Parts
Authority, LLC
Privacy
Notice
Last
Updated: April 19, 2024
Introduction
Parts
Authority, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, ?Parts
Authority,?
?we,?
?our,?
or ?us?)
respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our
compliance with this policy.
This
Privacy Notice (our ?Privacy
Notice?)
describes the types of information we may collect from you or that
you may provide when you visit our websites,
https://partsauthority.com/,
https://my.partsauthority.com/,
https://imcparts.net/,
https://pennypincheraz.com/,
https://www.costlessautoparts.net/store/portal,
https://www.nationalautobody.com/,
and https://www.partsauthority2024.com
(collectively, the ?Websites?),
and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and
disclosing that information.
This
Privacy Notice applies to information we collect:
on
our Websites;
in
email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us;
when
you contact us or otherwise submit information to us, whether by
telephone, via email or through other means;
when
you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party
websites and services, if those applications or advertising include
links to this Privacy Notice; and
from
third parties.
It
does not apply to information collected by:
us
offline or through any other means, including on any other website
operated by Parts Authority or any third-party (including our
affiliates and subsidiaries);
us
or any of our affiliates or subsidiaries related to your or any
other individual?s employment or potential employment with us; or
any
third party, including through any application or content (including
advertising) that may link to the Websites.
Please
read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and
practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you
do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to
use our Websites. By accessing or using these Websites, you agree to
this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time
(see Changes
to Our Privacy Notice).
Your continued use of these Websites after we make changes is deemed
to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy
Notice periodically for updates.
Information
We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Throughout this Privacy Notice,
the term ?Personal Data? means any information that
identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable
of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or
indirectly, with a particular individual or household. However,
Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated
information.
Generally
We collect Personal Data:
directly from you when you
provide it to us;
automatically as you navigate
through the Websites and read our promotional emails;
information that we create about
you as you use our Websites; and
from third parties.
Information
You Provide to Us
We collect the following types of
Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Websites:
name, postal address, date of birth, email address, telephone number,
account name (and number), online identifier, signature (physical or
electronic), and in limited circumstances, passport number. In
addition, we also collect other types of information that you may
provide when you fill out a form (such as via our online chat
function) or through your correspondence with us.
The Personal Data we collect on
or through our Websites include:
information that you provide by
filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information provided
at the time of requesting information about our products and
services, making a general inquiry, entering a contest or promotion,
including Parts Authority getaways, sponsored by us, or interacting
with a chat bot on one of our Websites. We may also ask you for
information when you report a problem with our Websites;
records and copies of your
correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and
details of transactions you
carry out through our Websites and of the fulfillment of your orders
(e.g., order/payment information and history).
Information
We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and
interact with our Websites, we may use automatic data collection
technologies to collect certain Personal Data about your interaction
with our Websites. By using the website, you consent to our use of
automated data collection technologies. This can include information
about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, such as:
details of your visits to our
Websites, including browsing history, search history, traffic data,
location data (which may be used to locate the city and state that
you are in but cannot be used to precisely locate you), log file
information, referring/exit pages, date and time of your visit,
error information, links clicked, and other communication data and
the resources that you access, use, or otherwise interact with on
the Websites; and
information about your computer
and internet connection, such as your IP address, operating system,
and browser type.
Other information we collect
automatically includes Personal Data, or we may maintain it or
associate it with Personal Data we collect in other ways. It helps us
to improve our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized
service by enabling us to: (i) estimate our audience size and usage
patterns; (ii) store information about your preferences, allowing us
to customize how our Websites appear to you according to your
individual interests; (iii) speed up your searches; (iv) identify
areas for improvement and further engagement; and (v) recognize you
when you return to our Websites.
This information may be collected
through the use of cookies (or browser cookies), which are small data
files placed on your computer that allow us to collect certain
information whenever you visit or interact with our Websites. Some of
these cookies are managed by us (first-party cookies), while others
are managed by third parties that we do not control (third-party
cookies).
Our use of cookies and other
similar technologies (such as session replay technology) also allows
us to record your interactions with our Websites and information
generated in the course of your use of our Websites, such as mouse
movements, clicks, page visits, text entered, how long you spent on a
page, data that you type into our Websites, and other details of your
actions on our Websites.
In addition to cookies, we may
include web beacons in our promotional email messages and newsletters
in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted
upon. Web beacons are small pieces of code placed in emails that can
communicate information about your browser and device to a server.
These beacons can be used, among other things, to count the users who
visit read an email, or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a user
viewing an email.
Third-Party
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some
content or applications, including advertisements, on our Websites
are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and
servers, content providers, analytics providers, social media
companies, and application providers. These third parties may use
cookies, alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking
technologies, to collect information about you when you use our
Websites. The information they collect may be associated with your
Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal
Data, about your online activities over time and across different
websites and other online services. They may use this information to
provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other
targeted content.
We do not control these third
parties? tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have
any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you
should contact the responsible provider directly. You can learn more
about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and
options from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (?NAI?)
on its website (www.networkadvertising.org)
and from members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website
(www.aboutads.info).
Information We Create About
You
We may also create certain
information about you when you use our Websites. When we associate
this information with other Personal Data about you, we consider this
information to be Personal Data. This information includes your
username and password used to access our Websites, postal address,
email address, telephone number, purchasing history, profile
preferences, and VIN records.
Information We Collect from
Third Parties
We may collect Personal Data from
third parties, such as our B2B credit management platform, payment
gateway provider, and travel agencies partners. When we associate
this information with other Personal Data about you, we consider this
information to be Personal Data. This information may include name,
date of birth, postal address, email address, telephone number,
account name, passport number, travel arrangement information, and
signature (physical or electronic). In addition, we may also collect
other types of information that you may provide to these third
parties when you fill out a form or application on their websites or
via webpages expressly governed by their privacy policies.
