Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 27, 2026
This Privacy Policy describes how Vintage Motor Garage (the "Site", "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services, or make a purchase from vintagemotorgarage.it (the "Site") or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the "Services"). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, "you" and "your" refer to you as a user of the Services, whether you are a customer, a website visitor, or another individual from whom we have collected information pursuant to this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last Updated” date, and take any other steps required by applicable law.
How we collect and use your personal information
To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from a variety of sources, as described below. The information we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.
In addition to the specific purposes listed below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, provide or improve the Services, comply with any applicable legal obligations, enforce any applicable terms of service, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
What personal information do we collect?
The types of personal information we collect about you depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term "personal information," we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could be associated with you. The following sections describe the categories and specific types of personal information we collect.
Information we collect directly from you
The information you provide to us directly through our Services may include:
- Contact information, including name, address, phone number, and email address.
- Order information, including name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.
- Account information, including your username, password, security questions, and other information used for account security purposes.
- Customer support information, including any information you choose to include in your communications with us, such as when you send a message through the Services.
Some features of the Services may require you to provide us directly with certain information about yourself. You may choose not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features.
Information we collect about your use
We may also automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). To do so, we may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies (“Cookies”). Usage Data may include information about how you access and use our Site and your account, including device information, browser information, information about your network connection, your IP address, and other information related to your interaction with the Services.
Information we receive from third parties
Finally, we may obtain information about you from third parties, including vendors and service providers who may collect information on our behalf, such as:
- Companies that support our Website and Services, such as Shopify.
- Our payment processors collect payment information (such as bank account details, credit or debit card information, and billing address) to process payments in order to fulfill your orders and provide you with the products or services you have requested, in order to perform our contract with you.
- When you visit our Site, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our Services or advertisements, we or third parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using online tracking technologies such as pixels, web beacons, software development kits, third-party libraries, and cookies.
Any information we receive from third parties will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy. See also the following section, “Third-Party Websites and Links.”
How we use your personal information
- Provision of products and services. We use your personal information to provide you with the Services in order to fulfill our contract with you, including processing your payments, fulfilling your orders, sending you notifications regarding your account, purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, arranging shipping, facilitating any returns and exchanges, and other features and functionalities related to your account. We may also enhance your shopping experience by allowing Shopify to link your account to other Shopify services you may choose to use. In this case, Shopify will process your information as set forth in its Privacy Policy and Consumer Privacy Policy.
- Marketing and Advertising We may use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send you marketing, advertising, and promotional communications via email, text message, or regular mail, and to show you advertisements for products or services. This may include using your personal information to better personalize the Services and advertising on our Site and on other websites. If you reside in the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in selling our products, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
- Security and Fraud Prevention. We use your personal information to detect, investigate, or take action regarding potential fraudulent, illegal, or harmful activities. If you choose to use the Services and create an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other login details with anyone else. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately. If you reside in the EEA, the legal basis for these data processing activities is our legitimate interest in keeping our website secure for you and other customers, pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
- Communicating with you and improving our services. We use your personal information to provide you with customer support and improve our Services. This is in our legitimate interest to respond to you, provide you with effective services, and maintain our business relationship with you, in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use cookies on our site. For specific information about the cookies we use in connection with running our store on Shopify, please visit https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies. We use cookies to manage and improve our Site and Services (including to remember your actions and preferences), to perform analytics, and to better understand user interaction with the Services (in our legitimate interest to administer, improve, and optimize the Services). We may also allow third parties and service providers to use cookies on our Site to better personalize the services, products, and advertising on our Site and on other websites.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but you can choose to configure your browser to delete or block cookies using the browser settings. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may negatively impact your user experience and could result in certain Services—including some general features and functionalities—not working properly or being unavailable. Additionally, blocking cookies may not completely prevent us from sharing information with third parties, such as our advertising partners.
