A-Z Key Shop, LLC, DBA A-Z Key Shop (hereafter referred to as A-Z Key Shop), located at 705 West Michigan Avenue, Battle Creek, MI 49037-2234, owns and operates the website: azkeyshop.com to provide services including: Locksmith Services and Hardware, Physical Security Information and Consultation and E-Commerce Relating to Locksmith Services and Hardware.

A-Z Key Shop is committed to protecting users’ privacy and addressing potential privacy concerns. The following information has been posted to help you, the consumer, understand what private information A-Z Key Shop collects and how your information is used.

To best serve your needs, we collect the following types of information when you visit our website:

You may always choose to provide less information. However, omitting some of this personal information may limit your ability to access all of the benefits of our website and services. For example, we will not be able to process transactions without payment information and a billing address, ship goods or provide our services without your name and mailing/service address.

No data provided by you will be retained except when required by law or for continuing business-client relationship.

All data provided by you will be used for contact, billing and servicing-related tasks. Data physically written down on service call slips are destroyed after service is performed and paid for. By providing your personal information, you consent to the use and retention as stated above of provided information.

You may at any time request the destruction of your personal information provided to us by you.

Personal data is not just created by your interactions with our website. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

When visitors leave comments on our website, 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.

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

When submitting information via our contact forms, we will use submitted information to provide information, goods and/or services to you. We may retain information submitted via our contact forms for ongoing business relationship purposes. We may also use information provided by you for marketing purposes if you consent. You may at any time request that we destroy information provided by you through our contact forms.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s web browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. A-Z Key Shop uses cookies to help A-Z Key Shop identify and track visitors, their usage of A-Z Key Shop’s website and their website access preferences. A-Z Key Shop’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their web browsers to refuse cookies before using A-Z Key Shop’s website, with the drawback that certain features of A-Z Key Shop’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

If you leave a comment on our website 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.

Pages and articles of our website 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.

A-Z Key Shop’s website uses MonsterInsights, which in turn uses Google Analytics to provide information about the visitors to our website and their interactions with it. You may view MonsterInsights’s privacy policy here: https://www.monsterinsights.com/privacy-policy/. You may view Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset e-mail. Your payment and billing information shared with us by you will be provided to our payment processor(s) in order for us to receive payment from you, it will not be retained unless you request us to do so. We will not retain credit, debit or gift card information. Unless specifically requested by you, your information will not be shared with any other entity except as described in this privacy policy.

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.

As noted in other sections of this privacy policy, we otherwise do not retain any of your data unless specifically requested by you. Data retained for the purposes of ongoing business relationships shall be retained indefinitely.

If you have an account on this website, have left comments, or have submitted information via our forms 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 destroy any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data that we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.

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

Our website server is located in the United States of America and any information sent through our website traverses through our hosting provider. If you reside outside of the United States of America, you acknowledge and agree to hold harmless A-Z Key Shop and its hosting provider for data transfers and retention in the United States of America of any data provided by you.

A-Z Key Shop will, to the best of its ability safeguard any data provided by you.

If you have any privacy concerns and would like to contact us you may do so via the following:

You may write to:

Attn: Privacy Policy Concern
A-Z Key Shop
705 W Michigan Ave
Battle Creek, MI 49037-2234

You may e-mail us:

service@azkeyshop.com

Please ensure ‘Privacy Policy Concern’ is in the subject line.

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the administrator before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.

A-Z Key Shop uses website and information security practices to safeguard all data in its possession. This includes but is not limited to strong password protection, two-factor authentication, encryption, network firewalls, operating system firewalls and security programs.

A-Z Key Shop uses information technology tools and procedures to learn about and protect against potential and actual occurrences of data breaches. If identified, the offending system in our IT ecosystem and control will be brought down until a cause for the breach is identified and patched.

Data may be received from third parties for marketing purposes. Any third-party providing marketing data to us has agreed that the data was provided with the consent of the party to which the data belongs

Except as mentioned in the preceding sections, we do not to our knowledge as of yet use any system with automated decision making or profiling utilizing user data.

We adhere to best practices in accordance with the Locksmith Industry as well as the Information Technology Industry.