Privacy Policy
https://www.vbeautosupplies.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to our website. We appreciate that you may have questions about our privacy policy. The following provides information on how we collect, use, and otherwise processes your personal information during your visit of https://www.vbeautosupplies.com, as well as the rights that you have in relation to our processing of that information. In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that enables you to be identified. If you have any comments or questions in connection with this Privacy Policy, or for further information on our processing activities and your rights in relation to your personal information, please contact us via email at info@vbeautosupplies.com or by mail to VBe Auto Supplies. You may also call us toll-free at 1-866-414-2349
Information Collection
You are not required to provide any personal information to view our website. If you choose to send us personal information by email, mail or some other form, we may keep a record of that information. Additionally, we may collect the following categories of personal information from you in the course of business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us:
- Identification data, such as name, title, job title, or address.
- Contact information, including your phone number(s), your email address and social media account or handle where appropriate.
- Event registration or mailing list data, such as dietary requirements (which may reveal information about your health or religious beliefs), preferences and interests, subscriptions,downloads, and username/passwords.
- Job applicant data, such as identification data and contact information, resume and other data provided by you or third parties (e.g. recruiters) on our website, online recruitment portal (where applicable) or offline in connection with job openings, which may be subject to additional local requirements based on the country for which the position is advertised.
- Cookie and device data, such as information about your visit of our website, IP address, device identifier, browser type and version, operating system and network, location, and time zone setting.
- We may supplement the information that you provide to us with information that we receive or obtain from other sources, such as from our staff or personnel, clients, professional advisers, partners, and agents of VBe Auto Supplies, LLC, third parties with whom we interact, and publicly available sources.
Information Usage
We may use your personal information for the following purposes and, for each purpose, based on the following legal grounds:
- Administration of client and vendor relationships.
- Addressing client inquiries/feedback. It may also be necessary for our legitimate interests to establish or maintain a relationship with you; it is also in your interest to receive a response from us when you contact us.
- Sending relevant marketing messages and inviting you to events/seminars – we use identification data, contact details, cookie, and device data, and mailing list data to communicate with you by way of email alerts and post to provide you with information about our events, seminars, or services that may be of interest to you.
- Improving our website – we use cookie and device data to improve the functionality and user-friendliness of our website.
- Keeping our website and IT systems and processes safe.
- Complying with legal or regulatory inquiries/requests.
- Recruitment – personal information about job applicants is collected and processed for purposes of screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for positions; record-keeping related to hiring processes; analysing the hiring process and outcomes; and conducting background checks, where and to the extent permitted by applicable law, which may also be subject to relevant local recruitment privacy policy. If you are hired by us, this data will be transferred to our employee record files for the purpose of your employment. This processing is necessary in order to take steps at the request of the job applicant in the context of recruitment prior to entering into a contract.
Information Sharing
We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:
- Vendors that will process your personal information on our behalf and under our written instructions to carry out their services during the course of our business, such as IT service providers, customer relationship management databases and other cloud-based solutions, third party companies providing us with business analytics and statistics to assist with our marketing campaigns, and third party venues in which we may host events and seminars.
- Law enforcement, regulatory, or government agency requesting personal information in connection with any inquiry, subpoena, court order, or other legal or regulatory procedures, with which we would need to comply. We may also share personal information to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims.
- Any third party connected with business transfers; we may transfer your personal information to third parties in connection with a reorganization, restructuring, merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets of our firm, provided that the receiving party agrees to treat your personal information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
- We are not responsible for the data policies or procedures or content of any linked websites. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies of each website you visit.
Security
We endeavour to take reasonable steps to protect your personal information, but cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. Please note that email is not a secure medium and should not be used to send confidential or sensitive information. By providing information online, you accept the inherent security risks of providing information over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security.
Cookies
The term “cookies” refers to a method of storing information about your activity on our website. When you visit our website, our computer system reads the cookie created by your browser to identify whether you are one of our customers and, if so, help you recall orders or preferences you have selected. The cookie also enables us to recall other past activities on the website, post your account data, send e-mail to you, and tailor other parts of our website to your visit. We also use information stored in cookies to analyse website usage trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, gather demographic information about our user base, and conduct our marketing campaigns. Most web browsers accept cookies by default, but allow users to reject cookies by changing the browser preferences. If you have set up your browser to reject cookies, some aspects of our website may not work properly for you. Note that this Privacy Policy only covers the use of cookies by us. It does not cover the use of cookies by any Third Party Sites.
Do Not Track
Please note that we do not support “Do Not Track” browser settings at this time.
Information Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes for which that information was collected as set out in this Privacy Policy or for longer as required under any applicable legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements. Should you opt out or no longer wish to receive marketing messages from us, we will securely delete your personal information from the relevant mailing list(s).
Children
Our website is not directed to children and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@vbeautosupplies.com.
Notification of Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version to https://www.vbeautosupplies.com and update the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. Except as otherwise indicated, any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on our website.