Privacy Policy

New Car Shopper .com.au

The privacy of personal information you provide is very important to us.

By submitting your personal information, you are entrusting us to handle information that you regard as private, solely for the purposes and in the manner set forth in this Privacy Policy and for no other purpose. In exchange for your trust, you expect us to handle your personal and private information in a professional manner that will be in keeping with your trust.

Our Privacy Policy explains what information we obtain on this Site, and how we use the information disclosed to us to link you to our business affiliates who have expressed a willingness to provide you with the products and services associated with this Site.

The following privacy statement ("Privacy Policy") discloses our privacy practices and applies to the services available under the domain of newcarshopper.com.au (the "Site"). By submission of the information requested on this Site, you agree that the following terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy shall govern our use and disclosure of your personal information.

If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy, please do not complete forms on this Site. This Privacy Policy describes in some detail the information that we collect from you as part of the normal operation of our service, and what may happen to the information we collect. The Privacy Policy is effective upon submission of any enquiry form on this Site.

Who we are: We are an online new car information and consulting service. We provide new car buyers a means to secure a new motor vehicle or vehicles at below recommended retail pricing via Southgate Fleet Management. Southgate Fleet Management may also offer assistance in the selling of a trade-in motor vehicle/s. Southgate Fleet Management also provide other referral services that introduce Specialised Lenders, and/or Loan Originators of our preferred Finance Broker's choice (Business Affiliates) who have expressed general willingness to review your information and determine if they are willing to provide you with the services or products that may have prompted you to visit our Site.

You may be requested to complete a simple application with information that is deemed necessary for our Southgate Fleet Management's business affiliates to perform a preliminary analysis of your qualifications to receive the service or products. Based upon your consent, as evidenced by the submission of your personal information (i.e., your submission of the requested information on the application), Southgate Fleet Management will forward the information that you provided to certain of their business affiliates for determining whether they will offer you the products and services that you are seeking. New car pricing, finance and leasing enquiries are forwarded to Southgate Fleet Management and handled exclusively by them.

Any dealings you have with Southgate Fleet Management are completely independent to that of newcarshopper.com.au. In addition, from time to time, we newcarshopper.com.au (Any New Car) or our before-mentioned business affiliates may email you or otherwise correspond with you to inform you of additional opportunities to receive special offers for other services and/or products that we believe may be of interest to you. You are under no obligation to accept any service or product with any of our business affiliates.

Information newcarshopper.com.au collects:

The information newcarshopper.com.au collects enables Southgate Fleet Management to qualify your motoring requirements. We may collect information such as your name, address, telephone number and email address.

We also collect user information that can help us optimize and enhance your experience on our Site; as well as provide you with an efficient, safe, smooth, and customised experience. For example, if you came to this Site from an online banner ad, pop-up or other advertisement, an anonymous identification number may be passed to our Site. In some cases, we may place a cookie in your browser. The aforementioned information cannot, by itself, be used to gather any personally identifiable information about you, but it will allow us to track the overall effectiveness of our online advertising campaigns.

We also automatically track certain information with respect to your behaviour on the Site through the forgoing cookie or identification number. This non-personally identifiable information may include the Internet address or URL that you just came from and which URL you go to next; your computer browser information; and your IP address. We use this non-personally identifiable information in conjunction with some of the information that you provided to us to do internal research on our users' demographics and behaviour; and to better understand how to best serve other users of this Site.

We also utilize Web Logs to track aggregate information about how our site is being used. Web Logs track anonymous user information, including but not limited to the number of visitors to our site, operating systems and browser type. Unlike cookies, Web Logs are maintained only on our servers and do not store or place anything on the user's computer.

We cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example, third parties may unlawfully intercept personal data or access our servers and obtain personal data. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, nor you should not expect, that your personal information would always remain private.

