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CollectorCarNation.com Privacy Policy

GENERAL STATEMENT

CollectorCarNation.com is a social networking and classified advertising service. You do not need to be a registered CollectorCarNation.com member to view this website. However, there are some features that are only accessible if you are registered. This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") discloses the privacy practices for Raceway Media, LLC ("Raceway"). Raceway is committed to your privacy. Raceway hereby notifies you of:

  1. What personally identifiable information of yours, or third party personally identifiable information, is collected from you through CollectorCarNation.com.
  2. The company collecting the information.
  3. How the information is used.
  4. With whom the information may be shared.
  5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information.
  6. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

We do not collect any personal information about you at CollectorCarNation.com unless you to choose to provide it to us voluntarily.  Raceway is the sole owner of the information collected on CollectorCarNation.com. Raceway will not sell, share, transfer or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. You can browse the site, public profiles and the classifieds section without creating your own personal profile.  If you choose to create your own profile you will be providing us with some personal information about yourself, and consenting to the storage of that information on our servers.

We may collect and store the following personal information:

Raceway collects information from its users on every page as well as on the "Signup," "Classifieds," "Blogs," "Forums," "E-mail Newsletter," "Invite,"  "Groups," "Members," "Post Ad," "Modify Ad," Honor Payments," "E-mail Newsletter," and "Forum pages." If you encounter a screen or page that requests information you do not want to share with us, do not enter the information and do not proceed with that screen or page.

If you create a profile or place an ad on CollectorCarNation.com, some of your personal contact information is shown with your profile, including your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other information that you specify.

There will be a link from your profile or from your ad that users can click on in order to contact you. If you click on a classified ad, this will bring up a page that asks for your Classification Number, Password and e-mail address. An e-mail can then be sent from you to the user who placed the ad. Raceway does not use this information for any marketing purposes.

If you "Save To Favorites" an ad, that ad will be stored on your behalf for future access.

Prior to the expiration of a classified listing, Raceway will e-mail a reminder to the seller that the listing must be updated, renewed or deleted.

If you provide CollectorCarNation.com with a testimonial about your CollectorCarNation.com experience, we may ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, and feedback regarding your experience. We may use this information to contact you regarding your testimonial. If you indicate that we may quote you, your name and experience may be shared with others or posted publicly to our site and you may be contacted about your experience.

The reason we collect personal information is to optimize your experience on CollectorCarNation.com.  You agree that we may use your personal information to:

OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

In order to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property or safety, we may disclose personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

 REGISTRATION

In order to use all the services of CollectorCarNation.com, a user must first complete the "Member Profile" registration form. During registration, users are required to give information such as name, address, e-mail address, age, gender, online purchase habits and income. Mailing address and e-mail address is primarily used to confirm the identity of the user. This information is also used to contact the user about the services on CollectorCarNation.com for which he/she has expressed interest. Information as to the age, gender, purchasing habits, and income level and other unique identifiers (such as interests) are requested to help Raceway provide a more personalized experience on CollectorCarNation.com.

OPT OUT PROCEDURES

You may always opt out of receiving future mailings or other information from Raceway. To do so you may click the opt out option at the bottom of any of our communications.

COOKIES

A cookie is data stored on the user's computer. We may use cookies for a number of purposes - for example, to maintain continuity during a user session, to gather data about the usage of our web site for research and other purposes, to store your preferences for certain kinds of information and marketing offers, or to store a user name or encrypted identification number so that you do not have to provide this information every time you return to our web site.

Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on CollectorCarNation.com. Once the user closes his or her browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on CollectorCarNation.com, the user would not have to log in a Password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, he or she may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user may be limited in some areas of the CollectorCarNation.com site. Cookies can also enable Raceway to track the interests of CollectorCarNation.com users to enhance the experience of the CollectorCarNation.com site.

Some of Raceway's business partners may use cookies on Raceway's site (for example, advertisers). Usually, these cookies exist only if the user links on the ad. Raceway has no access to or control over these cookies.

LOG FILES

Raceway may use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

SHARING

Raceway does not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you have requested, when Raceway has your permission, or under the following circumstances:

  1. Raceway may share aggregated demographic information with its partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
  2. Raceway may partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, Raceway will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. Per Raceway‘s contractual arrangements with partners, these partners are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the explicit purpose of providing these services.
  3. Raceway shall respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise its legal rights or defend against legal claims.
  4. Raceway believes it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to physical safety of any persons, violations of CollectorCarNation.com's Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, incorporated herein by this reference, or as otherwise required by law.
  5. Raceway shall transfer information about you if CollectorCarNation.com is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Raceway will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

By using CollectorCarNation.com and its various features, you may make some of your personal information public or you may choose to share some of your personal information with others. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY

Raceway takes appropriate precautions to protect users' personal information both online and off-line. We restrict access to personal information collected about you at our websites to our employees, our affiliates' employees, or others who need to know that information to provide services to you or in the course of conducting our normal business operations. We maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information.

However, Raceway is not responsible for the confidentiality, security or distribution of your own personal information by our partners and third parties which occurs outside the scope of your agreement with Raceway.

