PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy is very important to us. Our privacy practices are held to high
standards by outside organizations such as TRUSTe. For more information on
TRUSTe, please go to www.truste.org. As part of the normal operation of our
services we collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you. This
Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may
happen to that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared
a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about
International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio practices so that you can make
informed decisions. The privacy practices of this statement apply to the
International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio website and apply generally to
our subsidiaries or joint venture partners websites (collectively the "Site")
whose specific privacy policies are available from our other pages. All of our
subsidiaries and joint venture partners operate under similar privacy practices
as described in this Privacy Policy and, subject to the requirements of
applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices
throughout the global International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio trading
community.
As described below, some of your personally identifiable information is
disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties. By accepting the
User Agreement, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your
personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of the International Auto Parts CounterCat and or
Sophio User Agreement.
Table of Contents
A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the
age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you
can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.
Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a
smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services
and features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our service to
make your experience easier.
Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial information,
such as, but not limited to: if you are registering using an email account at a
free email service, or registering to sell on our site. We use your financial
information, including credit card information to verify your name, address, and
other information, as well as to bill you for your use of our services.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our site.
We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community.
This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL
is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our
site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our site.
"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing
customized services. We also offer certain features that are only available
through the use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you to enter your
password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide
information which is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session
cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at
the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser
permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on
our site and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during
a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain
pages of our site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a
web page created by a user, there may be a "cookie" placed within that web page.
We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
If you choose to bid, buy or sell on our site, we collect information about your
bidding, buying and selling behavior. We also collect other users' comments
about you in our feedback area.
If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect
some additional information, including a billing address, a credit card number
and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money
orders.
If you choose to post messages in our Cafés, chat rooms or other message areas
or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide
to us.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other
users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings
on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
If you register for International Auto Parts CounterCat on another web site or
use a web site providing a service for International Auto Parts CounterCat and
or Sophio or a web site that helps facilitate your activity on International
Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio , that web site may provide personal
information about you and your transactions back to International Auto Parts
CounterCat and or Sophio.
For a chart showing what information we collect from or about you, and who has
access to that information, please see the Appendix.
Our Use of Your Information
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we
obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look
across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in
particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User
IDs or aliases. If you choose to list an item for sale on our site or open a
credit account, we use your address and billing information to bill you and
provide associated support.
You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to
improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve
our content and product offerings, and customize our site's content, layout, and
services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.
You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver
information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as
targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and
communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement
and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information. If you do
not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the
receipt of certain communications on the notification page. You may make changes
to your notification preferences at any time.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your
private communications and other personally identifiable information will never
be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of
example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances,
third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private
communications, or users may abuse or misuse your information that they collect
from our Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect
your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally
identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable
information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some
of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
International Auto Parts CounterCat Community
Throughout the Site, you are identified by your User ID. If you select your
email address as your User ID you will disclose your email address to other
users and third parties. As a result, other users and third parties might send
you unsolicited email and be able to personally identify all of your public
activities on the Site. Although our pages are coded with robot exclusion
headers, others may illegally attempt to automatically collect your email
address from our site. We describe how to change your User ID below in Section
8. Even if your User ID is not your email address, your User ID can be used to
identify you and your activities throughout the Site. Other people can see your
bids, items that you have purchased in the past, your feedback rating and
associated comments, your postings on the Site, and so on. We also provide a
number of ways to allow other users to find out more about you and your site
activities, such as our feature that allows users to quickly see all of the
items you are offering at the time. If you are involved in a transaction, we
have a feature that allows other users to view your email address and obtain
your contact information.
External Service Providers
There are a number of services offered by external service providers that help
you use our Site (e.g., co-branded sites, listing agents, escrow,
authentication, mediation). If you choose to use these optional services,
disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them
permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information
is governed by their privacy policy. We may, for your convenience, provide some
of your personally identifiable information to the external service provider
offering such services. However, before we disclose your personally identifiable
information to an external service provider, you will see what data is about to
be sent and have the ability to approve the disclosure. To prevent our
disclosure of your personally identifiable information to an external service
provider, you can decline such disclosures or simply not use their services.
Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you
should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Users who
register on aInternational Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio co-branded web
site (for example, CompuServe, AOL.com, and AOL) grant CounterCat and or Sophio
permission to pass your email address back to that co-branded web site and
affiliated web sites. The use of such information by the co-brand and affiliated
web sites is limited by their applicable privacy policies.
