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At Advance Auto Parts, Inc., one of our primary – and most important – goals is to maintain and ensure the security of our customer data. We understand that you may have concerns regarding the privacy of your personal information. This is why we have specifically created this section; to address your concerns and answer questions you may have.

This Customer Privacy Policy describes the information and privacy practices for Advance Auto Parts retail stores (the “Stores”), Advance Auto Parts Customer Care centers (the “Call Centers”), the AdvanceAutoParts.com website (the “Site”), and all other locations, occasions, or events where your personal information is collected by, or on behalf of Advance Auto Parts.

Advance Auto Parts has been awarded TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal signifying that this privacy policy and practices have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with TRUSTe’s program requirements including transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. The TRUSTe program covers only information collected through this Web site ( and does not cover information that may be collected offline. TRUSTe’s mission, as an independent third party, is to accelerate online trust among consumers and organizations globally through its leading privacy trustmark and innovative trust solutions. If you have questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy or our practices, please contact us at 1-877-ADVANCE or . If, after contacting us, you require further assistance, please contact TRUSTe here.

Personal Information We Collect

As part of your interaction with Advance Auto Parts, we may collect personal information such as name, email address, billing address, mailing address, phone number, and credit card information.

When We Collect Personal Information

We may collect personal information from you when you:

  • Create an account on our Site
  • Purchase, return, or exchange items in our Stores, through our Call Centers, or on our Site
  • Contact one of our Call Centers
  • Utilize one of our in-store services such as Tool Rental or Oil Recycling
  • Subscribe to our newsletter or emails
  • Respond to a survey or fill out a form
  • Register for a product warranty
  • Sign up for a loyalty program
  • Enter into a contest or sweepstakes
  • Provide us with reviews, questions, answers, comments, feedback, or suggestions

How We Use Your Personal Information

The personal information we collect from you may be used in any of the following ways:

  • To enhance your experience

Your information helps us to enhance and personalize your shopping experience in our Stores, through our Call Centers, and on our Site. We use your personal information to provide tailored promotions and marketing offers, to improve the content of our Site for you, and to improve your Store and Call Center experience.

  • To improve customer service

Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs. Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us when creating an account on our Site, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username. We will also communicate with you to respond to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.

  • We use your information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use your information to contact you.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other Site feature

From time-to-time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our Site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor Site traffic or personalize the Site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), or to send participants an email related to the contest, promotion or survey (such as reminder or thank you notices).

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; such companies are prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

  • To send periodic communications

We may send you mail, email or call you with information about our product and service offerings if you have provided us with your name and address, email address or phone numbers at our Stores, Call Centers, or Site.

If you place an order on our Site, the email address you provide will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order. If you decide to opt-in to our promotional email list, you will receive emails that may include company news, offers, updates, related product or service information, etc.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future promotional emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each promotional email. You may also contact us via phone, email, or regular mail.

  • To send service-related announcements

We will send you service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, please notify us by email, phone, or regular mail.

  • If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our Site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Site. Advance Auto Parts does not store your friend’s name or email address in our database.

Updating/Accessing/Amending/Correcting Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update or delete it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing Customer Care at or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail by clicking the Contact Us link at the bottom of this page.

Customer Testimonials/Comments/Reviews

We post customer testimonials/comments/reviews on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as our customer’s name. We obtain our customer’s consent prior to posting.

In general, we may combine your personal information with non-personal information collected through our Stores, Call Centers, Site, and/or third party sources in order to accomplish the uses listed above.Security - How We Protect Your Information

At Advance Auto Parts we leverage some of the most cutting edge technology and practices to maintain the security of our customer information. Our security measures meet or exceed both industry and regulatory standards and we proactively look for ways to improve our processes. Additionally, we have internal training programs to ensure that our staff remains vigilant in protecting our customer information.

In order to help protect your information, we utilize a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway provider’s database. Information is only accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems. Authorized individuals are required to keep the information confidential. Protecting your information is extremely serious business and we do not take our responsibility to our customers lightly. After a transaction, your financial information will be retained only in accordance with state and federal regulations.

