General Parts Distribution LLC, Golden State Supply LLC, Straus-Frank Enterprises LLC and/or CARQUEST Automotive Finishes, Inc. (referred to for convenience as "GPD" or "We") respects your privacy concerns. This Privacy Policy sets forth GPD's policy with respect to the Personal Data that is collected from Subscribers of the Site and the Services, but does not apply to Personal Data collected offline or in any other manner. All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meaning attributed to them in the Terms of Use.
Information That You Give Us. GPD collects Personal Data from you when you browse the Site, voluntarily choose to become a Subscriber, use certain Services at this Site or contact us with comments or inquiries. We will use your Personal Data only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Other Data:
Passively Collected Information. When you interact with GPD through the Site, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. GPD may store such information itself or it may be included in databases owned and maintained by GPD' affiliates, agents or service providers. This Site may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.
Aggregated Personal Data: In an ongoing effort to better understand our Subscribers, GPD might analyze the Personal Data that is provided to the Site in aggregate form. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. GPD may share this aggregate data with other Subscribers, its affiliates, agents and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Cookies: In operating this Site, we use cookies, a piece of information that the computer that hosts our Site gives to your computer when you access a web site. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Site and help us analyze Site usage more accurately. In all cases in which we use cookies, we will not collect Personal Data except with your permission. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Site's features.
How We Use Personal Data. GPD uses the Personal Data you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data for a certain reason, we may use the Personal Data in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, we will use the Personal Data you input during the registration process to administer access to the Site, to provide Services, to send email messages regarding your account and/or to provide notices regarding the Services. GPD also uses your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through the Site to help us improve the functionality of the Site, to better understand the Subscribers of our Site and to improve our Services. GPD may share aggregate data and aggregated user statistics with other Subscribers, its affiliates, agents, business partners, market analysts, advertisers, sponsors, and any other third parties. If GPD intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, you will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected.
Sharing Personal Data. We may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without additional notice including:
Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: GPD, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.
Legal Requirements: GPD may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of GPD, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Subscribers or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability.
Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.
What Are Your Choices. As outlined in this Privacy Policy, you can always choose not to provide your Personal Data to the Site, however doing so will prevent you from using the Services.
Children. GPD does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13 through this Site. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Data. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Data on this Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to GPD through this Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
Links to Other Websites. This Site does not permit links to Third Party Sites or Other GPD Sites. This Agreement governs only this Site and not any Third Party Sites or Other GPD Sites. We suggest contacting those sites directly for information on their privacy, security, and data collection and distribution policies.
Security. We take commercially reasonable steps to protect Personal Data provided to this Site and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We use industry-standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption technology, a secure server, and other physical and procedural safeguards to protect the security of your Personal Data. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the Personal Data you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to GPD or to any other party via the Internet.
Other Terms and Conditions. Your access to and use of this Site is subject to the Terms of Use which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Notice to Subscribers: If you are a Subscriber, we will notify you each time we amend this Agreement by displaying a pop-up message on the Site the next time you attempt to log in as a Subscriber. You will be required to indicate your consent to the amendment by clicking through before you will be permitted to access and use the Services.
Notice to Visitors: If you are not a Subscriber, you should check the Privacy Policy each time you use the Site to determine if any changes have been made. If you use the Site after an amended Privacy Policy has been posted, you will be
Change your Personal Data or Subscriber Profile. You may view and correct your Personal Data by accessing the link entitled, "Subscriber" on the header of the Site. Please note that you must login with your private User Name, Password and Unique Identifier to access and/or change your Subscriber profile.
How to Contact Us. You may contact us as follows: by email at cqsupport@carquest.com or by hard copy mail at 2635 East Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 27604.