PrivateTel Powers Privacy Manager For Cars.com

DALLAS – PrivateTel, a developer of privacy-oriented telecommunications solutions, and cars.com, a leading online automotive marketplace, have partnered to launch Privacy Manager, a new phone service that enhances the safety and security of private-party sellers by allowing them to feature a disposable phone number in their automobile ads.

Built on PrivateTel’s ClassAdd platform, the service lets sellers publish a disposable Privacy Manager phone number, and direct their number to ring on any phone they choose—wired or wireless, home, business or mobile. Sellers can also turn off the service after the sale, eliminating unwanted calls.

“Ensuring the safety of cars.com sellers is paramount,” said Chris Long, cars.com’s director of private-party products and services. “Our partnership with PrivateTel reaffirms our commitment to advertiser safety with an easy-to-use service that affords our sellers an important, additional layer of personal security during the sales process.”

Dan Kaluzny, CEO, PrivateTel added, “PrivateTel and cars.com have worked closely together to deliver a Web-integrated safety solution built on the ClassAdd platform that lets sellers and buyers connect by phone privately, safely and anonymously. Any publisher can brand ClassAdd as their own service, sell the service as an integrated component of the advertising sales process, and strengthen their market presence.”

PrivateTel provides all the tools necessary to manage and seamlessly integrate the ClassAdd service into any existing advertising entry system.


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About PrivateTel
PrivateTel delivers privacy-related communications solutions for the converging Internet and telecommunications industries. The company's web-integrated, telecommunications services—including ClassAdd, Click-and-Connect and MyPrivateLine—enable customers and online community members to anonymously exchange information, or simply click a button to confidentially and conveniently talk on the phone. PrivateTel solutions provide new profit centers and drive revenue for a wide range of applications, including online dating, social networking, classified, display and personal advertising, real estate sales, e-commerce, and more. For more information, please visit: www.privatetelsolutions.com.

About Cars.com
Partnered with more than 200 leading metro newspapers, television stations and their Web sites, cars.com is the most comprehensive destination for those looking to buy or sell a new or used car. The site lists more than 1.4 million vehicles from 10,000 dealer customers, classified advertisers and private-parties to offer consumers the best selection of new and used cars online, as well as the content, tools and advice to support their shopping experience. Cars.com combines powerful inventory search tools and new-car configuration with pricing information, photo galleries, buying guides, side-by-side comparison tools, original editorial content and reviews to help millions of car shoppers connect with sellers each month. Cars.com is a division of Classified Ventures, LLC, (http://classifiedventures.com) which is owned by six leading media companies.