Regretfully, no form of electronic communication can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Subsequently, although we will utilize our resources to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Under no circumstance does Advance Auto Parts accept or assume liability for any damages whatsoever associated with the personal information received.

How We Share Your Information Outside Advance Auto Parts

We share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy statement.

We may contract with companies or persons to provide certain services including credit card processing, shipping, data management, collections processing, promotional services, etc. We call these our Service Providers. We provide our Service Providers with the information needed for them to perform these services. We may disclose some of your personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that it is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against persons or entities who may seek to cause injury to you, Advance Auto Parts, or others. We will disclose your personally identifiable information when required to by law through properly served subpoena if we believe it necessary.

From time to time we might establish a business relationship with other persons or entities that we believe trustworthy. These are known as our Marketing Partners. In such cases we might share and cross-reference information, including some personally identifiable information about you, to enable such persons or entities to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you. We only share the information we believe is appropriate to enable the Marketing Partners to carry out their responsibilities under our contracts, and we require that the information be used only for the specifically authorized purpose and that its confidentiality be maintained.

We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners for research and industry reports. This information does not identify individual users. We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

In addition to the information above, we also may collect data on customer shopping patterns while on our Site. This may include how frequently our Site is visited, the length of those visits, and the types of items our customers are looking for. This is collected to help improve the current and future shopping experience of you, our customer.

Your Right Not To Have Your Personal Information Shared

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. You have the choice to be excluded from our offers and promotions and to be excluded from sharing personal information with our Marketing Partners and/or our Service Providers. If you choose not to receive information from us, please let us know by calling us at 1-877-ADVANCE (238-2623), or by sending us an email at . Please be sure to include your email address, full name, phone number, and specifically what information you do not want to receive, such as “no phone offers”, “no mail offers”, “no email offers”, or “no sharing of information with partners”. DO NOT include your Social Security number or account number in the email.

We will respond to reasonable requests within a reasonable time but please note that sometimes these requests may take up to 6-8 weeks to be effective, particularly if we are removing your name from postal mailings. In addition, when you purchase from us in our Stores, through our Call Centers, or on our Site in, we may need to contact you via phone, email, or mail, to address questions specific to your order, even if you have opted to not receive communications.

This Privacy Policy describes how we share information for marketing purposes. Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, Advance Auto Parts provides its California customers the ability to exercise “opt out” rights as follows:

You may exercise your “opt out” rights, at no charge, by calling us at 1-877-ADVANCE (238-2623), or by sending us an email at .

Within our Site you may find links to websites of our partners, vendors, or advertisers. It is important to note that Advance Auto Parts does not endorse or make any statement to the security of the websites that we provide links to. These websites have independent security policies, privacy policies, technology and security practices that govern them. We do not have control over their content or their security and do not accept liability of any form for the manner in which they protect and/or handle your information. We recommend that all consumers comprehensively review the privacy policy of each website that they visit to help keep them informed on how their personal information is treated and used.

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and Twitter buttons. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

We use cookies to help us remember and personalize your experience, process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements, and compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better Site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party Service Providers to assist us in better understanding our Site visitors. These Service Providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders by contacting our Call Centers or by visiting any of our Stores.

The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, and Service Providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company, and Service Providers use session ID cookies to provide a more personalized and relevant site experience, to keep track of advertisements, and to compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better Site experiences in the future.

Behavioral Targeting / Re-Targeting

We partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Web site or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our ad network partner uses cookies and Web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you may opt-out by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information to analyze trends, to administer the Site, to track users’ movements around the Site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We and our partners employ a software technology called clear GIFs (a.k.a. Web Beacons), that help us better manage content on our Site by informing us what content is effective. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

We use clear GIFs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future promotional emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each promotional email or you may contact us via phone, email, or regular mail

Product Reviews and Question & Answer Areas

If you use a Product Review or Question & Answer area on this Site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these areas, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these areas. To request removal of your personal information from this area, contact us at . In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.