Welcome to the service provided by PDX Mechanic, (hereinafter referred to as “PDX", "we", "us" and/or "our"). This privacy policy has been created to provide information about our company, our website and the services we provide (collectively, the "Services") to our users ("you" and/or "your"). We want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
This Privacy Statement applies to [WEBSITE ADDRESS], and governs data collection and usage. PDX Mechanic website contains information for PDX Mechanic. By using PDX Mechanic website and software, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our Service on PDX Mechanic websites, tools, and applications. It applies generally to information collected on PDX Mechanic website and content (the "Website") or through the use of our Service. Capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning set forth herein or in the User Agreement posted on the Website.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance for new Users and is otherwise effective on February 03, 2020. At PDX Mechanic, we are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and site visitors, including you. The PDX team members are customers themselves, both on PDX and other Internet sites. We therefore fully appreciate and respect the importance of data privacy and security on the Internet.
We believe you should feel both informed and empowered when it comes to our handling and usage of your information. This notice therefore explains:
what information we collect when you’re using PDX website or social app, or when you’re communicating with us;
why we collect that information;
how we may then use that information;
how we share that information;
how long we keep your information, and how we protect it whilst we have it;
what we won’t do with your information; and
what choice and options you have to control your information.
PDX HAS THE DISCRETION TO REVISE THIS PRIVACY POLICY AT ANY TIME. WHEN WE DO, WE WILL REVISE THE UPDATED DATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. WE ENCOURAGE USERS TO FREQUENTLY CHECK THIS PAGE FOR ANY CHANGES TO STAY INFORMED ABOUT HOW
WE ARE HELPING TO PROTECT THE PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY PERIODICALLY AND BECOME AWARE OF MODIFICATIONS.
We believe it's important for you to know the types of information we collect when you use our site. The information includes your Email, Name, Company Name, Street Address, Post Code, City, Country, Telephone Number, and Password and so on. We collect this information in several different ways; to begin with, we use cookies that are needed to compile and aggregate non-personally identifiable information about the visitors to our web site. Personally identifiable information consists of information that is unique to you, such as credit card number and bank account numbers. The information is unique to you.
Personally Identifiable Information (PII): When you interact with us through the Services, we collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information. We collect personally identifiable information (email address, name, phone number, etc.) from you when you place order or set up a free account with [WEBSITE ADDRESS]. While you can browse some sections of our site without being a registered member, certain activities (such as placing an order) do require registration. We do use your contact information to send you offers based on your previous orders and your interests.
By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of PDX Mechanic and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.
Non-Personal / Identifiable Information (NPII): 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, the browser’s name, the type of computer and technical information about Users, means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system, user Internet service providers “IP addresses” where they have been clipped or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of our website.
In general, we may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To improve our website in order to serve you better.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To quickly process your transactions.
To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
Other uses may include: to analyze trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities
COOKIES: Your Internet browser has the in-built facility for storing small text files - "cookies" - that hold information which allow a website to recognize your account. We use cookies to improve user’s experience, by saving users preferences and login information, and to provide personalized functionality. We may use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the products and services we provide and to manage our telecommunications networks. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.
WEB BEACONS: A web beacon is a programming code that can be used to display an image on a web page, but can also be used to transfer your unique user identification to a database and associate you with previously acquired information about an individual in a database. This allows PDX Mechanic to track certain websites you visit. Web beacons are used to track online behavioural habits for marketing purposes to determine products or services you may be interested in. In addition to using web beacons on web pages, PDX Mechanic also uses web beacons in email messages sent to individuals listed in [WEBSITE ADDRESS].
When personal information is collected, we will inform you at the point of collection including the purpose for the collection. PDX Mechanic does not intend to transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described under the discussion entitled Information Sharing and Disclosure below. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may transfer that information, within [WEBSITE ADDRESS] or to our third party service providers.
WE WILL NOT Sell your information without your consent: We will not sell your personally identifiable information – including your name, address, e- mail address, or credit card information - to any third party. We believe this is absolutely essential to receive and repay your trust in us.
WE WILL NOT Share your information with third-party advertiser or ad networks: We do not currently display third party adverts on our website and,
even if we did, we would not support sharing your personally identifiable information with any third-party advertiser or ad network.