Internal Service Providers
We may use internal service providers to facilitate our services (e.g., search,
discussion boards, surveys) and therefore we may provide some of your personally
identifiable information directly to them. In some instances, the internal
service provider may collect information directly from you (such as the
situation where we ask a internal service provider to conduct a survey for us).
In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service
provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional. In
all cases, these internal service providers' use of information we supply them
is restricted by confidentiality agreements. If you provide additional
information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your
information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
Other Corporate Entities
We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about
you, with our subsidiaries and joint ventures that are committed to serving your
online trading needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent
that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least
as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users.
Our subsidiaries and joint ventures follow privacy practices no less protective
of all users than our practices described in this document, to the extent
allowed by applicable law. It is possible that International Auto Parts
CounterCat and or Sophio , its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any
combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity.
Should such a combination occur, you should expect that International Auto Parts
CounterCat and or Sophio would share some or all of your information in order to
continue to provide the service.
Legal Requests
International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio cooperates with law
enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as:
intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize
us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government
officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in
connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements,
or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your User ID, name, street
address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name
to International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio participants as we in our
sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an
investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other
unlawful activity.
Your Use of Other Users' Information
In order to facilitate interaction among all International Auto Parts CounterCat
and or Sophio community members, our service allows you limited access other
users' contact information. As a seller you have access to the User ID, email
address and other contact information of the buyer or winning bidder(s), and as
a buyer or winning bidder you have access to the User ID, email address and
other contact information of the seller.
By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other
users' personally identifiable information that you obtain through the Site or
through an International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio -related
communication or International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio
-facilitated transaction, International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio
hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a)
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio -related communications
that are not unsolicited commercial messages, (b) using services offered through
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio (e.g. escrow, insurance,
shipping and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that such user
expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all cases,
you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves from your database and a
chance to review what information you have collected about them. In addition,
under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section, can you disclose
personally identifiable information about another user to any third party
without our consent and the consent of such other user after adequate
disclosure. Note that law enforcement personnel, program participants, and other
rights holders are given different rights with respect to information they
access.
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio and our users do not
tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed
to add an International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio user, even a
user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical
mail) without their express consent after adequate disclosure. To report
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio related spam to
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio , please send an email to
sales@bimmerparts.net
Use of Email Tools
You may not use the Email This to a Friend service or other email forwarding
services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate
our User Agreement. We do not permanently store the email messages or the email
addresses. If you send and email using the Email This to a Friend service to an
email address that is not registered in our community, we do not use that email
addresses for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell
these email addresses. We generally discard the email addresses some time after
they have been used to send your email.
Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password,
including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio password to any third
parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your information
with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for
all actions taken with your User ID and password and therefore you should review
that third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password, you may
lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information and may
be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your
password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your
password as detailed in Section 8.
Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information
Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted
during registration including: Your User ID and email address. If you change
your User ID we keep track of your old User ID(s) and your new User ID. Your
registration information such as: name, company, address, city, state, zip code,
country, primary phone number, secondary phone number, fax number and gender.
Your password. Your credit card number and expiration date, and other financial
information. You must promptly update your information if it changes. Once
posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made in our chat rooms
or other message areas or the feedback area. Upon your request, we will
deactivate your account, contact information, and financial information from our
active databases. To make this request, email sales@bimmerparts.net. Such
information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible in accordance
with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some
circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce
our User Agreement. Further, such prior information is never completely removed
from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored
"back up" systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally
identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in
response to your requests.
Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document
only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the
extent that you disclose your information to other parties, whether they are
bidders, buyers or sellers on our Site or other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you
disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere
to their own privacy policies. Since International Auto Parts and CounterCat and
or Sophio does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are
subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask
questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
Security
International Auto Parts CounterCat and or Sophio use industry standard
practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable
information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. International Auto
Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio treats data as an asset that must be
protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different
security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users
inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on
the Internet.
Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based on your comments and
our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. All
changes to this policy are effective after we provide you with at least thirty
(30) days' notice of the changes by posting the changes on the announcements
board and sending email to users who select such notification preference. We
provide you with thirty (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify
International Auto Parts and CounterCat and or Sophio if you do not agree to
such changes as described in Section 8.
Products
We carry the following. BMW Parts, Mercedes Parts, Volvo Parts, Audi Parts, GM
Parts, Ford Parts, Honda Parts, Jaguar Parts, Lexus Parts, Nissan Parts, Porsche
Parts, Saab Parts, Volkswagen Parts, performance parts, and accessories for all
foreign, domestic, and import vehicles.
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