Legal - Privacy

The Goodfellas Car Club Privacy Policy

Our Club has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm and continuing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by those visiting and interacting with this website. Our Club holds the privacy of your personal information in the highest regard. The following discloses our Club's information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Our Club recognizes the importance of protecting your privacy, and our Club policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website. This policy will be continuously re-assessed against new technologies, business practices and our customers' needs.

What Information Does Our Club Collect?
When you visit this website you may provide our Club with two types of information: personal information, you knowingly choose to disclose, which is collected on an individual basis, and website use information collected on an aggregate basis, as you and others browse our Club's website.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Registration Information
When you register for any of our Club's services or newsletters you will provide us information about yourself.

Credit Card Information
You may need to give personal information and authorization, that our Club may obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may need to provide the following information:
-Name
-Mailing address
-Email address
-Credit card number
-Name on credit card
-Credit card billing address
-Business and home phone number

Email Information
If you choose to correspond with our Club through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our Club's responses. Our Club provides the same protections for these electronic communications that our Club employs in the maintenance of information received by mail, text message and telephone.

2. Website Use Information

Similar to other commercial websites, our Club's website utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server log files to collect information about how our Club's website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Club's website and the websites visited just before and just after our Club's website.

How Does Our Club Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, our Club uses personal information for purposes of administering our Club's business activities, providing the products and services you requested, to process your payment, to monitor the use of the service, as well as our Club's marketing and promotional efforts to improve our Club's content and service offerings and customize our Club's website content, layout, services and for other lawful purposes. These uses improve our Clubs's website and better tailor it to meet your needs.

Furthermore, such information may be shared with others on an aggregate basis. Personally identifiable information or business information will not be shared with parties, except as required by law.

Occasionally, our Club may also use the information our Club collects to notify you about important changes to our Club's website, new services and special offers, which our Club thinks you will find valuable. You may discontinue receiving this information by simply opting-out with the link provided in the footer of each email. Our Club strictly abides by the CAN Spam Act.

What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that website's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser, if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies, it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our website will not function as effectively, when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.

How Does Our Club Use Information Collected from Cookies?
As you visit and browse our Club's website, the site uses cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, our Club also uses cookies to prevent you from having to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Club's web server's log files, allows our Club to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our Club's website and which parts of the website are most popular. This helps us gather feedback to constantly improve our website and better serve our clients. Cookies does not allow our Club to gather any personal information about you, and our Club does not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to our Club in your cookies.

IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our Club's web server as part of demographic and profile data, known as traffic data, so that data (such as the web pages you request) can be sent to you.

Sharing and Selling Information
Our Club does not share, sell, lend or lease any of the information that uniquely identifies a subscriber (such as email addresses or personal details) with anyone, except to the extent necessary to process transactions or provide services that you have requested.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information, that our Club collects online and maintains in our database, by emailing our Club at the Contact page of our website.

What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
Our Club may disclose information when legally compelled to do so. In other words, when our Club, in good faith, believes that the law requires it, or needs to protect our Club's legal rights. Our Club may also disclose account information when our Club has reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Club's Terms of Service, or to protect the safety of our Clubss users and the Public.

What About Other Websites Linked to Our Club's Website?
Our Club is not responsible, directly or indirectly, for the practices employed by websites linked to, or from our Club's website, or the information or content contained therein. Often links to other websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Club's website.

Please remember, that when you use a link to go from our Club's website to another website, our Club's Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link on our Club's website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies. Please read over their rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent
By using our Club's website you consent to our Club's collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Our Club reserves the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without prior notice.

Our Club's Commitment To Data Security:
Please note that your information will be stored and processed on our Club's computers and servers in the United States. The laws on holding personal data in the United States may be less stringent than the laws of your Country of residence or citizenship. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, our Club has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information our Club collects online.

Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out
Our email auto responder allows visitors to unsubscribe in the footer of each email message where a link is provided, so that you will not receive future messages. After unsubscribing you will be discontinued from receiving any future emails from our Club. Again, our Club strictly adheres to the CAN Spam Act.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our Club's website requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests are completely voluntary, and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address) and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of our Club's website.

Acquisition or Changes in Ownership
In the event that the website (or a substantial portion of its assets) is acquired, your information would be considered part of those assets and may be part of those assets that are transferred.

Policy Modifications
Our Club reserves the right to change our Club's Privacy Policy at its discretion, at any time, with no prior notification to, or consent by, you, the user. If/when changes are made to this privacy policy, our Club will post any changes here, on this web page, so be sure to check back periodically. However, please be assured that, if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, our Club will not use the personal information you have submitted to our Club under our Club's changed Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with our Club's original Privacy Policy.

Our Club appreciates you taking the time to go through our Club's Privacy Policy provided for you.