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Privacy Policy

It is GreatLakesCountry.com’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to http://www.greatlakescountry.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “http://www.greatlakescountry.com/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

At https://www.greatlakescountry.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by greatlakescountry.com and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, contact us at https://www.greatlakescountry.com/contact-us/.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in greatlakescountry.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, GreatLakesCountry.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. GreatLakesCountry.com’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how GreatLakesCountry.com’s visitors use its website. From time to time, GreatLakesCountry.com may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

GreatLakesCountry.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://www.greatlakesCountry.com/ blog posts. GreatLakesCountry.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to GreatLakesCountry.com’s websites choose to interact with GreatLakesCountry.com in ways that require GreatLakesCountry.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that GreatLakesCountry.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, making a purchase through the website requires you to provide your name, address, and other information.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by GreatLakesCountry.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

GreatLakesCountry.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on GreatLakesCountry.com’s behalf or to provide services available at GreatLakesCountry.com’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using GreatLakesCountry.com’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. GreatLakesCountry.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, GreatLakesCountry.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when GreatLakesCountry.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of GreatLakesCountry.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of http://www.greatlakescountry.com/ and have supplied your email address, GreatLakesCountry.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with GreatLakesCountry.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. GreatLakesCountry.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

GreatLakesCountry.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. GreatLakesCountry.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, GreatLakesCountry.com does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site may use affiliate links and may earn commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, GreatLakesCountry.com uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. GreatLakesCountry.com uses cookies to help GreatLakesCountry.com identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.greatlakescountry.com/, and their website access preferences. GreatLakesCountry.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using GreatLakesCountry.com’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of GreatLakesCountry.com’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to GreatLakesCountry.com’s use of cookies.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you request auto loan services via this website, you may be asked to provide information including name, email address, home address, city, state, zip code, phone number, information about your current housing, employment, and financial responsibilities, and social security number. You are not required to provide any information or use this service, and it is your choice whether to do so.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Assist in fulfilling your request for auto financing services or promote other services by sharing information with dealers, affiliates, partners, advertisers, marketing agencies, or other entities.
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

Greatlakescountry.com follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Greatlakescountry.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert when cookies are being sent. Doing so may cause some features of this website to not function properly.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is a third-party vendor which may be used on this website. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to this and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our Advertising Partners

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Greatlakescountry.com , which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Greatlakescountry.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Greatlakescountry.com ‘s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Greatlakescountry.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

E-commerce

Those who engage in transactions with GreatLakesCountry.com – by purchasing GreatLakesCountry.com’s services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, GreatLakesCountry.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with GreatLakesCountry.com. GreatLakesCountry.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described herein. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, GreatLakesCountry.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in GreatLakesCountry.com’s sole discretion. GreatLakesCountry.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.