We collect information from you when you register and create an account on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out our site or marketing forms or respond to an email.

Any information you provide in your secure member profile is used only to improve our service to you. There are times when we ask for contact information like your first name, last name, address, phone number, or credit card information. This contact information is used to respond to your requests, orders, adjustments and refunds related to your order. We suggest keeping your account information up-to-date (like your phone and shipping address, etc.), it will save you time on all your future requests and orders.

Sensitive credit card information is not stored in your online account on the Blauparts LLC website database. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive credit card information is transmitted via advanced Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database (Authorize.Net) which is only accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems. After a transaction, your private information (credit card information, etc.) will not be stored on our servers or system. While Blauparts LLC's checkout does offer the opportunity to store payment information in your account on the website, the payment information is stored at the gateway provider and secured according to the information above. Blauparts LLC is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

More reasons why we use information we collect

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

• To personalize your experience: Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs
• To improve our website: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you
• To improve customer service: Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs
• To process transactions
• To send periodic emails

The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. You can unsubscribe from receiving our newsletter at any time. There are detailed unsubscribed instructions at the bottom of the emails we send to you.

Your email address or personal identifying information is strictly used by Blauparts LLC as noted and is never sold to any 3rd party for any purpose, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested by you. This does not include trusted third parties who may assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or other’s rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

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Use of Cookies

Blauparts LLC and its third party service providers use certain tools to collect information (cookies) about users browsing our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer hard drive. The cookies are used to improve our website performance, to provide special viewing options and to acquire statistical data for reports on website activity, for fraud reduction, or for security purposes. We also use cookies to identify customers or previous visitors of our website. We will also use cookies to re-populate website forms. Such information may be disclosed to third parties to provide any of the activities mentioned above on behalf of Blauparts LLC. We may use third party partners who will use cookies to gather information related to your activities on our website and other browsing history in order to provide advertising material taken from your browsing activities.

You can search the internet and find out how to restrict or block cookies. However, without cookies, users may not be able to take full advantage of all of our website features including shopping cart and checkout.

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Other Information We Collect

We may also collect the type of computer OS (operating system ie. Windows 7, 10, etc.) and internet browser you're using to access our site. One reason we acquire this info is because we need to make sure our website works properly with these different technologies. We may also notate your IP address to know what internet service provider you use. One reason we acquire this info is to try to help identify and prevent credit card fraud. We may also collect the domain name of the web site or advertisement from which you came to our website from. This information does not contain your name, address, phone number etc.

Any suggestions, ideas, technical information, methods, questions, comments, emails, websites, product reviews or social media posts you submit to us will be considered a free non-proprietary contribution to Blauparts LLC. You grant Blauparts LLC non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, store, display, reproduce, modify, perform, and distribute your user content on Blauparts.com or it’s 3rd party affiliates in any manner we deem necessary even if it is for commercial purposes. We are not obligated to let you know in what ways we intended to re-use what you have contributed.

You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this site any unlawful, threatening, harassing, libelous, offensive, defamatory, obscene, or pornographic materials, or other materials that would violate any law or the rights of others. Blauparts LLC has no liability related to any such content, verbal, email, social media post or any other published communications whether or not arising under the laws of libel, privacy, copyright or otherwise.

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Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy at any time by posting an updated privacy policy.

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Retention Period

We will retain personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law or regulation.

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The California Online Privacy Protection Act

We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

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Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years of age or older. We suggest those using our site be 18 years of age or older.

Last updated: June 05, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

• Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Blauparts LLC, 4921 County Road CR, Manitowoc, WI 54220.

• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

• Country refers to: Wisconsin, United States

• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• Service refers to the Website.

• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Website refers to Blauparts, accessible from www.blauparts.com

• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address

• First name and last name

• Phone number

• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service, like the shopping cart and checkout. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

• Necessary / Essential Cookies

  Type: Session Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

• Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

• Functionality Cookies

  Type: Persistent Cookies

  Administered by: Us

  Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or shopping cart contents. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

• To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

• To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, fraud prevention, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services, analyzing data, providing marketing support, and providing customer service.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside (e.g. reviews and frequently asked questions).
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Advertising Service Providers

To enhance our website's performance and provide you with a better experience, we utilize third-party tracking tools such as Google Analytics and Google Analytics Advertising Features. These tools enable us to collect aggregated and anonymized data about your browsing behavior and demographic information. We use this information to analyze trends, measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, and display relevant advertisements to our users. Please note that the information collected through these tools is subject to Google's own privacy policies and practices.

At this time Google provides You with the ability to opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features through Google Ad Settings or the privacy section of a Google Account.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

We offer the use of a secure server with firewall protection. All supplied sensitive credit card information is transmitted via advanced Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database (Authorize.Net), which is only accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems. The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your personal identifying information is strictly used by Us as noted and is never sold to any third party for any purpose, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or Service requested by you. This does not include trusted third party service providers and business partners who may assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or other’s rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years of age or older. We suggest those using our site be 18 years of age or older.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

The California Online Privacy Protection Act

We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by visiting this page on our website: www.blauparts.com/contact-us