Your Privacy
Overview
Our website allows you to buy products and potentially sign up for a gift
registry, enter contests, receive special discounts, apply for credit, fill
out surveys, and receive newsletters, e-mails or other promotional information
from us. We use the information that we collect about you to fulfill your
product and service purchases and to create a more personalized online experience.
This is just a brief overview, so please read on for more details about
our Privacy Policy. This Policy may change from time to time, so please
check back periodically.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only
addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you online.
For some services, we either collect and transfer personal information to
a service provider you have selected, or you may visit other merchants through
links on our site who may collect and use your personal information. We
encourage you to ask questions and to be very cautious before you disclose
your personal information to others.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to privacy@mikes-afordable.com
or may also be contacted directly at the following address:
Mike's "A"
Ford-able Parts
124 Model A Lane
Maysville, GA 30558
Telephone - (706) 652-3866 Fax - (706) 652-2492
This Privacy Policy will explain the following regarding use of our site:
- What
information does Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts collect from you?
- Where
do we collect information from you and how do we use it?
- Who
is collecting your information?
- With
whom do we share your information?
- How
can you update or correct your Personally Identifiable Information?
- What
are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your
information?
- What
security precautions are in place to protect against the loss, misuse,
or alteration of your information?
- A
special note about children's privacy
- Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
and third-party use of "cookies" and "action tags."
- You
should carefully review privacy policies of any third party sites accessible
from Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
- Contacting
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts about privacy questions or concerns
- Privacy
Policy changes
- What information does Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
collect from you?
In order to better provide you with numerous products and services,
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts collects two types of information about its visitors: Personally
Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
Our primary goal in collecting information from you is to provide you
with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience while using our
site.
Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who
you are. Personal information is requested when you order a product
or service, register for a Gift List, enter contests or sweepstakes,
fill out surveys, and send us feedback. For example, this information
might include your name, billing address, shipping address, telephone
number, e-mail address, credit card or other payment information,
and product details. With this information, Mike's "A" Ford-able
Parts can fill your orders and better provide you with personalized
services.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
This refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific
individual. We gather certain information about you based upon where
you shop on our site in several ways. This information is compiled
and analyzed on both a personal and an aggregated basis. For example,
this information may include the Web site's Uniform Resource Locator
("URL") that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser
you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. A URL is
the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide
Web. An IP address is an identifier for a computer or device on a
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") network,
such as the World Wide Web. Networks like the Web use the TCP/IP protocol
to route information based on the IP address of the destination. In
other words, an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you are surfing the web, allowing web servers
to locate and identify your computer. Computers require IP addresses
in order for users to communicate on the Internet, browse and shop.
- Where do we collect information
from you and how do we use it?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide Mike's
"A" Ford-able Parts's visitors with a superior customized
online experience. We use the customer contact information to fill orders,
contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional
information, to enhance the operation of our site and administer our
systems.
We review the actions of the Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
visitors on an aggregate basis to determine customers' preferences.
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts also does research on our visitors'
demographics, interests, and pages viewed based on the information
provided to us during ordering, a promotion, from our server log files,
from contests, drawings or surveys. We will use this data to tailor
the visitor's experience at our site, to improve our marketing and
promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site use, to improve
our product offerings, and to customize our site's content, layout,
and services. We receive reports from third party ad servers and content
servers, that tells us how many ads were presented and clicked upon
or what content was served.
We may also share your personally identifiable information with third
parties who provide services to us, our customers and web site visitors.
Those third parties include authorized contractors, temporary employees
and consultants and other companies working with us (collectively,
"agents"). Where we believe it to be appropriate (in our sole discretion),
we will ask our agents not to disclose or use your personal information
for purposes other than to provide services to you or Mike's "A"
Ford-able Parts.
We gather information in the following ways:
Shopping
We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration,
to gather broad demographic information, to enable ads to be served
on our site, to report Non-Personally Identifiable Information to
our advertisers, and to monitor the level of activity on our site.
We collect information from visitors to our site regarding the URLs
they came from, domain types (e.g., .com or .org), their IP addresses,
the date and time of their visit or order, the number of visits and
orders, the number of visits per browsing session, the server type,
the operating system and browser type used to come to the site, the
country, state and telephone area code where their servers are located,
the pages and page titles of our site that visitors viewed during
their visit, whether the visitor's computer is enabled for Java or
cookies, browser language, applications and plug-ins, and any search
terms entered on our site.
Ordering
When you order from us, we collect personally identifiable information
from you. If you order one of our products or services, we will collect
and maintain your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping
address, telephone number, product selections, credit card or other
payment information, order number, referring URL, IP address, page
you bought from and a password. We collect this, and other information,
as disclosed in this Policy, in order to fill your order, to communicate
with you about your order and to send you promotional materials. Before
confirming your order, you will have the opportunity to review the
product order form and make changes and additions to the information
it contained and these changes will be automatically kept for future
use.
