Privacy Policy

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Privacy Statement

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This privacy policy applies to your information that we collect and receive. At no time will we sell your information or release your personally-identifiable data without your permission. You can visit partscontainer.store (“Site”) without revealing who you are or providing any personal information about yourself, but if you purchase products through the Site, you will be required to provide us with certain personal information.

By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use our services. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.

Browsing the Site

If you browse through the Site without entering any personal data, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and cannot be linked back to you unless you decide at some point to identify yourself. If you are only browsing, we collect the following information: IP address, the type of browser and operating system used to access our Site, the date and time you access our Site, the pages you visit (click-through),and if you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website as well as additional information related to your visit. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Site.

Personal Information Collected

If you make purchases through the Site, we collect the following personal information from you:

• Contact Information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number
• Billing Information such as credit card number, and billing address
• Financial Information such as bank or brokerage account numbers, types of investments
• Unique Identifiers such as user name, account number, password
• Preferences Information such as product wish lists, order history, marketing preferences

We also collect the following information from you:

• Information about your business such as company name, company size, business type
• Demographic information such as age, education, gender, interests and zip code

Use of Information

We use the information we collect from you to:

• Fulfill your order
• Send you an order confirmation
• Assess the needs of your business to determine suitable products
• Send you requested product or service information
• Send product updates or warranty information
• Respond to customer service requests
• Administer your account
• Send you a catalog
• Send you a newsletter
• Send you marketing communications
• Administer contests and sweepstakes you entered, and notify you if you won
• Respond to your questions and concerns
• Improve our Site and marketing efforts
• Conduct research and analysis
• Display content based upon your interests
• Facilitate your transactions with other users

Aggregation of Information

We may aggregate your personal information with others’ information and prepare reports on site usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and include no personally identifying information.

Marketing Uses/Opt-Out

We may also use your personal information to send you our newsletter and email or postal communications regarding products or services offered by us or by third parties with whom we have relationships in which we think you may be interested.

We do not share, sell, trade or rent your personal information to third parties for unknown reasons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to this Site, as well as to facilitate your use of the Site.

Communications

We may retain communications between users and us in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, process your purchases, and improve our Site. We may use your email address to communicate with you about the Site or the products purchased through the Site.

Information Obtained from Third Parties

We obtain address information about you from third party sources, such as the US Postal Service, to verify your address so we can properly ship your order to you and to prevent fraud. We purchase marketing data about our customers from third parties and combine it with information we already have about you, to create more tailored advertising and products. We may obtain credit information about you from an outside credit reporting agency to help us with customer authentication and credit-related decisions. If you provide us personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us.

Information Sharing

We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, we may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

Other Disclosures

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:

• As required by law such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process,
• When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,
• If Partscontainer is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information,
• To any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

Profiles

We enable you to create a profile, and share information such as messages, photos, and videos with others. Please note that we cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your pages and information and you are solely responsible for these actions.

Cookies

Cookies are text files stored on your computer, and accessible only to the websites which create them.

Our website may from time to time use cookies and log files for statistical analysis, to understand user behavior, to administer the site, to tailor the information presented to a user based on their preferences, and to improve user experience.  Any information gathered by our use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, however you may delete, or disable cookies by following the instructions at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.  Please note that you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you disable cookies. Our website uses cookies to keep you logged in, so disabling cookies may impair your experience of the service.

Further information about cookies can be found on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website www.allaboutcookies.org.

Social Media

If you share our content through social media, for example by liking us on Facebook, following or tweeting about us on Twitter, following us on Instagram, those social networks will record that you have done so and may set a cookie for this purpose.

In some cases, where a page on our website includes content from a social network, such as a Twitter feed, or Facebook comments box, those services may set a cookie even where you do not click a button.  As is the case for all cookies, we cannot access those set by social networks, just as those social networks cannot access cookies we set ourselves.

Log Files

Our systems automatically gather some anonymous information about visitors, including IP addresses, browser type, language, and the times and dates of webpage visits.  The data collected does not include personally identifiable information and is used, as described above, for statistical analysis, to understand user behavior, and to administer the site.

Google Analytics 

Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.  Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained from https://www.google.com/privacy.html.

Third Party E-Commerce Solutions Provider

Our shopping cart is hosted by our e-commerce solutions provider. They host our ordering system, and collect your billing information directly from you for the purpose of processing your order. This company does not use this information for any other purpose.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. 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, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us through Get In Touch section. We provide two means for you to make a purchase on our Site. You can either use our order form or a third party payment option. If you use our shopping cart, the transmission of sensitive information collected on our order form is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL). If you choose to use a third-party payment option to pay for your order, its privacy statement and security practices will apply to your information. We encourage you to read that privacy statement before providing your information.

Additional Policy Information

Our Site includes Widgets, which are interactive mini-programs that run on our Site to provide specific services from another company (e.g. displaying the news, opinions, music, etc). Personal information, such as your email address, may be collected through the Widget. Cookies may also be set by the Widget to enable it to function properly. Information collected by this Widget is governed by the privacy policy of the company that created it.

Our Site offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them.

Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information

To review and update your personal information to ensure it is accurate, contact us through Get In Touch section

Notification of Privacy Statement Changes

Please be aware that we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will update this Privacy Policy at our website, so be sure to check back here frequently.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us through Get In Touch section.