, shared with third parties who have no right to that information. If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off in your browser. However, this may affect the functioning of some CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com Web sites.

Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information, through such methods as completing a form or sending us an email, we will use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information or services you have requested.

Remember that email isn't necessarily secure. You should never send sensitive or personal information like your Social Security number in an email. Use postal mail or secure Web sites instead.

Some of our Web sites ask visitors who request specific information to fill out a registration form. For example, vendors looking for marketing opportunities by visiting our CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com Web site may be asked to register to obtain email notices of business opportunities. Other information collected at Web sites through questionnaires, feedback forms, or other means, enables us to determine visitors' interests, with the goal of providing better service to our customers.

Interaction with Children

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) governs information gathering online from or about children under the age of 13. Verifiable consent from a child's parent or guardian is required before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from a child under the age of 13.

We collect no information about you or your child, other than that detailed in the previous section, when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide information to us. We request that you do not allow your child to fill in any information on any form on our Web site and we will immediately delete any child's information upon notification that the information was entered by a child.

Web Site Security Notice

For site security purposes and to ensure that this Web service remains available to all users, this computer system employs software programs that monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information,. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that if such monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to appropriate law enforcement officials.

Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.

Linking Policy and Disclaimer of Endorsement

CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com links to many Web sites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com provides links to these sites as a service to our users. The presence of a link is not a CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com endorsement of the site.

When users follow a link to an outside Web site, they are leaving CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside Web site(s). CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com is not responsible for the information collection practices of non-CaliforniaAutoAuctions.com sites.