Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 2026
AutoDS takes the privacy of its users and business partners seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how
AutoDS and its affiliates (“AutoDS,” “we,” or “us”) collect, use, and share personal information. By
using our Services, you acknowledge the data practices outlined in this policy, which is an integral
part of our Terms of Use.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services or applicable
regulations. We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about our current
practices and any modifications.
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Personal Information We Collect
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Purposes of Using Your Personal
Information
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Legal Bases for Processing Personal
Information
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Sharing Personal Information with Third
Parties
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Where do we Process your Personal
Information
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How Long We Keep Your Personal Information
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Cookies and Tracking Technologies
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Your Rights and Specific Provisions
by Jurisdiction
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Security
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Minors Under 18
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Contact Us
1.1. Information You Provide Directly. When you register for or use our Services, create an account,
subscribe to communications, participate in surveys or events, make purchases, or contact us through any
communication channel, you may provide us with Personal Information, such as:
- Account details including login details, name and user username.
- Contact information including email address, phone number, and physical address.
- Payment information, including your payment method and credit card number.
- Information about your activity on our Services such as transactional data, purchases and sales,
returns, feedback, reviews, engagements with third parties and other issues.
1.2. Information We Collect Automatically. When you access or use our Services, we may automatically
collect information about your activity and device. This includes:
- Usage activity such as Information on pages and features used, search queries, actions taken within
your account, and transactions processed through the Services.
- Communications such as data from support tickets, forum participation, comments, and private
messages or invitations sent through the platform.
- Technical & device data including IP address, geo-location, device type, operating system, browser
settings, log data, session duration, and referring/exit URLs.
1.3. Information We Receive from Third Parties. We may receive personal information about
you from third-party platforms or other commercially or publicly available sources, including:
- Third-Party platforms: If you access the Services through a social platform or any other third-party
application, we may receive certain personal information provided by that platform.
- Commercial and public sources: We may receive information from third-party vendors or other
commercially or publicly available sources.
- Business partners: We may receive data from business partners, such as information from your
connected store or account activity on third-party applications.
We process personal information for the following purposes:
2.1. Service operations and management. To establish and set up user accounts, authenticate
users to
promote safety, security, and integrity, and verify or re-issue passwords. This includes logging
activities, enabling core platform features, providing technical support and allowing AutoDS to contact
users.
2.2. Platform optimization and personalization. To develop, maintain, improve, and
personalize our products and services, understand and analyze user preferences, customize the overall
user experience.
2.3. Safety, security, and fraud prevention. To detect, assess, and prevent fraudulent or
inappropriate
activities and verify or authenticate information provided by users. This processing is essential to
enforce our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, comply with applicable laws, and maintain a safe and secure
service environment.
2.4. Legal compliance and business record-keeping. To comply with legal and regulatory
obligations, maintain appropriate business records, and process data in response to legally binding
requests, such as subpoenas or court orders. We also process information to protect, establish, or
exercise our legal rights or defend against impending or asserted legal claims.
2.5. Direct marketing. To facilitate our marketing communications, promotional messages,
newsletters, and updates about our Services. Where required by applicable law, we will send such
communications based on your consent, and you may withdraw your consent or opt out at any time by using
the unsubscribe mechanism in the communication or by contacting us.
Where applicable laws require a legal basis for processing, AutoDS processes Personal Information on one
or more of the following grounds:
3.1. Performance of a contract. To establish and manage your account, provide the Services
you request, process transactions, provide customer and technical support, and operate the core
functions of our Services.
3.2. Our legitimate business interests. To maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve our
platform, conduct analytics, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our terms and policies, develop new
features, and, where permitted by applicable law, send certain service-related or limited marketing
communications, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights.
3.3. Compliance with legal obligation. To comply with applicable laws, regulations, lawful
requests, court orders, subpoenas, tax and accounting requirements and other legal processes, and to
maintain records where required by law.
3.4. Consent. Where you have provided express permission for specific activities, such as
direct marketing or certain data collection via cookies.
