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PRIVACY POLICY
AutoPartsNetwork.com, together with its related and affiliated entities,
(collectively “APN”, “we”, “our” or “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy
of our online visitors. In compliance with Federal and State Law, industry
standards and administrative regulations, this privacy policy discloses the
privacy practices governing our collection and use of information submitted by
you (“you”, “your” or the “user”) to APN through this web site. We want you to
know that we take our legal and ethical responsibilities regarding your privacy
seriously. Therefore, we abide the following privacy policy.
Information Collection & Use
Registration
We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those
employees and other parties who must use that information to provide products
and services to you. Their right to further disclose and use the information is
limited by our company policies, applicable law, and nondisclosure agreement
agreements where applicable. We also maintain physical, electronic, and
procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable laws and regulations to
guard your nonpublic personal information. In the event that we are compelled to
involuntarily disclose any of your information, we will act on the advice of
counsel should our records be subpoenaed or otherwise sought through legal
means.
When using this Web site, you may opt to complete our registration form and you
may create a user name and password. This involves your disclosure of contact
information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact
you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.
If you do not want your nonpublic personal information disclosed to
nonaffiliated third parties, you may “opt out” of those disclosures, meaning
that you may tell us not to make those disclosures (other than those disclosures
permitted by law even if you do opt out). If you opt out, we will not disclose
this information to nonaffiliated third parties to independently market products
or services to you, but we may include their offers in billing statements and
other routine communications that we send you in connection with servicing your
business relationship with us. To opt out, simply reply by electronic mail to
ChiefPrivacyOfficer@autopartsnetwork.com and type “opt out” in the subject line
of the email. Once you opt out, there is no need to do so again for the same
business relationship. You may also telephone us at 954-439-3299 to opt out.
You also have the option to provide demographic information (such as income
level and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can
provide you a more personalized experience on our site. For example, by using
this information we can provide you with newsletters, updates, and e-mails
regarding matters which are relevant and useful to you.
We are the sole owner of the information collected on our site. We collect
personally identifiable information from our users at several different points
on our Web site.
Orders
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally
identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact
information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial
information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have
trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
Additionally, if you so choose, you may receive updates from our site.
Application Forms
If you apply for any of our products or those of our affiliates or simply
request information regarding products promoted on our site, we require that you
provide certain personally identifiable information, including your name,
address, phone number, credit card number and sometimes your Social Security
number. This information is necessary to process your application and to contact
you.
Social Security Numbers
Although we attempt to do so on a strictly necessary basis, we do, at times,
require your social security number in furtherance of providing services. When
you enter your social security number on our registration order form,
application form, we encrypt it using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
Surveys or Contests
We may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our
site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable
information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely
voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. The requested information typically includes contact information
(such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip
code).
This information is used to notify contest winners, track traffic, personalize
user experience and to keep our customers up to date regarding company and
industry news.
We sometimes use third party service providers to conduct these surveys or
contests. They are prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable
information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable
information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties
unless we give you prior notice and choice to refuse.
Tell-A-Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we
will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically
send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We
store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and
tracking the success of our referral program. Our e-mail will contain an easy
opportunity for your friend to contact us to request that we remove this
information from our database.
How Collected Information is Used
Aside from the ways mentioned above, we sometimes use your personally
identifiable information in many ways, including sending you promotional
materials, and sharing your information with third parties so that these third
parties can send you promotional materials. (By "promotional materials," we mean
communications that directly promote the use of Web sites, or the purchase of
products or services.). However, you may "opt-out" of certain uses of your
personal information by simply contacting us as indicated below.
Communications from the Site
Special Offers and Updates
We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special deals,
promotions. You can sign up for these types of emails from us on our
registration page.
Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these
types of communications. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section for further
details.
Newsletters/Promotional Updates
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s) and promotional updates, we will
use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect
for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice
and Opt-out” section.
Service-related Announcements
We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when
it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended
for maintenance, we might send you an email.
Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not
promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option
to deactivate your account. You may opt-out of these communications. Please see
“Choice and Opt-out.”
Customer Service
Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send
you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also
communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you
request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or
telephone, in accordance with your wishes.
