Motor Supply Co. PRIVACY POLICY
Effective Date: November 1, 2022
Last Updated: November 1, 2022
Motor Supply Co. (referred to herein as “Motor Supply”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) and its affiliates, recognizes the importance of protecting the Personal Information we may collect from visitors, users and any other individual or entity (“Users”, “you”, or “your”). This Privacy Policy applies to data collection and privacy practices of Motor Supply and when we collect Personal Information through your use of the website, www.motorsupplyco.com, and other Motor Supply-related sites, software and applications accessible on or by any top-level Motor Supply domain owned by us (each, a “Site” and collectively the “Sites”), through our social media pages that we control, and through email messages that we may send to you (collectively, the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy describes how we use Personal Information, with whom we share it, your rights and choices, and how you can contact us about our privacy practices. This policy does not apply to third-party websites, products, or services, even if they link to our Services or Sites, and you should consider the privacy practices of those third-parties carefully.
Specifically, our Privacy Policy covers the following topics:
1. When This Privacy Policy Applies
2. Website Terms of Use
3. Information We Collect
4. How We Use Information We Collect
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
6. Your Failure to Provide Personal Information
7. Our Retention of Your Personal Information
8. Sharing Personal Information
9. International Transfer
10. Your Privacy Choices
11. Links to Other Websites
12. How We Protect Personal Information
13. Children’s Privacy
14. Direct Marketing and “Do Not Track” Signals
15. Privacy Policy Modifications
16. Contact Us
Please familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions. By using the Sites, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Sites.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please submit a request to privacy@motorsupplyco.com.
When this Privacy Policy Applies
Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the Site, Products and Services offered by Motor Supply, including its affiliates, to Users. Our Privacy Policy is intended to describe our data collection practices and applies unless there is a specific country privacy policy which applies to you. However, because the data protection and privacy laws in some jurisdictions where our Site or Services are located may restrict our data collection and processing practices, our practices may be more restrictive subject to local laws.
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to products or services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you, or other sites linked from our Sites or Services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and organizations who advertise our Site, Products or Services, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.
By accessing or using the Sites in any manner, you also agree to be bound by Motor Supply’s Terms of Use (the “Agreement”). Please read the Agreement carefully. If you do not accept all of the terms and conditions contained in or incorporated by reference into the Agreement, please do not use the Sites. All terms in initial capital letters not defined herein are as defined in the Agreement.
We collect information, including personal information, to provide better services to all our Users. We use the term “Personal Information” to refer to any information that identifies or can be used to identify you. Common examples of Personal Information include: full name, email address, information about your device, and certain metadata.
You may choose to provide us with Personal Information about yourself, including your name, email, and phone number, when you complete forms on our Site, such as when you request information about our services.
Website Visitors
You may choose to provide us with Personal Data about yourself, including your name, organization name, title, phone number and email address by completing forms on our Site. You may also provide us with Personal Data about yourself when you report a problem or have a question about our services.
When you visit our Site, we collect certain information automatically, such as your operating system version, browser type, and internet service provider. We also collect information about your interaction with the Site or Services, such as creating or logging into your account, when you use our Site, we automatically collect and store this information in service logs. This includes: details of how you used our Site; Internet protocol address; cookies that uniquely identify your browser, the referring web page and pages visited. We may also collect and process information about your actual location.
Customers
We may collect the following Personal Information about you when you use our Site or Services: your name, address, zip code, telephone number, email address, gender, age, date of birth, and information about your automobile (such as your Vehicle Identification Number (“VIN”) and year). Motor Supply may also collect your credit card information and billing address when you provide Motor Supply with such information, such as when you buy products on our Sites; however your payment card information is passed securely to our payment card processor and is not stored by Motor Supply.
