Our website address is: https://www.akocarsapp.com.
AKO CARS mission is to connect people and allow them to fix and improve their cars. A key factor is our ability to be transparent about data we collect about you, your cars, how it's used and whom it's shared.
The privacy policy applies when you use our Services (described below).
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Our registered users (“Members”) share their information and identities, engage with other users on the network, exchange information, knowledge, insights, post content, questions, answers, and find businesses and relevant information on all kinds of cars. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”).
Data Assistant Corp will be the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with, our Services. This Privacy Policy and other documents referenced, as well as updates will govern your sharing and collection of your personal data unless otherwise posted.
We can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you with a chance to review the changes before they become effective. If you object or are not satisfied with any changes you may “close your account”. Please let us know of your concerns as your feedback is extremely important to us.
You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that Privacy Policy is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
We collect data entered on our apps, website(s), phone, or through any service we provide. Some of the data is needed for registration, creating your public profile, premium services, customized services. The information provided helps you find the necessary information or connect with appropriate opportunities. Do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available. If you opt to import your address book, we receive your contacts (including contact information your service provider(s) or app automatically added to your address book when you communicated with addresses or numbers not already in your list). If you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services, we will collect your address book and calendar meeting information to help you complete your goals and engage with the network over our Services.
Others on the network and you might share content, post content, that includes information about you. Unless you opted out in writing, we collect public information about you; (for example, your accomplishments, professional services you offer, cars you might own, projects you were involved in,etc. ) and we make it available as part of our Services (example: suggestions for your profile). We might receive personal information from our partners, related companies, prospective employers, current employers, vehicle tracking systems providing us data, or other related information. Our Services are growing, changing and allowing more interaction with our network, therefore we receive information about your visits provided by others. (For example we might get information used by one of our plugins “Connect on AKO CARS app”).
We may share some of this data with third parties for the express purpose of providing our service. For example, credit card data entered would be shared with the credit card processor for the purposes of processing payments, but would not be available to other parties. Generally speaking, we do not share customer data unless it is required for us to complete our service offering or is required by law. We record data when you use our Services, visit our website(s), app, platform technology. For example if you click on content, ads, (on or off sites and apps), perform search, install or update of our mobile app, share or look for information about cars. We use logs, cookies, device information, browser information and IP address to identify you and log your usage.
We utilize cookies and similar technologies (example: pixels, and ad tags) on our Services to collect data, recognize you, your device across different services and devices, where you have engaged with our Services and provide seamless user experience. We also may allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. We also collect (or rely on others who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (example:ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness.(Example: you might be looking for a newer car, or interested in doing business with a Member of our network.)
When you visit or leave our Services (this includes plugins and our cookies or similar tech on our or sites of others), we might receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.
We collect information about you when you send, receive, communication in connection with our Services. For example, if you or someone wants to share with you some kind of message. We track whether you have acted on it, starred it, read it, and will send you notifications. We also use automatic scanning technology on messages to support and protect our site. For example, we use this technology to match possible responses or block content that we deem inappropriate and violates our User Agreement or Community Policies from our Services.
We are always an evolving business that we try to meet customers demands and meet or exceed their expectations, and as such we might introduce features that allow us to build a platform for others to use. As we make progress to satisfy our customers we might collect new information, materially different, or personal information, or change how we collect, share your data. We will update this Privacy Policy when that happens. Feel free to share your expectations so we evolve and improve our Services.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
We make use of data to track users and provide a better quality user experience. Whether the data is used for authentication, authorization to our Services, or to have you connect, get contacted, find information,etc; your data might be used. We use data about you (example: your cars, profiles, information you viewed) to help you or others to interact with our Services or each other.
Our Services allow you to access relevant information. Our Services allow you to interact with other Members and our Service. Our Services allow you to improve your efficiency in managing your tasks, improve or get connected with other professionals. All this is possible because we use the data about you to make what you need possible. We personalize our Services for you (example: rankings of members, location of nearest body shops, most common vehicle issues,etc) We personalize and suggest relevant information. We use information you provided to inform others. (Example in requesting a repair we might provide your car’s information to expedite the parts lookup). We will use data to recommend parts, services, or gadgets. Our automated system might provide you with more relevant information you might be looking for. Keeping your profile up to date helps you better manage your tasks, and connect with others to collaborate on a given opportunity through our Services.
In addition to our core Services, we might use Memberrs’ data and content to promote membership, network growth, increase in utilization of Service, and increase trust between Members. We use data including feedback to help increase economic opportunity. We help our Members and our Services to create economic opportunities and help them to be more successful, productive and efficient. We use the data and our Services to bridge the gap between what the users are expecting and current market conditions. We publish aggregated data and allow us or others to derive economic insights from them. We will use the data including your communication to investigate and respond to and resolve any bugs, issues in our Service. We will use data to create demographic profiles that do not identify you, and provide these statistics about our members, for example (Ads clicked, demographics of car’s used, insights on car issues,etc). We use data to investigate fraud and violations to User Agreement.
We use and share data with our affiliates to develop our Services. We will combine data in any way to improve our Services. For example we might personalize your feed, based on your car history. We use other providers (example: payments, audits, fraud detection, marketing,development, core platform maintenance and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform the tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
Legal Disclosures
If required by law we will disclose information about you as required by law, subpoena, or other legal processes, or if we have a good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary. This might include items like: investigations in illegal activities, assist government agencies, enforce our agreement with you, investigate and defend ourselves against any third party claims or allegations, protect security interests, protect Services, protect rights and safety of Members, enable trust between Members and/or Service, etc. Data appropriate in our judgment will be used unless prohibited by law. We can also share your personal data as part of a merger, change in control, sale, acquisition of other services/companies, or in preparation for any of these events. We might dispute such demands for information, in our discretion, if we believe the request is overbroad, vague. Data will be used according to this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
Retention of Data, Access and Control to your Personal Data, and Closing Account.
To enable the best user experience in our Services, we will store data about. You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data. You can edit some of the data through the profile screen, but you can also reach out to us to update, fix or correct your data in certain cases. We want to make sure our data is as accurate as possible for our Members.
You may ask your account to be closed. We will retail reasonably necessary data to comply with our obligations. Any updates or data you shared with others will stay visible even if you close the account. Community messages will show unknown user as the source. Your profile might be visible in services of others (example: search engines, or partners) until they refresh their data. Any data copied from within our Service by Members is out of our control.
Security, Data Transfers, Processing
The trust of our Members, and integrity of our Service is our top priority, as such Security is always on our minds. We enabled safeguards, and secure protocols like HTTPS to protect your data. We regularly monitor our service for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, but we cannot warrant the security of any of the information that you send us. We don’t guarantee that the data you provided is disclosed, leaked, destroyed by breach (technical or otherwise), accessed. Always please use security measures like strong passwords to protect your account. We will process data in and outside of the United States of America, and rely on legally provided mechanisms to transfer your data between our processing centers that might reside across the border. These countries might not be as protective as the law of the USA or it can differ. We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases for processing include contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (example to deliver the Services you have requested), consent (where you have given consent), and “legitimate interests.” Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to decline your consent or to withdraw it at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please submit a feedback form titled “Data Protection”.
Direct Marketing
We do not share your personal data with third parties outside of our Service for direct marketing purposes without your permission.
Contact Information
We value our Members and we want to provide the best Service possible. Your feedback is the key. We believe we will succeed if you help you succeed. Any improvements, feedback or suggestions, can be directed to us via the Feedback form found on the application. You can also reach us via physical mail.
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