Profile
We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs,
and/or third party sources to create a “profile” of your preferences. We tie
your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to
information in the profile, in order to provide tailored promotions and
marketing offers and to improve the content of the site for you.
We sometimes share your profile with other third parties who, according to your
history with us, may provide useful opportunities to you.
Supplementation of Information
In order to provide certain services to you, we may on occasion supplement the
personal information you submitted to us with information from third party
sources.
Enhancement of Profile Information
We purchase marketing data from third parties and add it to our existing user
database, to better target our advertising and to provide pertinent offers in
which we think you would be interested. To enrich our Profiles of individual
customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable information
they have provided to us.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)
We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our
partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users.
We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information:
Although we do share demographic information for the purposes of assisting you
meet your needs and interests, we do not share Personally Identifiable
Information with Third Parties. We provide opt out opportunities with regard to
all information sharing practices.
Agents
We may contract with an outside shipping company to promulgate correspondence
and packages, as well as a credit card processing company to bill you for goods
and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally
identifiable information for any other purposes.
Service Providers
We use other third parties to provide certain clerical and information
processing and shipping services on our site. When you sign up for our services,
we will share only as much information as is necessary for the provision of
those services.
These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable
information for any other purpose.
Legal Disclaimer
We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as
required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our
rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process served on our Web site
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally
identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this
information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to
receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your
preference on our order form.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications,
you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or communication or by emailing or calling us per the information
contained on our contact page.
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third
party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice
as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
Opting Out
If you do not want your nonpublic personal information disclosed to
nonaffiliated third parties, you may “opt out” of those disclosures, meaning
that you may tell us not to make those disclosures (other than those disclosures
permitted by law even if you do opt out). If you opt out, we will not disclose
this information to nonaffiliated third parties to independently market products
or services to you, but we may include their offers in billing statements and
other routine communications that we send you in connection with servicing your
business relationship with us. To opt out, simply reply by electronic mail to
ChiefPrivacyOfficer@autopartsnetwork.com and type “opt out” in the subject line
of the email. Once you opt out, there is no need to do so again for the same
business relationship. You may also telephone us at 954-439-3299 to opt out.
Log Files
As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and
store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages,
operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze
trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to
gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable
information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for
record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site. We do not link the
information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you
submit while on our site.
We use session ID cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to
navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close you browser.
We can at your option set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you
don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to
track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our
site.
If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some
areas of our site, such as contests or surveys, will be limited.
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We
have no access to or control over these cookies.
This privacy statement covers the use of our cookies only and does not cover the
use of cookies by any advertisers.
Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs),
that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is
effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in
function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In
contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear
gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at
the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs
to our customers’ personally identifiable information.
We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been
opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain
communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would
like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by our advertising
partner. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third
party for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements on this
site. The information collected and shared through this technology is not
personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by
us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable
information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Co-branded sites
We may, in certain circumstances co-brand with “partners and affiliates”. These
business to business relationships are helpful to us and to you as they afford
all concerned with greater product and service opportunities. We always provide
opt-out opportunities regarding the sharing of your information with such
partners and affiliates. Please note the sites linked to our site are governed
by their own privacy policies which may or may not reach the standards set by
our company.
Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms
If you use a bulletin board or chat room on this site, you should be aware that
any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected,
or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you
unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable
information you choose to submit in these forums. We hereby reserve the right to
terminate services of those who use these services in a manner inconsistent with
the policies articulated herein as well as those articulated in our terms of use
page.
Access to Personally Identifiable Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire
our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate same by making the
change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support by
contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed
below.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter
sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number)
on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure
socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal
information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No
method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is
100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable
means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute
security.
If you have any questions about security on our Web site, please feel free to
e-mail us.
Business Transitions
In the event we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition
by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally
identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will
be notified via e-mail and/or a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of
any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
We will not jeopardize your privacy. However, if we decide to change our privacy
policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and
other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we
collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please
review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify
you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please
contact us at: ChiefPrivacyOfficer@autopartsnetwork.com or telephone us at
954-439-3299.
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