Ford Racing respects the privacy of our online visitors. We believe in your right to know what information we collect, how we use it and how we safeguard it.
The following document discloses privacy practices for www.fordracingevents.com.
When you register for membership in Ford Racing, we assume that you understand and agree with our privacy policy. In other words, we believe that you have given TFR your "informed consent" to handle your information in the manner described in this document. However, if you tell us that your information should not be used in this way, we will honor your request. To "opt out" of any aspect of TFR’s information handling practices, please call Ford Racing at 1-877-TFR-CLUB or email us at contactus@fordracingevents.com.
During registration for Team Ford Racing, you will be asked to give Ford Racing your name, address and e-mail address and create a unique member name and alphanumeric password. This information is used to set up and maintain your account, and will never be disclosed to a third party without your prior consent.
Team Ford Racing will occasionally partner with other parties, called Crew Members, to present special offers, promotions or discounts. In such cases, your information will be shared with said Crew Member. The Crew Member will use the information for the Team Ford Racing special promotion or offer.
During registration, members will also be asked to answer select marketing questions for Ford Motor Company’s exclusive use and provide driver, series and team preferences in order to customize Ford Racing’s web content and offer special promotions.
If you place an order for Ford Racing products and services, you will be asked to give Ford Racing a valid credit card number. This number will be securely transmitted to Team Ford Racing online, held securely in a confidential file, and never disclosed to a third party or used for any purpose other than for the transaction you have authorized.
We also use standard web server log files to help us count how many people visit fordracing.com and the number of pages they view. This statistical information helps us to evaluate our site's technical capacity and to make our site more useful to our visitors. Information on site usage is collected and analyzed in aggregate (massed together; collective) form, and then discarded. No information about you in particular will ever be singled out.
Ford Racing uses a technology called ‘cookies’ to optimize your on-line experience. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and you'll find cookies at most major web sites.
A cookie is an element of data that the Ford Racing web site can send to your browser for storage on your computer system. A cookie can automatically save your personal passwords and preferences for future visits to the Ford Racing site.
Cookies do not capture your individual e-mail address or any private information about you. TFR does not use cookies to identify individuals or to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie. TFR does not use information transferred through cookies for any promotional or marketing purposes, nor is the information shared with any third parties whatsoever.
If you choose to send personal messages to Ford Racing via e-mail or any other medium, Ford Racing will only use this information to identify you as a TFR member and to determine how to respond to the message.
Ford Racing is committed to ensuring that your personal information will remain private during transmission to Ford Racing. Therefore, we have put security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Member information is never provided to any other company for that company’s independent use. As stated above, Team Ford Racing will occasionally partner with other parties, called Crew Members, to present special offers, promotions or discounts. In such cases, your information will be shared with said Crew Members only if you manually elect to participate in a given promotion.
At our discretion we will make the information about Ford Racing’s users available in aggregate form to help describe and identify our users to business partners, the industry and public at large, and our advertisers.
We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the TFR site. Visitors under the age of 18 should not submit any information to TFR without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Information collected from visitors under the age of 18 will not be used for marketing or promotional purposes outside of Ford Racing. Ford Racing will use its best efforts to avoid posting the e-mail address or complete name of any visitor to TFR under the age of 18 without express, written consent of the underage visitor's parent or guardian.
The Ford Racing site contains links to other sites. www.fordracing.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from www.fordracing.com to another web site, the Ford Racing site rules and this privacy policy are no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on other web sites, including sites that have a link on fordracing.com, become subject to the rules and policies of those sites. Please read over each site’s rules and policies before proceeding.
We reserve the right to modify our privacy policy. A modified privacy policy will only apply to data collected subsequent to its effective date. Revised data will be posted at least 10 days prior to its effective date.
Ford Motor Company takes privacy matters very seriously. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or complaints about fordracing.com's privacy policy, please call Ford Racing at 1-877-TFR-CLUB or e-mail us at contactus@fordracingevents.com.