Honda

We ding this product as it is sharing and selling your personal and vehicle information to third parties for their marketing and other business purposes. Also, the product may collect pretty much any personal data on you. We also ding this product for collecing data about your from third parties, including data brokers, to combine with data they collect on you.

VEHICLE DATA PRIVACY PRACTICES:

"We disclose Covered Information to third parties who provide goods or services that may benefit vehicle owners, including insurance companies, Honda/Acura dealerships, and consumer goods or services companies, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services and analytics platforms. These companies may use Covered Information for their everyday business purposes, including marketing, customer service, fulfillment and related purposes. These disclosures may qualify as a sale under certain state privacy laws."

"We use Covered Information for the following purposes:
Provide the Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Communicate with you;
Evaluate and improve quality, performance, and design, of vehicles, systems, and Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Facilitate provision of software updates and enhancements to Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Help maintain and provide alerts regarding the maintenance of your vehicle;
Provide customer service, sales, and product support;
Market first-party and third-party goods and services that we think would benefit vehicle owners;
Perform market research;
Facilitate safety, diagnostics, warranty, maintenance, and compliance programs;
Develop future goods and services;
Prevent fraud or misuse;
Comply with legal and contractual requirements;
Engage in dispute resolution;
Protect our rights or property or the rights or property of others;
Help protect the safety of you or others;
For any other purpose for which we obtain your consent; and
As otherwise permitted by law."

"We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may use and disclose Covered Information and any other information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties if, in our discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate to respond to legal requests (including court orders, investigative demands and subpoenas), to protect the safety, property, or rights of ourselves, consumers, or any other third party, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with law."

"We use geolocation Information for limited purposes, including:
To provide information to and assist incident responders or roadside assistance providers if your vehicle is in a crash or you press an assist button in your vehicle;
With your consent, to assist law enforcement with locating a stolen or missing vehicle;
To assist in locating and recovering your vehicle or communicating with you if you breach any of the terms of the agreements covering the leasing or financing of your vehicle;
With your registration, request, consent, or activation, to facilitate certain services that rely on or utilize Geolocation Information such as traffic, map, navigation, driver behavior or geo-fencing features;
Any other purpose with your consent or activation of vehicle functions or Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services that utilize Geolocation Information.
We will not use Geolocation Information for our own marketing purposes or disclose identifiable Geolocation Information with third parties (except our service providers) without your consent."

"You accept the terms of this Vehicle Privacy Notice, and consent to our collection, use, storage, and disclosure of information as explained in this Vehicle Privacy Notice, when you:
Purchase or lease a vehicle equipped with Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Use Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Subscribe, register, or provide any information to us in connection with an attempt to subscribe or register for any Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services;
Agree to the terms & conditions of any Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services; or
Accept or enable data transmission, collection, or analytic services on a vehicle or connected smart device."

"We disclose Covered Information to companies that provide services to us or provide services to others on our behalf. Our service providers who may receive Covered Information include:
Satellite, traffic, and telecommunications companies;
Roadside assistance vendors;
Contact centers;
Research and development vendors;
Providers of software integrated into our vehicles and systems;
Marketing and non-marketing communications, analytics, and consulting firms;
Professional service firms such as attorneys and accountants;
Day-to-day business operations vendors such as courier services, facilities management suppliers, and information technology and network support."

"We disclose Covered Information to third parties who provide goods or services that may benefit vehicle owners, including insurance companies, Honda/Acura dealerships, and consumer goods or services companies, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services and analytics platforms. These companies may use Covered Information for their everyday business purposes, including marketing, customer service, fulfillment and related purposes. These disclosures may qualify as a sale under certain state privacy laws.

We may share Covered Information with Honda affiliates such as American Honda Finance Corporation. Although we do not directly monetize Covered Information, this disclosure may qualify as a sale under certain privacy laws. In limited instances, we disclose Covered Information with third parties with whom we have a relationship to facilitate research and development of products, services, infrastructure, and other technologies for ourselves or others.

