Privacy Policy

DragRacingUnderground.com Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting our site. Your privacy is important to us. The purpose of this DragRacingUnderground.com privacy policy is to inform you, as a welcome visitor to DragRacingUnderground.com, what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit DragRacingUnderground.com, how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information. This privacy policy only applies to transactions made, and data gathered, on the DragRacingUnderground.com Web site (the "Site") and does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between DragRacingUnderground.com and users. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may update it from time to time. This privacy policy was last revised on April 15, 2004. By visiting the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy.

Information Collected from the User

DragRacingUnderground.com collects information about users in a number of ways. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. When you register as a DragRacingUnderground.com user, you are asked to enter your name and email address plus additional information.

We may also ask you for personal information when you [1] enter a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion, whether sponsored by us or one of our partners; [2] when you take one of our polls or fill out a marketing survey; [3] when you make a purchase of merchandise or premium content [4] when you ask to receive any of our newsletters [5] and when you sign up for services provided by our partners.

While you are using the DragRacingUnderground.com, we may collect certain non-personally-identifiable information about you, such as the URL you just came from, the next URL you go to, what browser you are using (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer), the domain name of your Internet Service Provider (e.g. AOL, Earthlink), and your IP address. In order to administer and optimize the Site for you and to diagnose problems with our Site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.

Like most websites, the Site uses cookies—pieces of information that Web sites transfer to your computer’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes— to keep track of your purchases and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Site. Third parties advertisers on the Site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Site.

We may also use cookies on some DragRacingUnderground.com pages to keep track of your most recent visit to our site, identify the URL you’re coming from when you buy a product on our site, provide you with an online shopping cart, and to track and customize advertising served to you.

How Information is Used and Your Control over the Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us and in connection with events for which you purchased tickets on the Site (including event confirmations, changes and cancellations).

We use your personal information to help us efficiently perform transactions on the Site. To process transactions on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can providing us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We do not allow these entities to use your information for any other purpose.

Other uses include contacting you when necessary, and sending you information, offers and other promotional materials from DragRacingUnderground.com and selected third parties. We carefully select the information we send to you and attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. We may use your e-mail address if you tell us that you want to receive promotional information from DragRacingUnderground.com or its partners and advertisers. DragRacingUnderground.com uses the information collected from you to better understand the demographics, interests and behavior of our collective audience or to deliver advertisements and promotions that are targeted to your interests. We do not share individual information about you with advertisers in the process.

The Site provides you with the option of declining to receive offers from DragRacingUnderground.com by "opting-out" of receipt of this type of communication. You can send a message to friends@DragRacingUnderground.com at any time if you want to stop receiving these promotion materials.

How We Use Financial Information

We use your financial information to check your qualifications and bill you for products and services. By making a purchase on the Site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine is necessary to process your transactions. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process the transaction. Also, depending on the circumstances of our arrangements, we may share your financial information with applicable Event Partners, primarily for facilitating "will call" ticket pick up and dispute resolution and customer service at the event venue on the date of the event. By purchasing products or services of third parties (such as magazine subscriptions) offered on the Site you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties. Any of these various third parties are authorized to use your financial information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control.

By purchasing tickets on the Site, you consent to us sharing your personal information with the venues, promoters, artists and other third parties associated with the concerts and events for which you purchase tickets ("Event Partners"). Due to our contractual obligations with Event Partners, we cannot offer you the opportunity to opt-out of our sharing of your personal information with them. Event Partners may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those Event Partners who contact you to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

By purchasing products or services offered by third parties on the Site (such as magazine subscriptions), you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties.

We may select third parties with whom we will share your personal information so that they can communicate directly with you about their products and services. The Site provides you with the option of declining to have your personal information shared with these selected third parties. We attempt to carefully select these third parties and the specific offers they intend to communicate to you so that you will receive high quality, valuable and relevant offers.

Your personal information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a transfer of ownership, assets or a bankruptcy of StarOne Networks, L.L.C. We may also disclose specific information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law or to protect the interests or safety of DragRacingUnderground.com or other visitors to the Site.

Any third party with whom we share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

Who Else Sees Your Information and What You Can Do About It

We may share your e-mail address and other information with our Affiliates, partners or advertisers sponsoring a promotion or event. We may share your personal demographic information with our Event Partners. We may share aggregated (grouped) demographic information with advertisers and other third parties so that they can tailor their advertisements and communications to the appropriate audience.

When you sign up with our partners for services such as Internet access services and other offerings, you are providing information to the partner offering the service as well as to DragRacingUnderground.com. You must carefully read the privacy policy of our affiliates and the partner providing the service before deciding to take advantage of the service.

Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy policies, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We also share information about our users in the aggregate to profile our collective audience to advertisers and partners. Our partners may also share the aggregate information we provide with third parties. The information data may also be shared under confidentiality agreements with independent market research companies. We may also match your information with information provided to us by third parties under confidentiality agreements.

We may have to disclose information about you to law enforcement, other government officials or third parties in order to comply with applicable law or legal process (e.g. a court order or subpoena) or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

How You Can Update Your Email Preferences and other Account Information

During the creation of your account on the Site, we will give you the opportunity to opt-out of the receipt of certain communications from us and third parties, other than our Event Partners. You can also e-mail us at friends@DragRacingUnderground.com to opt-out of future mailings.

Please note that opting-out of receipt of email communications from DragRacingUnderground.com and third parties (other than Event Partners) will only change or delete the data in our Membership database for purposes of transacting future business on the Site and for managing future communications from DragRacingUnderground.com and third parties. These changes and deletions will not change or delete:

A) Information already collected as part of a particular ticket purchase in our transactions database which may be shared with our Event Partners regardless of your email preferences; or

B) Information that we may have already forwarded to Event Partners, credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us at friends@DragRacingUnderground.com .

How Your Information Is Protected

DragRacingUnderground.com takes reasonable precautions to protect your information from loss, misuse or alteration. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to protect sensitive information such as your credit card number and a series of firewalls to protect our internal systems. You should recognize that, while it is reported to be more secure to process credit card purchases through such systems than many other traditional means, there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet.

General

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the DragRacingUnderground.com User Agreement. Should this policy be amended in any way, changes will be posted to this page.