Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 4/3/2023
A Local Cart LLC. is committed to your right to privacy and takes your privacy seriously. This privacy policy statement (“Privacy Policy”) describes our collection, use, and disclosure when you use our website[s] and other online services (collectively, “our Service”) or when you contact our customer service team, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.
Information Collected and How We Collect It:
Information You Provide to Us
We collect personal information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you create an account (“User Account”), post listings through our Service, make a purchase, communicate with us via third party platforms, [participate in a contest or promotion], request customer support, report an accident or issue with our Service, enter into an agreement with another user or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide. In addition, you may be asked to provide payment information in connection with your use of our Service. Any financial information you provide, such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information) is collected and stored by our third party payment processing company, and use and storage of that information is governed by that payment processor’s applicable terms of service and privacy policy.
Other Information We Collect When You Interact with Us
When you access or use our Service or otherwise transact business with us, we automatically collect information about you, including:
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Transactional Information: When you make a reservation or book a rental through our Service, we collect information about the transaction, such as rental price, and date and location of the transaction.
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Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our Service, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, and browser type. We also collect information about your activity on our Service, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Service.
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Location Information: In accordance with your device permissions, we may also collect information about the precise location of your device. You may stop the collection of precise location information at any time (see Your Choices below for details).
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Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We (and our service providers) use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that may be used in our Service or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
Information You Post
You also may provide information to be published, listed, or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Service, or transmitted to other users of the Service or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others through the Service at your own risk, and we request that you exercise common sense in making choices about posting of information publicly.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may obtain additional information about you, including but not limited to demographic data, fraud detection information or data from credit bureaus from third party service providers, identity verification services, mailing list providers, partners and/or publicly available sources. We may combine the information about you that we receive from third party sources with other information we have about you. Further and to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may obtain reports from public records of criminal convictions or local versions of background checks and/or registered sex offenders checks. We may use your information, including your full name and date of birth, to obtain such reports.
Additionally, if you create or log into your A Local Cart account through a third-party platform, we will have access to certain information from that site, such as your name, birthday and profile picture, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such third-party platform.
Information We Derive
We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we or our partners collect. For example, we may make inferences about your location based on your IP address or infer that you are looking to book certain rentals based on your browsing behavior and past rentals.
USE OF INFORMATION:
We use the information we collect to [facilitate rentals through our Service and offer our services]. We also use the information we collect to:
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Facilitate transactions between users
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Process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations, receipts, invoices, and customers experience surveys;
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To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection, or in relation to A Local Cart's role as payment agent;
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Send you technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages and to respond to your comments, questions, and customer service requests;
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Communicate with you about services and events offered by A Local Cart and others, and provide news and information we think will interest you (see Your Choices below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);
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Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service;
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Personalize your online experience and the advertisements you see when you use our Service or third-party platforms based on your preferences, interests, and browsing and purchasing behavior and audit your interactions with our online ads, including by counting ad impressions and verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions;
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Facilitate contests, sweepstakes, and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards;
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Detect, investigate and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and protect the rights and property of A Local Cart and others;
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Debug to identify and repair errors in our Service;
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Comply with our legal and financial obligations;
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For reasonable internal uses that are aligned with your relationship with us and the context in which we collected the information; and
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Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
SHARING OF INFORMATION:
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this policy:
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With vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information in order to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, and marketing and advertising;
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With other users of our Service, such as if you post content in a public area of our Service;
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In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
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If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe you have violated the law, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of A Local Cart or others;
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With our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests;
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In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company;
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Between and among A Local Cart and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership; and
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With your consent, at your direction or as otherwise permitted by law.
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
SOCIAL SHARING FEATURES:
Our Service may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our Service with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
THIRD PARTY WEBSITES:
Our Service contains links to other third-party websites (“Linked Sites”). We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of the Linked Sites. If you choose to visit any third-party Linked Site, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other Linked Site, and it is your responsibility to review the privacy policies, terms of use or other terms at those Linked Sites to confirm that you understand and agree with their practices and policies.
ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHERS:
We allow others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the web. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Service and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by A Local Cart and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Service and other websites, and better understand your online activity. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.
We also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of customized campaigns on third party platforms (such as Facebook and Instagram). As part of these ad campaigns, we or third party platforms may convert information about you, such as your email address and phone number, into a unique value that can be matched with a user account on these platforms to allow us to learn about your interests and serve you advertising that is customized to your interest. Note that the third-party platforms may offer you choices about whether you see these types of customized ads.
TRANSFER OF INFORMATION TO THE U.S. AND OTHER COUNTRIES:
A Local Cart is headquartered in the United States and we have operations and service providers in the United States and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your personal information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction. We will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection in the jurisdictions in which we process it.
ADDITIONAL DISCLOSURES FOR INDIVIDUALS IN EUROPE:
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you have certain rights and protections under the law regarding the processing of your personal data, and this section applies to you.
Legal Basis for Processing
When we process your personal data, we will do so in reliance on the following lawful bases:
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To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you (e.g., processing payments for and providing our Service).
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When we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal data to operate our business or protect our interests (e.g., to provide, maintain and improve our Service and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you).
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When we find such processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g., to maintain a record of your consents and track those who have opted-out of marketing communications).
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When we have your consent to do so (e.g., when you agree to receive marketing communications from us). When consent is the legal basis for our processing your personal data, you may withdraw such consent at any time.
Data Retention
We may retain your personal data to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy for as long as needed, as allowed or as required by law. For instance, we may retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal, regulatory and compliance obligations, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse and fulfill and enforce our agreements.
Data Subject Requests
You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you and to ask that your personal data be corrected, erased, or transferred. You may also have the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, email us at help@alocalcart.com.
Questions or Complaints
If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data privacy authority where you reside. Contact details of your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below:
For individuals in the EEA: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm
For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html
YOUR CHOICES:
Account Information
You may be able to configure or change certain settings by logging into your User account and dashboard that allow you to control your privacy settings. You may also send us an email at help@alocalcart.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you.
Cookies
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of some of our Service. [For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see our Cookie Policy.][PL(8]
Promotional Communications
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails or text messages from A Local Cart by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
Your California Privacy Rights:
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Service that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to help@alocalcart.com.[PL(9]
Changes to Our Privacy Policy:
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last updated or revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Service and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information:
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: