Privacy Policy
The CarPartDart.com Website and affiliated Web properties (collectively, the "Website" located at www.CarPartDart.com) are subject to the following Privacy Policy (the "Policy") and the Terms of Use.
BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.
This Policy was last updated on August 18th, 2020.
Overview:
The Website is owned and operated by KMAT LLC, Inc. a Pennsylvania LLC, and subject to the following Policy. KMAT LLC, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy online. KMAT LLC is referred to herein as "KMAT," "we," "us," and "our;" the terms "you" and "your" when used in this Policy means any user of this Website.
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post such changes to this Privacy Statement so you are aware of the information we collect, how we collect it, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Except as limited below, we may use or disclose your information for business reasons in whatever manner as we see fit.
To ensure the highest quality experience, we use third-parties (i.e.: PayPal™) to operate certain portions of our Website experience and other services. By creating an an account, you grant permission that information collected from you may be shared with such third-parties.
Except as otherwise provided in this Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you online. For some services, we must collect and/or transfer your information to a third-party (i.e.: PayPal™). On some future date, we also may provide links on our website to other relevant third-party websites that may collect and use your personal information according to their privacy policies and terms of use. In those cases, the third-parties will govern how your information is collected and/or used.
Information Collected:
In order to better provide you with content and access to products and services, we collect two types of information from you: personally identifiable information, including, but not limited to your nickname, your email, your postal code, and information submitted in creating your Account, Garage and CarPartDart Profile (together "Personally Identifiable Information") and non-personally identifiable information. Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide an enjoyable and customized experience while using our Website. We only collect a postal code, and garage contents to aid sellers in determining the parts you need and an estimated arrival date and an 'on your doorstep price' inclusive of shipping. We never collect nor store your mailing address or phone number. When your address displays on sales order history, it is in fact retrieved real-time from PayPal™
Personally Identifiable Information:
We may use Personally Identifiable Information you provide in a limited number of ways. We may use your Personally Identifiable Information to (i) complete a transaction related to a part request, (ii) provide you with information about us, (iii) enhance or update the Website; (iv) conduct another transaction you request; (vi) compile demographic statistics about our users; (vii) make a record of your visit and log your IP address, the date and time of your visit to the Website, the part requests and part offers accessed, and the type of browser used; (viii) use in connection with business-related matters.
Demographic data may also be collected at our Website through the use of third-party tools. (i.e. Google Analytics) We may review the actions of the visitors of our Website on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences. We also may conduct research on our visitors' demographics, interests, and part requests viewed based on the information collected in connection with use of our Website. We may use this data to tailor the visitor's experience at our Website, to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze Website usage, to improve our product offerings, service offerings, and to customize the content, layout, and/or services provided on our Website. We may receive reports from third-party ad servers, content servers, or web site analysis agents that tell us how many ads were presented and clicked upon or what content was served or viewed.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information:
Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a specific End User. This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the website you visited before coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. We, and/or our authorized Third Party Service Providers and Advertisers, may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags. This information may also be shared with our authorized third party service providers to measure the overall effectiveness of our online business, content, and programming. Non-Personally Identifiable Information may also be used to troubleshoot, administer the Website, analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable laws, and cooperate with law enforcement activities.
Though we will make every effort to preserve user privacy, pursuant to the terms of this Policy, we also may need to disclose Personally Identifiable Information when required by law or if we have a good-faith belief that the action is necessary to comply with a pending judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on us or to protect our rights or the rights of others, to fight fraud, identity theft, to ensure the integrity and operation of our business and systems, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, our employees, shareholders or others.
Tracking Usage
We may track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online session, including which pages, information, and advertisements a customer views while using our Website and what request and offers they view and/or purchase. We may use your IP address to diagnose problems with our servers, software, to administer our Website, and to gather demographic information. We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our Website, sales, and other shopping information with third-parties.
Cookies
We may use cookies and may allow other third-parties to use cookies in the operation of our Website. A cookie is an industry-standard small file placed on your computer. Cookies allow us to "remember you" when you return to the Website to make your visits more relevant and to retrieve information from your prior visits. The cookie stores information about the searches that you have made and the items that you have viewed and allows us and other third-parties to replace non-relevant advertisements with ones that are more relevant to your presumed interests. You may delete cookies on your computer; however, if you enjoy the convenience of the Website remembering you, you are advised not to delete your cookies. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you. Use case: If you get a PartDart! Part Request, Offer or "You got Paid" email, a cookie stored on your browser, will log you on directly to the part transaction at hand, without a new logon to CarPartDart.com
Security
This website collects your garage details, the postal code and your email address, just enough to put you in contact with another member who may have the part you need. We do not store your physical address. The address shown in order summaries are retrieved, real-time from PayPal™
We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your Personally Identifiable Information. The Website has industry-standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, and we make good faith efforts to store your Personally Identifiable Information in a secure operating environment.
CarPartDart.com uses SHA-256 with RSA Encryption. Look for the padlock icon next to our web address in your browser's address bar, to ensure a secure connection to our servers and services.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be absolutely secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. If we provide you with a user name and password to access portions of the Website, we disclaim any responsibility for a breach of privacy as a result of your willingly or inadvertently disclosing your user name and password to others.
Updating and Correcting Information
We believe that you should have the ability to access and edit the Personally Identifiable Information you provide us. You may change any of your Personally Identifiable Information on your CarPartDart Account. We encourage you to promptly update your Personally Identifiable Information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past transactions, you cannot delete information associated with past transactions on the Website. In addition, your information, even if deleted from a current database, may still exist within an archived database, as we periodically backup information.
Opting Out or Choosing Not to Provide Information
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, although it may be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website.
As a condition of creating a User Account and Profile with CarPartDart, we may on occasion send you Administrative and Promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity, purchases, as well as updates about our products and promotional offers. You cannot opt-out of Administrative Emails. "Administrative Emails" relate to a User's activity on the Website, and include emails regarding a particular User's account, requests or inquiries, and purchases of part offers.
Acceptance of Terms
By using our Website, you consent to our collection and use of this information in accordance with the terms set forth in this Policy.
Privacy Issues
Children's Privacy
This Website site is intended for use by persons over the age of 18. We do not seek to collect information about children under the age of 18. No information should be submitted to or posted on this Website by users under 18 years of age. We encourage parents to take an active role in their children's use of the Internet, and to inform them of the potential dangers of providing information about themselves over the Internet. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under 18 years of age and believe that he or she has disclosed Personally Identifiable Information to us, please contact us at support@CarPartDart.com so that we may delete the child's information.
Connecting Via Social Media
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International Users
Our Website is accessible around the world. By visiting the Website and providing your information, you acknowledge and agree that your information can be stored for the purposes identified in this Policy. We process and store your information in North America and your information may be stored on servers located outside your residential jurisdiction and which may have less stringent privacy practices than your own. If you access the Website from outside the United States, your usage of the Website constitutes consent to the transfer of your data outside of your country and to North America.
California Residents
California law permits our customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third-parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to support@CarPartDart.com
Contacting Us
If you have any comments or questions, you may send an e-mail to support@CarPartDart.com