Car Social Privacy Policy
Effective Date: August 28, 2026
Last Updated: August 28, 2026
Car Social LLC (“Car Social,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you use the Car Social website, mobile applications, and related products, features, and services (collectively, the “Services”).
Car Social is an evolving automotive platform. Some practices described below apply only when you choose to use particular features or when those features become available.
By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
Depending on how you use Car Social, you may provide information such as:
Name, username, email address, password or authentication information, profile photo, biography, and account preferences
Vehicle and garage information, including year, make, model, modifications, specifications, photographs, videos, build information, and other vehicle details
Posts, comments, reviews, messages, photographs, videos, and other content you submit
Event information
Club information and memberships
Automotive business information
Content creator information
Applications and information submitted through Car Social programs
Referral, invitation, and Founding Member information
Support requests, feedback, reports, and communications with us
Booking, transaction, or purchase-related information when applicable
Any other information you choose to provide
Information Collected Automatically
When you use Car Social, we may automatically collect certain information, including:
IP address
Browser and device type
Operating system
Device identifiers
Referring and exit pages
Pages and features viewed
Dates and times of access
Interactions with the Services
Approximate location derived from an IP address
Crash, diagnostic, and performance information
Cookie and similar technology information
We use this information to operate, secure, understand, and improve Car Social.
2. Location Information
Certain Car Social features may use location information to help users discover nearby events, clubs, automotive businesses, content, and other relevant experiences.
With your permission, future mobile features may also collect more precise location information using technologies such as GPS.
For example, Car Social may offer features such as a Live Map that allow participating users to share or use location information as part of the experience.
Where required, we will request permission before accessing precise device location. The availability and behavior of location features may depend on the permissions and settings you select.
You can generally control device-level location permissions through your mobile device settings.
Car Social will not intentionally make your precise real-time location publicly visible unless you choose to participate in a feature that provides for such sharing.
If future functionality requires background location access, we will provide appropriate disclosures and request the necessary permissions before using that functionality.
3. Vehicle and Performance Information
Car Social allows users to create vehicle profiles and garages containing information about their vehicles.
Future features may also allow users to record, submit, or generate vehicle-performance information. Depending on the feature, this could include information such as acceleration results, speed, elapsed time, distance, timestamps, GPS-derived measurements, rankings, challenge results, or related performance information.
We may use this information to provide performance features, challenges, comparisons, leaderboards, statistics, achievements, and related functionality.
Certain performance information may be visible to other users when you choose to participate in public features such as leaderboards or challenges.
4. Camera, Photos and Media
Car Social may request access to your device's camera or photo library when you choose to upload or create photographs, videos, profile images, vehicle media, event content, or other media.
We use this access only to provide the features you request, subject to your device permissions.
You can modify these permissions through your device settings.
5. Social and Community Information
Car Social includes, and may continue to introduce, social and community features.
Depending on the features you use, we may process information relating to:
Connections, followers, or friends
Club membership
Event participation or interest
Likes, reactions, comments, and shares
Posts and other user-generated content
Challenges, badges, achievements, points, and leaderboard rankings
Messages and other communications
Users you block or report
Other interactions with the Car Social community
Some of this information may be publicly visible depending on the feature and your settings.
6. Public Information
Car Social is designed around discovery and interaction. Information you choose to make public may be visible to anyone, including people who do not have a Car Social account.
Public information may include your username, profile image, biography, vehicles, garage, posts, media, Founder number or status, badges, achievements, leaderboard results, club affiliations, event activity, business information, content creator information, and other content you make public.
Public pages may also be indexed by search engines and shared outside Car Social.
Do not publicly post information you do not want others to see.
7. Messages and Communications
Car Social may provide direct messages, group communications, comments, forums, or other communication features.
We may process and retain communications as necessary to provide these features, investigate reports, prevent abuse, maintain security, enforce our policies, and comply with applicable law.
