The protection of your nonpublic personal information is important to our dealership.Because we recognize that keeping your nonpublic personal information private is important to you, we would like to take this opportunity to explain our Privacy Policy.

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. Our goal is to respond to your inquiries, to provide better customer service, and to provide products, services, and other information we believe may help meet your needs or to be of interest to you. This Privacy Policy explains: *The types of information we may collect from you.*How we protect the nonpublic personal information we collect about you.*How you may instruct us not to disclose certain information about you which we are not otherwise permitted to disclose by law.

TYPES OF INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU: We may collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources: *Information we receive from you on applications or others forms, such as your name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses ,birth date, social security #,income, and employment history. *Information about your transactions with us, our affiliated third parties, or others, such as your account balance, payment history, and your creditworthiness. *Information we receive from your consumer credit reports or a consumer-reporting agency, such as your creditworthiness, credit score, or credit history. *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. *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. We do utilize "cookies" in connection with our website. A "cookie" is an online device used to determine when a visit to the site has occurred and to track your activity within the site. Cookies are often used online and do not harm your computer. You have the option of programming your computer to prevent a cookie from being accepted.

THIRD PARTY COMPANIES: No information provided by you to Southbay BMW / MINI via this website will be sold to third parties for marketing or any other purposes. The information collected from, or provided by, you will reside solely within Southbay BMW / MINI. The sole exception is for credit applications which will be forwarded to lending institutions in order to obtain an approval, or pre-approval, of financing for you.

The non-personally identifiable information automatically collected by the website will be utilized only bySouthbay BMW / MINI in order to keep track of certain pages that you may visit. Southbay BMW / MINI may aggregate that data from other users in order to track overall visitor traffic patterns in an effort to help tailor the website in an effort to improve the website and design it to better suit our customers’ needs. Southbay BMW / MINI may use a third party to assist in the compilation and analysis of any such data. The third party will not otherwise be allowed to utilize or transfer that data.

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.