Privacy policy

We are Ford Thunderbird club group 1955-2005 T-Bird models ("we", "our", "us"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. If you have questions about how we handle your personal information, please contact us.

1. What Information We Hold About You
The type of personal data that we collect and process includes:

• Your name or username.
• Your email address.
• Your IP address.
• Content you submit, such as forum posts, replies, and messages.

Further data may be collected if you choose to share it, such as when you fill out optional fields on your user profile. We collect this information when you register as a member, fill out our contact form, browse this site, or interact with the community.

2. How Your Personal Information is Used
We may use your personal information in the following ways:

• Account Management: To register you as a member, maintain your account, and allow you to contribute content to the site.
• Communication: To inform you of relevant activity on our site, send newsletters, or broadcast important announcements. You can opt-in to or opt-out of these emails at any time via your account preferences.
• Security and Moderation: Your IP address is recorded when you perform certain actions on our site (such as registering or posting). This is used for spam prevention, fraud detection, and enforcing our community rules. Your IP address is never publicly visible.

3. Analytics and Third-Party Tracking
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you during your interaction with our site. This includes technical information about your browser, operating system, or device. This information is used purely for analytics (such as Google Analytics) to track visitor numbers and improve the site. Additionally, as noted in our Terms of Service, third-party advertising and affiliate partners may collect data to serve relevant ads and process commissions.

4. Keeping Your Data Secure
We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide to us is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable technical and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

5. Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files set by us (and trusted third parties) on your computer which allow us to provide certain functionality on our site, such as keeping you logged in and remembering your preferences. We have a detailed Cookie Policy with more information about the cookies we set on this page.

6. Your Rights and Data Retention
You have a right to access the personal data we hold about you or obtain a copy of it by contacting us. If you believe that the information we hold for you is incomplete or inaccurate, you may update it directly in your account settings or contact us to request corrections.

Data Retention: Please note that as outlined in our Terms of Service, accounts and related forum posts are not deleted after they are created. Forum discussions are of public and historical interest, and removing user accounts disrupts thread integrity and site performance. Furthermore, account information (including that of banned users) is retained indefinitely to prevent abuse and block re-registration under different aliases. If you no longer wish to use the site, you may remove optional personal details from your profile, unsubscribe from all email notifications, and log out.

7. Acceptance of This Policy
Continued use of our site signifies your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept the policy, please do not use this site. When registering, we will further request your explicit acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

8. Changes to This Policy
We may make changes to this policy at any time. You may be asked to review and re-accept the information in this policy if significant changes are made in the future.

Analytics

We use the newest version of Google Analytics (Google Analytics 4), which is privacy-focused (things like IP addresses are not logged or stored and no personally identifiable information is used). This allows us to better understand how users use the site so we can improve their experience. To better utilize Google Analytics, we use an addon developed by a cookie search engine, I/O Labs.