Privacy Policy — Dealer Social: Marketplace Poster
Last updated: September 25, 2026
This policy describes how the "Dealer Social - Marketplace Poster" Chrome extension ("the Extension") handles data. The Extension is a tool used by dealership sales staff to pull their own dealership's public vehicle inventory and autofill Facebook Marketplace's own vehicle listing form. It is provided to you by your dealership as part of a paid subscription to Dealer Social.
What the Extension does
The Extension reads publicly available vehicle listing data directly from your dealership's own website (the same information any visitor or search engine can already see there) and uses it to fill in Facebook's own "Create Vehicle Listing" form when you choose to do so. It never submits or publishes anything on your behalf — posting to Facebook is always a manual action you take yourself.
Information the Extension accesses or stores
Your dealership's public inventory data. To build the list of vehicles shown in the Extension's popup, it fetches pages directly from your dealership's own website (sitemap and vehicle detail pages) — the same public content search engines already index. This is fetched fresh from your dealership's site each time and is not sent to Dealer Social or any third party.
Your license key and license server address. Entered once in Settings, these are used solely to verify your subscription is active by contacting Dealer Social's license server. The license server receives only the key itself (not any vehicle or customer data) and returns whether it's valid, plus your dealership's configured inventory source(s).
Your name and contact phone number. Entered once in Settings, these are stored only in your own browser and are used to (a) label vehicles you've marked as posted so you can tell your own activity apart from a coworker's, and (b) added to the end of the description text the Extension fills into Facebook's listing form, since that form has no separate contact fields.
Your own posting history. When you mark a vehicle "posted," the Extension saves that (which vehicle, when, and a small snapshot of its title/price/photo) only in your own browser's local storage — this is never transmitted anywhere and is not visible to other salespeople or to Dealer Social.
Nothing from your Facebook account itself. The Extension does not read, collect, or transmit anything from your Facebook account or activity beyond typing values into the one vehicle-listing form you have open, the same way you'd type them in yourself.
Where this information is stored
Everything described above — your license key, name, phone number, cached inventory data, and posting history — is stored locally in your browser (chrome.storage.local) and stays on your own device. It is not synced to a Dealer Social server, sold, or shared with advertisers. Uninstalling the Extension removes all of it.
What is sent over the network, and to whom
- To your own dealership's website: requests for public inventory pages, same as any visitor's browser would make.
- To Dealer Social's license server: your license key, to verify your subscription (over HTTPS).
- To Facebook: nothing beyond what your own browser tab already sends simply by having facebook.com open — the Extension only writes values into the page you're already on.
The Extension does not use or transmit any of this data for advertising, ad-targeting, or any purpose unrelated to the features described above, and no Dealer Social employee reads dealership or vehicle data collected this way except as needed to investigate a reported bug or abuse, or as required by law.
Broad website access permission
The Extension requests permission to access all websites (https://*/*). This is required because each dealership using the Extension has its own website, and Dealer Social cannot predict every customer's domain in advance — the same permission is used only to (a) read your own configured dealership's public inventory pages, and (b) fill in Facebook's own vehicle listing form. It is not used to read or collect data from any other site you visit.
Your choices
You can review or change your name, phone number, and license settings at any time from the Extension's Settings page. Uninstalling the Extension deletes all locally stored data described above. Contact Dealer Social (see below) to have your license deactivated or your account's data handling questions answered.
Children's privacy
The Extension is a business tool for dealership sales staff and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, an updated version will be posted at this same URL with a new "Last updated" date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data can be sent to sales@getautomatedsocials.com.