This Privacy and Cookie Notice provides information on how Georgie Auto Parts & Accessories(GAPA NAIJA) collects and processes your personal data when you visit our customer-facing operations (website, mobile applications, and sales outlets). We place great importance on your privacy and are committed to safeguarding it to ensure you have a worry-free customer experience and confidence in our brand.
2. The Data We Collect About You?
We collect your personal data in order to provide and continually improve our products and services. We may collect, use, store and transfer the following different kinds of personal data about you for marketing and personal data optimization purposes. Georgie Auto Parts & Accessories (GAPA NAIJA) also uses Google Digital Marketing to propose targeted offers.
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Information you provide to us: We receive and store the information you provide to us including your identity data, contact data, delivery address, and financial data.
Information on your use of our website and/or mobile applications: We automatically collect and store certain types of information regarding your use of the Gapa Naija marketplace including information about your searches, views, downloads, and purchases.
Information from third parties and publicly available sources: We may receive information about you from third parties including our carriers; payment service providers; merchants/brands; and advertising service providers.
3. Cookies and How We Use Them
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree.
Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and mobile applications, which helps us to provide you with an enhanced browsing experience. For example, we use cookies for the following purposes:
Recognising and counting the number of visitors and seeing how visitors move around the site when they are using it (this helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for faster).
Identifying your preferences and subscriptions e.g. language settings, saved items, items stored in your basket “My Cart” and Business Account portal; and
Sending you newsletters and commercial/advertising messages tailored to your interests.
Our approved third parties may also set cookies when you visit our marketplace. Third parties include search engines, providers of measurement and analytics services, social media networks, and advertising companies.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data to operate, provide, develop and improve the products and services that we offer, including the following:
Registering you as a new customer.
Processing and delivering your orders.
Managing your relationship with us.
Enabling you to participate in promotions, competitions, and surveys.
Improving our website, applications, products, and services
Recommending/advertising products or services which may be of interest to you.
Complying with our legal obligations, including verifying your identity where necessary.
Detecting fraud.
Maintain communication with you (via phone, email, contact form, etc.)
5. How We Share Your Personal Data
We may need to share your personal data with third parties for the following purposes:
Sale of products and services: In order to deliver your products and services purchased on our marketplace from third parties, we may be required to provide your personal data to such third parties.
Working with third-party service providers: We engage third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services, delivering packages, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, transmitting content, assessing and managing credit risk, and providing customer service.
Business transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, customer information may be transferred together with other business assets.
Detecting fraud and abuse: We release accounts and other personal data to other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction, and to comply with the law.
When we share your personal data with third parties:
We require them to agree to use your data in accordance with the terms provided by our Privacy and Cookie Notice (Privacy Policy) and in accordance with the law.
We only permit the third party to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.
6. International Transfers
We may transfer your personal data to locations in another country if this is permissible pursuant to applicable laws in your location and you have given express consent. There are inherent risks in such transfers.
In the event of international transfers of your personal data, we shall put in place measures necessary to protect your data, and we shall continue to respect your legal rights pursuant to the terms of this Privacy and Cookie Notice and applicable laws in your location.
7. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know or permission to access such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures and checks to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
8. Your Legal Rights
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes or any inaccuracy is noticed during your relationship with us.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to access, correct or erase your personal data, object to or restrict processing of your personal data, and unsubscribe from our emails and newsletters.
9. Further Details
If you are looking for more information on how we process your personal data, or you wish to exercise your legal rights in respect of your personal data, please send us an email via contact@gapaautoparts.com.
