----Cookie and Privacy Policy for Fiat500usa.com----
At Fiat500usa.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit fiat500usa.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements and/or affiliate programs on Fiat500usa.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).
DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticatedx
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticatedx
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.
You can read about Google's Privacy Policies for all of their companies here:
Statcounter
StatCounter is a web analytics service used to track activity on this websites. These stats help us understand how people interact with this site and helps us to improve its design and functionality so we can offer a better online experience to our users. If you visit a website which uses the StatCounter service, a 3rd pary StatCounter analytics cookie (called "is_unique") will usually be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site. No personal information is stored in the cookie.
In summary, a StatCounter analytics cookie may be placed in your browser in two different ways:
- You visit the StatCounter website or
- You visit a website which uses the StatCounter service (i.e. you do not have to visit the StatCounter site in order to find a StatCounter analytics cookie in your browser)
- You may set your browser to refuse/accept the 3rd party StatCounter analytics cookie by going to the site below:
http://statcounter.com/about/set-refusal-cookie/
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”) and through use of cookies, collects information anonymously. This data may include your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration and in order to create reports. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page. This statistical data is used to help understand how visitors engage with this website. It does not identify any individuals and Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit this site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
AdSense Privacy Policy Provided by
Affiliate Advertising and Partners:
Some of the affiliate or referral programs we use operate by use of a referral link. When the link is clicked, purchases made by a visitor can be tracked back to coming from Fiat500USA.com in order to provide us payment for the referral. Our advertising partners/affiliate programs include:
CJ Affiliates: (Affiliate Partner) Fiat500USA.com is a participant with CJ Affiliates, which is an affiliate network platform that provides a means for sites to earn commission by linking to affiliated sites and products. You can read CJ Affiliate’s Privacy Policy here.
Note: As was mentioned above, each advertising partner and affiliate program has its own privacy policy in place. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.
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