We may share or disclose your personal information with the following categories of recipients for the
purposes described in this policy:
4.1. Service providers and partners: We share information with third-party suppliers and
partners to perform services on our behalf, such as processing payments, analyzing data, email delivery,
hosting services, customer services, and to help us in our marketing efforts. We require these third
parties to maintain confidentiality and use your information only to provide services on our behalf.
4.2. Other users and site visitors: We may share information with users with whom you
interact, including through communications conducted through the platform, such as support tickets,
participation in clients’ forums, comments, private messages, or invitations.
4.3. Social media and marketing partners: We may share certain identifiers, device
information, online activity information, and similar information with advertising partners, analytics
providers, and social media platforms to measure ad effectiveness, improve our campaigns, and, where
permitted by applicable law, deliver personalized content and advertising. We do not share personal
information for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.
4.4. Legal and public authorities: We may share personal information with law enforcement,
public authorities, or other parties to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or judicial processes. This
includes disclosures necessary to comply with legal obligations, investigate fraud, security breaches,
or violations of our Policy, and to protect the rights, property, or safety of AutoDS, our users, or the
public.
4.5. Corporate transactions: In the event of a merger, sale of assets, or other corporate
restructuring, your information may be shared or transferred as part of the business transition.
5.1. When you use the Services or the Software, your personal information may be sent to, stored, and
processed in various countries, including the United States and Israel. Because we operate globally, we
may store your data on servers located outside of your home jurisdiction and may update these locations
from time to time to maintain our Services.
5.2. Please note that laws and regulations vary by jurisdiction. The transfer of your information is
necessary for the performance of our contract with you and to provide the features of the AutoDS
platform. By using our Services, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to those third
parties described in this Privacy Policy.
5.3. When we transfer your information across borders, we take reasonably and commercially necessary
steps to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy
Policy.
We retain personal information for as long as necessary or permitted under applicable laws in light of
the purposes for which it was obtained. The exact retention period depends on the type of information
and the context in which it was collected. When deciding how long to keep your data, we look at several
factors:
6.1. Your account lifecycle. We keep your data while your account is active to ensure you
have continuous access to our software and tools.
6.2. Legitimate business needs: The length of time during which we may have a legitimate
need to retain
your information to manage and protect our business, address operational issues, or defend against
potential claims.
6.3. Legal and regulatory obligations: We may retain your personal information for as long
as necessary to comply with applicable legal, tax, accounting, reporting, or auditing obligations, and
for any applicable limitation periods.
6.4. Safety and integrity: We preserve records when necessary to investigate security
breaches, prevent fraud, or protect the safety of our community members.
7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
7.1. We use cookies and similar technologies, like pixels and web beacons for purposes such as improving
the quality of the Services or the Software, creating or improving recommendations to interests, and
making the Services or Software easier to use for our clients.
7.2. Third party advertisers on the Services or Software may also use, place or read cookies or other
technologies as described below on your browser. You may manage certain cookie preferences through your
web browser’s options to stop accepting cookies, to prompt you before accepting cookies from the
websites you visit or limit the type of cookies you allow. While you can disable cookies at any time.
Disabling some cookies may affect the availability or functionality of certain parts of the
Services.
8. Your Rights and Specific Provisions by
Jurisdiction
According to applicable privacy laws, you may have the rights and choices with respect to your personal
information, including the right to request the deletion of your personal information in certain
circumstances.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your Personal Information by written notice to us at:
[email protected].
8.1. EU, EEA and UK users
This section applies to you if you are in the EU, the European Economic Area (EEA) or UK.
Where AutoDS is the controller of your Personal Information within the meaning of the EU and UK GDPR, you
have the following rights with respect to your personal information:
- access your personal information and receive a copy thereof;
- rectify inaccurate personal information and, taking into account the purposes of the processing,
request that incomplete personal information be completed;
- delete your personal information, provided that one of relevant grounds for such actions apply (and
that no exclusions under applicable law apply);
- restrict the processing of your personal information, provided that one of relevant grounds for such
actions apply (and that no exclusions under applicable law apply);
8.2. US residents
This section applies to you if you are a U.S. resident, depending on where you live and subject to
certain exceptions.
