Effective date: October 12, 2026
Advantage Auto Sales, Inc. (“Advantage Auto Sales,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you visit advantageautosales.com (the “Site”), contact us, apply for financing, make a payment, or apply for a job with us.
Information We Collect
Information you give us. When you fill out a form, call, text, email, or visit one of our locations, you may give us:
- Contact details, such as your name, phone number, email address, and mailing address
- Information about the vehicles you’re interested in, your trade-in, and your questions
- Credit application information, such as your date of birth, Social Security number, driver’s license, employment, income, housing, and references
- Employment application information, such as your work history and the location you’re applying to
Information collected automatically. When you use the Site, we and our service providers may collect your IP address, browser and device type, the pages you view, how you got to the Site, and similar usage data. We collect this through cookies, pixels, and similar technologies.
How We Use Your Information
- To answer your questions and help you find a vehicle
- To process credit applications, check your identity, and arrange financing
- To process payments and manage your account
- To review employment applications
- To send you information about vehicles, offers, and services. You can opt out at any time.
- To run, maintain, secure, and improve the Site
- To measure and improve our advertising
- To meet our legal and regulatory obligations
Financing and Consumer Financial Information
If you apply for or get financing through Advantage Auto Sales, the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act covers how we collect, use, share, and protect your nonpublic personal financial information. We give you a separate Privacy Notice about this at the time of your credit application or contract. If that notice and this policy disagree about your financial information, the Privacy Notice controls.
How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with:
- Service providers who help us run our business, such as website hosting, online credit application and identity verification, payment processing, analytics, and advertising providers
- Lenders and credit reporting agencies, when you apply for financing and as allowed by law
- Legal and safety recipients, when required by law, court order, or government request, or to protect our rights, property, or safety
- A business successor, if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets
Third-Party Services
Some features on the Site are provided by other companies. These include our online credit application, our online payment portal, and analytics and advertising tools such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, and Meta (Facebook and Instagram). Those companies may collect information directly from you under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to read them.
Cookies and Your Choices
You can set your browser to refuse or delete cookies, and you can manage cookies through the cookie notice on our Site. Parts of the Site may not work properly without cookies. To limit ad personalization, visit Google Ad Settings or your Facebook ad preferences. To opt out of Google Analytics, you can use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
To stop marketing emails, use the unsubscribe link in any email. To stop marketing texts, reply STOP. Even if you opt out, we may still contact you about your account, a transaction, or financing you have with us.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your information. However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system is completely secure.
Data Retention
We keep personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes described here, including to meet legal, accounting, and regulatory requirements.
Children’s Privacy
The Site is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
Links to Other Websites
The Site may link to other websites and social media pages. We are not responsible for their privacy practices.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll post the new version here and update the effective date above.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or want to access, correct, or delete your information, contact us at our headquarters:
Advantage Auto Sales, Inc.
1525 West Market St.
Bloomington, IL 61701
Phone: 309-808-1685
Email: bloomington@advantageautosales.com