Privacy Policy

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Website or when You access the Website by or through a mobile device.

User Profile Data

When You register for an account on the Site, you may be asked to provide certain Personal Data for display on Your profile. The “Name” field is required as well as public, and user profiles are visible to any Site visitor. Other profile information may be required or optional, as configured by the Site administrator.

User information provided during Account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.

Password Reset

If you request a password reset, your IP address will automatically be included in the reset email.

Activity

This Site records certain user actions, in the form of “activity” data. Activity includes updates and comments posted directly to activity streams, as well as descriptions of other actions performed while using the Site, such as new friendships, newly joined groups, and profile updates.

The content of activity items obey the same privacy rules as the contexts in which the activity items are created. For example, activity updates created in a user’s profile is publicly visible, while activity items generated in a private group are visible only to members of that group. Site administrators can view all activity items, regardless of context.

Activity items may be deleted at any time by users who created them. Site administrators can edit all activity items.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from Your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if You are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of Your comment, Your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

All uploaded files are usually publicly accessible. If You upload images to the website, You should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Messages

The content of private messages is visible only to the sender and the recipients of the message. With the exception of site administrators, who can read all private messages, private message content is never visible to other users or Site visitors. Site administrators may delete the content of any message.

Events

We collect and store information You submit to Us when making a “Season Schedule,” for the purpose of maintaining a record of interest and attendance.

We collect and store information You submit to Us about events (and corresponding locations) that You would like to publish on Our Site.

Miscellaneous

If You request a password reset, Your IP address will be included in the reset email.

• If You leave a comment on Our Site You may opt-in to saving Your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for Your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when You leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
• If You visit Our login page, We will set a temporary cookie to determine if Your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when You close Your browser.
• When You log in, We will also set up several cookies to save Your login information and Your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If You select “Remember Me”, Your login will persist for two weeks. If You log out of Your account, the login cookies will be removed.
• If You edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in Your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article You just edited. It expires after 1 day.
• We may use cookies to temporarily store information about a booking in progress as well as any error/confirmation messages whilst submitting or managing Your events and locations.
• We use a cookie to show success and failure messages to logged-in users, in response to certain actions, like joining a group. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted immediately after the next page load.
• We use cookies on group, member, and activity directories to keep track of a user’s browsing preferences. These preferences include the last-selected values of the sort and filter dropdowns, as well as pagination information. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted after 24 hours.
• When a logged-in user creates a new group, We use a number of cookies to keep track of the group creation process. These cookies contain no personal data, and are deleted either upon the successful creation of the group or after 24 hours.
• Pages and blog articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about You, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor Your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking Your interaction with the embedded content if You have an account and are logged in to that website.

For more information about the cookies We use and Your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Declaration Page.

Why We Collect Information and For How Long

We are collecting your data for several reasons:

• To better understand Your needs and provide You with the services You have requested;
• To fulfill Our legitimate interest in improving Our services and products;
• To send You promotional emails containing information We think You may like when We have Your consent to do so;
• To contact You to fill out surveys or participate in other types of market research, when We have Your consent to do so;
• To customize Our website according to Your online behavior and personal preferences.

The data we collect from You will be stored for no longer than necessary. The length of time We retain said information will be determined based upon the following criteria: the length of time Your personal information remains relevant; the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate that We have fulfilled our duties and obligations; any limitation periods within which claims might be made; any retention periods prescribed by law or recommended by regulators, professional bodies or associations; the type of contract We have with You, the existence of Your consent, and Our legitimate interest in keeping such information as stated in this Policy.

Usage Data is retained for analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Use of Your Personal Data

We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.
• To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with requested services.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to inquiries and solve any potential issues with Our service.
• To send administrative information to You. We may process your information to send You details about our products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar information.
• To enable user-to-user communications. We may process your information if You choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with another user.
• To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of Our Services.
• To administer prize draws and competitions. We may process your information to administer prize draws and competitions.
• To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may process the personal information You send to Us for Our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time. For more information, see “Your Privacy Rights“ below).
• To deliver targeted advertising to You. We may process your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
• To evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience. We may process your information when we believe it is necessary to identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing, and your experience.
• To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
• To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns. We may process your information to better understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns that are most relevant to you.
• To comply with our legal obligations. We may process your information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal rights.
• To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about Our Service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of Our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve Our Service, products, services, marketing and Your experience.

What Legal Bases Do We Rely On To Process Your Information?

If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time. Click here to learn more.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:

• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way

• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention

• For business transactions provided certain conditions are met

• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim

• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin

• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse

• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province

• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records

• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced

• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes

• If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations

Sharing of Your Personal Data

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Personalized Ads

We may use third-party vendors, including Google, for the purposes of providing personalized ads based on Your interests.  This activity is performed by collecting Usage Data and by using cookies and other tracking and data collection methodologies discussed above to transfer information to these services which manage advertising activities.

These marketing services may also use cookies and other tracking and data collection methodologies discussed above to measure advertisement effectiveness and for other purposes that are disclosed in their own privacy policies.  We have no access or control over these cookies and other tracking and data collection methodologies that may be used by these marketing service providers, and We have no responsibility or liability for the privacy policies and practices of these sites.

Google Ads and Remarketing – We may participate in Google’s Advertising program which enables Us to display personalized ads across the Internet. With Google Ads You may see Our ads on websites that You visit, or have visited in the past, after You have visited Our Site. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this site, to prepare reports on its activities, and to share them with other Google services. Google uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique Cookie is placed in their browser.  Google audience targeting allows Us to shows ads on participating websites to people who have already visited Our website, or people whose interests and demographics are similar to those who have visited Our website.

To learn more about the information Google collects and how that information is used, please visit: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

To learn more about how Google uses data when you use Google’s partners’ sites and apps, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

To opt-out of Google’s collection and use of information for ad targeting, visit: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/ or https://www.google.com/settings/ads

You may also opt-out of the Google Analytics service with the Google’s Browser Add-on that’s available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Other Personalized And Behavioral Advertising Services – We may participate in additional retargeting and behavioral advertising services that will be similar to the services described above. 

Managing Personalized Ads – You can control the placement of cookies and other data collection methodologies for purposes of opting out. Please reference the sources and opt-out links provided.

Additionally, You can manage cookies via your browser.  You should note that although most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, You may be able to change Your browser settings to cause Your browser to refuse first party or third-party cookies or to indicate when a third-party cookie is being sent.  However, disabling or limiting cookies may cause certain features of this Website to not function properly or optimally. Check Your browser’s “Help” files or other similar resources to learn more about handling cookies on your browser.  In addition, visit  https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

For an additional resource for opting out of a third party vendor’s use of cookies, please visit: https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices

Non-Marketing Purposes

We greatly respects Your privacy.  We do maintain and reserve the right to contact You if needed for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes in Our products and services).  In certain circumstances, We may use Our Website, newspapers, or other public means to post a notice. 

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed by the Web Hosting Service, BlueHost, and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Additionally, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may not use or disclose the information provided by You except under the following circumstances:

• as necessary to provide services or products You have ordered; 
• in other ways described in this Policy or to which You have otherwise consented; 
• in the aggregate with other information in such a way so that Your identity cannot reasonably be determined; 
• to outside auditors who have agreed to keep the information confidential;
• as necessary to enforce the Terms of Service; 
• as necessary to maintain, safeguard and preserve all the rights and property of ParkingLotRacing.org.

Business Transactions

If ParkingLotRacing.org is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, We may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

We may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability