Northcoast Car Care Center is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Northcoast Car Care Center Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Northcoast Car Care Center website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Northcoast Car Care Center collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Northcoast Car Care Center also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Northcoast Car Care Center. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Northcoast Car Care Center for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Northcoast Car Care Center Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Northcoast Car Care Center public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Northcoast Car Care Center does not read any of your private online communications.

Northcoast Car Care Center encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Northcoast Car Care Center so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Northcoast Car Care Center is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Northcoast Car Care Center and Northcoast Car Care Center family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Northcoast Car Care Center collects and uses your personal information to operate the Northcoast Car Care Center Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Northcoast Car Care Center also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Northcoast Car Care Center and its affiliates. Northcoast Car Care Center may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Northcoast Car Care Center does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Northcoast Car Care Center may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Northcoast Car Care Center may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Northcoast Car Care Center, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Northcoast Car Care Center does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Northcoast Car Care Center keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Northcoast Car Care Center, in order to determine what Northcoast Car Care Center services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Northcoast Car Care Center to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Northcoast Car Care Center Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Northcoast Car Care Center or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Northcoast Car Care Center; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Northcoast Car Care Center, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Northcoast Car Care Center Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Northcoast Car Care Center pages, or register with Northcoast Car Care Center site or services, a cookie helps Northcoast Car Care Center to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Northcoast Car Care Center Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Northcoast Car Care Center features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Northcoast Car Care Center services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Northcoast Car Care Center secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Northcoast Car Care Center secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Northcoast Car Care Center will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Northcoast Car Care Center encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Northcoast Car Care Center is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Northcoast Car Care Center welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Northcoast Car Care Center has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Northcoast Car Care Center at websiteconnect@drbsystems.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.