Covered Information disclosed with Third Parties may include all or some of the following:
Personal Identifiers;
Audio electronic, visual, or similar information;
Commercial Information;
Geolocation Information;
Personal information as described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e);"

"Covered Information that has been aggregated or deidentified such that it is no longer reasonably capable of being associated with any person or vehicle may be used or disclosed by us without limitation or restriction, subject to applicable law."

"Your vehicle may support Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, Google built-in and/or Alexa Auto. These services are provided by Apple Inc., Google LLC, and Amazon.com Inc., respectively. If you choose to engage with these services, the Apple Privacy Policy, Google Privacy Policy, Amazon.com Privacy Policy and/or Alexa and Alexa Device Terms govern their collection, use, and disclosure of your data by or in connection with the services. When using these services, your smart device may collect and transmit to Apple, Google, Amazon.com or others information about your vehicle, your use of the vehicle or its systems, your smart device or applications thereon, and information you input into the smart device either directly or via the interface in the vehicle’s infotainment system. We do not endorse or control these services and you use them at your own risk. We are not liable to you for any damages you incur from using these services."

"IMPORTANT: If you do not notify us of a change in contact information or the sale or transfer of your vehicle, we may continue to send reports or other information about the vehicle or the account to the address currently on file with us and/or to the new owner. It is your obligation to correct or update the information provided when you register for, or subscribe to, Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services, or buy, lease, sell or return a vehicle (i.e., when your relevant information changes). If you do not, we are not responsible for any damages you may suffer."

"We use commercially reasonably administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect Covered Information from unauthorized access, disclosure, and use. We require our service providers to keep confidential and use reasonable safeguards to protect Covered Information to which they are given access, and to only use Covered Information for provision of their services or as required by law. We retain Covered Information for as long as reasonably necessary for fulfillment of our business purposes. Even with these safeguards, no data transmission or storage can be guaranteed 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect Covered Information, you provide or authorize collection of Covered Information by us or our service providers at your own risk."

"We may store or process Covered Information in the United States and in foreign countries. In some countries, applicable laws may allow the government to more easily demand access to your Covered Information."

PRIVACY NOTICE

"Although we do not directly monetize your Personal Information, we may disclose it or allow third parties to collect it in limited situations that may qualify as a sale under certain privacy laws. We may also disclose or allow third parties to collect Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. Third parties that we allow to collect Personal Information directly from you generally do so using cookies, pixels, and other automated tracking tools."

"We may collect Personal Information from third-party data sources such as marketing agencies and partners, data brokers, analytics firms, government agencies, and affiliates not governed by this Privacy Notice."

"We may work with third-party advertisers, search providers, and ad networks (“Advertisers”) to learn more about you and show you targeted ads or other content that we or they believe would be relevant to you. Advertisers may collect and use information about your use of the Sites or Services as well as other websites and services through the use cookies and other online tracking technologies. We and/or Advertisers may also append other data to the data collected by Advertisers to create an interest profile of individual users."

"American Honda and its dealers are distinct and independently owned and operated legal entities with separate privacy policies and obligations. We may collect Personal Information from dealerships with whom you interact."

According to the chart provided by Honda, they do the following Sales/Sharing of the following categories of private information:
- Identifiers. "We sold this information or used it for cross-context behavioral advertising, including disclosures to: (1) advertising, social media, and analytics companies; (2) Honda and Acura dealerships; and (3) companies that provide services integrated within our products, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services platforms."
- Commercial information. "We sold this information or used it for cross-context behavioral advertising, including disclosures to: (1) advertising, social media, and analytics companies; (2) Honda and Acura dealerships; and (3) companies that provide services integrated within our products, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services platforms."
- Inferences drawn from other Personal Information or data. "third parties with cookies or trackers on our Sites might use Internet or other electronic network activity information obtained from our Sites to draw their own inferences about you."
- Sensitive Personal Information: precise geolocation data. "We disclosed this information to companies that provide services integrated within our products, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services platforms. These disclosures might be considered a sale under certain privacy laws."

