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This Privacy Statement is for general website visitors. If you
choose to complete an auto loan application please read the
additional privacy statement included on the application.
The HighwayFinance.Com. (HFC) service is not available in
every region. If you choose to apply for an auto loan and reside
outside our service region you will be redirected to an affiliate
website that services your region. HFC is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. Please read
their respective Privacy Statements.
The policy of HFC is to respect the privacy of all visitors to the
extent permitted by law. This privacy statement is intended to
inform you of the ways in which we collect information, how we use
such information, and how we protect such information.
There are four types of information that this site may collect
during your visit: network traffic logs, web visit logs, cookies,
and information voluntarily provided by you.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You
In the course of using this web site, you may choose to provide us
with information to help us serve your needs. For example, you may
send us electronic mail (through a mailer or a web form) to request
information, you may sign up for a mailing list, or you may send us
your address so we may send you an application or other material.
Any personally identifiable information you send us will be used
only for the purpose indicated. Requests for information will be
directed to the appropriate staff to respond to the request, and may
be recorded to help us update our site to better respond to similar
requests. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your
personally identifiable information without your consent, except to
the extent required by law. We do not retain the information longer
than necessary for normal operations. Each web page requesting
information discloses the purpose of that information. If you do not
wish to have the information used in that manner, you are not
required to provide it. Please contact us with questions or concerns
on the use of personally identifiable information.
Network Traffic Logs
In the course of ensuring network security and consistent service
for all users, HFC employs software programs to do such things as
monitor network traffic, identify unauthorized access or access to
nonpublic information, detect computer viruses and other software
that might damage our computers or the network, and monitor and tune
the performance of our network. In the course of such monitoring,
these programs may detect such information as e-mail headers,
addresses from network packets, and other information. Information
from these activities is used only for the purpose of maintaining
the security and performance of our networks and computer systems.
Personally identifiable information from these activities is not
released to external parties without your consent unless required by
law.
Web Visit Logs
HFC web sites routinely collect and store information from online
visitors to help manage those sites and improve service. This
information includes the pages visited on the site, the date and
time of the visit, the internet address (URL or IP address) of the
referring site, the domain name and IP address from which the access
occurred, the version of browser used, the capabilities of the
browser, and search terms used on our search engines. This site
makes no attempt to identify individual visitors from this
information: any personally identifiable information is not released
to external parties without your consent unless required by law.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information stored by your web browser on
behalf of a web site and returned to the web site on request. This
site may use cookies for two purposes: to carry data about your
current session at the site from one web page to the next, and to
identify you to the site between visits. If you prefer not to
receive cookies, you may turn them off in your browser, or may set
your browser to ask you before accepting a new cookie. Some pages
may not function properly if the cookies are turned off. Unless
otherwise notified on this site, we will not store data, other than
for these two purposes, in cookies. Cookies remain on your computer,
and accordingly we neither store cookies on our computers nor
forward them to any external parties. Unless otherwise notified on
this site, we do not use cookies to track your movement among
different web sites and do not exchange cookies with other entities.
HFC web sites provide links to other World Wide Web sites or
resources. We do not control these sites and resources, do not
endorse them, and are not responsible for their availability,
content, or delivery of services. In particular, external sites are
not bound by the HFC's online privacy policy; they may have their
own policies or none at all. Often you can tell you are leaving a
HFC web site by noting the URL of the destination site.
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