At Warranty Service Programs, we understand the importance of online privacy, so we strive to provide our customers with an honest, transparent, and safe online vehicle protection quote experience. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for Warranty Service Programs (also referred to as “warrantyserviceprograms.com” or the “Site”).
Agreement to this Policy: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY (OTHERWISE NOTED AS THIS “AGREEMENT”) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SITE. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU SIGNIFY YOUR EXPRESS AGREEMENT WITH THE POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT CONSENT TO THIS POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE. Exceptions to aspects of this policy may apply depending on where you may reside.
Conflict Between this Policy and Local Laws and Regulations: When local laws and regulations require a higher level of protection for your PII, they take precedence over this Privacy Policy. In addition, the specific requirements of this Privacy Policy apply only when local laws and regulations permit.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Personal Information:
We collect and have collected in the past twelve months, information that personally identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a person (“Personal Information”), including:
Business Information:
We also collect information about businesses and their representatives that engage with us such as EIN, TIN, address, phone number, email address, bank account information (collectively, “Business Information”). This information is generally not considered Personal Information because it relates to a business. If such Business Information relates to a business contact person, we will treat it as Personal Information.
How we collect this information:
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US
The information we collect may include:
If you want a complimentary vehicle service contract quote, you will be asked to provide personally identifiable information and information about your vehicle (such as its VIN, year, make, model, and current mileage) for us to provide the quote. We receive and store any personally identifiable information that you choose to enter through the Site, including any submissions that you make or content you provide on or through the Site.
What Personal Information Do We Share with Others?
We may share information about you with others as follows:
A. With Service Providers
We may share information about you with companies that work for or provide services to us such as our:
B. With Mailing List Partners
We may share your name and address with others, such as charities, marketing organizations, corporate affiliates, or other businesses for “mailing list” purposes.
C. With Corporate Entities for Business Transfers
We may transfer your personal information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or other change of ownership or control. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal information provided through the Services in a manner that is consistent with this Notice.
D. With Law Enforcement or Other Third Parties for Legal, Compliance, and Safety Purposes
We may be required by law to comply with a valid legal process, such as a subpoena, court order, or search warrant, or where there is a lawful request, to disclose information about you. We may also share information about you to protect our customers, employees, or property; in emergency situations; and to enforce our rights under our terms of service and policies, in court or elsewhere.
USAGE DETAILS, IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
As you navigate through and interact with our Site, or our advertising or applications on third-party websites and services, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
Web Beacons. We may place tags on our webpages called “web beacons.” These are computer instructions that link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies.
THIRD PARTY WEB ANALYTICS SERVICES
We may use third party web analytics services on this Site and our social media pages, such as those of Google Analytics. The service providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs and web beacons to collect information (such as IP address) and use that information to help us analyze how visitors use the Site. These vendors may use cookies placed on this Site (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and cookies placed on third-party web sites (such as Google advertising cookies), or other third-party identifiers, together, to analyze our Site visitors. You may deactivate the ability of Google Analytics to analyze your browsing activities on this Site. To disable Google Analytics, please download the browser add-on provided by Google at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. To learn more about privacy and Google Analytics please consult the Google Analytics overview provided by Google at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html
TARGETED ADVERTISING & THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISER USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Third-party advertisers, ad networks and ad servers may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about users of the Site. This may include information about users’ behavior on this and other websites to serve them interested-based behavioral advertising. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly. For information on how to opt-out of certain third-party advertisers, ad networks and ad servers, see the Choices section below.
We may also use third-party platforms and technology, including platforms operated by social networks, such as Google and Facebook to show you interest-based ads. These companies have specific Interest-Based Ads programs that match people that have shown interest in warrantyserviceprograms.com through our websites, stores or other services with users on their platforms and properties. If we participate in these programs, we convert your personal information (which may include name, email address or telephone number) or other information into a unique value which can be matched by those third parties with a user on their platform or with other data they may have collected from you. This matching allows us to deliver interest-based ads to users of these platforms. To optout of these ads, you must change your advertising preferences for those third-party platforms. You can manage your preferences for these advertising programs by clicking on the following relevant links: for Facebook click here, for Google click here. These platforms may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
USE OF INFORMATION
We collect and use Personal Information for internal purposes, such as to:
From time to time, we may de-identify Personal Information so that it can no longer be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with an identifiable person. We may use and disclose de-identified information for any purpose since it is no longer Personal Information. We will not re-identify de-identified information.
*Service Providers
We may establish a relationship with other businesses to provide services to us (“Service Providers”), including:
We only provide our Service Providers with the information necessary for them to perform these services on our behalf. Each Service Provider is expected to use reasonable security measures appropriate to the nature of the information involved to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Service Providers are prohibited from using Personal Information other than as specified by us.
We disclose each of the categories of Personal Information to one or more Service Providers.
No mobile information will be sold or shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be sold or shared with any third parties.
DATA TRANSFERS
Your personal information may be transferred to countries other than the country in which it was originally collected, and your personal information may be processed and stored outside of your country of residence. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as your country of residence and your personal information will be subject to applicable foreign laws. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. This website is not directed to consumers or persons residing in the European Union or locations governed by the GDPR, and data is not intended to be transferred to such locations.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interestbased advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. To learn more about advertising networks and to opt out of interest-based advertising, visit the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info/choices or the Network Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
REVIEWING, UPDATING AND MODIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information, and have the information blocked or deleted, as appropriate. The right to access personal information may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections. You may request to review, change or delete your personal information by sending an email to info@warrantyserviceprograms.com
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, we may link to third-party content, applications, or websites on our website. This third-party content has their own privacy practices. This Privacy Policy does not describe how these third parties collect and use data.
CALIFORNIA DO NOT TRACK DISCLOSURES
How do we respond to Web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services?
