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Privacy Policy

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When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control.

This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

We crawl and aggregate auto part data that help thousands of people daily to explore and interact with the world in new ways. Our services include:

  • Crawling and Aggregating auto part data in which we list in a consumable fashion, where users can then take action on that information.
  • Platforms Like Auto Questions and AutoPartEx Market Place.
  • You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up for a AutoPartEx Account if you want to create and manage content like listing information, where your photos and content can be altered. You can use many AutoPartEx services when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching through our auto part listing data or reading answers to questions. So you can totally use our website in Google's or FireFox Private/Incognito mode. You can choose to opt out of us tracking or collecting informaton in your privacy settings to control what we collect and how your information is used.

    • Information We Collect

    We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services

    We collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to you online, or what Dealer we should target you based on your location data. The information AutoPartEx collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls.

    When you’re not signed in to your AutoPartEx Account, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This helps us do things like maintain your language preferences across browsing sessions

    When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your AutoPartEx Account, which we treat as personal information.

    Things You Create or Provide To Us

    When you create an AutoPartEx Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. You can also choose to add a phone number or payment information to your account. Even if you aren’t signed in to an AutoPartEx Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to receive updates about our services. We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, you upload videos, and comments made on profiles or any content on this platform.

    Information We Collect As You Use Our Services

    We collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access AutoPartEx services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low. The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request. We collect this information when you view an auto part or interact with users on this website on your device contacts our servers — for example, you search for an engine and then interact with a vendor account or feed. If you’re using an Android device or iPhone, your device periodically contacts AutoPartEx servers to provide information about your device and connection to our services. This information includes things like your device type, carrier name, and which apps you've installed.

    Your Activity

    We collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like recommend an auto part or a vendor's page you might like. The activity information we collect may include:

  • Terms you search for
  • Parts you look at
  • Views and interactions with content and ads
  • Purchase activity
  • People with whom you communicate or share content
  • Activity on third-party sites and apps that use our services

    • If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect call and message log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, sender and recipient email address, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types and volumes of calls and messages.

    Your Local Information

    We collect information about your location when you use our services, which helps us offer features like placing auto parts information that is close to where you live or conduct business.
    Your location can be determined with varying degrees of accuracy by:

  • GPS
  • IP address
  • Sensor data from your device
  • Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth-enabled devices

    • The types of location data we collect depend in part on your device and account settings. For example, you can turn your Android device’s location on or off using the device’s settings app. You can also turn on Location History if you want to create a private map of where you go with your signed-in devices.

    In some circumstances, AutoPartEx also collects information about you from publicly accessible sources. For example, AutoPartEx Search Engine may index information from your website and display it to other people if they search for your brand name or auto part numbers. We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, such as directory services who provide us with business information to be displayed on AutoPartEx's services, marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to protect against abuse. We also receive information from advertisers to provide advertising and research services on their behalf.

    We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.

    Measuring Performance

    We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimize product design. And we also use data about the ads you interact with to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We use a variety of tools to do this, including Google Analytics. When you visit sites that use Google Analytics, a Google Analytics customer may choose to enable Google to link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services.