Tool Zone Direct (“we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, www.toolzonedirect.com, and make use of our services. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
1. Information We Collect
Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards.
Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To facilitate account creation and the logon process.
- To process your transactions.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications.
- To send administrative information to you.
- To fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Site.
- To post testimonials.
- To deliver targeted advertising.
- To request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site.
- To resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
- To prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm.
- To manage user accounts.
- To improve our services.
- To offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
- Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
- Interactions with Other Users: If you interact with other users of the Site and post information in public areas of the Site, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
- Online Postings: When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the Site, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
- Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
4. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
5. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@toolzonedirect.com.
6. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access and Correction: You may have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to request corrections of any inaccurate data.
- Data Portability: You may have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Erasure: You may have the right to request the deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Objection to Processing: You may have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you may have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy
