Your Privacy Is Important To US
CoolCarGuy.com Privacy Policy
(Updated February 3rd, 2025)
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://coolcarguy.com and my blog at https://thecoolcarguy.com Cool Car Guy, Inc. is the owner of CoolCarGuy.com and TheCoolCarGuy.com, along with CoolCarGuys.com that links to both websites. This policy explains how data about you is used when you access our company websites and services, including via our mobile applications (“CCG”) or interact with the sites. If we update this policy, we will revise the date, place notices on CCG if changes are material, and/or obtain your consent as required by law.
Protecting Your Privacy
- We take precautions to prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of data about you.
- We do not run ads, other than the classifieds posted by our users.
- We do not send unsolicited communications for marketing purposes.
- We engage in affiliate marketing exclusively through Cool Car Guy, Inc.
- We provide email proxy & relay services to reduce unwanted email.
- Please review privacy policies of any third-party sites linked to from Cool Car Guy.
- We do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals (see allaboutdnt.com).
- We do not share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.
- We engage in cross-marketing or link-referral programs through our affiliate program.
- We do not employ tracking devices for marketing purposes beyond our affiliate program.
- We are not employ any sophisticated AI tracking techniques.
- We use our affiliate program to track affiliate sales using cookies and IP addresses.
Affiliate Tracking
If you arrive on CCG via an affiliate link, we may track your visit using cookies or your IP address as stated above. This helps us credit the affiliate for referring you to our platform. This data is processed by Cool Car Guy’s affiliate software and is not shared with third parties outside of the affiliate program.
Comments
When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year. Other cookies are used for login sessions and to save your display preferences.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on CCG may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves the same way as if you visited the original website. These third-party sites may collect data, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content.
Who We Share Your Data With
- If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.
- Your data may be shared with third-party service providers, such as payment processors and affiliate software, as necessary to provide services.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
- We allow a cookie or IP to be tracked to pay an affiliate for up to 120 days, so that we can credit them if you make a purchase on our website(s).
- For users who register on our website, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. Users can edit or delete their information, except for usernames.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold. You can also request that we erase your data, subject to exceptions required for legal, administrative, or security reasons.
Data We Collect, Use, and Disclose
We collect and use a variety of data to provide and personalize CCG. Below is a list of data types, their collection methods, purposes, and third-party disclosures. We do not sell your data to third parties. Some data is disclosed to payment processors when you make a purchase.
Data Type:
- First and last name
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: Facilitating transactions, personalizing your use of CCG
- Disclosed to: Payment processors
- Email address
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: Account creation, user-to-user and CCG-to-user communications, combatting fraud/abuse
- Disclosed to: No one
- Phone number
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: User-to-user communications, personalizing your use of CCG
- Disclosed to: Payment processors, buyers (when provided), and phone verification services
- Mailing or street address
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: Facilitating transactions, personalizing your use of CCG
- Disclosed to: Payment processors
- Credit card data
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: Facilitating your transactions
- Disclosed to: Payment processors
- Geographic location (latitude and longitude)
- Where we got it: User entry, IP/geolocation providers
- Why collected: Personalizing your use of CCG, combatting fraud/abuse
- Disclosed to: No one
- Photos and other data you voluntarily provide
- Where we got it: User entry
- Why collected: Facilitating and personalizing your use of CCG
- Disclosed to: No one
- HTTP browser cookie
- Where we got it: User’s browser, CCG web server
- Why collected: Facilitating your use of CCG, tracking for affiliate programs
- Disclosed to: Cool Car Guy’s affiliate software
- Information about your device and browser
- Where we got it: User’s browser
- Why collected: Combatting fraud/abuse, tracking for affiliate programs
- Disclosed to: Cool Car Guy’s affiliate software
- IP address
- Where we got it: User’s browser, mobile app, IP/geolocation providers
- Why collected: Combatting fraud/abuse, tracking for affiliate programs
- Disclosed to: Cool Car Guy’s affiliate software
- Web page views, access times, HTTP headers
- Where we got it: User’s browser, mobile app
- Why collected: Combatting fraud/abuse
- Disclosed to: No one
We May Share Some or All of the Above Data:
- To respond to subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process.
- To protect the rights, property, or safety of CCG users, CCG, or the general public.
- At your direction (e.g., if you authorize us to share data with other users).
- In connection with a merger, bankruptcy, or sale/transfer of assets.
Data Retention
We retain data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required by law. You may access and update certain data via your account login.
California Users
To learn more about the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and how it applies to you, please visit the California Attorney-General’s website.
Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose the data we collect, use, and disclose, and other information relating to data we collect about you.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of data that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising the rights listed above.
You may submit a request to know or delete via jboyd@coolcarguy.com.
Only you, or someone you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete your data. An authorized agent may make a request on your behalf by providing written permission signed by you.
We will need to confirm your identity before processing your request by asking you to log into your existing account (if you are a registered user) or by asking you for additional information, such as a government-issued ID, to confirm your identity against information we have already collected.
If you are a registered CCG user under the age of 18, you may request (via jboyd@coolcarguy.com) and obtain removal of content or information publicly posted on CCG. Please note that removal does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of said content or information from the Internet.
International Users
By accessing CCG or providing us data, you agree we may use and disclose data we collect as described here or as communicated to you, transmit it outside your resident jurisdiction, and store it on servers in the United States. For more information, please contact our privacy officer at jboyd@coolcarguy.com.
Contact US
If you have any questions or concerns about CCG’s privacy policy and practices, please email jboyd@coolcarguy.com.