I’m looking into buying a new car, and they have an online credit check. I clicked on the privacy policy and read this:

Disclosure of Private Information
We may disclose all of the information we collect, as described above, to companies that perform marketing services on our behalf or to other financial institutions with whom we have joint marketing agreements. We may make such disclosures about you as a consumer, customer, or former customer.

We may share Private Information that consists of transaction information with our affiliates. Our affiliates include other automobile dealerships and financial companies.

We may also disclose Private Information about you as a consumer, customer, or former customer, to non-affiliated third parties as permitted by law.

Is that normal language for a credit check? If I include all my information, including social security number, can they legally share that info? I get that that info gets shared around with other finance companies, but with marketing companies? Marketing companies with my social security number?

*Weirded out*