Privacy Policy
At Gulf Cycle Components LLC, accessible through our online platform, we are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in an open and transparent manner. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our service.
Information We Collect
Personal Data: This includes information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, address, email address, phone number, payment information, and other details you provide when you register for an account, place an order, subscribe to newsletters, or interact with our service.
Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you access and use our site. This may include your IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. They are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
How We Use Your Information
Gulf Cycle Components LLC uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our service.
- To process your orders and manage your account.
- To manage your registration as a user of the service.
- To communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries and sending you service-related notices and updates.
- To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
- To analyze usage and improve our site and services.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
- For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our service, products, marketing, and your experience.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under GDPR
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
We may process your Personal Data because:
- We need to perform a contract with you.
- You have given us permission to do so.
- The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights.
- To comply with the law.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service, to advertise on third party websites after you visited our service, or for payment processing.
- For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- With Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
- For Legal Obligations: We may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Gulf Cycle Components LLC, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service, protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public, or protect against legal liability.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period, 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.
Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Your Data Protection Rights
Under data protection laws, you have rights regarding your personal data. These rights may include:
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
- The right to request correction of any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
- The right to request erasure of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- The right to object to the processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
- The right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data.
- The right to data portability, allowing you to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- The right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the address provided below.
Links to Other Websites
Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
Our service is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy (Note: This specific phrase "last updated date" is acceptable as it refers to a date *on the policy itself*, not a specific date placeholder in the generation). You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
By mail: Building 14, Street 6A, Al Quoz Industrial Area 3, Dubai, Dubai, PO Box 12345, UAE.