Privacy policy

Car Audio Bargain LLC
Privacy Policy for caraudiobargain.com
Last updated: September 16, 2026  ·  Effective: September 16, 2026

1. The business responsible for this Site

The website located at caraudiobargain.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Car Audio Bargain LLC, a business with its principal place of business at 514 W 21st St, Newton, North Carolina 28658, United States. In this Privacy Policy, the terms “we,” “us,” “our” and “the Company” refer solely to Car Audio Bargain LLC in its capacity as the operator of caraudiobargain.com. This Privacy Policy applies only to caraudiobargain.com and does not govern any other website, whether or not operated by Car Audio Bargain LLC or by any affiliated person or entity.

Car Audio Bargain LLC is the “business” that determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal information collected through the Site, within the meaning of California Civil Code § 1798.140(d), and is the corresponding “controller” under the consumer privacy statutes of other states.

2. Scope and definitions

This Privacy Policy describes the categories of personal information the Company collects through the Site, the sources of that information, the business and commercial purposes for which it is collected, the categories of third parties to whom it is disclosed, the period for which it is retained, and the rights available to you with respect to it.

“Personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, as defined at Civil Code § 1798.140(v). “Sale” and “share” carry the meanings given at Civil Code §§ 1798.140(ad) and 1798.140(ah) respectively. “Service provider” and “contractor” carry the meanings given at Civil Code §§ 1798.140(ag) and 1798.140(j), and each such person is engaged under a written contract containing the terms required by California Code of Regulations, title 11, § 7051.

3. Notice at collection

This notice is provided at or before the point at which the Company collects personal information through the Site, as required by Civil Code § 1798.100(a) and California Code of Regulations, title 11, § 7012.

Categories collected	Identifiers; California customer records information; commercial information; internet and other electronic network activity information; approximate geolocation data derived from IP address; sensitive personal information limited to account log-in credentials; and inferences drawn from the foregoing.
Purposes	Operation of the Site and fulfilment of orders; communication with you; security and fraud prevention; measurement and improvement of the Site; marketing and advertising, where you have permitted it; and compliance with legal obligations.
Sold or shared?	Yes. When advertising and analytics technologies are active, the Company discloses online identifiers and Site activity to Google LLC in a manner constituting a sale and a share for cross-context behavioral advertising. See section 8.
Sensitive personal information	Collected only in the form of account log-in credentials, and used only for the purposes permitted by Civil Code § 1798.121(a). Not sold and not shared.
Retention	As stated in section 10. No category is retained indefinitely without a stated purpose.
Full notice	This Privacy Policy, of which this notice forms part.

4. Categories of personal information collected

In the twelve months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy, the Company has collected the following categories of personal information through the Site, stated by reference to the categories enumerated at Civil Code § 1798.140(v)(1).

Statutory category	Examples as collected through this Site	Collected
A. Identifiers	Real name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, account name, Internet Protocol address, cookie and device identifiers, and other online identifiers	Yes
B. Personal information described in Civil Code § 1798.80(e)	Name, address, telephone number, and payment card or financial account information provided in connection with a purchase	Yes
C. Protected classification characteristics	—	No
D. Commercial information	Products viewed, added to a cart, purchased, returned, exchanged or cancelled, and order history	Yes
E. Biometric information	—	No
F. Internet or other electronic network activity information	Pages and products viewed, referring URLs, search terms entered on the Site, clicks, scrolling, and interaction with our advertising on other websites	Yes
G. Geolocation data	Approximate location inferred from IP address, and shipping addresses you provide. Precise geolocation is not collected.	Yes, approximate only
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information	The Company does not record or reconstruct your on-page activity. No session-replay or session-recording technology operates on the Site. Images or video you submit with a product review, if any, are collected as you submit them.	No
I. Professional or employment-related information	—	No
J. Education information	—	No
K. Inferences	Preferences and interests derived from the foregoing by the Company or by its advertising partners	Yes
L. Sensitive personal information (§ 1798.140(ae))	Account log-in credentials only. The Company does not collect government identifiers, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, health information, genetic or biometric data, or the contents of mail, e-mail or text messages.	Log-in credentials only

5. Sources of personal information

• Directly from you, when you create an account, place an order, subscribe to communications, submit a review, apply for financing, or contact us.
• Automatically from your device, through cookies, pixels, tags, software development kits and similar technologies, when you visit the Site.
• From service providers and partners, including our ecommerce platform, payment processor, shipping carriers, and analytics and advertising providers, which may return measurement and audience information concerning your visits.