How
We Use Your Information
We use information that we
collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal
Data:
to provide and personalize our
Websites and their content to you;
to enable you to participate in
the interactive features of our Websites;
to provide you with information,
products, or services that you request from us;
to support, develop,
troubleshoot, and debug our Websites, products, and services;
to create, maintain, customize,
and secure your account with us (such as to provide you with notices
about your account);
to process, fulfill, support,
and administer transactions and orders for products and services
ordered by you;
to provide you with support and
to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address
your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
to personalize your experience
on our Websites and to deliver content and product and service
offerings relevant to your interests, third-party
sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where
required by law);
to facilitate a contest or
promotion, including trips, that are sponsored by us that you elect
to enter into;
to monitor the performance of
our Websites, including metrics such as total number of visitors,
and traffic;
to help maintain the safety,
security, and integrity of our Websites, products and services,
databases and other technology assets, and business;
for internal testing, research,
analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve
our Websites, and to develop, improve, or demonstrate our products
and services;
to detect security incidents,
protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal
activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
to evaluate or conduct a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other
sale or transfer of some or all of Parts Authority?s assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or
similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Parts Authority
about our Websites? users is among the assets transferred;
to carry out our obligations and
enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between
you and us, including for billing and collection;
to notify you about changes to
our Websites or any products or services we offer or provide though
them;
in any other way we may describe
when you provide the information;
to fulfill any other purpose for
which you provide it; and
as otherwise permitted by
applicable law.
Disclosure
of Your Information
We do not sell, share, or
disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in
this Privacy Notice, including any applicable jurisdiction-specific
addendum appended to this Privacy Notice. However, we may disclose
aggregated information about our users, and information that does not
identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Data
that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Notice:
to contractors, service
providers, and other third parties who provide services to us, such
as processing or fulfilling orders
and transactions, verifying customer information, processing
payments, facilitating travel arrangement relating to
sponsored trips, providing
financing, providing advertising, marketing, storage, and analytic
services (e.g., internet cookie information recipients), or
providing similar services on our behalf;
to a potential or actual buyer
or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other
sale or transfer of some or all of Parts Authority?s assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or
similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Parts Authority
about our Websites? users is among the assets transferred;
to fulfill the purpose for which
you provide it;
for any other purpose disclosed
by us when you provide the information; and
with your consent or as
otherwise permitted by applicable law.
We may also disclose your
Personal Data:
to comply with: (i) federal,
state, or local laws, or to comply with a court order or subpoena to
provide information; (ii) civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry,
investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local
authorities; and/or (iii) certain government agency requests for
emergency access to your Personal Data if you are at risk or danger
of death or serious physical injury;
to cooperate with law
enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activities that we (or
one of our service providers?) believe may violate federal, state,
or local law;
to receive year-end rebates from
our supplier;
to exercise or defend legal
claims, and to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other
agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and/or
if we believe disclosure is
necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety
of Parts Authority, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and
Disclose Your Information
We do not control the collection
and use of your information collected by third parties described
above in Disclosure of Your Information. These third parties
may also aggregate the information they collect with information from
their other customers for their own purposes.
In addition, we strive to provide
you with choices regarding the Personal Data you provide to us and
have created mechanisms to provide you with control over your
Personal Data:
Cookies. On your
computer, you may refuse to accept any non-essential browser cookies
by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if
you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts
of our Websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser or operating
system setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you direct your browser to our Websites. You can find
more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Web Beacons. Web beacons
can be refused when delivered via email by disabling HTML images or
refusing HTML (select ?Text Only?) emails via your email
software.
Promotional Offers from Parts
Authority (Email). We may also use your information to contact
you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you
(with your consent, if required by law). If you do not wish to have
your email address used by us to promote our own products and
services, you can opt-out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe
link at the bottom of any email or other marketing communications
you receive from us. This opt-out does not apply to information
provided to Parts Authority as a result of a product or service
experience, purchase, or other transaction.
Your
Other Rights
Generally
In addition to the choices made
available to you with regard to the Personal Data that you provide to
us, you may also contact us at the Contact Information below
to request access to or correct any Personal Data that we have
collected about you. You may also notify us of errors or changes in
any Personal Data we have about you to ensure that it is complete,
accurate, and as current as possible. We may not be able to
accommodate your request if we believe it would violate any law or
legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Jurisdiction-Specific
Rights
The law in
some jurisdictions may provide you with additional rights regarding
our use of Personal Data. To learn more about any additional rights
that may be applicable to you as a resident of one of these
jurisdictions, please see the privacy addendum for your jurisdiction
that is attached to this Privacy Notice.
Do
Not Track Signals
Some web
browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online
services indicating a preference that they ?do not track? your
online activities. However, there is no accepted standard for how a
website or online service should respond to this signal and, at this
time, we do not take any action in response to such a signal.
Data
Security
We have implemented measures
designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from
unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and
security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts
of our Websites, you are responsible for keeping this password
confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately,
the transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we
cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to
our Websites. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk.
We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or
security measures deployed on the Websites.
Children
Under the Age of 18
Our Websites are not intended for
children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal
Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or
provide any information on our Websites including, but not limited
to, your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any
screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or
received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of
parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we
might have any information directly from a child under 18, please
contact us at privacy@partsauthority.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice
at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our
Privacy Notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we
treat our users? Personal Data, we will notify you through a notice
on the home pages of our Websites or using a similar method. The date
this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the
page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Websites and
this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions,
concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Notice or
the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in
this Privacy Notice, have any requests related to your Personal Data
pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may
contact us at the contact information below or through the ?Contact?
page on our Websites.
Parts Authority, LLC
3 Dakota Drive, Suite 110
New Hyde Park, New York 11042
privacy@partsauthority.com
