Interacting with the Service
When you interact with us through the Service, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below.
Personal Data That You Provide through the Service
We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to the Services, instruct information to be shared with us or use certain components of the Service.
We collect certain information through trusted third parties, including Developers and OEMs. By using the Service in conjunction with any Third Party Service that uses our platform, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Some features of the Service allow you to provide or transmit data and content, including regarding your vehicle and the use thereof (“Vehicle Information”), to or through the Service. As an end user of any Third Party Service that utilizes the Service, whether directly via use of our APIs or other services, or through an application built by us directly, you are agreeing to share Vehicle Information and other information with us. You are enabling us to interact with and through Third Party Services or OEMs on your behalf and with your consent. We may also retrieve information pertaining to usage of Developer applications and other general activity that comes through use of the Service.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to the Service, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Smartcar and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Service, Smartcar may collect information regarding customer demographics, interests, usage and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This information may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and Smartcar may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents, business partners, Developers, OEMs or other third parties. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. Smartcar may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Location Information: Our Service may collect and use your location information (for example, by using the GPS on your mobile device) to provide certain functionality of our Service. We may also use your location information in an aggregate way, as described above in the “Aggregated Personal Data” section.
Analytics and Tracking Technologies: We may, and we may allow third party service providers to, use cookies (as noted above) or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Site. For example, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the Site and enhance your experience when you use the Site. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
You may set a “Do Not Track” (DNT) privacy preference in your web browser. When you turn on DNT in your browser, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to stop collecting the information that allows us to tailor suggestions based on your recent use of the Service and your visits to websites within our advertising partner networks. Specifically, we stop collecting the unique cookie that links your browser to use of the Service and visits to these websites for tailoring suggestions or ads.