Notice at Collection

AutoZone and its affiliates (collectively, “AutoZone”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) collect your personal information to support our business operations, including for the purposes listed below. Some of the information may be considered sensitive by some states and federal definitions.

We do not sell your personal information for monetary gain. However, certain features provided by our websites require the support of third parties. Sharing your personal information with these third parties might be categorized by the California Consumer

Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), as “selling” or “sharing” of your personal information. To avoid misunderstanding, we will distinguish these terms by their commonly accepted meanings. How we share your personal information and the purposes for which we do so is described below. Please visit our Cookie Preferences Center to opt-out of personal information sharing. To view our full privacy policy, please click here.

We do not knowingly collect or disclose Personal Information from children under the age of 16 without parental or guardian consent.

We may collect additional information from employees or job candidates through job applications, benefits enrollment, and payroll or direct deposit enrollment. We maintain a separate collection notice and privacy policy for employees and job applicants.

What personal information does AutoZone collect? For what purposes? Does AutoZone share your personal information with third parties?

The table below shows what categories of personal information we collect, the purposes for the collection, and whether we share the information with third parties.

Personal Information Category Business Purpose Shared?
Personal Information Category

Identifiers such as your name, address, zip code, telephone number, email address, gender, age, date of birth, social media username or handle, and information about your vehicle (e.g.,vehicle identification number (VIN); we may collect your government-issued ID information for certain types of transactions; password when you create an AutoZone Rewards Account

Business Purpose
  • To provide you with goods and services
  • To respond to your customer service request, question, or your online review of our goods and services
  • To facilitate our business and operational purposes in relations to the services we provide to you
  • For security and asset protection purposes
  • The collection is otherwise relevant to providing our services to you
  • For marketing our goods and services
  • For other uses we may disclose to you
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Demographic Information such as your age, race, ethnicity, gender, income, religion, language, date of birth, and military service. Some of these may be classified as sensitive personal information under the CCPA and federal law

Business Purpose
  • To learn about customer trends and interests
  • To personalize digital content and offers
  • To deliver marketing communications and advertising
  • To provide you with discounts (military service only)
Shared?

NO

Personal Information Category

Commercial Information such as the products or services you purchased or considered purchasing, purchase history, products or services you like, reviews you submit, or where you shop, vehicles you own (e.g., number, type, age, make, model)

Business Purpose
  • To fulfill orders and processing returns
  • For customer care
  • To administer contests and promotions
  • To register you for a website or program
  • To communicate with you
  • To improve our products and services, including improving store layouts and digital content
  • To learn about customer trends and interests
  • To personalize digital content
  • To deliver marketing communications and advertising
  • To identify the devices you use to access our digital content
  • For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Financial/Payment Information such as your credit or debit card, check, bank account, or gift card information

Business Purpose
  • To fulfill orders and processing returns
  • To provide customer care
  • To communicate with you regarding payment status
  • To collect payments For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
Shared?

NO

Personal Information Category

Business Information such as business name, business phone number, name of owner and/or point of contact, title, business address, zip code, email address and password, and business website

Business Purpose
  • To fulfill orders and process returns
  • To provide customer care
  • To administer contests and promotions
  • To register you for a website or program
  • To communicate with you
  • To improve our products and services
  • To learn about customer trends and interests
  • To personalize digital content
  • To deliver marketing communications and our ad
  • To identify the devices you use to access digital content
  • For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Internet, Device & Online Activity Data such as information about your interaction with our websites and apps

Business Purpose
  • To fulfill orders and process returns
  • To provide customer care
  • To administer contests and promotions
  • To register you for a website or program
  • To communicate with you
  • To improve our products and services
  • To learn about customer trends and interests
  • To personalize digital content
  • To deliver marketing communications and advertising
  • To identify the devices you use to access digital content
  • For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Geolocation data based on IP address or mobile device location data, including precise geolocation data if you allow our apps to collect it

Business Purpose
  • To direct you to a Store location
  • To provide customer care
  • To improve our products and services
  • To personalize digital content
  • To deliver marketing and advertising
  • To identify the devices you use to access digital content
  • For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Audio, Electronic or Visua5 Data such as information collected through in-store CCTV, recordings of phone calls to us; live chat interactions; content of social media posts and online reviews

Business Purpose
  • To improve our products and services
  • To respond to your customer service request, question, or your online review of our goods and services
  • To provide customer care
  • For fraud prevention, security, and asset protection
  • For employee training
Shared?

YES

Personal Information Category

Inferences Drawn from Other Personal Information such preferences, interests, and other characteristics, such as shopping history that reflects a consumer’s shopping preferences

Business Purpose
  • To provide customer care
  • To improve our products and services, including improving our Store layout and digital content
  • To learn about customer trends and interests
  • To personalize digital content
Shared?

YES

As described above, we collect your internet, device, and online activity data. We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect your browsing history, search history, and internet protocol (IP) address. We analyze your clicks with a mouse, taps on a device with a touchscreen, and pressing of keys on a physical or onscreen keyboard to measure the responsiveness of our websites to improvev your browsing experience.

In addition to the business purposes disclosed above, we may use your personal information to comply with our legal obligations and for other purposes disclosed in our Privacy Policy.

We may aggregate your personal information with other users’ personal information to identify broader patterns and trends across customer segments, compare our performance against industry standards, develop new and improved products, making our marketing efforts more efficient, conduct statistical analysis, and meet our regulatory and audit requirements. Once personal information is aggregated, it can no longer be used to identify the individual users.

How do we process your sensitive personal information?

If you contact our Customer Support, we may record the conversation to address your issues, improve our services and products, and keep it as part of our business record which is subject to our company’s retention policy. Please note that any other sensitive personal information we collect from you is strictly used to fulfill our contracts with you, and for purposes permitted under the applicable data protection laws. We do not process any sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.

How long does AutoZone retain personal information?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes it is collected. We may be obligated to keep your personal information longer due to legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may also keep your personal information longer if there is a complaint or we can reasonably anticipate a legal dispute arising from our relationship with you.

Our retention policy for personal information is based on the amount, nature, sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which your personal information is collected and processed and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, the applicable regulatory requirements. In some circumstances, we will anonymize or aggregate your personal information for research or statistical purposes. Once personal information is anonymized or aggregated, it can no longer be associated with an individual person. In that case, we may use the information indefinitely without further notice to you.

What are your California Privacy Rights?

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights in relation to what and how we collect and process your personal information. You may find that information at Your California and Other State Law Privacy Rights.

You have the right to opt out of our sharing your personal information. To do so, please visit our Cookie Preferences Center.

For our complete privacy policy, please visit Privacy Policy.

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