Online Surveys and Polling
In order to improve our services to you, we ask some of our customers
to voluntarily complete surveys, which may be collected by an independent
third party. Individual survey answers are confidential, although
Non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected and disclosed
to third parties. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, simply
decline to participate when asked. Contests
and Sweepstakes
When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask you for contact
information such as your name, address and e-mail address in order to
administer the contest, to send you promotional e-mails, notify winners
and make the winners' list publicly available pursuant to certain states'
laws. Your consent to such promotional use and disclosure of this information
as a condition of your participation. As a condition of receiving any
prize, you will be required to submit an Affidavit of Eligibility, for
us to ensure that you are eligible to receive the prize according to
the Contest Rules.
Newsletters & Promotional E-mails
We may offer free newsletters and promotional e-mails as a service
to our customers. We will send you newsletters and e-mails periodically
listing current specials and deals. You will given the option to be
removed from these listings.
Contact Information and Third Party Data
If you contact Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts or our customer
service representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter, we may keep
a record of your correspondence or comments. If you report a problem
with our site, we may collect such information in a file specific
to you. If you contact us through our feedback area or by calling
one of our customer service representatives, we may ask for your name,
e-mail address and order information in order to send you a reply.
If other users or third parties send us correspondence about your
activities or purchases on our site, we may keep the information in
a file specific to you.
We also track customers' traffic patterns throughout their online
session, including which pages, information and advertisements a customer
views while using the site and what items they place in their basket
or purchase. We use your IP address to diagnose problems with our
servers, software, to administer our site and to gather demographic
information.
We may share aggregated statistics about pages viewed on our site,
sales and other shopping information with third parties.
Cookies
We use cookies and may allow others to use cookies in the operation
of our site; to find out what cookies are and how they are used, click here.
- Who is collecting your information?
Ad Servers and Content Servers: We may use third party ad servers or
content servers to serve ads, product information, or other information
both on and off our site. Those third parties may use "action tags"
throughout the site to count the number of visitors who click on a banner
ad or other information and to track the number of customers who continue
on to make a purchase. They may also place their own "cookie" on your
computer to help those ads to run. We do not provide them with any of
your Personally Identifiable Information. For more information about
the information they collect, please see the section "Use of Cookies
and Action Tags" below.
Website Analysis Agent: We may use an outside service to collect
Non-Personally Identifiable Information on an aggregated basis so
that we can improve the marketing and layout of our site. They may
use cookies to perform their service. For more information, please
see the section "Use of Cookies" below.
Marketing Partners, Co-branded Services, Framing/Windows on Third-Party
Sites: We may run promotions for merchants where you may visit the
merchants' sites. In some of those promotions, a window or frame containing
the merchant's site may appear. Any time you are in a window, you
should assume that your personal information is being collected, used
and disclosed in accordance with that merchant's policies. This Privacy
Policy does not apply to information that you supply to those merchants.
Any information that you share with them will be used and disclosed
in accordance with that merchant's privacy policy. However, once you
click on a return link to our site, you can expect that further information
that you disclose will be treated in accordance with this Policy.
On occasion, unaffiliated third parties will "frame" Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts's site
in an effort to collect customer information. To ensure your privacy,
make sure that your order originates from Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts's site. Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
is not in any manner responsible in the event that you do disclose
information to an unaffiliated framing site.
Links and Banner Ads to Third-Party Sites: Please be aware that our
site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are owned
and operated by third parties. The information practices of those
websites linking from or to our site are not covered by this Policy.
These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data,
or solicit personal information. Additionally, other companies or
ad servers, which place advertising on our site may collect information
about you through the use of cookies when you view or click on their
advertising. We cannot control this collection of information. You
should contact advertisers directly if you have any questions about
their use of the information that they collect.
- With whom do we share your
information?
Fulfillment: The information collected by Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts is used for processing
orders, keeping you informed about your order status, for statistical
purposes, for improving our site and its performance, to serve ads,
and to notify you of products or special offers that may be of interest
to you. We will disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to
third parties to charge your credit card, fill your order, deliver your
order, provide customer service, provide you with credit and deliver
promotional e-mails to you from Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts. For example, we must release
your credit card information to the card-issuing bank to confirm payment;
and release your address and telephone information to the delivery service
to deliver products that you ordered.
Other Parties: We do not sell, trade, or rent your Personally Identifiable
Information to others without your consent. We may provide Non-Personally
Identifiable Information about our customers' sales, traffic patterns,
and related site information to third parties, but these statistics
do not include any Personally Identifiable Information. We may release
account information when we believe that such release is reasonably
necessary to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or to protect
the rights, property, and safety of Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts, our users, or others.
If customers do not pay us for products ordered, we may submit their
account information to a third party collection agency.
