Privacy Policy
By virtue of a customer or person making use of LUCA, you consent to the Privacy Policy.
Although we provide access to information on this platform, your Privacy and Control over your information is key! We encourage you to have a read over the below:
Simply speaking, LUCA’s privacy policy is created to highlight how the information you provide us, is obtained and used through your decision to use LUCA’s directory located at www.myauto247.co.za and its directly associated domains.
LUCA’s practices as explained in our privacy policy are considered as accepted where you make us of or access LUCA.
Collecting Information
Upon visiting LUCA, two forms of categories of information is gathered. Firstly, personal information, which is the personal information you consentingly disclose us, and secondly, website use information collected by us as you interact with our website.
Upon registration with LUCA, the personal information that you consentingly disclose to us for use is your name, email address, telephone number, business address, and any other information which may be categorized as personal or preferential.
Once accessing LUCA, we gather your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all LUCA visitors. Additionally, we store certain information from your browser using “cookies.” A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to log in when you come back to LUCA. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.
By making use of LUCA, you may set up a personal profile for yourself as well as send messages, make use of the search engine, query, and communicate information through various channels. We collect this information to provide you with the service. Often the information is retained so that should you wish to draw up your previous message history same is accessible.
User content posted on LUCA is done solely at your own risk. We are of course aware of the fact that no security measures put in place are perfect or impervious. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. We do not guarantee that the user content that you post on LUCA will only be viewed by authorized persons. In no way is LUCA responsible for any circumvention of our privacy settings or security measures contained on our websites. Copies of user content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content upon removal from the website.
Where a violation of LUCA has occurred by providing improper collection or misuse or violation of our Terms of Use, such violation should be reported to LUCA.
LUCA may collect information about you from other sources in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalised experience.
Use of Information Obtained by LUCA
Upon registering with LUCA, you will create your own profile. LUCA may, on occasion, send you notifications about our new product(s) and/or service(s) and service-related announcements including an alert where someone sends you a new message.
Links
LUCA may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites.
Third-Party Advertising
Advertisements that may appear on LUCA is sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third-party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third-party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. LUCA does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party advertisers. Third-party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on LUCA unless you choose to share it with them.
This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by LUCA and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
Google cookies
Catch uses Google to serve advertisements when you visit a Catch website. Google may use cookies in relation to your visits to Catch websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services which may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about Google not using cookies in this way, click here.
Changing or Removing Information
Profile editing on LUCA gives the user access and control over most personal information which is placed on LUCA. You are able to amend or delete any or all of your personal detail shared on our website by accessing the profile editor. Information will be updated immediately. At any time, should you as the user wish to deactivate their account, you may do so at any time. Removed information may remain in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of LUCA.
Communications between you as a user and others making use of the communication portal on LUCA, may not be removed.
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