Privacy policy
As Pedal Commander, we attach importance to the privacy and protection of your personal data. This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personal Information (PI) is being used online via pedalcommander.com.
PI, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your PI throughout our website.
Which personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
Some information is collected automatically when you visit, use or navigate this website. This information does not reveal your specific identity, yet might include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, language preferences, country, and location. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of the website and internal analytics.
Additionally, we process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract, compliance with our legal duties and obligations, and/or your consent. Knowing that we are usually acting as “data controllers” and rarely as “data processors”, we aim to perform our duties throughout this privacy policy.
In correlation with the above-mentioned receival and collection of your personal data; Pedal Commander may collect identity information (name, surname, title, company, ID number (if necessary), contact information (phone number, e-mail address, delivery address), financial information (limited to credit card information and other details regarding taxes or billing upon personal purchases or by your company details) and data used to provide electronic data processing security (IP address, cookies).
We collect identity information (name, surname) and contact information (e-mail address, phone number) upon your explicit consent. We use this information to send you emails, text notifications (for your order, including abandoned checkout reminders), text marketing offers, and transactional texts, including requests for reviews from us. Our website uses cookies to provide improved technical function and to keep track of items you put into your shopping cart, including when you have abandoned your checkout. This information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS or email.
We use the above-mentioned information in order to perform our services, facilitate account creation and logon process, send updates about your order and billing requirements, request feedback, perform analysis and enable the managing of user accounts, to enforce terms, to allow a better experience in website and targeted advertising, conditions and policies stated on our website and to perform our legal duties and obligations.
We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, affiliates, legal and financial consultants, and other third-party service providers. The purposes behind these transfer operations are legal obligations, payment processing, data analysis, e-mail delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. Apart from the groups or purposes stated, we do not share or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
Most importantly, we have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect the security of any personal information we collect and process. Please note that no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be fully secure even though we pay the utmost attention to data protection and privacy.
We do not collect or process the data of children under 18 years of age willingly. By using this website, the user conveys that he/she is at least 18 or fully under the watch of a legal guardian of them consenting to the use of this website. Pedal Commander retains the right to deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data of users under the age of 18. Please notify us in case of such occasions that you might be knowledgeable of.
When and how do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information collected from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
- To personalize the user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
- To improve our website in order to better serve you.
- To allow us to better respond to your customer service requests.
- To quickly process your transactions.
- To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.
Text marketing (if applicable): Upon your permission, we may send text messages about our store, new products, campaigns, and other updates. Updates include Checkout Reminders. Webhooks will be used to trigger the Checkout Reminders messaging system.
"The website uses cookies to help keep track of items you put into your shopping cart including when you have abandoned your cart and this information is used to determine when to send cart reminder messages via SMS."
How do we protect visitor information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
Your personal information is stored in secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of authorized persons according to the need-to-know principle and confidentiality obligations. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and not stored or processed on our servers.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. They are also utilized to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
- Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
- Understand and save users’ preferences for future visits.
- Keep track of advertisements.
You may disable cookies through your browser or change settings. Please note that disabling cookies will lead some features to dysfunction. Nevertheless, you can still use our website and place orders.
Third Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others' rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable (anonymous) visitor information may be provided to affiliates and sister companies for financial analysis and statistical purposes.
"The above excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties."
Third-party links
We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website.
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
- Remarketing with Google AdSense
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
- DoubleClick Platform Integration
Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to them using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on.
CCPA (CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT) AND CPRA (CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT)
The CCPA grants California residents new rights regarding their personal information and imposes various data protection duties on certain entities conducting business in California.
In November 2020, California voters affirmed the passage of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which augments the state’s landmark California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in several ways.
According to the CCPA, personal information is “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”
Business or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose personal information we collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
- To operate and provide services, support, and respond to inquiries
- To fulfill or meet the requirement you provided the information. For example, hence you provided your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment, complete the packaging and facilitate delivery.
- Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
- To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including, when necessary, prosecuting those responsible for such activities.
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. If we decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information for another purpose, we will update this Privacy Policy.
While we do not sell your personal information, we may share it to support our own operational purposes in providing Services to you. These operational purposes, known as “business purposes” under the CCPA, are described above.
Gobot
We leverage various tools and services to improve your shopping experience. When you visit our site, we may send one or more cookies, i.e., a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters, to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and enables sending you communications when you visit or leave our site. Note that you can always set your browser to reject cookies or you can manually delete individual or all of the cookies on your computer by following your browser’s help file directions. Note that turning off cookies may also disable functions of many websites you visit. For example, one service we leverage is Gobot to send you messages regarding abandoned carts, shopping sessions and marketing. To enable this service, Gobot may automatically collect device type, operating system, geographic location, browser type, Internet Service Provider, and various data related to usage of our website including pages visited, links clicked, non-sensitive text entered, mouse movements, referring URL, and cookie information as detailed herein. Gobot’s privacy policy can be found here. To opt out of Gobot, click here.
Consumer Rights and Request Procedure
If you are a Californian resident, you have the following rights:
- The right to know, at or before the point of collection, the categories of personal information collected by a business, the purposes for which such information is collected or used, and whether such information is sold or shared, as well as information regarding the length of time a business intends to retain each category of personal information;
- The right to delete personal information collected from the consumer;
- The right to opt-out of the sale of personal information (if applicable);
- The right to opt-in to the sale of personal information of consumers under the age of 16 (if applicable);
- The right to non-discriminatory treatment for exercising any rights; and
- The right to initiate a private cause of action for data breaches.
- The right to correct the inaccurate personal information; and
- The right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information.
To use one or more of these rights, you can submit a verifiable consumer request to us by email at sales@pedalcommander.com. We will review any request via email or otherwise as provided by us to verify your identity. We reserve the right to request additional information to verify your request. We will not use this additional information for anything other than to handle your request.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We kindly ask you to provide the correct and complete information so that we may verify your identity and find a solution to your request.
We will endeavor to fulfill your request within 45 days of receiving that request. If we require additional time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing through e-mail.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Right to Opt-Out
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, please keep in mind that you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under 13, or allow users under 18 without a legal guardian’s watch.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices, we will take the following responsive action, in case a data breach occurs:
We will notify the users via email within 7 business days. We also agree with the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
Contact Us
In case of any further questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us via sending an e-mail to sales@pedalcommander.com.