Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how aussieautospareparts.com (the “Site” or
“we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you
visit or make a purchase from the Site.
COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION.
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device
your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your
purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us
for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information
that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information
below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information
about what Personal Information we collect and why.
DEVICE INFORMATION.
Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP
address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view,
search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to
perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our
Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.
ORDER INFORMATION.
Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address,
shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers,
email address, and phone number.
Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill
our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping,
and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with
you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with
the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or
advertising relating to our products or services.
Source of collection: collected from you.
Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT INFORMATION.
Examples of Personal Information collected:
Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
Source of collection: collected from you.
MINORS.
The Site is not intended for individuals under the
age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from
children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has
provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address
below to request deletion.
SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION.
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us
provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described
above. For example:
We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how
Shopify uses your Personal Information
here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and
regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful
request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
USING PERSONAL INFORMATION.                                                                  We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which
includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and
fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products,
services, and offers.
LAWFUL BASIS.
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are
a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal
information under the following lawful bases:
YOUR CONSENT.
The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
Compliance with our legal obligations;
To protect your vital interests;
To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental
rights and freedoms.
RETENTION.
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal
Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this
information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the
‘Your rights’ section below.
AUTOMATIC DECISION MAKING.                                                                       If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to
processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes
profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or
otherwise significantly affects you.
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or
otherwise significant effect using customer data.

Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent
fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed
transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted
IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.
CCPA
If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the
Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know’)
to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be
corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights
please contact us through the contact information below
If you would like to designate an authorized agent to submit these
requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below.
COOKIES.
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your
computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different
cookies, including functional, performance, advertising,
and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing
experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and
preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t
have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or
browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on
how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time
visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site
and to provide our services.
Name Function
_ab Used in connection with access to admin.
_secure_session_id Used in connection with navigation through
a storefront.
cart Used in connection with shopping cart.
cart_sig Used in connection with checkout.
cart_ts Used in connection with checkout.
checkout_token Used in connection with checkout.
secret Used in connection with checkout.
secure_customer_sig Used in connection with customer login.
storefront_digest Used in connection with customer login.
_shopify_u Used to facilitate updating customer account
information.
Reporting and Analytics
Name Function
_tracking_consent Tracking preferences.
_landing_page Track landing pages
_orig_referrer Track landing pages
_s Shopify analytics.
_shopify_fs Shopify analytics.
_shopify_s Shopify analytics.
_shopify_sa_p Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_sa_t Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.
_shopify_y Shopify analytics.
_y Shopify analytics.

DO NOT TRACK.
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of
how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data
collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your
browser.
CHANGES.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect,
for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal,
or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT.
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions,
or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at
aussieauto@bigpond.com