6. Business and commercial purposes

The Company processes personal information for the following purposes, which correspond to the business purposes enumerated at Civil Code § 1798.140(e).

• Performance of the transaction. Processing payments, fulfilling and shipping orders, administering returns and exchanges, maintaining your account, and retaining your preferences.
• Communication. Order and account notifications, responses to your enquiries, and, where you have opted in, marketing communications.
• Security and fraud prevention. Authenticating access to accounts, detecting and investigating fraudulent, unlawful or malicious activity, and securing the Site.
• Measurement and improvement. Understanding how the Site is used, diagnosing errors, and evaluating changes.
• Marketing and advertising. Measuring the performance of our advertising, constructing advertising audiences, and presenting our products on other websites and applications. This is the processing to which the opt-out right in section 8 applies.
• Legal compliance. Meeting tax, accounting and record-keeping obligations, responding to lawful process, and establishing or defending legal claims.

7. Disclosure of personal information

The Company identifies below each category of recipient to which personal information originating from the Site is disclosed, the purpose of the disclosure, the categories disclosed, and whether the recipient acts as a service provider or as a third party. The Company maintains this list and revises it when a recipient is added or removed.

Recipient	Purpose of disclosure	Categories disclosed	Statutory role
Shopify Inc.	Operation and hosting of the Site, including order processing and checkout	All information you submit to the Site, together with device and usage information	Service provider
Google LLC — Google Analytics 4, Google Merchant Center, and associated Google advertising services	Measurement of Site usage, product listing, and advertising measurement and audience creation	Online identifiers, cookie identifiers, IP address, pages and products viewed, and purchase information	Sale and share for cross-context behavioral advertising
Route App, Inc.	Package tracking and shipping protection offered at checkout, together with the product analytics and experimentation services the Route widget loads (Amplitude)	Online identifiers, device identifiers, order information, and Site interaction events	Service provider
Snap Finance LLC	Lease-to-own and financing offers presented on the Site	The information you submit to a financing application	Third party, at your direction
PayPal, Inc.	Payment authorization and the presentation of payment options on the Site	Payment and transaction details, and online identifiers	Service provider
Payment processors engaged for the Site	Payment authorization, settlement, and fraud prevention	Payment card details, billing address, and transaction details	Service provider
Shipping carriers and fulfillment providers	Delivery of orders placed on the Site	Name, shipping address, telephone number, and order contents	Service provider

The Company additionally discloses personal information where you direct it to do so; to persons engaged to develop, administer and maintain the Site; to its professional advisers; in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing or sale of assets; and where necessary to comply with law, respond to lawful process, enforce its terms, or protect the rights of the Company or of others. The Company does not disclose personal information to any recipient that is neither identified above nor covered by the foregoing sentence.

The Site additionally loads content-delivery services that serve scripts and typefaces. Those services do not construct advertising profiles and do not receive personal information for any purpose of their own.

8. Sale and sharing of personal information; your right to opt out

The Company sells and shares personal information within the meaning of Civil Code §§ 1798.140(ad) and 1798.140(ah). When advertising and analytics technologies are active on the Site, online identifiers, cookie identifiers, IP address, and information concerning the pages and products you viewed are disclosed to Google LLC. The Company receives no monetary consideration for those disclosures. The statutory definitions do not require monetary consideration, and the Company therefore treats the disclosures as a sale and a share and affords the corresponding rights.

In the twelve months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy, the Company has sold or shared the following categories: identifiers and online identifiers; internet or other electronic network activity information; commercial information; approximate geolocation derived from IP address; and inferences drawn from those categories.

The Company does not sell or share sensitive personal information. The Company does not have actual knowledge that it sells or shares the personal information of consumers under sixteen years of age, as contemplated by Civil Code § 1798.120(c).

How to exercise the right to opt out

Any of the following is effective, and none requires an account or verification of identity:

1. Select “Your Privacy Choices” in the footer of any page of the Site, or visit caraudiobargain.com/pages/your-privacy-choices. The election takes effect immediately for the browser and device in use.
2. Withdraw consent through the consent control presented on your first visit, or through the “Cookie preferences” control in the footer. Withdrawal is as straightforward as the grant.
3. Browse with an opt-out preference signal enabled. See section 11.
4. Write to the Company at sales@caraudiobargain.com, or by post to the address in section 21.

