Privacy Policy Statement

Effective Date: 1/1/2012
Updated: 3/23/12

The South Motors Group of Companies respects the privacy of our customers. In offering our customers the best, most effective and most personal shopping experience available, we also strive to employ practices that ensure information collected about you is used conscientiously and appropriately.

It is common for dealerships like ours to share your nonpublic information (or what is known as "NPI") with companies that are either affiliates (companies that are related to us because we share common ownership) or nonaffiliated third parties. Because we understand how important your personal information is to you, we wanted take this opportunity to discuss our Privacy Policy that was handed to you at the store.

ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY: Our privacy policy applies to those persons who obtain from us financial products or services to be used for personal, family, or household purposes, or those person's legal representative. This could occur in various ways, including (but not limited to) the completion of a credit application or the completion of a retail installment contract for the purchase of a vehicle.

With regard to that policy, the following further explains:

1) The types of information we may collect from you;
2) The types of information we may disclose to third parties;
3) The types of third parties to whom we may disclose information; and
4) How we protect the nonpublic personal information we collect about you.

TYPES OF INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU:

We may collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources:

1) Information we receive from you on applications or others forms, which may include your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, birth date, social security number, income, and employment history;
2) Information we receive from your consumer credit reports or a consumer-reporting agency, such as your creditworthiness, credit score, consumer report or credit history;
3) Representations made by you to us, such as you employment history, your account balances, and payment histories, and your relationships with other persons or entities whom you have listed as a reference;
4) Information we collect or that you provide to us when you visit our website, such as your name, address, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses; if you request e-mail contact from us or send us an e-mail, we may retain your e-mail address and the messages themselves.

THE CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES TO WHOM WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU: We may disclose all of the nonpublic personal information that we collect about you, as described above, to third parties that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements, such as third parties who manufacture or supply our goods and services, advertise or market our products and services, make customer satisfaction inquiries on our behalf, or provide internet related marketing services. We are permitted by law to disclose information about you to third parties that perform marketing services on our behalf and/or to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements. We are not required to give you opportunity to opt out of such disclosures.

HOW WE PROTECT THE NONPUBLIC PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU. We take our responsibility to protect your nonpublic personal information very seriously. Whenever we collect information about you, we restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to our employees and those third parties who need the information to respond to your inquiries, to provide better customer service, and to provide products, services, and other promotional information we believe may help meet your needs or be of interest to you. We explain the importance of protecting your nonpublic personal information to our employees and take appropriate measures to enforce employee responsibilities regarding our Privacy Policy. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of the information we collect. We require any third party who receives information about you from us to agree to keep that information confidential and to use the information only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES TO OUR DEALERSHIPS AS WELL AS OUR AFFILIATED THIRD PARTY. We appreciate your business and the opportunity to assist you in understanding our Privacy Policy. We hope that you have found this information to be useful and appreciate the opportunity to continue to serve you in the future.