Services Provided on Our Site: Except as otherwise stated in this
Policy, without your consent, Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
does not disclose its customers' Personally Identifiable Information
to other merchants.
Data Analysis Agents: The information collected by or for Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
may be provided to an outside company for the purpose of analysis.
That analysis is to help us to improve our site and product selection,
and to notify you of special offers that may be of interest to you.
That data analysis agent may not share any Personally Identifiable
Information with others, or use it for any other purpose than to help
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts.
Compliance with Service of Process or Law Enforcement: Occasionally
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts may be asked by law enforcement
or judicial authorities to provide Personally Identifiable Information
to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose Personally
Identifiable Information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena,
or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation, without prior
notice to you. Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts fully cooperates
with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services
for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement
agencies any activities that we believe to be unlawful.
- How can you update or correct
your Personally Identifiable Information?
We believe you should have the ability to access and edit the personal
information that you have provided to us. During the online ordering
process you can review, change, or delete the information that you have
submitted. You may change any of your personal information in your account
online at any time. We encourage you to promptly update your information
if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted
or removed; however, because we keep track of past purchases, you cannot
delete information associated with past purchases. Also, as a security
measure we "back up" the data stored on our systems, and such prior
information cannot be completely removed from our databases. As a result,
you should not expect that all of your Personally Identifiable Information
will be completely removed from our backed-up databases.
- What are your choices regarding
collection, use, and distribution of your information?
Email: We may from time to time send you e-mail or other communications
regarding current promotions, specials and new additions to the Mike's
"A" Ford-able Parts site. You may "opt-out," or unsubscribe
from our newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions in any
e-mail you receive from us.
- What security precautions
are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your
information?
In order to most efficiently serve you, credit card transactions and
order fulfillment are handled by established third party banking, processing
agents and distribution institutions. They receive the information needed
to verify and authorize your credit card or other payment information
and to process and ship your order.
When you access your account information, the information is kept
on a secure server. All of the customer data we collect is protected
against unauthorized access by physical security means.
- A special note about children's
privacy
You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this
site. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose
Personally Identifiable Information about visitors under 18 years of
age. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor under 18 years of
age and believe that they have disclosed personally identifiable information
to us, please contact us at privacy@mikes-afordable.com so
that we may delete the minor's information.
- Mike's "A" Ford-able
Parts and third-party use of "cookies".
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts Cookies: When you use our site we will store cookies on your
computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site.
A cookie is a small data text file, which a Web site stores on your
computer's hard drive (if your Web browser permits) that can later be
retrieved to identify you to Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts. Our cookies store randomly assigned
user identification numbers, the country where you are located, and
your first name to welcome you back to our site. The cookies make your
use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve an earlier shopping cart,
make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site.
You will be unable to shop on our site without your browser set to accept
cookies.
Website Analysis Agent Cookies: We may use a third party to analyze
what our visitors find to be most interesting on our site. To do that,
they will place a cookie on your computer with a randomly assigned
unique number in order to track the pages you view on our site, along
with other Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
- You should carefully review
privacy policies of any third party sites accessible from Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
Other sites accessible through our web site have their own privacy policies
and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each
site's privacy policy. Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts is not responsible for the policies or
practices of third parties. Please be aware that this site may contain
links to other sites on the Internet that are owned and operated by
third parties. The information practices of those web sites linked to
Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts are not covered by this Privacy Policy. These other sites may
send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.
Additionally, other companies that place advertising on our site may
collect information about you when you view or click on their advertising
through the use of cookies. We cannot control this collection of information.
You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions
about their use of the information that they collect.
On behalf of various sponsors, Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts
provides sponsored links to third-party web sites. If you click on
a sponsored link or banner ad, a "window" or "frame" containing a
third-party's web site may appear in the foreground with the Mike's
"A" Ford-able Parts web site in the background. Unless you
are on Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts's web site, any time that
you have moved to a window, you should assume that your personal information
is being collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the windowed
site's privacy policy (if any). If you are unsure as to whose privacy
policy applies, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@mikes-afordable.com, or
by sending a letter to the address below.
- Contacting Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts about
privacy questions or concerns
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of
this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact Mike's "A" Ford-able Parts by
sending a letter to:
Mike's
"A" Ford-able Parts
124 Model A Lane
Maysville, GA 30558
Telephone - (770) 945-3671 Fax - (770) 945-3746
You may also contact us by e-mail at privacy@mikes-afordable.com.
- Privacy Policy changes
This Privacy Policy was last changed on December 20, 2002. If Mike's
"A" Ford-able Parts makes changes to any terms or conditions
of the Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted in this document so
that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use
that information and to whom we will disclose it. We may change, modify,
add or remove portions of this Policy at any time, and any changes will
become effective immediately upon being posted unless we tell you otherwise.
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