An election made through a browser control applies to the browser and device on which it is made. Clearing cookies, using a different browser, or using a different device will require a further election. That limitation is inherent in browser-based opt-out mechanisms. An opt-out does not affect processing for the purposes described in section 6 other than marketing and advertising, and does not prevent the display of advertising that is not targeted using information obtained from the Site.

9. Sensitive personal information

The only sensitive personal information the Company collects is account log-in credentials, within the meaning of Civil Code § 1798.140(ae)(1)(D). That information is used solely to authenticate you and to secure your account, which is a use permitted by Civil Code § 1798.121(a) without further limitation. The Company does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. Accordingly, the right to limit conferred by Civil Code § 1798.121 is not engaged; you may nonetheless write to the Company to confirm the position.

10. Retention

The Company states below, for each category of personal information, the period for which that category is retained or, where no fixed period can properly be stated, the criteria used to determine that period, as required by Civil Code § 1798.100(a)(3).

Category	Retention period or criteria
Order and transaction records	Retained for so long as necessary for tax, accounting, warranty and dispute-resolution purposes and to maintain your order history
Customer account information	Retained while the account remains open, and for twenty-four months following your last activity
Payment information	Not retained by the Company. Held by the payment processor under its own retention terms. The Company does not store complete payment card numbers.
Customer support communications	Retained for three years following the last contact
Marketing electronic mail and short-message lists	The Company does not presently operate an electronic mail or short-message marketing platform. Transactional order and account messages are sent through the ecommerce platform and retained with the order record.
Analytics identifiers	Event data is retained for two months. User-level data is retained for fourteen months from your most recent activity on the Site, that period restarting upon each subsequent visit.
Server and security logs	The Company does not operate its own web servers. Access logs are held by the ecommerce platform under its own retention practices.
Consumer requests and the Company's responses	Retained for twenty-four months, as required by California Code of Regulations, title 11, § 7101

Where a criterion rather than a fixed period is stated, that formulation is deliberate and reflects the Company's actual practice.

11. Opt-out preference signals and Do Not Track

Global Privacy Control. The Site detects and honours the Global Privacy Control opt-out preference signal. Where the Site receives that signal from your browser, the Company treats it as a request to opt out of the sale and sharing of personal information for the browser and device transmitting it, in accordance with Civil Code § 1798.135(b) and California Code of Regulations, title 11, § 7025. No further action by you is required. Where the signal can be associated with an account, the election is applied to that account.

Do Not Track. No uniform standard governs the interpretation of the “Do Not Track” header, and the Company does not respond to it. This disclosure is made pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 22575(b)(5). The Company does respond to Global Privacy Control, as stated above.

12. Cookies and similar technologies

The Site uses cookies, pixels, tags, local storage and comparable technologies, falling into four categories.

• Strictly necessary. The cart, checkout, session security, fraud prevention and load balancing. These cannot be disabled and are set without consent because the Site cannot function without them.
• Functional. Retention of currency, region, recently viewed products and comparable preferences.
• Analytics. Measurement of Site usage, including pages viewed, products viewed, and aggregate interaction events. No session-replay or session-recording technology operates on the Site, and the Company does not reconstruct your keystrokes, mouse movement or screen content.
• Advertising. Measurement of advertising, construction of audiences, and presentation of the Company's products on other websites and applications.

Functional, analytics and advertising technologies are loaded only after you permit them through the consent control, and cease upon withdrawal of consent or exercise of the opt-out. Browser settings permitting the blocking or deletion of cookies are not a substitute for the opt-out described in section 8, and the Company does not treat them as such.

13. Your rights

Depending upon your state of residence, some or all of the following rights are available to you. The Company honours each of them for any United States resident who asserts it, without regard to state of residence, save where verification is required by law.

Right	Statutory basis and effect
Right to know and to access	Civil Code §§ 1798.100, 1798.110 and 1798.115. To obtain the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected, the sources, the business or commercial purposes, and the categories of third parties to whom it was disclosed.
Right to delete	Civil Code § 1798.105, subject to the exceptions at subdivision (d).
Right to correct	Civil Code § 1798.106.
Right to data portability	Civil Code § 1798.100(d), in a readily usable format permitting transmission to another entity.
Right to opt out of sale and sharing	Civil Code § 1798.120. See section 8. No verification is required.
Right to limit use of sensitive personal information	Civil Code § 1798.121. See section 9.
Right of non-discrimination	Civil Code § 1798.125. The Company will not deny goods or services, charge a different price, or provide a different level of quality because a right has been exercised.
Right to appeal	Where a request is declined, you may appeal by replying to the Company's determination. The Company will respond in writing, with its reasons, within the period prescribed by the law of your state.

