Carz R Us 1 Privacy Policy

Effective Date: October 27, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Carz R Us 1, located in Illinois, collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our website (carzrus1.com), contact us, or use our services.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when you fill out contact forms, call us, or engage with us for our products and services.

• Information from Website Forms & Communications:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.

  • Vehicle/Service Information: Details about the vehicle you are interested in buying, a vehicle you are selling for salvage, or information related to your repair, body work, paint, or towing service requests.

  • Financial Information (if applicable): While our contact form likely doesn’t collect this, if you proceed with a purchase or financing request, we may collect information like credit history, social security number, or employment information. This will be collected through separate, secure forms.

• Automatically Collected Information:

  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, such as your IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and the time and date of your visit. We may use tools like Google Analytics for this.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following business purposes:

• To Provide Services: To respond to your inquiries about purchasing a car or parts, to quote or schedule repair/body work/paint services, or to arrange towing services.

• Communication: To contact you regarding your requests, updates on your service, or to send you information (like special offers, if you have opted in).

• Marketing: To analyze website traffic and user behavior to improve our website, services, and marketing efforts.

• Legal & Security: To comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms and agreements, and protect against fraudulent or unauthorized activity.

3. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their independent marketing purposes. We may share your information only in the following limited circumstances:

• With Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, IT support, or payment processing (if you pay online). These parties are required to keep your information confidential.

• For Legal Purposes: We may disclose your information if required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Carz R Us 1, our customers, or others.

• Affiliates: We may share information between our two Carz R Us 1 locations in Illinois as needed to provide our services and manage our business operations.

• Business Transfer: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.

4. Your Choices and Rights

• Opt-Out of Marketing: If you receive marketing emails from us, you can unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of the email.

• Accessing/Correcting Your Information: You may contact us to request access to the personal information we hold about you or to ask us to correct any inaccurate information.

• Opting Out of Cookies: You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but please note that some parts of our website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

5. Data Security and Retention

We take reasonable measures to protect the personal information we collect from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error-free.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

6. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

7. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will post the updated policy on this page and revise the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

8. Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your choices, please contact us at:

Carz R Us 1 Email: help@carzrus1.com Phone: 309-557-0220 Mailing Address: 1281 W Cleveland St, Heyworth, IL61745