Website Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting a Carquest affiliated website (Carquest.com, Carquest.ca, technetprofessional.com, CarquestCareers.com) and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:


Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:


  1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain);
  2. IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
  3. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  4. The date and time you access our site;
  5. The pages you visit; and
  6. If you linked to a Carquest affiliated website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.


If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail to our public e-mail address, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with information that you request. If you submit your resume through our website, we use your personal identification information only in considering your application for employment. We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. We do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.


We would share your e-mail with another department only if your inquiry related to that department. If you submit a resume, this information will be shared only with associates involved in making hiring decisions.


Links to Other Sites
Our website has links to the websites of many third-party suppliers and business partners. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.


How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Website Privacy Statement or its implementation you may contact us at:


Carquest Corporation
c/o Marketing Department
P.O. Box 26929
Raleigh, NC 27611


Updates & Effective Date
From time to time, we may update this privacy statement. We will provide notice about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so you always know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.


The above Privacy Statement was updated November 1, 2008