Privacy Policy

Privacy is very important to us. Our privacy practices are held to high standards by outside organizations. As part of the normal operation of our services we may collect and, in some cases, disclose information about you.

This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about SJMAutotechnik.com practices so you can make informed decisions.

The privacy practices of this statement apply to the SJMAutotechnik.com website. As described below, in order to process your parts order, some of your personally identifiable information is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties.

By accepting the User Agreement, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the SJMAutotechnik.com User Agreement.

Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized buying experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most closely meet your needs, and to customize our services to make your experience easier.

Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial information, such as, but not limited to: if you are registering using an email account at a free email service, or registering to sell on our site. We use your financial information, including credit card information to verify your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for your use of our services.

We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on our site. We use this information to do internal research on our user's demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and your community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and possibly your IP address.

We may use devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of our site. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. Your Internet Browser should be set to allow the use of Cookies to save your session information if you need to return later and complete your order.

We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". We also may use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information, which is targeted, to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in this case you may not be able to use certain features on our site, may not be able to save the items in your Shopping Cart, and you may be required to reenter your personal information, or possibly a password more frequently during a session.

Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain pages of our site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a web page created by a user, there may be a "cookie" placed within that web page. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information
(not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other website's in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on your visit to our site and other sites of interest on the internet.

If you choose to bid, buy or sell on our site, we collect information about your bidding, buying and selling behavior.

If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, including a billing address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money orders.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

If you register for SJMAutotechnik.com on another web site or use a web site providing a service for SJMAutotechnik.com or a web site that helps facilitate your activity on SJMAutotechnik.com, that web site may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to SJMAutotechnik.com.

Our Use of Your Information.
We use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases.

You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site's content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.

If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on the notification page. You may make changes to your notification preferences at any time.

Our Disclosure of Your Information.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private

Other Corporate Entities.
We share much of our data, including personally identifiable information about you, with our subsidiaries and joint ventures that are committed to serving your online purchasing needs and related services, throughout the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they obtain from their other users. Our subsidiaries and joint ventures follow privacy practices no less protective of all users than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that SJMAutotechnik.com, its subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that SJMAutotechnik.com would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the service.

Legal Requests.
SJMAutotechnik.com cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your User ID, name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to SJMAutotechnik.com participants as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement

Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, and financial information from our active databases. To make this request, email: sjmautoparts@comcast.net Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.

We will retain in our files information you have requested to remove in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. Further, such prior information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored "back up" systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

Other Information Collectors.
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties, or other sites linked from our site throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers, they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since SJMAutotechnik.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

Security
SJMAutotechnik.com uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. SJMAutotechnik.com treats data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

A Special Note About Children.
Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with your parents or guardians.

Notice
We may change this Privacy Policy from time-to-time based on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective after we provide you with at least thirty (30) days notice of the changes by posting the changes on our home page. We provide you with thirty (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify SJMAutotechnik.com if you do not agree to such changes.