PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. YOUR USE OF THIS SITE CONFIRMS YOUR UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU SHOULD CHECK THIS POLICY REGULARLY TO SEE IF ANY CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE.

Automotive Professionals, Inc. ("API," "we" or "us") is committed to protecting our customers' ("you") privacy when they visit the API Protection web site (the "Site") or visit with us in any other way. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice to explain how we use, collect and protect the information you provide to us while using this Site, or dealing with us in any other way and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

When you use our Site, you will sometimes be asked to give us personal information. The following explains why we are asking for this information and what we intend to do with this information once you give it to us. We value your privacy and will work very hard to protect it. However, if, after reading this, you still have concerns, please feel free to contact us by email at info@apiprotection.com.

1. How and When Personal Information is Collected or Used

The first way is by buying a product and/or signing up for a customer account. For example, when you open an account or place an order, we collect and store some or all of the following information that you provide: name, billing address, shipping address, email address, telephone number, credit card number and expiration date. This information is used to provide the products and services that you have ordered or requested, to process and ship orders, to send order and shipping confirmations and to provide customer service.

A second way for you to submit Personal Information is by signing up for our mailing list, newsletter, other than by buying a product or signing up for a customer account.

A third way for you to submit Personal Information is by signing up for contests and sweepstakes. Each contest or sweepstakes will have its own official rules provided with the description of the contest or sweepstakes, or the entry form. The official rules will specify how personal information and other information gathered from you for entry will be used and disclosed.

A fourth way for you to submit Personal Information is by applying for a job with us. We will use that information only to contact you regarding job opportunities that may be of interest.

The information we collect may be used to contact you about sales, new products and announcements, changes to our Site or policies and special offers and promotional communications. We also may send you offers or promotions from third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, but we will not share your Personal Information with those third parties. If you have a customer account, you may receive emails with news or updates about the Site or information about your account.

Whenever you send us personal correspondence, such as email and letters, or when other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect and store such information.

To serve you better, we may combine Personal Information you give us online and offline. We also may combine that information with publicly available information about you that we may receive from third parties. We may use that combined information to enhance and personalize your experience when visiting the Site, to communicate with you about our products and for other promotional purposes.

Demographic and profile data are also collected at the Site. We use this information in order to customize our Site to analyze and enhance our Site and to distribute statistics and marketplace information about the Site. Such information will always be in the aggregate and not about individual users.

2. Sharing

We may contract with third-party companies or persons to provide certain services including operating the Site, distribution, data management and promotional services, etc. ("Service Providers") which operates the Site pursuant to agreements with us. We provide the Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services, with the requirement that they only use the information to perform those services for us and for no other purpose. In turn, our Service Providers may engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorization, order fulfillment and shipping and Site evaluation. Our Service Providers may provide Personal Information to these third parties, but we authorize them to use this information only in connection with the services they perform for use of our Site and stores.

We may share non-personal information with our marketing partners, advertisers and others from time to time. Examples of such information include the number of users who visited the Site during a specific time. This information generally is shared in an aggregate form.

It is not or business practice to sell or rent Personal Information to any third parties.

3. Cookies

In order to keep track of your preferences and provide security measures, we use "cookies". A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from our server. Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any Personal Information while on our Site. Cookies allow us to maintain an active session, ensuring a seamless experience while on our Site, and give you better, more personalized service. Cookies must be enabled for you to register and use our Site.

4. IP Addresses

Your computer reaches us via a particular IP (Internet Protocol) address. This can tell us things like what part of the world you are connecting from, or the Internet Service Provider you are using. We collect IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers. We also are provided with "click stream" or "tracking" information. We use this to determine which areas of our Site users like and do not like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

5. Insolvency or Sale

In the unlikely event that API becomes insolvent and seeks protection under applicable bankruptcy laws, we may share your personal and non-personal information with a third party that purchases the URL to the Site assets relating to the Site, and that intends to continue to run or operate the Site subject to this privacy policy, as it may be amended from time to time. As with any business or entity, it is possible that as our business develops, we might buy or sell certain assets. In such transactions, Personal Information may be among the transferred assets. Accordingly, in the unlikely event that we sell all or substantially all of our assets related to the Site, or Personal Information held by us are acquired by a third party, such information may be one of the transferred assets. Under such circumstances, we would, to the extent possible, require the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Policy as it may be amended from time to time.

7. Links

The Site may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We encourage everyone to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects Personally Identifiable Information. This privacy statement applies solely to Personal Information collected by the Site.

8. Security

Our database is stored on a secure environment behind multiple firewalls on a non-routable IP address. This site has security measures in place intended to guard against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Access to the Personal Information collected at the Site is restricted to only those employees and agents who need it to perform a specific job (for example, maintaining the database). All of our employees and agents who access the database are instructed to protect confidential information. Finally, the servers on which we store Personally Identifiable Information are kept in a secure environment.

9. Children's Guidelines

The Site is not intended for use by children. We do not intend and do not wish to collect any information from, or about, any person who is under the age of 18 years. If you are under 18, you should not provide any information to us in any manner including through this Site.

10. Choice/Opt-Out

Our Site provides those of you who use the Site the opportunity to opt-out of receiving this information. You may opt-out of the updates by sending us an email through the "Contact Us" section on our Site. If you do not wish to receive our announcements, you may also opt out of the announcements. However, by opting out of receiving announcements you may forfeit your ability to participate in certain member only portions of our Site. You can opt-out by sending us an email through the "Contact Us" section on our Site.

11. Correct/Update

If your Personally Identifiable Information changes (such as zip/postal code), you may correct/update your Personally Identifiable Information previously provided at any time by sending us an email through the "Contact Us" section at our Site. You may also have your personal profile data deleted from our database by sending us an email through the "Contact Us" section at our Site or by sending an email to info@apiprotection.com or by mailing us at 1002 East Algonquin Road, Schaumburg, IL 60173.

12. Notification of Changes

If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post those changes at our Site so you become aware of what Personally Identifiable Information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it. If we do change this Privacy Policy, you will have the option of accepting those changes or having your Personally Identifiable Information from the system upon your request.

13. Other

In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose your Personally Identifiable Information if: (i) required to do so by law, court order or subpoena, or as requested by other government, law enforcement or investigative authority, (ii) in our good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect the rights or properties of the Site, (iii) we have reason to believe that disclosing the Personally Identifiable Information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, or has breached an agreement, or (iv) anyone else could be harmed by such activities or interference.

14. Acceptance of Privacy Policy. Questions

By using our Site and its services, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree or are not comfortable with any policy described in this Privacy Policy, you may discontinue use of our Site. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of any portion of our Site following notification or posting of such changes will constitute your acceptance of these changes. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may send us an email through the "Contact Us" section at our Site.