Residents of other states. Equivalent rights are conferred by, among other statutes, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act, and the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act. Requests are processed through the channels identified in section 14 without regard to the statute invoked.

14. How to submit a request

Two methods are designated, one of which is electronic, in accordance with Civil Code § 1798.130(a)(1).

• Electronic: sales@caraudiobargain.com, with “Privacy Request” in the subject line.
• Telephone or post: (828) 455-7190, or 514 W 21st St, Newton, North Carolina 28658, United States.
• To opt out of sale or sharing: the “Your Privacy Choices” link in the footer of the Site. No correspondence is necessary.

Acknowledgement and response. The Company acknowledges receipt of a request within ten business days and responds substantively within forty-five calendar days, extendable once by a further forty-five days where reasonably necessary, in which event you will be notified of the extension and of the reason for it.

Verification. For requests to know, to delete or to correct, the Company will verify that you are the consumer to whom the personal information relates, by requiring you to confirm information already held, such as the electronic mail address associated with the account or details of a recent order. Information supplied for verification is used for that purpose alone and is deleted upon completion. Verification is not required for the exercise of the opt-out right.

Authorized agents. A request may be submitted by an authorized agent. The Company will require written proof of authorization and may require you to verify your own identity directly, except where the agent produces a valid power of attorney.

15. Security

The Company maintains administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encryption in transit, access controls, and restriction of access to those persons who require it. No safeguard is impenetrable and the Company does not warrant the security of information transmitted to it over the internet. Sensitive information should not be transmitted by electronic mail. This paragraph is provided with reference to the obligations at Civil Code § 1798.81.5 and the private right of action at Civil Code § 1798.84.

16. Minors

The Site is directed to adults. The Company does not knowingly collect personal information from any person under sixteen years of age and does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of any such person. A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information may write to the Company at sales@caraudiobargain.com, and the information will be deleted. A California resident under eighteen years of age who has a registered account may request removal of content that person has posted publicly on the Site, pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 22581.

17. California “Shine the Light” disclosure

California Civil Code § 1798.83 entitles a California resident to request, once per calendar year and without charge, the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties for those third parties' own direct marketing purposes, together with the names and addresses of those third parties. The Company does not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. A request for written confirmation of that position may be addressed to sales@caraudiobargain.com.

18. Where information is processed

The Company is established in the United States and processes personal information there. Certain service providers process personal information in other jurisdictions. Where personal information is transferred out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the Company relies upon a recognised transfer mechanism, including the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission or the equivalent instrument issued by the competent authority of the United Kingdom, unless the destination benefits from an adequacy determination.

19. Third-party websites

The Site contains links to websites and platforms operated by others, and embeds content served by others. The privacy practices of those operators are their own and are not governed by this Privacy Policy. The loading of embedded content may permit the provider to receive your IP address and to set cookies; on this Site, embedded content of that kind is loaded only after you have permitted functional or advertising technologies.

20. Amendment of this Privacy Policy

The Company may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in its practices or in applicable law. The “Last updated” date at the head of this document is revised whenever an amendment is made, and the amended Privacy Policy takes effect upon posting. In accordance with Civil Code § 1798.130(a)(5), this Privacy Policy is reviewed and updated at least once every twelve months.

The Company will not use personal information previously collected from you for a purpose materially different from the purposes disclosed in the version of this Privacy Policy in force when that information was collected, without first providing a new notice at collection and, where the law so requires, obtaining your consent. That obligation arises under Civil Code § 1798.100(b) and California Code of Regulations, title 11, § 7012(e).

Prior versions of this Privacy Policy are available on request.

21. Contact

Business	Car Audio Bargain LLC
Site governed by this policy	caraudiobargain.com
Privacy contact	sales@caraudiobargain.com
Telephone	(828) 455-7190
Post	514 W 21st St, Newton, North Carolina 28658, United States
Opt-out mechanism	“Your Privacy Choices,” in the footer of every page of the Site

A consumer dissatisfied with the Company's handling of a request may appeal by replying to the Company's determination, and may contact the California Privacy Protection Agency or the Attorney General of the consumer's state of residence.