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Privacy policy

How Huntley Ford collects, uses, and shares information about you, and the choices you have. Effective date: [VERIFY].

Draft pending legal review [VERIFY]

This policy is a draft for the dealership’s attorney and is not in effect. It must be approved before the website launches.

Who we are

Huntley Ford is a Ford dealership at 13900 Automall Drive, Huntley, IL 60142. It is operated by Bear Auto Group, LLC. [VERIFY] In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” mean Huntley Ford.

This policy covers this website, the forms and tools on it, and the calls, texts, and emails we exchange with you. It does not cover websites run by other companies, even when we link to them.

What we collect

Information you give us

  • Messages. Your name, email address, phone number, ZIP code, and what you write when you contact us.
  • Job applications. Your contact details, the job you are interested in, and any résumé you attach.
  • Credit applications. Financing applications on this website are completed in tools provided by Ford Credit and by 700Credit. They ask for the information a lender needs, including your income, employment, date of birth, and Social Security number, and they are covered by those companies’ privacy policies as well as this one.
  • Trade-in offers. Details of your vehicle and your contact information, entered in the Accu-Trade tool.
  • Service appointments. Your contact and vehicle details, entered in Ford’s online service scheduler.
  • Calls, texts, and visits. What you tell us by phone, by text, by email, or at the store. [VERIFY] Whether calls are recorded.

Information collected automatically

When you use this website, we and the companies that provide our website tools collect information about your device and how you use the site, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit, and how you arrived. This is done with cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.

  • Analytics. Google Analytics, to understand how the website is used. [VERIFY]
  • Advertising. Google Ads measurement and remarketing, to show our ads to people who have visited this website and to see how the ads perform. [VERIFY]
  • Security and speed. Cloudflare, which protects the website and delivers it quickly, processes technical information such as IP addresses.
  • Ford and FordDirect. Tracking technologies provided by FordDirect, described below. [VERIFY]
  • Recall checks. When you look up a VIN on our recall page, your browser sends the VIN to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s public vehicle database.

Information from other sources

We may receive information about you from Ford Motor Company, from lenders, and from companies that help us reach new customers. [VERIFY]

How we use and share it

How we use it

  • To answer your questions and provide the quotes, appointments, and services you ask for.
  • To complete a sale, a lease, or a financing application, and to meet our legal obligations.
  • To send you service reminders, offers, and news when you have agreed to receive them. We do not send spam.
  • To run, protect, and improve this website.
  • To plan and measure our advertising.

Who we share it with

  • Companies that work for us. Businesses that host this website, provide its tools, send our emails and texts, and help us advertise. They may use the information only to provide those services to us. [VERIFY]
  • FordDirect. We work with FordDirect to provide us with advertising and related services, and analytics. This includes, but is not limited to, the deployment of tracking technologies on our properties that collect and provide information about you to FordDirect or our provision of your name, email address, and other contact details to FordDirect, including for advertising and related services and analytics. To the extent we disclose information to FordDirect, FordDirect may use that information in accordance with its own privacy statement. For details on FordDirect’s data practices, see the FordDirect Privacy Statement.
  • Ford Motor Company. Information about the vehicles you buy and service here, for warranty, recall, and customer satisfaction programs. [VERIFY]
  • Lenders. The lenders that consider your financing application. [VERIFY]
  • When the law requires it. To comply with the law, or to protect our customers, our business, or the public.
  • If the business is sold. Customer information may be transferred as part of a sale of all or part of the dealership.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to other companies except as described in this policy, and never without your consent. [VERIFY]

Your choices

  • Emails. Use the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or ask us to stop.
  • Text messages. Reply STOP to any text from us. [VERIFY]
  • Calls. Ask us to add your number to our internal do-not-call list.
  • Cookies. Your browser can block or delete cookies. Some parts of this website may not work without them.
  • Google. Manage how Google uses your information for ads in Google’s My Ad Center, and turn off Google Analytics with Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
  • FordDirect. The FordDirect Privacy Statement explains how to opt out of FordDirect’s use of your information.
  • Do Not Track. Some browsers can send a Do Not Track signal. Because there is no accepted standard for responding to it, this website does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

To ask what information we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or delete it, contact us as described below. Depending on where you live, your state’s law may give you further rights. [VERIFY]

Financing, security, and children

If you finance or lease with us

Federal law gives customers who finance or lease a vehicle through a dealership additional rights over their financial information. You receive our separate privacy notice for financing and leasing customers, which explains them. [VERIFY]

How we protect information

We use reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we hold. No website or system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of information sent to us.

Children

This website is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Where information is kept

[VERIFY] Where this website and our customer records are hosted.

Other websites

This website links to websites and tools run by other companies, including Ford, FordDirect, lenders, and review sites. Their own privacy policies apply to what you do there.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The effective date at the top of the page shows when it last changed.

Contact us

Questions about this policy or about your information: write to Huntley Ford, 13900 Automall Drive, Huntley, IL 60142, call (847) 669-6060, or send us a message. [VERIFY] An email address for privacy requests.