Raceway shall not be liable for the transfer of any personal identification information resulting from loss or distribution of data, the delineation or corruption of storage media, power failures, natural phenomena, riots, acts of vandalism, sabotage, terrorism or any other event beyond Raceway's control.

LINKS

CollectorCarNation.com may contain links to other sites. The linked sites are not necessarily under the control of CollectorCarNation.com. Please be aware that Raceway is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. Raceway encourages users to be aware when they leave CollectorCarNation.com and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites linked to this site, you do this entirely at your own risk. Any links to any partner of Raceway should be the responsibility of the linking party, and Raceway shall not be responsible for notification of any change in name or location of any information of the site.

CHILDREN'S AND MINOR'S PRIVACY

Raceway strongly encourages parents and guardians to supervise the online activities of their minor children and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools also can prevent minors from disclosing their name, address, and other personally identifiable information online without parental permission. Although CollectorCarNation.com is not intended for use by minors, Raceway respects the privacy of minors who may use the Internet. Whenever Raceway becomes aware that a user is under the age of 18 years, the following additional terms, conditions and notices apply to use of CollectorCarNation.com:

  1. Users under 18 years of age may not submit information through CollectorCarNation.com. CollectorCarNation.com will not enroll as a member any person under age 18, nor will Raceway collect any personally identifiable information about a person that Raceway determines is under age 18, except with written consent from the person's parent after informing the parent about the types of information Raceway will collect, how it will be used, and under what circumstances it will be disclosed.
  2. "Personally identifiable information" collected from minors may include any of the information disclosed in membership enrollment, including name, address, e-mail address, age, gender, income and other unique identifiers, and may be used by Raceway for the same purposes as adult information, as described in this Privacy Policy.
  3. A minor's parent or legal guardian may request Raceway to provide a description of the personally identifiable information that Raceway has collected from the minor, as well as instruct Raceway to cease further use, maintenance and collection of personally identifiable information from the minor.

SPECIAL OFFERS

CollectorCarNation.com sends all new members a welcoming e-mail to verify password and e-mail address. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, etc. Out of respect for the privacy of CollectorCarNation.com's users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our "Opt Out" section above.

If users wish to subscribe to CollectorCarNation.com's newsletter and/or periodic correspondence, we require their e-mail addresses.

INVITE A FRIEND OR RECOMMEND AN AD

If a user elects to use CollectorCarNation.com's referral service called "Invite a Friend" or "Recommend This Ad" to tell a friend about the CollectorCarNation.com site or an ad listed on the site, CollectorCarNation.com asks for the friend's name and e-mail address. CollectorCarNation.com will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting the friend to visit the site.

SITE AND SERVICE UPDATES

As necessary, CollectorCarNation.com may send the user site and service announcement updates. Users are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. CollectorCarNation.com communicates via e-mail with users to provide requested services and to resolve issues relating to their accounts.

ACCESSING, REVIEWING AND CHANGING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

When you sign into CollectorCarNation.com you are able to see, review and change most of your personal information.  However, you may not be able to change or remove some public postings.  If you so request, we are able to close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law. In order to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our CollectorCarNation.com User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law, we retain personal information from closed accounts.

NO SPAM

Make sure to set your CollectorCarNation.com notification preferences so you receive communications from us in accordance with your preferences.  You may not add other CollectorCarNation.com users to any mailing list (email or physical mail) without their specific consent.

ACCOUNT PROTECTION

To safeguard your account and protect your privacy, be sure to use unique numbers, letters and special characters for your password, and do not disclose your CollectorCarNation.com password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal information with others, you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your account. If the security of your password is compromised, you may lose  control over personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Notify CollectorCarNation.com and change your password immediately if your password has been compromised.

SECURITY

We use many tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to protect the personal information stored on our servers against unauthorized access and disclosure. The possibility exists that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse personal information gleaned from the site. We do not guarantee, and you should not expect, that personal information or private communications on CollectorCarNation.com will always remain private.

THIRD PARTIES

Except where noted, our Privacy Policy concerns the use and disclosure of information CollectorCarNation.com collects from you. If and when you disclose information to other parties on CollectorCarNation.com or other sites on the Internet, different policies may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you provide to them. Raceway does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.  If Raceway decides to change the CollectorCarNation.com Privacy Policy, Raceway will post those changes on the CollectorCarNation.com homepage so users are always aware of what information Raceway collects, how Raceway uses it, and under what circumstances, if any, Raceway discloses it. If at any point Raceway decides to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, Raceway will notify users by way of an e-mail. Users who have provided personally identifiable information before the changes in the CollectorCarNation.com Privacy Policy will have a choice as to whether or not Raceway may use their information in this different manner. If the user chooses that Raceway not use his/her personally identifiable information in accordance with the new Privacy Policy, Raceway will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was originally collected.

Raceway will notify users of any significant changes to the CollectorCarNation.com Privacy Policy by e-mail.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to learn more about how we protect privacy, please write to us at 106 Main Street, North Adams, MA 01247.

Last Updated:  August 25, 2008

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