DRIVE THE DEBATE PRIVACY POLICY
All personal information collected and used from the Drive the Debate web site will be processed in accordance with the 1998 Data Protection Act.
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION COLLECTED
In order to submit a review on the Drive the Debate web site, you will need to register. We will require you to supply your name, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address and postcode.
Additionally, if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
General
Drive the Debate is part of Trader Media Group and information supplied in this web site may be shared with other group companies.
When you register with our web site, we ask you whether you would like to receive e-mails from us or from selected third party companies that we feel may be of interest to you. You have the ability to opt-out of receiving all or any of these offers during registration or at a later date by contacting us via the relevant section of the website.
We have taken measures to ensure that information supplied to us is held securely. As a consequence we may occasionally request proof of identity before allowing access to your personal information.
You have the right to access all personal information supplied to Drive the Debate and to rectify any inaccuracies on the information held (a charge of £10 may be administered). Further enquiries should be made to enquiries@autotrader.co.uk or sent to Customer Care, Auto Trader Digital, Willow House, Woodland Business Park, Newton Le Willows WA12 0HE.
We may use information held about you to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
Amendments and Updates to this policy may be made from time to time. Any revisions will be posted on this page so you will always be aware of what information we collect.
Use of cookies
When you visit our web site we may issue a "cookie" or unique identification code that enables us to recognise your computer and store settings to help facilitate your use of our site.
If your computer is configured to accept cookies we will be able to provide time saving functionality such as:
- the ability to pre-fill the search form with your postcode, thus preventing the need to re-input it each time you need to run a search.
- unhindered access to all the fields within our advanced search settings.
- ready access to an online record on past advertisements you may have placed via the site.
- access to our E-alert functionality.
If your computer is cookie enabled we are also able to limit the number of occasions you are exposed to certain display advertisements on our site (such as banners and pop-up boxes). On most occasions this will mean you never see the same pop-up advertisement more than twice each time you visit the Drive the Debate web site.
For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/
Why we use cookies
Drive the Debate may use cookies for 3 purposes:
- To enable the delivery of functionality that improves the ease and speed of using the Drive the Debate web site (see above).
- To frequency cap display advertisements, particularly pop-up boxes. By limiting advertisement exposure we provide a more compelling user experience for site visitors and also ensure that advertisements on Drive the Debate are more evenly spread across our user base.
- To enable us to track the relative popularity of disparate parts of our site. This in turn enables us to concentrate our efforts on developing those parts of the site that are generating the greatest demand.
