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Tuesday 19th of March 2024

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to www.motorexpress.co.uk If you do not accept this privacy policy, you should not use this Site.

We regard your Privacy of the highest importance. There are some matters below such as our use of cookies that you may wish to understand. We will take great care to protect your privacy, we use the finest first class data-centres, but no data over the internet can be absolutely guaranteed.

Use of Cookies
Our Cookies do not identify you and do not collect any personal information about you. They are designed to make the website run much better. The only item that they may hold prior to you registering would be your car registration number if you use our “Save on Fuel” search. This uses a look-up of your cars MPG and compares with all models for sale, then calculates how much you could save on fuel.

You maybe aware that recent legislation has restricted to use of Cookies within the European Union. Almost all existing websites use Cookies to function. You may disable Cookies using your browser controls, however many websites will then cease to run efficiently or effectively for you.

Our use of Cookies is substantially technical, which we understand is permitted by EU law without express agreement of the user. These small text files store information that have virtually no impact of your Privacy. For example if you are searching through a list of cars, look at the full details of one and then go back to the list, you will see the last vehicle that you visited highlighted in yellow. This simply saves you loosing your place. This function is enabled with a "session cookie".

When you enquire about a vehicle
When enquiring about a vehicle your are asked for Title, Name, e-mail, telephone & your comments – these details are passed on directly to the advertiser of the vehicle so that they may respond to you. A back-up copy may be held on our database. Your details will be held securely and will not be passed to anyone else by us! You may ask these details to be deleted at any time – simply complete the form Remove my details.

We have to inform you that not all manufacturers store your details within the EU. Therefore by using the website, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area. Different nations have data protection standards which may not provide the same protection for such information as the U.K. e.g. An enquiry to a Ford dealer may result in your details be held in a USA located database.

After your Registration
If you register with www.motorexpress.co.uk , either to buy or sell your car, you will be asked for minimal contact information to enable communication between us.

We may then automatically use a cookie to identify your computer. So for example if you are selling your car using www.motorexpress.co.uk you may just insert your password to quickly log-in and inform us that it is sold, so that your advertisement may be automatically be removed and stop you receiving nuisance calls.

When advertising your car with us for sale, the details that you input will be held in our database. Our system will not display any personal details about you except you phone number if you choose. Our system will not display your e-mail, but will send you an inquiry form – this will protect you from potential e-mail spam. Our system will send a periodic reminder to you automatically to check if you wish to keep your car advertised or if you wish it removed.

You may check any time free of charge to see what details are held by our system, simply by logging into your account on the website. You may delete your account at any time after your advert is no longer required.

Vehicle retailers from time to time may offer very special deals that are not easy to find elsewhere. If you wish to be informed of these very limited offers, then you have a choice in your account that you may select. If you do not select “Please send me details of very special offers” we will not contact you on that subject.

We may be required to disclose personal information to comply with applicable laws and government or regulatory bodies’ lawful requests for information. We will check carefully all such requests to ensure that they are genuine.

Third-party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.