If you provide us or our service providers with any Personal Information relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you believe that your Personal Information has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Information, please contact us by using the information set out in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
How We Use Information We Collect
We use your Personal Information in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or authorized by you, including for the following purposes:
o Providing services, including to:
o Register, create, and maintain your account;
o Allow you to purchase products online;
o Communicate with you regarding your account or any Site or Services you use;
o Improve the convenience and functionality if our Site;
o Manage our business and protect ourselves, you, other persons, and the Site or Services.
o Provide a personalized experience and implement your preferences.
o Better understand our customers and how they use and interact with the Site or Services.
o Market to you and provide personalized services, offers, and promotions on our Sites
o Comply with our policies and obligations, including, but not limited to, disclosures and responses in response to any requests from law enforcement authorities and/or regulators in accordance with any applicable law, rule, regulation, judicial or governmental order, regulatory authority of competent jurisdiction, discovery request, advice of counsel or similar legal process.
o Resolve disputes, collect fees, or troubleshoot problems.
o Provide customer service to you or otherwise communicate with you.
We and our service providers may use IP addresses to understand the locations from which our Users and visitors are accessing the Site or Services. Except where prohibited by applicable law or regulation, we may combine information collected through one source with information obtained through other resources. We also may supplement the information we collect with information obtained from third parties. We will treat any information that we combine with your personal information as Personal Information pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
We may use your Personal Information in furtherance of our legitimate interest to provide you with the Site or Services offered by Motor Supply. We may also use your information to manage our contractual relationship with you or to comply with our legal obligations.
To the extent we rely on consent for the processing of your Personal Information, we will seek such consent at the time we collect your personal data. We may also use the Personal Information we obtain about you in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit one of our Sites or Services, and this may include using cookies or similar technologies to identify your browser or device. We also use these technologies to collect and store information when you interact with services from our partners, such as advertising services. Our third party advertising and analytics partners include Google Analytics, Salesforce, and similar partners.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our services.
Web Beacons. Pages of our services or our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count Users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Clickstream Data. Clickstream data is information collected by our computers when you request Web pages from the Sites. Clickstream data may include information such as the page served, the time spent viewing the page, source of the request, type of browser making the request, the preceding page viewed and similar information. Clickstream data permits us to analyze how visitors arrive at the Sites, what type of content is popular, what type of visitors in the aggregate are interested in particular kinds of content on the Sites.
Your Failure to Provide Personal Information
Your provision of Personal Information is required in order to use certain Site or Services and programs. In some instances, if you fail to provide such Personal Information, you may not be able to access and use our Site or Services, or parts of our Site or Services.
Our Retention of Your Personal Information
We use and retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it is being processed, to carry out legitimate business interests, as well as on the basis of applicable legal and contractual requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitation).
Insofar as reasonably necessary for us in delivering our products and services to you and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, we may share your personal information with the below parties. The specific kind of information we share will depend on your activities with us and only to the extent as required or permitted by law, and/or with your consent.
o Our business partners and third parties involved in the delivery of our products and services to you – including those involved in a sale of all or part of our business operations or assets and those for business, operational and general administration;
o Our marketing and advertisement partners;
o Third party services providers which process data (including personal information) for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures;
o Our agents, advisors, consultants, other third party suppliers and/or service providers to assist us to operate effectively and provide you with the best experiences with our services;
o Other third parties when we have your consent or are otherwise permitted by law to do so.
We may disclose your Personal Information for legal reasons. Specifically, we will share Personal Information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Motor Supply if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
o Fulfill any purpose for which you provide it;
o Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
o Enforce applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations;
o Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
o Protect against harm to the rights, property, assets or safety of Motor Supply, our Users or the public, content found on the Site or Services, or to protect the Site or Services from unauthorized use or misuse, as required or permitted by law;
o Facilitate a business transfer, such as to a buyer or other successor in the event of merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture, change in control, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Motor Supply’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Motor Supply about its visitors and users will be among the assets to be transferred, and any such successor may use your information for the same purposes set forth in the Privacy Policy;
o For any other purpose disclosed when you provide the information; and,
o When we obtain your consent to do so.