Changes to your information:

If you want to change information that you have submitted, please contact http://newcarshopper.com.au/contact

Notification of Changes to Privacy Policy:

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new privacy policy on the Site. Be sure to check the current terms of any privacy policy in effect by visiting this page.

From time to time, we may use your information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. Please note that if our information practices change at some time in the future, we will use only data collected from the time of the new privacy policy amendment forward for those new purposes.
Links to Other Sites: This site may contain links to other Internet sites that are owned by third parties. These links are provided solely for your convenience and do not indicate either express or implied endorsement by newcarshopper.com.au of the products or services that are provided by that Internet site or vice versa. When accessing third party Internet sites and using those products and services you agree and undertake to do so at your own risk.

Access to your personal information:

newcarshopper.com.au will provide you with access to your personal information we hold about you. You may request access to any of the personal information we hold about you at any time. To access personal information we hold about you, contact us (http://newcarshopper.com.au/contact)

To the extent that you can order products, enter contests, express an opinion, or subscribe to a service(s), the type of personally identifiable information that may be collected may include: name; address; email address; telephone number; fax number; credit card information; information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services; education level; educational interests; home owner status; income; debt level; current mortgage; mortgage rate and the like. To the extent that you are requested and you do submit information about other people, such information will be limited recipient's name, address, email address, and telephone number. Our privacy policy changes from time to time - please check for updates.

Information collected by Southgate Fleet Management

The information collected is generally limited to personal information about you that Southgate Fleet Management's business affiliates consider necessary for performing a preliminary evaluation of your qualifications.

How Southgate Fleet Management Use Your Information:

Southgate Fleet Management collect the information that you submit and which their business affiliates consider necessary for performing a preliminary evaluation of your qualifications for their products and services. Prior to sending your information to business affiliates, Southgate Fleet Management attempt to validate it. For example, they may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions, and accuracy based upon past usage and response; or compare your information against other publicly available files; or validate some of the personal information submitted to verify that the information inputted has a high probability of being valid information.

After Southgate Fleet Management submit your information to their business affiliates, their business affiliates may begin a separate and independent evaluation of the information you submitted (the "Preliminary Application"). If their business affiliates find that the Preliminary Application meets with their more specific acceptance criterion, they may contact you directly by phone, mail or email.

For more information on how Southgate Fleet Management business affiliates will handle your personal information, please visit that particular business affiliate's website once contacted and review their privacy policy. Southgate Fleet Management are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any affiliates' websites.

Southgate Fleet Management do not market, reuse or sell your financial information. However, they may use other personally identifiable information that they collect for any legal purpose, including selling or transferring such information at any time to third parties for any legally permissible purpose at their sole discretion. For example, Southgate Fleet Management may share your personal information with select business affiliates so that they can contact you and offer you products and or services that Southgate Fleet Management consider might be of interest to you.

This may include email advertising, telephone marketing, direct mail marketing, and online banner advertising to name a few. In addition, Southgate Fleet Management may maintain separate email, mailing or phone lists for different purposes based on the information that you submitted and that Southgate Fleet Management maintain. For your information, Southgate Fleet Management business affiliates have all agreed to operate in accordance with federal and state laws and regulations relating to the handling of your personal information.

You may learn more about any of Southgate Fleet Management's business affiliate's privacy policy by visiting Southgate Fleet Management's business affiliates' websites at such times as such affiliate may contact you. Southgate Fleet Management are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of business their affiliates' websites. If you wish to end future correspondence with any of Southgate Fleet Management's business affiliates, you will need to follow the instructions at the end of any such each email message from them to unsubscribe from such business affiliate's email.

Southgate Fleet Management may also disclose your personally identifiable information in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process; as well as the transfer or sale of personally identifiable information pursuant to the sale of our business or assets. Should such a combination or acquisition occur, Southgate Fleet Management would require that the new combined or acquiring entity follow this privacy policy with respect to your personal information. Any dealings you have Southgate Fleet Management are entirely independent to newcarshopper.com.au.