NOTE: The Alpha Automobile Car PartsPrivacy Notice has been updated. Please review the updated Privacy Notice carefully before using the Alpha Automobile Car Parts Services.
This privacy policy applies only to the websites, applications and print magazine subscriptions managed by Alpha Automobile Car Parts Services, LLC, and/or their subsidiary and affiliated entities (collectively, MTG,we or us) where this privacy policy is posted or referred to (collectively, the Services). Please read this privacy policy carefully.
We respect your right to privacy. Our overall aim is to ensure that our collection and use of personal information is appropriate to the provision of the Services to you and is in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: http://alphaautomobilecarparts.com.
We are Alpha Automobile Car Parts Services, LLC., registered in the United States of America whose registered office is at 8403 Colesville Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States of America (MTG).
Children
We do not and will not knowingly collect personal information (as defined in the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) from any unsupervised child under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Services unless your parent or guardian has provided us with their consent for your use of the Services.
How We Disclose Your Information and Who We Disclose It With
We disclose information under the following circumstances:
Third-party service providers: When we disclose information with third-party service companies to facilitate or to provide certain services on our behalf. This will include:
IT infrastructure companies that facilitate our provision of the Services to you;
IT support service providers, including recording user interactions to assess usability of our Services;
Print subscription fulfillment partners; and
Other third-party service providers, for the purpose of providing or tracking our customers’ use of the Services (including but not limited to payment processors).
These companies are authorized to use your information only as necessary to provide these Services to us.
Group companies: We may provide your information to our subsidiaries or affiliated companies for the purpose of processing Information on our behalf to provide the Services to you. These parties are required to process such information based on our instructions and in accordance with this privacy policy. They do not have any independent right to disclose this information.
Third-party marketing partners: We may provide your information to third-party marketing partners who may provide you with offers and promotions that may be of interest to you.
Compliance with laws and legal proceedings: When we respond to court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. When we believe in our sole discretion it is necessary to disclose information in order to investigate, prevent or take actions against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
Merger or acquisition: When we need to transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified afterwards via e-mail and/or a prominent notice on our Services of any change in ownership or uses of your information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your information.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Security
While we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard the information that you provide to us, no transmission over the Internet can ever be guaranteed secure. Consequently, please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transfer over the Internet to us.
We are committed to protecting your information using appropriate technical and operational measures such as access controls that restrict and manage the ways in which your information is stored and handled.
Data Retention
We will only retain your Information for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This means that the retention periods will vary according to the type of Information and the reason that we have collected the Information in the first place. In determining how long to retain information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the information, applicable legal requirements, and our legitimate interests. The purposes for which we process information (as well as the other factors listed above) may dictate different retention periods for the same types of information. For example, if you purchase a subscription to one of our paid services, we will retain your payment history records for a period of time after you’re your purchase for our anti-fraud and legal compliance purposes. If you opt out of email marketing, we maintain your email on our suppression list indefinitely to comply with your request. We may delete or de-identify your information sooner if we receive a verifiable deletion request, subject to exemptions under applicable law. We may retain cached or archived copies of your information.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residence, applicable law may allow you to make certain requests about your personal information orpersonal data (as such terms are defined under applicable law, and collectively referred to herein as personal information). Specifically, you may be permitted to request us to:
Inform you about the categories of personal information we collect or disclose about you; the categories of sources of such information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we disclose personal information;
Provide access to and/or a copy of certain personal information we hold about you;
Delete certain personal information we have about you;
Opt out of the sale of your personal information;
Opt out of the processing of your personal information for targeted advertising purposes;
Request correction of your personal information; and
Provide you with information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any.
Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain information in order to provide the Services to you.
Verification: We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request, which may include, at a minimum, depending on the sensitivity of the information you are requesting and the type of request you are making, verifying your name, e-mail address, and physical address.
You may also be permitted to designate an authorized agent to submit certain requests on your behalf. In order for an authorized agent to be verified, you must provide the authorized agent with signed, written permission to make such requests or a power of attorney. We may also follow up with you to verify your identity before processing the authorized agent’s request. If we deny your request in whole or in part, you may have the right to appeal the decision. In such circumstances, we will provide you with information regarding the appeals process.
