Privacy Policy
Who we are
This privacy policy is for this website (www.)thepartscentre.com and served by The Parts Centre. It governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The Parts Centre is trading name of TPC Motor Factors Ltd.
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
This policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
The information that we collect from our customers is known as “personal data”. This can include customers’ names, home addresses and e-mail addresses. We collect this in a number of different ways. For example, customers may provide this data to us directly when filling in forms on this website, or when corresponding with us by telephone, e-mail or letter.
We also take customers’ credit card details: however, we do not save this information on any of our systems. This is all handled by third party payment processors (e.g PayPal, Stripe or Dojo) for security reasons.
Equally, we do not collect any special category data about our customers (i.e. information about their ethnicity, religion, health etc).
In general terms, we collect this personal data so that we can:
Fulfil product orders that you may make via this website, which you can subsequently collect from The Parts Centre store, or which may be delivered to your home or work;
Provide a range of services at our store;
Deliver high-levels of customer care and support; and
Communicate with you effectively, whether this is about your order, or so that you don’t miss out on great promotions, offers and helpful reminders.
Comments & Reviews
When users leave comments or reviews on the site we collect the data shown in the comments / review form, and also the users’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment or review.
Users comments and reviews may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Users to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
When you visit this website, cookies will be used to collect information about you such as your name, email address and internet protocol (IP) address which connects your computer or mobile device to the internet. You can manage your cookie settings via the pop up on your first visit to our site or at our Cookie Policy page here).
Our Cookie Policy page also goes into more detail about what data is collected and how long it is stored for. You can view our Cookie Policy page here.
Embedded content from other websites
Throughout this website we may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the user has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
External Links to other websites
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)
The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Analytics
We may collect information automatically from you for Analytical purposes. This information is collected anonymously and is not linked to information that identifies you as an individual. We use Google Analytics to track this information. Find out how Google uses your data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may, in turn, be saved on your computer. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/example).
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Who we share your data with
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies.
We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities unless required by law or other regulations.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email and that will be visible to website administrators.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment or review, the comment / review and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments or reviews automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register an account on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments / reviews, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Privacy Policy last updated October 2023