Others: Demographic Data, Online Survey Data, Information Regarding Your Friends, Public Forums etc. are still part of the information that we may collect and gather from you. In addition to some of the above stated uses, by using our site, you agree to allow us to anonymously use the information from you and your experiences to continue our research into successful relationships. This research, conducted by psychologists and behaviour research scientists, may be published in academic journals. However, all of your responses will be kept anonymous, and no PII will be published.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfil your request, e.g., to ship an order.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for https at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g., billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies which do the
same, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Website, and are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, personal information you provide to us will not be shared with or used by third parties without your permission.
Service providers: We contract with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as shipping orders, fulfilling certain orders, processing payments, hosting our Site and product review pages, sending out information or promotional offers, providing customer service and analyzing data from our Site. We provide these companies with only those elements of your personal information that they need to deliver those services. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using that personal information for any other purpose.
Aggregate Data: We may share aggregated, non-personal data with service providers, advertisers or other existing or potential business partners to enable our users to receive targeted information (such as product recommendations) and/or discounts and to optimize third-party offers of products and/or services.
Compliance with Law and Policies; Protection of Rights: We may disclose your personal information and aggregated user information as necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders and requests from law enforcement officials or government investigations; to comply with applicable law; to protect our legal rights; to enforce our Terms of Use or other policies or agreements; and to protect ourselves or others (for example, to reduce the risk of fraud or the use of our Site for illegal reasons).
Partner Programs: From time to time, we may partner with companies that are in conjunction with trusted store or similar programs, subscription services, rewards programs or other membership programs, they might require that we disclose purchasing or other personal information about their members who visit our Site (for example, to obtain purchase protection or to earn points or discounts for purchases made on our Site through links from the partner site). We will disclose your personal information to the partner companies when you consent to that disclosure, including consent implied by your agreement to the applicable membership or participation rules. And then we will disclose only the personal information required to make these programs work for you and support your membership in them.
Acquisitions or divestitures. We may decide to sell, buy or merge our own or other businesses. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal and other information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. It is our practice to seek appropriate protection for information in these types of transactions. In the event that we or all of our assets are acquired in
such a transaction, customer information would be one of the transferred assets.
We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Partners, Affiliates and Advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic information (which does not include any Personally Identifiable Information) with "Third Party Advertisers" or "Third Party Advertising Companies" and other parties as provided below: We use Third Party Advertising Companies to serve ads when you visit our Website. These companies may use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide, through the use of network tags, advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. We also use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyze Non-Personally Identifiable usage and volume statistical information from our Users to administer our Website and constantly improve its quality. We may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for Advertisers. Please note that this is not Personally Identifiable Information, only general summaries of the activities of our Users. Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used by us.
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties and websites, where such information is combined with similar information of other users of our website. Although, [WEBSITE ADDRESS] may contain links to many other sites as part of our effort to provide a service to our users. PDX Mechanic do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are and will not be responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to, or from our Site.
The third parties to whom we may provide this information may include commercial partners, sponsors, licensees, researchers and other similar parties. Note: These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Therefore, we encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to familiarize themselves with the privacy statements of every website that collects personal information.
We agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously.
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page
During registration, you will be prompted to provide us your name, shipping and billing address, phone number, email address and credit card number. These types of personal information are used for billing purposes, to fulfil your orders, to communicate with you about your order and our site, and for internal marketing purposes. If we encounter a problem when processing your order, we may use the personal information you provide us with to contact you.
You register for placing an order and receiving free promotional notices; we notify you when we receive new brands or new product styles; to get theses great offers, you simply sign up for our email newsletter. Your participation in a contest is completely voluntary, and you may choose whether to participate and disclose information to us.
We and our Users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your PDX communication preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other Wall Street Report Users, even a User who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (e-mail or physical mail) without their express consent. To report PDX Mechanic-related spam or spoof e-mails to PDX Mechanic, please forward the e-mail to help@PDX Mechanic.com. You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreement. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you send an e- mail to an e-mail address that is not subscribed in our community, we do not permanently store that e-mail or use that e-mail address for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these e-mail addresses.
