Privacy Statement

(Updated June 14^th 2011)

1. Introduction

We respect your right to privacy and aim to comply with our obligations under the data protection legislation currently in force in Ireland, which is where our head office is located. The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to outline how we deal with any personal data that we collect from you or that you provide to us while visiting this website.  By visiting this website, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Statement, and you permit the collection and use of your personal data as outlined this Statement. If you are not happy with this Privacy Statement then you should not use our website.

2. Types of Information Collected

Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you and may include your name, telephone number, geographic address, email address, and user IP addresses (in circumstances where they have not been deleted, clipped or anonymised). Such information is only collected from you if you voluntarily submit it to us, and is only kept for as long as it is required for us to provide you with a high quality service, to comply with law or our contractual obligations or for reasonable record-keeping purposes.

Non-Personal Data
Like most websites, we gather statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our website. This non-personal data comprises information that cannot be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information regarding, for example, browser types, alphanumeric IDs, operating system, traffic data, location data, IP addresses, information regarding the volume and status of data transmission, click-through statistics, the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, the date and time you accesses portions of our website, and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website. This type of data includes the data collected by cookies.

3. Purposes for which we hold your Information

Personal Data
Users of this website use the website to create advertisements for goods for sale and goods wanted, and to write comments on the Timeless Auto Parts Blog. These advertisements and comments can be accessed and read by other users of the website. If you choose to place an advertisement on this website, we will display a limited amount of personal information, such as your name and telephone number, so that interested parties may contact you. We may use your advertisements, and the advertisements that you view, to personalize the website and identify popular buy and sell sections. We may also display recently posted advertisements and recently sold goods to users of the website.

We may use any personal data that you provide to us for the following purposes:

1. to provide you with the services you have ordered;
2. to contact you in connection with your order;
3. to respond to any communications you might send to us;
4. to keep a record of any correspondence from you;
5. to contact you on behalf of interested parties wishing to respond to your advertisements by email;
6. to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;
7. to allow you to access the website and to use interactive features of our service;
8. to deliver and maintain a high quality service;
9. to improve and develop the services, website, & blog;
10. to provide you with information, or updates relating to our service, website, or blog;
11. to inform you about changes to our service;
12. to get feedback from you on the service provided;
13. for the purposes of compiling statistics;
14. to determine whether you are in compliance with the terms and conditions of using our website & service, and to impose sanctions where necessary;
15. as proof of identity;
16. to process payments from or to you;
17. to record details of any transactions between us;
18. to compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties;
19. to provide you with customer support, and resolve technical or other problems;

Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our website in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our website.

This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and we do not use them to identify any individual, except if required by the law or for the purposes of fraud protection, IT security and credit risk reduction.

Cookies
This website uses “cookies”. A cookie is a little piece of data stored by the browser on the hard drive of your computer, at the request of our server. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. On revisiting our website our computer server will recognize the cookie, giving us information about your last visit.

We may use cookies (including flash cookies) to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our website. Cookies help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. You are always free to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your use of our website & services. For information on how to control your cookies go to Cookie Central – FAQs

We participate in the Google Adsense program, and we allow Google and other third parties that participate in Google Adsense to use a type of cookie called the “DoubleClick DART” cookie on our website. This cookie is used by Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks.

When you visit a Google partner’s website (such as ours) and either view or click on an ad, a Google cookie may be dropped on your browser. The data gathered from these cookies are used to help better serve and manage ads on the publisher’s site(s) and across the web, and it enables Google and its partners to display ads to you on the website and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick DART used by Google. Instructions on how to opt-out are available from Google and are set out in this Google advertising privacy policy: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

4. Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of unique users who visit our website, the demographic breakdown of our community users of our website, or the activities that visitors to our website engage in while on our website. The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include potential or actual advertisers, providers of advertising services (including website tracking services), commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on this and other websites that you visit about goods and services of potential interest to you.

We will not disclose your personal data to third parties unless you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party is required to fulfill your order.

We will disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or other statutory requirement.

5. Security of personal data

We will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate technical and organizational measures) to protect your personal data. However, the nature of the internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us via the internet. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and any transmission is at your own risk. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for any intercepted information sent via the internet and you hereby release us from any and all claims arising out of and related to the use of intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

If we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, then you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

When you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information and agree to make that information public on the our website via advertisements, blog postings, tweets or other means, then that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected, correlated and used by third parties. These third parties may use the information about you that they have gathered to send you unsolicited messages. Such activities are beyond our control. Do not post any personal information on our website or blog that you wish to keep private.

6. Transfer of personal information

It may be necessary to transfer your personal information to other group companies or service providers located in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). This may happen where our servers or suppliers and service providers are based outside of the EEA or where you use our services and products while visiting countries outside of the EEA. The data protection and other laws of these countries may not be as comprehensive as those in Ireland or the EU. By using this website you acknowledge this and agree that we may transfer your personal data.

7. Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of the Website Privacy Policy and provided that the third party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.

8. External Links

This site contains links to and from external websites. We make every effort to ensure that external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. We are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these other websites.

9. Updating, Verifying, and Deleting personal data

At any time, you can make a written request to have access to all the personal data that we hold about you. You may inform us of any changes in your personal data and, in accordance with our obligations under the data protection legislation; we will update, update or delete your personal data accordingly. Please include your name and (if applicable) the username / email address that you used to register. Requests may be subject to a small administrative charge.

10. Changes to our Privacy Statement

Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. It is your responsibility to visit this page periodically to identify and review any changes to the Privacy Policy.

11. Questions or Comments

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or our collection or use of personal information, or the security practices of this site, please contact support@timelessautoparts.com