We attempt to notify you about legal demands for your Personal Information when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
The Personal Information we collect is stored and/or processed where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which we store, process, or transfer your Personal Information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your Personal Information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred Personal Information in accordance with this privacy policy.
You may have certain rights relating to your Personal Information, subject to local data protection law. Whenever you choose to visit our Site or use our Site or Services, we aim to provide you with choices about how we use your Personal Information. Subject to applicable law, you may obtain a copy of Personal Information we maintain about you. In addition, if you believe that Personal Information we maintain about you is inaccurate, subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request that we correct or amend the information by contacting us as indicated in the “How to Contact Us” section below. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information.
The Sites may contain links to webpages operated by parties other than Motor Supply. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy policies or other practices of such websites. Our inclusion of links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. Further, it is up to the User to take precautions to ensure that whatever links the User selects or software the User downloads (whether from this Site or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies, which the User will be subject to upon linking to the third party’s website. Motor Supply strongly recommends that each User review the third party’s terms and policies.
If you have any questions about the privacy practices of other websites, you should contact the relevant parties controlling these websites for more information.
How We Protect Personal Information
Motor Supply maintains administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the user’s Personal Information and other information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use. For example, we and/or our service providers use commercially reasonable security measures such as encryption, firewalls, and Secure Socket Layer software (SSL) or hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) to protect Personal Information.
Although we take reasonable steps designed to protect your Personal Information, please be advised that no security system or means of transmitting data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure (including without limitation with respect to computer viruses, malicious software and hacker attacks). We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of your Personal Information or any information you disclose or transmit to us. We are not responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access, and we are not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such incidents to the fullest extent permitted by law. Where required under law, we will notify you of any such loss, misuse or alteration of Personal Information that may affect you so that you can take the appropriate actions.
For your own privacy protection, we urge you to keep all passwords confidential. We also recommend that you do not include sensitive information such as passwords, social security numbers or payment information, in any emails that you send to us. If you become aware of any breach of the terms of this Privacy Policy or of the security of the Services or Site, please notify us by email at privacy@motorsupplyco.com.
The Sites and Services are not designed or intended to be used by anyone under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18*[DD1] , do not use the Site or Services, or make purchases via the Site or Services, use any interactive features of the Site or Services, or post any Personal Information to our Sites or submit any Personal Information via the Site or Services. We do not knowingly or intentionally gather Personal information about children who are under the age of 18. If a child has provided us with Personal Information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us to have the information deleted from our records. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 18 in the applicable jurisdiction, please contact us privacy@motorsupplyco.com. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the Personal Information of a child under 18, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible and cease the use of that information in accordance with applicable law.
Direct Marketing and “Do Not Track” Signals
Motor Supply does not track its users over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. However, some third party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, your browser may include controls to block and delete cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, to allow you to opt out of data collection through those technologies.
California residents are entitled to contact us to request information about whether we have disclosed Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Under the California “Shine the Light” law, California residents may opt-out of our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may choose to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes. To make such a request you should send (a) an email to privacy@motorsupplyco.com with the subject heading “California Privacy Rights,” or (b) a letter addressed to Motor Supply Co. 9311 Monroe Rd Suite K Charlotte, NC 28270 In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted to addresses other than the addresses specified in this paragraph.
Our Policy on "Do Not Track" Signals under the California Online Protection Act ("CalOPPA") We do not support Do Not Track ("DNT"). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser. We may track consumers' online activities over time and across third-party Web sites or online services. As we mentioned elsewhere, you can modify your browser's settings to change its acceptance of tracking technologies. Third parties may collect data that relates to you. We cannot control third parties' responses to do-not-track signals or other such mechanisms. Third parties' use of data relating to you and responsiveness to do-not-track signals is governed by their respective privacy policies.
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We will post any privacy policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services or programs, email notification or privacy policy changes). We will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise the choices discussed above, please contact us:
Via e-mail: privacy@motorsupplyco.com
By writing to us:
Motor Supply Co.
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
9311 Monroe Rd Suite K
Charlotte NC 28270