How we share your personal information
Under certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for contractual compliance, legitimate interests, and other reasons covered by this Privacy Policy. Such circumstances may include:
- with vendors or other third parties that perform services on our behalf (such as IT management, payment processing, data analysis, customer support, cloud storage, order fulfillment, and shipping).
- With business and marketing partners to provide services and advertise to you. Our business and marketing partners will use your information in accordance with their privacy policies.
- When you provide us with information, request that we share it, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties—for example, to ship products to you or through the use of social media widgets or login integrations—we do so with your consent.
- With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group, in our legitimate interest in running a successful business.
- In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with any applicable legal obligations (including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests), to enforce any applicable terms of service, and to protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.
We disclose the following categories of personal data and sensitive personal data of users for the purposes described above in “How we collect and use your personal data” and “How we disclose personal data”:
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We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your consent or for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
With your consent, we share personal information for the purpose of engaging in advertising and marketing activities, as follows.
User-generated content
The Services may allow you to post product reviews and other user-generated content. If you choose to submit user-generated content to any public area of the Services, that content will be public and accessible to anyone.
We do not control who will have access to the information you choose to make available to others, and we cannot guarantee that the parties who have access to such information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of information you make publicly available, or for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any information you disclose or receive from third parties.
Third-party websites and links
Our Site may provide links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites that are not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of such sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information found on these sites. Information provided in public or semi-public areas, including information shared on third-party social networking platforms, may also be visible to other users of the Services and/or users of such third-party platforms without any restrictions on its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, in and of itself, imply any endorsement of the content of such platforms or their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.
Children's data
The Services are not intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the contact information provided below to request its deletion.
As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we are not aware that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable law) personal information of individuals under the age of 16.
Security and Protection of Your Information
Please keep in mind that no security measure is perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee "perfect security." Furthermore, any information you send us may not be secure during transmission. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.
How long we retain your personal information depends on several factors, such as whether we need the information to maintain your account, provide the Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable agreements and policies.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights listed below regarding your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute; they may apply only under certain circumstances, and in some cases, we may deny your request as permitted by law.
- Right of access/information: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you, including details about how we use and share your information.
- Right to erasure: You may have the right to request that we erase the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: You may have the right to ask us to correct any inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
- Right to data portability: You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to request that it be transferred to a third party, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
- Right to opt out of sales, sharing, or targeted advertising: You may have the right to ask us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information, or to opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes considered “targeted advertising,” as defined in applicable privacy laws. Please note that if you visit our Site with the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal enabled, depending on your location, we will automatically treat this as a request to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of information for the device and browser you use to visit the Site.
- Restriction of processing: You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict our processing of your personal data.
- Withdrawal of consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw that consent.
- Notice: You may have the right to appeal our decision if we deny your request. You can do so by replying directly to our denial.
- Managing communication preferences: We may send you promotional emails, and you can choose to opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe option provided in our emails. If you unsubscribe, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those related to your account or orders you have placed.
You may exercise any of these rights where indicated on our Website or by contacting us using the contact information provided below.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We may need to collect information from you to verify your identity, such as your email address or account information, before we can provide a substantive response to your request. In accordance with applicable laws, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof that you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may require you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required by applicable law.
Complaints
If you have any complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided below. If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, depending on where you live, you may have the right to challenge our decision by contacting us using the contact details below or to submit your complaint to your local data protection authority. For the EEA, you can find a list of the supervisory authorities responsible for data protection here.
International users
Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country where you live. Your personal data is also processed by staff, service providers, and third-party partners in those countries.
If we transfer your personal information outside of Europe, we will rely on recognized transfer mechanisms such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or any equivalent contract issued by the relevant UK authority, as applicable, unless the data is being transferred to a country that has been determined to provide an adequate level of protection.
Contact
If you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights, please call us or email us at amministrazione@vintagemotorgarage.it, or contact us at Via Legnano 57, Arconate, MI, 20020, IT.
For the purposes of applicable data protection laws, and unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are the data controllers of your personal data.
