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Parts Square LLC together with its related and affiliated entities, (collectively "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 us
through this website. 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 website, 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 email to
Webmaster@Parts Square LLC and type "opt out" in the subject line. Once you opt out, there
is no
need to do so again for the same business relationship.
You also have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and
gender); 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 Website.
Orders & Services
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 and
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, 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
On a strictly necessary basis, we do, at times, require your social security number when
providing services. When you enter your social security number on our registration order
form or 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 therefore you 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 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 email
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 they can send you promotional materials. (By
"promotional materials," we mean communications that directly promote the use of websites,
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 and
promotions. You can sign up for these types of emails 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 with 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 notification.
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 to
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 customers with pertinent offers. To enrich
profiles of individual customers, we tie this information to the personally identifiable
information they have provided.
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 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 website.
Choice/Opt-out
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable
information used for certain purposes. 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 by following the instructions in each newsletter or communication or by emailing or
calling us per the information 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 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. However, we may include their offers in
billing statements and other routine communications we use in conducting business. To opt
out, simply reply by email to Webmaster@Parts Square LLC 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 call us to opt out.
Log Files
As is true of most websites, 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 click
stream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends,
administer the site, track users' movements on the site and 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 do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable
information you submit when on our site.
We use session ID cookies, which expire when you close your browser, to make it easier for
you to navigate our site.
We can, at your choosing, set a persistent cookie to store your password, so you don't have
to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the
interests of users to enhance the user experience.
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 site content 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 a
period. 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 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 website are delivered to users by our advertising partner. We share
website usage information about users with reputable third parties for the purpose of
targeting our Internet banner advertisements. The information collected and shared is not
personally identifiable.
Links to Other Sites
This website 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 website that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this website.
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
match 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 can be read, collected or used by others, 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 update, delete or deactivate your account on our member information page. You may
also contact our Customer Support by email, by phone or postal mail.
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 website, feel free to email us.
Business Transitions
In the event we go through a business transaction, 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 email and/or a
prominent notice on our website 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:
support@square.parts or contact customer support by going to our contact page.