Privacy Notice

 

At Meade Lexus, we strive to maintain your privacy while offering you products and services, or information about products and services that may be of interest to you. We want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and protect it. This notice serves as a standard for all Meade Lexus employees for collection, use, retention, and security of nonpublic personal consumer information. While providing you with an overview of our current privacy policy and practices, this notice also provides you with an opportunity to “opt-out” from receiving certain information.

 

Information practices

 

1.         We collect nonpublic personal information about you from the following sources in order to help provide, administer, and service products and services:

 

o        Information we receive from you on applications or other forms;

 

o        Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or others; and

 

o        Information we receive from any consumer reporting agencies.

 

2.         We may disclose all of the information that we collect about you as described above, while you are a consumer, customer, or former customer, to our affiliates and to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by law.

 

Examples of parties we might share your information with include:

 

o        Financial service providers, such as banks or financial lending companies;

 

o        Non-financial companies, such as automobile manufacturers, advertising and marketing firms, warranty and insurance companies; and

 

o        Others, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles.

 

3.         If you prefer that we not disclose nonpublic personal information about you to non-affiliated third parties, you may opt out of those disclosures; that is, you may direct us not to make those disclosures (other than disclosures as required and/or permitted by law). 

 

4.         We may also disclose, while you a consumer, customer, or former customer, any information we collect about you to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. This disclosure is permitted by law and there is no “opt-out” opportunity available.

 

5.         We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to only those employees who need to know that information to provide products or services to you. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to guard your non-public personal information.

 

 

Dear Valued Customer,

Meade Lexus of Southfield believes that the privacy of your personal information is important to you and we would like you to know that we too hold your right to privacy in very high regard. With that in mind, we would not consider making your nonpublic personal information available to any other parties except to serve you better.

As you know, in the normal course of business we do obtain nonpublic personal information about you from several sources, and we do use that information in providing our services to you. For example:

Information We Collect


We may receive information from you on applications or other forms

We may receive information about you from a consumer reporting agency, and

We may possess information about your transactions with us, our affiliates, or
others.

Our Use of Collected Information

We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to one or more other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We may make such disclosures about you as a consumer, customer, or former customer.

We will not sell or trade any lists of public or non-public personal information about you as a consumer, customer or former customer to non-affiliated third parties, except as authorized by you or as permitted by law.

Once again, please rest assured that the privacy of your nonpublic personal information is respected and protected by Meade Lexus of Southfield. We restrict access to your nonpublic personal information to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. Also, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information.

We are very appreciative of your business and look forward to further opportunities to serve your needs.