Grandautofinance.ca (referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this policy) is committed to maintain the security, confidentiality and privacy of information collected from clients through this website. The purpose of this policy is to tell you what personal information we collect about you, how we use it, whether we disclose it to anybody else, how long we keep it, and how you can request access to your personal information or obtain more information about our policies.

"Personal Information" means the information you provide to us through this website that is not publicly available. Your name, business title, business address, business e-mail address, business telephone number or business facsimile number are excluded. Your home address and telephone number are also excluded if these are published in a telephone or other directory.

Personal Information We Collect

When you complete the application we collect the following personal information:

• Information about your driving habits (such as preferred type, make and model of vehicle)

• E-mail address

• Address and telephone number including the time lived at your current address

• Date of birth

• Financial information about you including your vehicle budget, housing status, expenses and income

• Details of your employment including position, employer and length of employment

Consent to Obtain Use and Share your Information

By submitting your Personal Information on the application, you acknowledge and consent to the collection, use, and/or disclosure of your Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our collection, use, and/or disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy do not submit your Personal Information to us. Please note that in the event that you do not provide your Personal Information as contemplated by the application, we may be unable to complete your request for assistance.

Securing Your Information

In order to protect your data, we use regular Malware Scanning on our server(s). In addition, your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. All Personal Information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

Accessing Your Personal Information

You may request access to your Personal Information and information about our collection, use and disclosure of that information by sending your request to us at the email address noted below. We will provide reasonable access to your personal information within a reasonable time, and you will be entitled to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and to have it amended as appropriate.

Sharing Information

We may transfer and/or otherwise disclose this Personal Information to automotive dealers, finance companies or other organizations or individuals which may be able to assist you in purchasing a new or used vehicle or assist in servicing your particular request (herein referred to individually as "Provider" and collectively as "Providers"). The Providers to whom we disclose your information may conduct searches in relation to this Personal Information and/or other information. By providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to its disclosure and/or transfer to one or more Providers, any or all of which may conduct independent searches in relation to your Personal Information and any or all of whom may share that information with other lenders or finance companies in order to fulfill your request and/or process your application. The Provider may contact you in the future for additional information.

Providers are expected to use reasonable protection measures and to refrain from further disclosing your Personal Information without your consent, except as provided in this Privacy Policy.

We may also transfer your data to third-party service providers who may process and store your data. Specifically we use GoDaddy Inc.  to manage our email responses and send emails to you. We also use Google, Inc. to manage our domain email services.

CREDIT REPORT NOTICE

You acknowledge and agree that Providers to which we have disclosed your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, may request a credit report for any legitimate purpose associated with your application [for credit, extending credit, modifying the terms of your credit agreement, or collection on your account].

Other Information We Collect

We log the activity of visitors on this website and may use "cookies" to gather statistical and demographic data for security, technical and marketing purposes.

Information Collected By Third Parties Associated With Us

We may use interest-based advertising services (sometimes called "remarketing" or "retargeting") provided by third party vendors (such as Google and Facebook) to display advertisements on third party websites and social media websites or apps visited by users of this website. These third party advertising vendors may use cookies, pixels, tokens and/or other unique identifiers to display ads based on a device's past access to this website. 

Links to Third Party Websites

This website may contain links to third party websites and is not responsible for the contents of those websites or their privacy practices.

Policy Changes

Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and the date of the most recent changes will be shown at the bottom of this page.

Last Modified: December 21, 2022