We collect information that personally identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you (“Personal Information”) which may include:
Identifiers such as name, social security number, driver’s license number, other government identification number, IP address, social media username or handle, and contact information such as mailing address, garaging address, email addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers;
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion;
Demographic information such as marital status, the number and ages of children, what language(s) you speak;
Commercial information such as vehicle or product characteristics, vehicle identification numbers, license plate numbers, vehicle registrations, model names and numbers, serial numbers, product interest and purchase history, vehicle service history, product financing information, device troubleshooting history, data about your vehicle or product’s operation and your use of connected vehicle services and technologies (as further outlined in our Vehicle Data Privacy Notice); and financial information such as payment amounts related to a lease or loan and cost of services rendered;
Internet or other electronic network activity information such as browsing/search history, your interactions with our emails, and data collected by cookies and similar technologies;
Geolocation data such as precise and non-precise geographic location indicators from mobile, web, and vehicle (or product);
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information such as call recordings, chat transcripts, testimonials, pictures or videos you upload to or send through the Sites;
Professional or employment-related information such as employer information, income, occupation;
Education information such as education level;
Inferences drawn from other Personal Information or data that relate to your preferences, interests, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes; and
Personal information as described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e) to the extent collected under another category of Personal Information above.

PRIVACY POLICY

"We may share or sell your Personal Information with other companies who do not provide services to us (“Third Parties”), including Honda and Acura dealerships and companies that provide services integrated within our products, such as satellite radio providers and connected vehicle data services platforms. These companies may use your Personal Information for their everyday business purposes, including marketing, customer service, fulfillment and related purposes."

"We may share your Personal Information with Honda affiliates such as American Honda Finance Corporation. Although we do not directly monetize your Personal Information, this sharing may qualify as a sale under certain privacy laws."

We can not confirm that all users regardless of location can get their data deleted.

"Depending on the state in which you reside, you may also exercise certain rights related to our collection, use, and disclosure of Covered Information that qualifies as “personal information.”"

"On-Board Data is collected and stored on your vehicle. We generally do not receive On-Board Data (except when transmitted to us, in which case it becomes Covered Information); however, third parties with access to the vehicle, such as service technicians, a person to whom you sell the vehicle, valets, or temporary operators of the vehicle, may be able to retrieve this data. "

"While we strive to protect Covered Information, you provide or authorize collection of Covered Information by us or our service providers at your own risk."

"Opt-in/Opt-out:
You may opt-out of sending via an embedded telecommunications unit (if installed) your vehicle’s location to Honda or our third party service provider in the event a possible crash is detected.
You may opt-in or opt-out of using your connected Bluetooth® HandsFreeLink® smart device to attempt to contact third party responders in the event of a crash or other incident.
You may opt-in or opt-out of collecting and sending your vehicle’s diagnostic, location, and trip log information to Honda.
You may opt-in or opt-out of sending, by use of in-vehicle or smart device based switches/settings, communications data when you pair your connected smart device.
You may opt-in or opt-out of sending, by use of in-vehicle or smart device based switches/settings, vehicle or vehicle systems’ data.
You may choose not to register or subscribe for certain Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services, such as HondaLink or AcuraLink, or may choose not to use certain technologies or services, such as a navigation system provided in your vehicle.
You may choose not to receive marketing communications from Honda. To unsubscribe from marketing communications for your Honda vehicle or your Acura vehicle, call us at 1-888-528-7876. Please note that, even if you choose not to receive marketing communications from Honda, you still will receive communications regarding recalls and service campaigns, the status of any of the Connected Vehicle Technologies and Services, your account, and any other service-related issues and updates that will allow us to provide you with superior service."