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Privacy Policy

This site was developed to make it easy to follow your favorite NASCAR race drivers. We understand you may not want everyone in the world to have access to your information on this site; that is why we give you control of your information. The shared information in your profile is only accessible to your networks, groups, and other areas that you choose to make your information available.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This privacy policy (The Policy) pertains to the use of the ‘NASCAR Racing Results’ message center and member profiles on any website or as a standalone executable.

The Policy covers how this site treats personal information that the ‘NASCAR Racing Results’ service collects and receives. Personal information is information about an individual that is personally identifiable, such as one's name, postal address, email address, and telephone number.

Information Collection and How It Is Used

General Information

This site collects personal information when you register with this site, when you use this site’s products or services, and when you post content on this site or a site in this site's publisher network.

When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, telephone number, birth date, gender, zip code, and personal interests.

This site automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the web pages or other things that you request.

This site uses information for the following general purposes: your identification and authentication when you visit our site; fulfillment of your requests for products and services; billing (if applicable); customization of the content and advertising you see; improvement of our products and services; research; and anonymous reporting.

Children

Children may not register with this site.

IP Addresses

IP Addresses are automatically reported by your browser each time you view a web page. Your IP address is stored in our user registration databases when you register with this site.

IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including:

To diagnose or service technology problems reported by our users or engineers that is associated with the IP addresses controlled by a specific web company or ISP.

To tailor advertising based on geographic area or other information derived from your IP address. Aggregate information derived from IP addresses may also be reported to advertisers.

To estimate the total number of users visiting this site from specific geographical regions.

To make sure that people are not voting for themselves or friends during contests or promotions.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.

You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set.

If you reject all cookies, you may not be able to use this site’s products or services that require you to "sign in” and you may not be able to take full advantage of this site’s products and services.

This site uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:

Access your information when you "sign in."

Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using this site's products and services.

Display the most appropriate advertising, based on your interests and activity on this site.

Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.

Conduct research to improve this site's content and products and services.

This site lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the site privacy policy. Advertisers or other entities do not have access to this site's cookies.

This site may set and access this site's cookies on your computer.

This site uses web beacons to access this site's cookies inside and outside our network of web sites and in connection with this site's products and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

When you post a message to this site, your Shell I.D. or screen name will be visible to other users.

When you send a message via this site or this site in general, your site I.D. or screen name will be visible to message recipients.

When you send a message via this site short code or long code in general as a non-registered user, your phone number will be visible to message recipients.

If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

We will not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide you with the products or services you have requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

This site will provide personal information about you to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with this site under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help this site communicate with you about offers from this site and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.

This site may also be required to disclose personally identifiable information under special circumstances, such as to comply with subpoenas, when your actions violate the this site Terms of Service, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against any legal claims.

It may also be necessary for this site to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this site's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

This site may share demographic information and other aggregated statistics with business partners, such as "40% of the users of this site's service are between 18 and 25." However, no personally identifiable information will ever be disclosed except as explained above.

We will transfer information about you if this site is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, this site will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on this site websites before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

This site may display targeted advertisements based on personal information that is exhibited in people's profiles. Advertisers and ad serving companies may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads meet the targeting criteria - for example, men ages 18-22 from a particular geographic area. However, this site does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. By interacting with or viewing an ad, however, you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.

Editing and Deleting Account Information

General

You can change your this site Account Information at any time.

We may send you certain communications relating to the site service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, which are considered part of this site account.

You can suspend your this site account at any time from your account page. Please note, however, that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in this site's records for some period of time.

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

Your this site Account Information is password-protected.

In certain instances, this site may use SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This site may update this policy at any time for any reason. If there are any significant changes to how we handle personal information we will send a notice to the primary email address specified in your this site account or by placing a prominent notice on our site. Effective Date: February 9, 2009

 






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