PDX Mechanic reserves the right to revise, amend, or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in any manner. However, prior notification will be sent to you or revised policy date will be updated at the bottom or top of this page. Therefore we encourage users to continually visit this page for any changes or amendments. We also, encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
In agreement with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501-06 and 16 C.F.R. §§ 312.1-312.12, we do not seek or knowingly collect any personal information about children under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through our site, and rely on a parent or guardian to help you use our Site.
The contents of this site are the exclusive property of PDX Mechanic and may not be copied, distributed, displayed, altered or modified, or reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means including, but not limited to, electronic, photocopy, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of PDX Mechanic. The corporate and product names, slogans, logos and other content contained on this site are the registered or unregistered trademarks or service marks of PDX Mechanic or are used by PDX Mechanic with the permission of their owners. The use, copying or alteration of any Trademark without the express prior written consent of PDX Mechanic or, where applicable, the registered owner's express prior written consent is strictly prohibited. The Trademarks are protected under the Trademark Act and by state or common law.
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, although it may be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website. We will send you information regarding updates about our products and promotional offers. You cannot opt-out of Administrative Emails.
"Administrative Emails" relate to a User's activity on the Website, and include emails regarding a particular User's account and requests or inquiries. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. In contrast to Administrative Emails, however, you do have a choice with respect to Promotional Emails. Promotional Emails advertise our products and services, and/or the products and services of our Advertisers and Affiliates. If you do not want to receive Promotional Emails from us, you may select to opt-out of receiving Promotional Emails at any time after registering by hitting the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of any of our e-mails. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what Promotional Emails you do not want to receive.
You may use the following options for removing your information, including an unauthorized profile, from our e-mail database if you wish to opt out of receiving promotional e-mails and newsletters.
Click on the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of the e-mail sent to you.
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:
NOT use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honour opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
Because many users tend to use our service at different points, we retain your personal information for continued service and convenience purposes until you advise us not to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may retain personal information in order to comply with applicable laws, keep accurate records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, enforce our Terms and Conditions of Service or other agreements, or for any other legally permissible purpose.
We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
While PDX Mechanic uses its best efforts for the information contained in this site to be as accurate and reliable as possible, errors may sometimes occur. PDX Mechanic reserves the right to revise the information contained on this site and to make such changes without notice to past or present users of our site. Links to Other Sites To this extent that this site may now or in the future include links, facts, opinions or recommendations of different individuals or organizations, PDX Mechanic does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness or otherwise endorse these links, facts, opinions and recommendations.
PDX Mechanic reserves the right to revise the terms and conditions contained on this site without any obligation to notify past, current or prospective visitors to our site. We request that you visit this site from time to time to review the current terms and conditions.
This Privacy Policy applies to all current or former customer information collected by or provided to us.
The Sites may offer links to other sites. If you visit one of these sites, you may want to review the privacy policy on that site. In addition, you may have visited our website through a link or a banner advertisement on another site. In such cases, the site you linked from may collect information from people who click on the banner or link. You may want to refer to the privacy policies on those sites to see how they collect and use this information.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your personal information, or to the Privacy Policy, we will make that clear on the PDX Mechanic website or Services, or by some other means such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use PDX Mechanic.
Definitions
“Data Protection Legislation” means European Directives 95/46/EC and 2002/58/EC, and any legislation and/or regulation implementing or made pursuant to them, or which amends or replaces any of them (including the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679);
“Data Processor”, “Data Subject”, “Processor”, “Processing”, “Sub processor”, and “Supervisory Authority” shall be interpreted in accordance with applicable Data Protection Legislation;
“Personal Data” as used in this Addendum means information relating to an identifiable or identified Data Subject who visits or engages in transactions through your website (a “Customer”), which PDX Mechanic Processes as a Data Processor in the course of providing you with the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, Personal Data does not include information that PDX Mechanic processes in the context of services that it provides directly to a consumer, such as through its consumer-facing applications or its consumer-facing services; and
All other capitalized terms in this Addendum shall have the same definition as in the Agreement.
Where a Data Subject is located in the European Economic Area, that Data Subject’s Personal Data will be processed by PDX Mechanic, [COUNTRY] based servers.
