Effective date: August 31, 2026
1. Information collected
When you submit a form, Simplified Auto may collect the information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, phone number, ZIP code, vehicle information, timing, consultation topic, proposal summary, message, or car-buying question. Optional fields are labeled optional.
The Ask Shawn form also offers a separate optional choice allowing Simplified Auto to use or adapt a question in anonymous educational content. That choice starts unchecked and is not required for help.
Website hosting and security systems may process limited technical information needed to deliver and protect the site, such as an IP address, browser or device information, referring page, requested page, and access time.
2. How information is used
Simplified Auto uses submitted information to review and respond to requests, provide free educational or individualized guidance, personally arrange consultations, maintain service records, prevent misuse, protect the website, and comply with applicable obligations.
Form submissions are not consent to receive marketing email. This version of the website does not add form submitters to a marketing list and does not use advertising pixels or behavioral-advertising analytics.
3. Website analytics
Simplified Auto uses Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to understand how visitors find and use the website. GA4 may process information such as the page visited, referring website, access time, device and browser characteristics, approximate geographic area, and interactions such as page views, scrolling, or outbound-link clicks. Google may use cookies or similar technologies to provide this service.
The website is configured not to send form answers, calculator inputs or results, names, email addresses, phone numbers, ZIP codes, questions, messages, or vehicle details to Google Analytics. The custom page-view tracking also excludes query strings. Google Signals and ad-personalization signals are disabled.
Google processes analytics information on Simplified Auto's behalf. Google's practices are described in its Privacy Policy.
4. HubSpot form delivery
Approved website forms send submitted information to HubSpot, which stores and processes the information on Simplified Auto’s behalf as its customer-relationship-management and form-delivery provider. HubSpot may create or update a contact record and provide submission notifications to Shawn.
HubSpot’s own practices are described in its Privacy Policy. Simplified Auto controls how the information in its HubSpot account is used.
5. Cloudflare Turnstile security
Forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to distinguish people from automated traffic. Turnstile may process security signals such as an IP address, browser information, TLS characteristics, the public site key, and the website origin. Cloudflare states that Turnstile does not access, store, or transmit the form entries themselves.
Cloudflare’s Turnstile practices are described in its Turnstile Privacy Addendum. Strictly necessary cookies or similar technologies may be used for security and bot detection.
6. Information not to provide
Do not enter Social Security numbers, driver’s-license numbers or images, full birth dates, bank or card information, credit applications or reports, income documents, tax returns, pay stubs, account or application numbers, login credentials, signatures, or other unnecessary sensitive information.
This website does not accept document uploads, credit applications, payments, or financial-account information. If a document review would help, Shawn may provide separate instructions after initial contact. When a document needs to be sent, Simplified Auto may set up a private cloud-storage folder (such as Google Drive) restricted to the customer's email and deleted after the review. Customers should black out information the review does not need.
7. Questions and optional educational permission
Questions are private by default and never become public automatically. The Ask Shawn form includes a separate, optional, unchecked choice allowing Simplified Auto to use or adapt a question in anonymous educational content. That permission is not required for help and does not guarantee publication.
The optional choice does not authorize documents, personal or sensitive information, or the use of a person’s name, photograph, voice, or likeness. Any named, recorded, or on-camera participation requires separate affirmative permission.
8. Sharing and disclosure
Simplified Auto does not sell personal information and does not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Information may be disclosed to service providers that operate or protect the website and forms, when required by law or a valid legal process, to protect rights or safety, or in connection with a business transfer subject to appropriate safeguards.
9. Retention and security
Submitted information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here, including responding to a request, maintaining appropriate business records, resolving disputes, and meeting legal obligations. Retention may vary based on the nature and status of the request.
Simplified Auto uses reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure, and visitors should not submit information the service does not need.
10. Your choices and requests
You may contact Simplified Auto to ask about, correct, or request deletion of personal information associated with you, or to withdraw optional educational-use permission before publication. Simplified Auto may need to verify the request and may retain information when reasonably necessary or legally permitted.
Additional rights may apply depending on where you live and whether a particular privacy law applies to Simplified Auto.
11. External links and communications
If you call, email, or follow a link to another service such as YouTube, that provider may process information under its own terms and privacy policy. Simplified Auto is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent third-party websites.
When you load or play an embedded YouTube video, YouTube may receive technical information such as your IP address, browser or device details, the page containing the player, and playback interactions, and may use cookies or similar technologies under its own policies. Simplified Auto uses YouTube's privacy-enhanced player domain and does not autoplay videos, but YouTube remains an independent third party. YouTube's practices are described in Google's Privacy Policy.
12. Children
This website and its services are not directed to children under 13, and Simplified Auto does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through these forms.
13. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the website, providers, or practices change. The effective date above will be revised when a material update is published.
14. Contact
Privacy questions and requests may be directed to info@simplified-auto.com or (949) 885-8052.