Privacy Policy

Dated: October 2006  

www.carbuyer.ie and the facilities, services available thereon (the “Website”) is owned and operated by Carbuyer whose principal place of business is 81 Kilbarrack Road, Raheny, Dublin(“Carbuyer”). For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions “we”, “our” and “us” refers to Carbuyer.ie.

WHAT IS A PRIVACY STATEMENT ?

We respect your right to privacy and any personal information you submit to the Website will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003.

The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to let you know how we may collect, process and protect any personal data collected about you through our Website and we urge you to read the following Privacy Statement carefully. Your access to and use of the Website is subject to your acceptance of and consent to the terms of this Privacy Statement, as may be amended by us from time to time. If you do not or cannot agree to be bound by the terms of the Privacy Statement, you should not access or use the Website or purchase a Product from it.

If you wish to discuss any matters relating to the processing of personal data on the Website, please contact us. 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND WHAT IS IT USED FOR?

You should be aware that each time you visit and browse through the Website, we may retain statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis. The statistical and analytical information we collect provides us with general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit the Website, the number of people who return to the Website, the pages that they visit, where they were before they came to the Website and the page in the Website at which they exited. This information helps us monitor traffic on our Website so that we can manage the Website’s capacity and efficiency. It also helps us to understand which parts of the Website are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Website.

Furthermore, throughout the Website you may have an opportunity to knowingly provide us with information relating to you such as your name, email address, home address, telephone number, etc via a registration application form and/or customer support or sales enquiry form.

We never wilfully disclose your personal data to any third parties without your prior consent. However, where we work with third parties to provide certain services on our Website, including but not limited to customer support, assistance with the registration process, web hosting, managing and processing credit or debit card transactions, we will need to disclose your personal data to such third parties. Where we disclose personal data about you to a third party, such third parties are required to uphold the same privacy principles as those set out in this Privacy Statement. Such third parties are not permitted to use your personal data for any other purposes. We retain the right at all times to contact you in relation to the Website, the Products and any other services provided via the Website.

TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA

We do not forward information about you to any third party, unless required to do so by law or to comply with any legal process as well as to defend and protect the rights of Carbuyer, its licensors and/or our other customers or unless you have requested us to do so.

SECURITY

Carbuyer regularly reviews developments in security and encryption technologies. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as being totally secure. Accordingly, although we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the Website or by email and you do so at your own risk.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

You should be aware that when you link to another website from the Website, your use of that website is subject to the relevant terms and conditions and privacy statement of that website. Carbuyer makes no guarantee in respect of your privacy when you access and use third party websites.

RIGHTS OF ACCESS AND RIGHT OF RECTIFICATION OR ERASURE

You have a statutory right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you (for which we may charge you a small fee) and to have inaccuracies in your personal data corrected, or erased if there is no legitimate reason for us to retain your personal data. You also have a right to have your personal data corrected, if inaccurate, or, in certain circumstances, erased.

You hereby consent to Carbuyer using your personal information to send you marketing material about products and services. You may opt-out of receiving any or all such communications from Carbuyer and/or you may withdraw your consent to Carbuyer accessing and updating your personal information at any time.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY STATEMENT

There may be occasions in the future that we may change our Privacy Statement and you should check this Privacy Statement on a regular basis for any such changes.

DISCLAIMER

Neither Carbuyer, its directors, employees, servants or agents, consultants or sub-contractors shall be liable in respects of any claims, liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses (including without limitation, reasonable legal fees and costs of proceedings) arising out of or in connection with your access to or use of the Website or your purchase of Products or Services from it.

GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Privacy Statement is governed by the laws of Ireland and is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts.

FINAL NOTE

The Service we provide requires that buyers contact sellers.  We do not print any sellers or indeed any users email address, that they provide to us on the website. Instead we provide a secure system to allow the buyer to contact the seller via our own email system.  If the seller can then choose to reply to a potential buyer at that point. This also prevents spammers from retrieving your email address from the site.

We log the IP Address of users when they place an Ad, when a potential buyer contacts a seller on our system, and when a Dealer first Registers on the site.

QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS

If you wish to contact us to discuss any matter in relation to this Privacy Statement or our processing of your personal data, please feel free to contact us.