8.2.1. Your rights:
Depending on your state of residence and subject to applicable law, you may exercise the following rights
in relation to your personal information:
- Right to request that we delete your personal information we received from you under certain
circumstances and exceptions.
- Right to request confirmation of whether we process your personal information and to request access
to the personal information we maintain about you, including, where applicable, the categories and
specific pieces of personal information.
- Right to correct the personal information you provided us with.
- Right to opt out of selling your personal information. Although we do not sell personal information
for monetary compensation, certain disclosures to advertising, analytics, or marketing partners may
be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under applicable U.S. privacy laws.
- AutoDS will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under applicable U.S.
privacy laws
You may also have the right to submit a request through an authorized agent (where applicable). We may
require proof that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf and may also require you to verify your
identity directly with us before processing the request.
8.2.2. Categories of personal information:
In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information (as
described in more detail throughout this Privacy Policy):
- Personal and online identifiers, such as name, email address, contact details, and online
identifiers. We do not sell personal identifiers such as names and email addresses for monetary
compensation, and we use such information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
- Commercial and transaction information, such as payment records, transaction history, and purchases
made through our Services.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, interactions
with a website or advertisement.
- Geolocation data.
- Inferences drawn from the above information
8.2.3. Sources of personal information:
We collect Personal Information:
- Directly from you when you register for our Services, create an account, make a purchase,
communicate with us, or otherwise interact with the platform;
- Automatically when you access or use our Services.
- From third-party sources such as business partners, fraud prevention providers, social media
platforms, advertising and marketing partners, and publicly available sources.
8.2.4. Business or commercial purposes for collecting, using, or disclosing the personal information:
We use the personal information that we collect or receive for the business purposes as described above
under the Section titled “Purposes of Using Your Personal Information?”.
8.2.5. Categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information.
We may disclose the above listed categories of personal information to third parties for business
purposes as described above under the Section titled “Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties”
in the Privacy Policy.
8.3. Israeli users
This section applies to you if you are an Israeli user.
8.3.1. If you are an Israeli user, the legal basis for processing your Personal Information is consent.
Your consent under this Policy constitutes informed consent as required by the Israeli Privacy
Protection Law.
8.3.2. By using our Site, you are providing your consent for the processing of your personal information
for the specific purposes disclosed in this Policy and in accordance with Israeli privacy laws.
8.3.3. Most of the personal information we collect is not required by law, but failure to provide
certain information may prevent or limit our ability to provide our services and your ability to use the
Site. The specific limitations will depend on which information you choose not to provide, potentially
restricting your access to certain features or our services entirely.
8.3.4. The Controller for the processing of personal data under the Israeli Protection Law, as described
in this Privacy policy is AutoDS.
8.3.5. Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, you may have the right to access, correct, and, in
certain circumstances, request the deletion of your personal information. 8.3.6. Requests for deletion
or correction of personal information by Israeli users will be handled in accordance with the
requirements and limitations set forth in the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law.
9. Security
AutoDS has implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures to secure our site and your
personal information and to prevent unauthorized access, accidental loss, misuse, alteration,
destruction or damage to it through industry standard technologies and internal procedures. While we
take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of our Services or Software, no website
or Internet transmission is completely secure, and AutoDS cannot guarantee that unauthorized access,
hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur.
10. Minors Under 18
10.1. Our Services are offered and available to users who are at least 18 years of age or older and of
legal age to form a binding contract. Minors under 18 are not permitted to use the Site or the AutoDS
services.
10.2. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. Parents and guardians
should at all times supervise their children's activities. If you are a parent or guardian and you have
discovered that your child has submitted personal information to us, we will delete the information from
its database at your request. To request the deletion of your child’s information, please send an email
to [email protected].
11.1. To exercise any of your privacy rights, please submit a request through our support team at
[email protected]. Please include sufficient details so we can
properly process your request. We will handle all requests in accordance with applicable law.
11.2. For any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at
[email protected].
