How Konig may use your Personal Information

Protecting your Privacy

Konig American, a subsidiary of YHI International Limited, its parent (YHI International) and other affiliated companies (collectively referred to herein as “Konig” or “YHI” or “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to any / all KONIG U.S. websites that display or link to this Policy (referred to in this Policy as the “Website”). This Policy applies to data collected by KONIG through its U.S. Websites and U.S. services that display these terms. It does not apply to those KONIG sites, services, and products that have their own privacy policies. This Policy describes the information we collect and how we use and disclose it. By visiting our Website and using our services, you are accepting the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not use the Website or the relevant services.

Usage, reporting, analytics and interests

We don’t sell, trade, give away, or rent your personal information to any company outside of KONIG. We do our best to limit any information we collect or share about you.   Further details can be found below.

Personal Information

We collect and store information that you provide to us through the Website or on occasion via telephone or fax to a representative that is a member of our company.  We also may occasionally receive information from third parties (such as companies providing commercially available databases).

This information comes primarily through information that you provide during an intended action such as purchasing something on our website, signing up for our email list, applying for sponsorship or contacting us with questions or comments.  For example, some of this information we collect and store would be; name, billing address, shipping address, email address, telephone number, and questions related to demographical (age, gender, etc), as well as information that may be vehicle or preference related such as opinions about wheels, colors or finishes.  Additionally, you may at times be asked to provide social media account usernames / handles.  To minimize the data, we collect and improve your security, when it comes to payment information such as credit card numbers and expiration dates, we utilize a third-party merchant service provider such as PayPal.

At times we may have promotional events taking place where the website is used to collect entrances or information related to these promotions. When we run a “giveaway”, contest or sweepstakes relating to our Website, it may be accompanied by a set of rules. The rules for each contest / giveaway / sweepstakes will specify how the information gathered from you for entry will be used and what information is considered “required”.  If anything related to your privacy should differ for these specific promotions from this policy than it will be explained in related promotional information. Personal information will be collected only if you voluntarily submit it to us.

Usage Information

Through your use of our Website, we may also gather certain information about your use of our Website (“usage information”). Generally, this information is collected through “traffic data”. We collect and store certain other information automatically whenever you interact with our Website. For example, we may collect your IP address, browser information, the type of device you’re using to access our site. We also collect information regarding customer traffic patterns and site usage. This information is used to analyze and improve our Website, to provide our customers with a better experience, faster load times, and to personalize the Website, our communications with you, and your shopping experience (when applicable).

We use usage information to learn about how our website is used.  This allows us to understand more about our users and optimize the website for them.  This optimization is mainly to help us improve our website, its appeal and make it as easy to navigate as possible. We may also use usage information that is gathered about you to help provide you with more content that would be more of interest to you.

We do use third-party companies, including but not limited to Google Analytics, Google Adwords, and Facebook, to measure and target ads to you and others about products and services that match your interests. We allow these third-party companies to use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar technologies to collect or receive information about your interaction with us on our Website and elsewhere on the Internet (“Tracking Data”) and use such Tracking Data to display ads for KONIG and are other companies, associates or dealers when you visit this or other of our websites. These third-party companies may not recognize browser “Do Not Track” signals. If you would like to opt-out of the collection and use of Tracking Data for ad targeting, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices. For more information about how to opt-out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Use of personal information

We may use your personal information to provide the products and services that you have ordered, requested, inquired about, to process and ship orders, to provide customer service, to provide other services to you, and to personalize the Website, our communications with you, and your website experience. Your information also may be used to contact you about sales, new products, new site features, special offers, and personalized offers based on your location, unless you have opted not to receive promotional communications via our email list. The information we collect may be combined with information obtained from companies that are part of the KONIG “family” and owned or partnered with our parent company YHI International Limited. We may also combine this information with other information we collect as you interact with our brand(s) across apps, social media, and marketing correspondences. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13.

Sharing your personal information

KONIG, except as described in this Policy, we will not disclose your personal information outside of KONIG and the KONIG / YHI divisions without your consent. For further information about the brands / companies within KONIG, please visit our our-story page.

KONIG Partners – Konig on occasion may share your email address and information about your geographic, demographic, and vehicle data to it’s partners to bring you special information such as sales, promotions, or exclusive offerings.  These partners are companies that are under the Konig / YHI family tree, YHI group members or are authorized dealers of Konig / YHI brand(s) or products.

Third-party Service Providers – We may hire other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as marketing, analytics, credit card processing, shipping, stocking orders, providing customer service, and fraud protection. These service providers have access only to such personal information needed to perform their functions and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your information. They are restricted from using, selling, distributing, sharing, or altering this data in any way other than to provide the requested services to you on our behalf.

Legal and Safety Disclosures – We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of KONIG or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of our Websites and services; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of KONIG employees, customers or the public.

Corporate Transactions – We may disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger, internal audit (YHI / KONIG) or sale of assets.

Linking to another website

Our Website(s) may contain links to other websites. These links are there at your own risk and therefore we encourage you to ensure you to investigate that other locations privacy policy before choosing to click on a link taking you out of our website. Our Policy does not apply or extend to other websites nor to the practices of other websites, and KONIG is not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of other parties. You should understand that the moment you leave any part of our website that you should investigate and understand the privacy policies of where you visit.

Opting-out of receiving correspondence

The only way we contact you directly would be through our email list.  You may remove yourself from our list at any time by following the “unsubscribe” / opt-out instructions that would be at the bottom of all of our promotional communications.

Privacy-related concerns / questions

If you have questions or comments about our privacy practices, please contact us by email at mail@konigwheels.com with subject: Privacy Concerns.

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Security, sharing and encryption of website

You should be thoughtful of any information that you share or make available for the public to see.  This information includes but is not limited to comments, replies, reviews, etc.  Do not post any personal information that you expect to keep private. Our website utilizes an encryption protocol known as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to keep your submitted information secure. Should any unauthorized charges appear on your credit card as a result of a purchase that you have made via the KONIG Style Shop, you must notify your credit card provider in accordance with its reporting rules and procedures. We use reasonable security procedures to protect your information. However, no data transferred over the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure. To protect the security of your information during transmission, we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. Most browsers provide a visual indication of when your connection is secure. If every you should have to set a username or password to interact or complete a transaction on our website please provide a strong, unique password and never share passwords with others.  Finally make sure to protect the data you input especially if accessing from a public computer or a device that could be shared with others.

Jurisdiction

New York State law governs the interpretation of this Policy and applies to claims for breach of them regardless of conflict of laws principles. Both parties’ consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in courts sitting in Nassau County, New York. Both parties waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens.

Changes to this Online Privacy Policy

We will update this Policy as needed to reflect changes in our privacy policies as they relate to the services we offer or changes in our information handling. We will continue to remain thoughtful about what data we collect and how we can continue to protect your privacy beyond the information you allow us to hold. 

Last Updated: September 7th, 2020