Privacy Policy

1. Scope

This Policy applies to AutoUnite websites, accounts, vehicle research and comparison tools, inventory and listing pages, calculators, saved-vehicle features, dealer-contact flows, support, privacy-request tools, emails, notifications, and other services that link to this Policy.

2. Information We Collect

• Information you provide, such as name, email, phone number, ZIP code, account/profile information, saved vehicles, preferences, research inputs, dealer inquiries, support messages, and privacy or legal requests.
• Activity and technical information, such as searches, filters, viewed vehicles, comparisons, clicks, referral/campaign context, device/browser information, IP address, session identifiers, approximate location derived from ZIP or network context, logs, errors, and performance information.
• Dealer-contact routing information, including the selected dealer or destination, related vehicle/listing context, timestamps, delivery state, retries, and audit information.
• Intelligence interaction information, such as prompts, relevant session or vehicle context, generated responses, safety signals, timestamps, and technical metadata when you use AutoUnite Intelligence features.
• Information from dealers, service providers, analytics/communications providers, security tools, data providers, and public or commercially available vehicle-information sources where permitted.

3. How We Use Information

• Provide, secure, maintain, personalize, troubleshoot, and improve AutoUnite.
• Operate research, comparison, saved-vehicle, calculator, dealer-routing, support, privacy, security, and AutoUnite Intelligence features.
• Measure product performance, diagnose errors, prevent fraud or abuse, maintain audit evidence, and comply with law.
• Send transactional messages, requested alerts, policy notices, and marketing communications where permitted and subject to your choices.
• Respond to privacy, access, correction, deletion, portability, opt-out, appeal, support, and legal requests where applicable.

4. Dealer Inquiries and Independent Dealers

When you direct AutoUnite to contact a dealer or route an inquiry, we may share the contact information and vehicle context reasonably necessary to deliver your request. A receiving dealer is an independent business and may separately control its copy of the information under its own privacy practices.

AutoUnite does not promise that deletion or correction in AutoUnite systems will delete or correct information held independently by a dealer or other third party that AutoUnite does not legally or technically control.

5. AutoUnite Intelligence Features

AutoUnite may process prompts, research context, generated responses, safety signals, and related metadata to provide AutoUnite Intelligence research and explanations, support quality and security, and improve the service. Generated Intelligence output can be incomplete or inaccurate and is not legal, tax, credit, insurance, safety, or dealer-approval advice.

AutoUnite does not authorize its AutoUnite Intelligence features to make final or materially determinative decisions about credit, insurance, employment, housing, health, education, public benefits, or similar consequential matters without a separately approved legal and governance program.

6. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising Technologies

AutoUnite uses essential browser technologies and may use analytics, advertising, and conversion-measurement technologies according to your choices and applicable law. Optional analytics and advertising controls are available through Privacy Choices.

The current privacy-control layer treats supported Global Privacy Control signals as an advertising-suppression signal. See the Cookie and Consent Policy for more detail.

7. How We Disclose Information

Whether a particular data flow constitutes a statutory sale, sharing, or targeted advertising depends on the applicable law and the actual data flow. AutoUnite does not rely on a blanket label when state definitions or vendor behavior require a more specific analysis.

• Service providers supporting hosting, storage, communications, analytics, security, fraud prevention, support, intelligence functionality, and platform operations.
• Dealers or dealer representatives when you direct AutoUnite to transmit an inquiry or dealer-related request.
• Professional advisers, auditors, insurers, and legal counsel where reasonably necessary.
• Authorities or other parties when required or permitted by law or reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, or the integrity of AutoUnite.
• A successor or participant in a merger, financing, reorganization, acquisition, bankruptcy, or transfer of all or part of the business, subject to appropriate protections.

8. Sensitive and Special-Category Information

AutoUnite seeks to avoid collecting sensitive information unless it is necessary for an approved service, security, verification, or legal workflow. Persistent precise geolocation, connected-vehicle telematics, driving behavior, biometric identity, consumer health data, government identifiers, and similar high-risk information are not ordinary AutoUnite product inputs and require a dedicated review before intentional collection or inference.

9. Data Minimization, Retention, and Security

AutoUnite aims to collect and retain information that is reasonably necessary for the service, security, legal obligations, disputes, audits, and suppression choices. Retention varies by data type and purpose. Information may be deleted, de-identified, aggregated, or retained when required for security, fraud prevention, legal holds, audit, dispute resolution, or compliance.

AutoUnite uses administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature and risk of the information processed. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and AutoUnite does not guarantee absolute security.

10. Your Choices and U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, the facts of the request, and whether a law applies to AutoUnite, you may have rights to confirm processing, access or know information, correct, delete, obtain a portable copy, opt out of certain sale/sharing/targeted advertising or profiling, limit certain sensitive-data uses, use an authorized agent, appeal a decision, or receive equal treatment for exercising a right.

Requests may require reasonable verification and legal exceptions may apply. Use Privacy Requests to submit a request and Privacy Choices to manage available browser-level analytics and advertising choices.

11. Children and Minors

AutoUnite is not designed or directed to children under 13. If we learn that a child has provided information in a context covered by children’s privacy law, we will address the information as required by applicable law.

12. Third-Party Services, Changes, and Contact

Dealer websites, manufacturers, lenders, insurers, maps, data providers, social platforms, and other third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy practices.

We may update this Policy as law, product features, vendors, data practices, or operations change. The current version and last-updated date appear on this page.

Questions may be sent to support@autounite.com. Mailing address: AutoUnite, LLC, PO Box 1171, Ashburn, VA 20146.