When PDX Mechanic Processes Personal Data in the course of providing the Services, PDX Mechanic will:
Process the Personal Data as a Data Processor, only for the purpose of providing the Services in accordance with documented instructions from you (provided that such instructions are commensurate with the functionalities of the Services), and as may subsequently be agreed to by you. If PDX Mechanic is required by law to Process the Personal Data for any other purpose, PDX Mechanic will provide you with prior
notice of this requirement, unless PDX Mechanic is prohibited by law from providing such notice;
notify you if, in PDX Mechanic' opinion, your instruction for the processing of Personal Data infringes applicable Data Protection Legislation;
notify you promptly, to the extent permitted by law, upon receiving an inquiry or complaint from a Data Subject or Supervisory Authority relating to PDX Mechanic' Processing of the Personal Data;
implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the Personal Data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, damage, theft, alteration or disclosure. These measures shall be appropriate to the harm which might result from any unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, damage or theft of Personal Data and appropriate to the nature of the Personal Data which is to be protected;
provide you, upon request, with up-to-date attestations, reports or extracts thereof where available from a source charged with auditing PDX Mechanic' data protection practices (e.g. external auditors, internal audit, data protection auditors), or suitable certifications, to enable you to assess compliance with the terms of this Addendum;
notify you promptly upon becoming aware of and confirming any accidental, unauthorized, or unlawful processing of, disclosure of, or access to the Personal Data;
ensure that its personnel who access the Personal Data are subject to confidentiality obligations that restrict their ability to disclose the Customer Personal Data; and
upon termination of the Agreement, PDX Mechanic will promptly initiate its purge process to delete or anonymize the Personal Data. If you request a copy of such Personal Data within 60 days of termination, PDX Mechanic will provide you with a copy of such Personal Data.
In the course of providing the Services, you acknowledge and agree that PDX Mechanic may use Subprocessors to Process the Personal Data. PDX Mechanic' use of any specific Sub processor to process the Personal Data must be in compliance with Data Protection Legislation and must be governed by a contract between PDX Mechanic and Sub processor.
When we collect from you any personal information within the scope of European data protection laws, we do so (a) with your consent; (b) where necessary to provide the Service, fulfil a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract; (c) where necessary for our compliance with a legal obligation; (d) where necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest; and/or (e) as necessary to fulfil our legitimate interests as described below, except where our interests are overridden by your privacy rights. Where we rely on your
consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object.
Our legitimate interests are: to deliver our information to our users; to detect or prevent fraud; to protect the security of our systems, customers and users; to further develop our products; to conduct direct marketing; to operate our business (by processing payments/invoices and conduct credit checks on customers, suppliers and leads, perform sales and customer relations management, supplier management, as well as incidental processing in our back office for these purposes); to enable our customers to comply with legal obligations; to provide customer service or support; or fulfil our other legitimate interests as described above.
You have the right under Europe and certain other privacy and data protection laws to request free of charge:
access to and correction or deletion of your personal information,
that we cease or limit our processing of your personal information,
a copy of your personal information (right to data portability), and to
object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the address set out below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.
PDX Mechanic has appointed a designated Data Protection Officer who can be reached at:
Name of GDPR Officer: Phone:
Address:
We hope this policy responds to your questions about our collection, use and disclosure of your personal data. If you have additional questions or want to contact us for a specific purpose, please select from the following:
Access/Corrections: Please send any request to access, amend or delete certain personal data we hold about you to the contact address below.
Complaints and other questions: You should send any questions you may have about this policy or any complaints you have about how we have handled your personal data to the contact address below. If you feel our response is not satisfactory, we will refer you to a neutral and independent dispute resolution organization.
Security: If you have reason to believe that the personal data we hold about you, such as your account with [WEBSITE ADDRESS], other program
Profile(s), or other membership information is no longer secure, you must immediately notify us of the problem by either visiting the Support Page on our website or writing to our Email: pdxmechanics@gmail.com
We appreciate your concerns and will seek to resolve any concerns and disputes. Thanks for reading. Hope we made you feel a little more comfortable about using our website at [WEBSITE ADDRESS].
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 03, 2020.