Privacy Statement for
The Professional Car Society

We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website:



What Information Is Collected

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We use cookies in our discussion forums to notify you of new messages since your last visit, to save your password (at your option) so you don't have to reenter it each time you visit our discussion board, to set your viewing preferences, and to provide access to authorized users in restricted forums and administrative areas. We do not use cookies to track your on-line activities and viewing habits.

Our discussion board registration form requires users to give us contact information in the form of a valid e-mail address. The participant's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. You have the option of not allowing your e-mail address to be made publicly available at the time of registration on our discussion board.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

This site contains links to other sites. The Professional Car Society (Professionalcar.org) is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

We do not sell or otherwise distribute e-mail addresses or any other information to third parties. Information will be made available to law enforcement agencies and other parties as required in the event of abuse, illegal activities, legal action, or requests for information from law enforcement.

The software that we use for the discussion board is supplied by a third party. It does have security features built in but it is not represented as high security software. There is always the possibility that someone may gain unauthorized access to the data files including your e-mail address and password. For that reason we suggest that you do not use the same password for our discussion board as you do for other services. We do use IP address logging and hack attempt logging to track potential offenders.

It is important to note that the Main Web Site is Hosted on a Remote Server and the Message Forums are located on a Remote Server as well. The Professional Car Society makes no representation as to how secure or insecure overall server security is.

Our Hosting Provider does provide us monthly WEB statistics regarding the use of our website. This information does include usage by domain name.

Public Forums

The Professional Car Society (Professionalcar.org) makes message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. In order to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) we have elected to prohibit participation in these areas by preteens. By posting in these areas you certify that you are at least 13 years of age or older.

Choice/Opt-Out

The Professional Car Society (Professionalcar.org) provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and to keep their e-mail address private at the point where we request information about the visitor.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database, to not receive future communications, or to delete cookies.

  1. You can elect to not receive any e-mail from the Administrator or Moderators of the bulletin board with the exception of site related notifications, remove the optional profile information, or elect to keep your e-mail address from being publicly available by clicking on the "profile" link at the top of any of the bulletin board pages and changing the appropriate fields.
  2. You may delete the cookies stored on your computer by clicking on the "preferences" link at the top of any of the bulletin board pages and then selecting the "delete cookies" link near the top of that page.
  3. You may edit any of your own posts on the bulletin board by clicking on the "Edit/Delete" icon within that particular message. There is no option available to mass delete all of your posts at once. If you would like a specific Post of yours Removed, Please E-mail Moderator@professionalcar.org



Correct/Update

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

  1. You may change your password, e-mail address, or any of the optional information fields in your profile by clicking on the "profile" link at the top of any of the bulletin board pages and changing the appropriate fields.
  2. You may change your default topic view cookie or whether or not to store your password cookie by clicking on the "preferences" link at the top of any of the bulletin board pages and then selecting the appropriate option.
  3. You may edit your own posts by clicking on the "Edit/Delete" icon within that particular message. A note will automatically be added to the message to indicate that you have edited it.



Contacting the System Operators

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at Webmaster@professionalcar.org