Direct Lift – Security and Privacy Policy

 

Why do you use PayPal for credit card payments?

The employees at Direct Lift are experts at designing and manufacturing a cost-effective and safe vehicle and motorcycle lifts.  On the other hand, PayPal is an expert when it comes to electronic payments.  PayPal has all of the security and procedures in place to safeguard your personal information and credit card details.  In addition, PayPal adheres to international PCI (payment card industry) compliance standards for data security.  Click here for more information about PayPal.

 

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you that allows us to provide services and content that are customized to your needs. You are anonymous on this site until you provide us with this information. When you use this web site, we collect information that you supply, such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and billing information.

 

How do we use the information we collect?

To protect your privacy, we pledge to keep the personal information that you provide to us secure and private. Our agreements with our distributors, agents, and affiliates include security provisions and will not share your personal information with any third party. We do not sell, trade, rent, or release your personal information to anyone outside our company, contractors, and affiliates, other than in compliance with this privacy and security policy. We, our distributors, and our affiliates use the personal information you provide voluntarily to administer our business activities, provide customer service, contact you concerning your purchase and make other products and services available to you. Your information may be combined with information about you which we gathered from other sources. We share your information with our distributors where necessary to complete your transaction. To the extent required or permitted by law, we may collect, use and disclose personal information in connection with security-related or law enforcement investigations or in the course of cooperating with authorities or complying with legal requirements. We may also use your information as permitted by law to perform credit checks, report or collect debts owed, or protect the rights or property of Direct Lift, our employees, our customers, this site, or its users.

 

What about cookies?

We use cookies to keep track of your preferences and activities during your visits.  We do not use cookies to ascertain any personally identifiable information about you apart from what you voluntarily provide us in your dealings with Direct Lift and our distributors. Cookies do not corrupt or damage your computer, programs, or computer files.

 

How is the information collected online protected?

When you provide us with information through this site, such as your name, address, and phone number, your information is stored in a computer system behind a secure firewall that blocks access from outside our server.   We don’t store any financially sensitive information in our systems such as credit card information.

 

What about changes to this Privacy and Security Policy?

By using our site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy and security policy and related business practices at any time by posting updated text on this site.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://directlift.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized 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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor 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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), 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, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements