Terms & Policy

The following terms, as well as our Policy and Terms of Service, apply to all users.

Last Update: September 14, 2024

Privacy Policy



1. Consent

By using Garagematchcanada.ca and related Services, you give explicit consent to Garagematchcanada.ca for the collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your personal information by us, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

2. General

This privacy policy describes the policy of Garage Match Canada regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing, and protection of your personal information ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy applies to the GaragematchcanadaCanada.ca website and all related websites, applications, services, and tools where reference is made to this policy ("Services"), regardless of how you access the Services, including access through mobile devices. Garage Match Canada Inc. is the data manager.

Garagematchcanada.ca may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We advise you to read it regularly on our Website. This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 2019.

3. What personal information do we collect

You can visit our Website without registering for an account. When you decide to provide us with your personal information, you agree that such information is sent to and stored on our servers. In addition, we also collect information as a result of the digital internet connection when you:

  • Register for our Services or sign in to an existing account
  • Visit our website(s)
  • Access our application(s)
  • Connect to our Services using third-party accounts, such as your email, social media, or payment account(s)
  • Contact us for support
  • Purchase products or services on Garagematchcanada.ca

The information we collect about you comes from:

  • Interaction with our Services
  • Cookies and other tracking technologies
  • Location-identifying technologies
  • Monitoring and analyzing trends, usage, and activities

The types of information you provide may include Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that can be used to identify you (whether alone or in combination). The Personal Information you may provide to us includes:

  • First and last name
  • Email address
  • VIN or Vehicle information
  • Mailing, billing, and/or shipping address
  • Payment information (such as payment account name, payment account number, payment card expiration date, and billing address)
  • Your geolocation
  • The product or service requested or purchased
  • How you connect to our Services, such as your IP address, unique device identifiers, device or session IDs, and information regarding the network and connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device)
  • Browsing, shopping, and purchase history
  • Click-stream data (the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through our Services)

4. How we use your personal information

You agree that we may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  • to provide you access to our Services and Customer Support by means of e-mail or telephone;
  • to prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, fraud and security breaches and to enforce our Terms of Use;
  • to personalize, measure and improve our Services, content and ads;
  • to contact you, by e-mail, push notification, text message (SMS) or by telephone, to inquire about our Services for the purpose of targeted marketing activities, updates, and promotional offers based on your message preferences (where applicable), or for any other purposes as set forth in this Privacy Policy;
  • to provide you with other services that you have requested, as described when we collected the information, and

Transfer of your personal information to third parties:

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable legislation and regulations. As further described we will not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may share your personal information with:

  • Service providers with whom you have solicited quotes from on Garagematchcanada.ca. In such cases, the personal information shall remain under the control of Garage Match Canada Inc. as well as the service provider.

- to comply with legal obligations or a court order; or

- if this is necessary for the prevention, detection or prosecution of criminal offenses, such as fraud, deceit or prosecution, or

- if it is necessary to maintain our policies or to protect the rights and freedoms of others.

  • Other third parties to whom you have given consent to share your information via Garagematchcanada.ca, e.g. in the framework of a cooperation;
  • Companies that we intend to merge with in the context of a re-organisation or that acquire us;

Without limitation to the foregoing, we shall moreover - in our efforts to respect your privacy and to keep the website free of malicious persons or parties – not disclose your personal information to third parties without a court order or formal request from the government in accordance with applicable law, unless we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to prevent impending injury or financial damages or to report alleged illegal activities.

Information you share on www.Garagematchcanada.ca:

Our Website allows users to share advertisements and other information with other users, thereby making this shared information accessible to other users. Since our Website also enables you to directly contact a buyer or seller, we recommend that you consider how you share your personal information with others. You are solely responsible for the personal information you share through our Website and therefore we cannot guarantee the privacy or security of the information shared by you with other users.

Your data controller may transfer data to other members of our corporate family as described in this Privacy Policy who may process and keep your personal information on servers in the European Union, United States and our data centers in other parts of the world.

5. Marketing Purposes

You agree that we may use the information collected by us to send you offers, whether personalized or not, or to contact you by telephone regarding products or Services offered by Garagematchcanada.ca or partners.

6. Cookies

When you use our Services, we and our service providers may place cookies (data files on your phone or mobile device’s drive) or web beacons (electronic images that are placed in a web page’s code) or similar technologies. We use cookies to help us identify you as a user, to provide you a better experience on our Website, to measure promotional effectiveness and to ensure trust and safety on our Website.

7. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

We cannot modify your personal information or account information. You can modify your own information by logging into your Garagematchcanada.ca account. If you want to close your account (where applicable) with us, please send us a request to us at info@garagematchcanada.ca. We will process your request within a reasonable period of time and process your personal information in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions, please contact us with the subject line ‘Request Privacy Policy’:

8. Protection and retention of your personal information

We protect your information by using technical and administrative security measures (such as firewalls, data encryption, and physical and administrative access controls to the data and servers) that limit the risk of loss, abuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. Nevertheless, if you believe your account has been abused, please contact us through the info@garagematchcanada.ca.

We retain personal information no longer than is legally permissible and delete personal information when it is no longer necessary for the purposes as described above.

9. Other information

Abuse and unsolicited commercial communications ("spam"):

We do not tolerate abuse of our Website. You do not have permission to add other Garagematchcanada.ca customers or vendors to your mailing list (e-mail or postal) for commercial purposes.

It is not allowed to use our marketplace to send spam or content that violates our Terms of Use in any other way. For your security, we may scan messages automatically and check for spam, viruses, phishing and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content. We do not permanently store messages sent through these resources.

Third Parties:

Unless explicitly provided otherwise in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy applies only to the use and transfer of information we collect from you. Garagematchcanada.ca has no control over the privacy policies of third parties that may apply to you.

Contact:

If you have any questions about Garagematchcanada.ca and our Website please email us at Contact Garage Match Canada Here.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or your dealings with the Service, please visit Garagematchcanada.ca/contact or contact us at:

Garage Match Canada Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy
1250 René-Lévesque Blvd W Suite 2225, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada - H3B 4W8
E-mail: Contact