We currently do not respond to DNT signals in browsers because we do not track individual users across the web.
May other parties collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when they visit www.warrantyserviceprograms.com?
No.
Notice to Vermont Residents
In response to Vermont regulations, we automatically treat accounts with Vermont billing addresses as if you requested that we not share your information with nonaffiliated third parties, and that we limit the information we share with our affiliates. If we disclose information about you to nonaffiliated third parties with whom we have joint marketing agreements, we will only disclose your name, address, other contact information, and information about our transaction and experiences with you.
Notice to California Connecticut, Colorado, Utah and Virginia Residents
You have additional rights to access and control your Personal Information as described more fully below. We will retain a record of your request for at least two years and in compliance with applicable laws.
Right to Know
You have the right to request twice per 12-month period that we provide you (i) the categories and, if requested, specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which your Personal Information was collected; (iii) the business or commercial purpose for which we collected your Personal Information; (iv) the categories of Third Parties with whom we sold or shared your Personal Information; and (v) the business or commercial purpose for which we sold or shared your Personal Information.
You have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form, so that you can transfer it to another party, if you have given us permission to process your data and when the processing was done automatically.
We will process verified requests within 45 days, subject to any applicable exceptions and extensions permitted by law. Please note that if you have a password-protected online account with us, we will fulfill your request via such account; otherwise, we will give you the option to receive your information by mail or electronic delivery. To request access to your Personal Information, or a portable version of such information or to designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, you may call us at +1 877 516 6876.
Right to Deletion
You may have the right to request that we delete certain types of Personal Information we have collected about you. Please understand that we are not required to honor a deletion request if a legal exemption applies such as if we need the information to complete a requested or reasonably anticipated transaction, prevent security incidents or fraud, enable internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations, or comply with legal obligations. We will process verified requests within 45 days, subject to any applicable exceptions and extensions permitted by law. Please note that if you have a password-protected online account with us, we will fulfill your request via such account; otherwise, we will give you the option to receive your fulfillment by mail or electronic delivery.
To request deletion of your Personal Information, you may submit a request through our Deletion Request Page or call us at +1 877 516 6876. If you choose to call us, please review the Deletion Request Page first because it contains important descriptions of the process we use to verify your identity and fulfill your request. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf as described on the Deletion Request Page.
Right to Correction
You have the right to request that we correct any Personal Information that we have on file about you that you believe to be erroneous. When you make your request, please be sure to provide us the specific information that you believe is inaccurate and the correct information. You should also provide us with any documentation you believe supports your proposed correction, and we will take that documentation into consideration. We will only correct the information if we determine, based on the totality of the circumstances, that your correction is more likely than not accurate. We may also choose to delete the allegedly inaccurate information instead of correcting it. We will process verified requests within 45 days, subject to any applicable exceptions and extensions permitted by law.
To request correction of your Personal Information or to designate an authorized agent To submit a request on your behalf, you may call us at +1 877 516 6876.
Right to Opt-Out from the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
You have the right to direct us not to sell your Personal Information to Third Parties or to share it with Third Parties for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. You may exercise your Right to Opt-Out by calling us at +1 877 516 6876 or submitting a request via our Do Not Sell My Personal Information web page. You may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf as described on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we limit the use of your Sensitive Personal Information as defined under California law to only exempt purposes such as to provide the goods and services reasonably expected by the average consumer who requests such goods and services, to prevent fraud, and to verify or maintain the quality or safety of goods or services we provide.
If you are a Connecticut, Colorado, Utah, or Virginia resident, and you make a request to limit the user of your Sensitive Personal Information as defined under your applicable state’s law, we will treat that request as a revocation of your consent for us to collect and process your Sensitive Personal Information and will delete your Sensitive Personal Information subject to any exemptions available under applicable law.
We will process requests to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information within 15 business days subject to any applicable exceptions and extension permitted by law.
You may exercise your Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal information or designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf by calling us at +1 877 516 6876.
Right to Appeal
If we deny your privacy request, in full or in part, you may appeal our decision. If we deny your appeal, you may also contact your state Attorney General to lodge a complaint and we will provide you with an online mechanism to do so.
We will process requests to appeal within the timeframes established under applicable law, but typically within 45 days. Please note that if you have a password-protected online account with us, we will fulfill your request via such account; otherwise, we will give you the option to receive your fulfillment by mail or electronic delivery.
You may exercise your Right to Appeal or designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf by calling us at +1 877 516 6876.
Non-Discrimination Notice
We will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their privacy rights under law or this Privacy Policy.
SECURITY
We care about protecting the security of your personal information, and we have implemented security procedures to protect the personal information that you provide to us. However, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.
CHILDREN UNDER 18
This Site is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18. Should we learn that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we will delete that information from our database.
EXTERNAL LINKS
This Site may contain links to other sites or allow others to send you such links. A link to a third-party site does not mean that we endorse it or that we are affiliated with it. We do not exercise control over third-party sites. You access any third-party sites or content at your own risk. Read the privacy policy of any third-party site before providing any personal information.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
The state of residence is used to determine your vehicle’s eligibility for auto protection coverage. We currently do not offer vehicle service contracts to residents of California.
CONTACT US
At any time, you may withdraw your consent to receive calls, emails, and/or texts from Warranty Service Programs. To change or remove your contact information in our database, or to opt-out of future mailings, communications, and other inquiries, please contact us using one of the options below:
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy describes the types of information we currently collect, and the ways we use and protect that information. From time to time, we may collect different types of information and use that information in different ways – for example, when we add features or services to warrantyserviceprograms.com. If we do make significant updates in our practices, the changes will show within this privacy policy online. Those changes will go into effect on the revision date shown on the revised privacy policy. Please print and save a copy of this privacy policy for your records.