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Privacy Policy

motorpulse knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting motorpulse, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Users Does motorpulse Gather?

We collect information that users submit to the site to create the motorpulse service. Additionally, the information we learn from users helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at motorpulse. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as creating the motorpulse service, customizing the site for you, improving performance of our site, responding to your requests, and communicating with you.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses motorpulse. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we cannot guarantee you a personalized experience at motorpulse if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
Information from Other Sources: For reasons such as improving personalization of our service, or enabling other services to work with ours, we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our information.

What About Cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as personalization.
The help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of motorpulse’s coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does motorpulse Share the Information It Receives?

Information about our users is an important part of our business. Whenever we deal with user information, we will always comply with applicable laws and regulations in doing so. We share user information as described below:

Other Businesses: We work closely with other businesses, and we may share user information with those businesses. Future Web sites and services developed by motorpulse will likely make use of user information.
Agents: We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include sending e-mail and analyzing data. They would have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy additional services or business units. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the user consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that motorpulse, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, user information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
Protection of motorpulse and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of motorpulse, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from users for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.

What About Third-Party Advertisers?

Our site includes third-party advertising, and some of our advertisers use third-party companies to serve their advertisements that appear on our site. Often, these third-party advertising companies, called "ad networks" or "network advertisers", employ cookie and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to show you ads that are more relevant and interesting to you. We do not provide any user information to them, and we do not have access to or control cookies that may be placed by the ad networks.

What Choices and Access Do I Have?

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of certain motorpulse features.
You can review the personal information you provide and make changes to that information, or to the settings for your account, at any time, by logging in to your account and editing the information on your profile page.
The help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Children

motorpulse is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, you may not submit information about yourself to motorpulse.

Terms of Use, Notices, and Revisions

Our site changes frequently as we continue to develop new features, and our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use may change as well. We may notify you of the changes, but you should check this page for the most recent changes.