Private communications are not intended to be publicly displayed merely because they are processed by Car Social.
8. Contacts and Invitations
If Car Social introduces features that allow you to find or invite people using your device contacts, we will request appropriate permission before accessing your contacts.
We will explain how contact information will be used when such functionality is introduced.
You are not required to provide access to your contacts to use Car Social unless a particular optional feature requires it.
9. How We Use Information
We may use information to:
Create and maintain accounts
Provide and personalize the Services
Operate profiles and garages
Help users discover events, clubs, businesses, content creators, vehicles, and community activity
Provide social and communication features
Provide location-based functionality
Provide challenges, leaderboards, badges, points, achievements, and performance features
Operate Founding Member and referral programs
Facilitate bookings, transactions, or other commercial functionality when available
Provide customer support
Send transactional and service communications
Send marketing communications where permitted
Analyze platform usage and performance
Develop and improve products and features
Diagnose technical problems
Protect accounts and infrastructure
Detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and security threats
Moderate content and investigate reports
Enforce our agreements and policies
Comply with legal obligations
Protect Car Social, our users, and others
10. Analytics, Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Car Social may use cookies, pixels, SDKs, local storage, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
Keep the Services functioning
Remember preferences
Understand how Car Social is used
Measure traffic and engagement
Diagnose technical issues
Measure marketing performance
Improve products and user experiences
Understand whether advertisements or campaigns are effective
Depending on our current implementation, these technologies may include services provided by companies such as Google, Meta, TikTok, HubSpot, or other analytics, communications, and marketing providers.
Where required by applicable law, Car Social will provide appropriate choices or obtain consent for relevant technologies.
Browser, device, and platform settings may also provide controls over certain tracking technologies.
11. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose information in the following circumstances:
Other users and the public. Information you intentionally make public or share with others may be visible to those users or the public.
Service providers. We may provide information to companies that help us operate Car Social, including providers of cloud infrastructure, hosting, databases, analytics, email, authentication, communications, security, customer support, payments, and other technology.
Businesses and transaction participants. If you use future booking, marketplace, or transaction features, information necessary to complete or manage the interaction may be provided to the applicable business or participant.
Legal and safety purposes. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or legal process, enforce our agreements, investigate fraud or abuse, protect rights or property, or protect the safety of Car Social, our users, or others.
Business transactions. Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction.
We may also use or disclose aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
12. Sale, Sharing and Targeted Advertising
Car Social does not sell personal information for money.
Certain privacy laws define terms such as “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” more broadly than an exchange of information for money. Depending on the technologies Car Social uses, certain advertising or analytics activities may fall within those definitions.
Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of such processing, Car Social will provide the required mechanism for exercising that right.
We will update our disclosures and privacy controls as our advertising and analytics practices evolve.
13. Payments, Bookings and Transactions
Car Social may introduce features that allow users to book services, make payments, purchase products or services, or otherwise transact with businesses or other participants.
Payment card information may be processed directly by third-party payment processors rather than Car Social.
We may retain transaction-related information necessary to provide the Services, maintain records, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, process refunds, support reviews, and comply with legal obligations.
Third-party payment providers process information according to their own privacy policies.
14. Founding Members, Referrals, Challenges and Leaderboards
Participation in certain Car Social programs may generate information such as Founder numbers, referral activity, points, badges, achievements, rankings, challenge results, or similar information.
Some of this information may be displayed publicly as part of the applicable feature.
If you participate in these features, information associated with your participation may remain part of legitimate platform records even if certain account information later changes.
15. Content Moderation and Safety
We may collect and retain information associated with reports, complaints, blocked accounts, suspected fraud, policy violations, moderation decisions, and other safety matters.
We may use automated systems and human review where appropriate to help detect abuse, protect users, enforce our policies, and maintain the integrity of Car Social.
If Car Social later introduces materially different automated or artificial-intelligence-based processing of personal information, we may update this Privacy Policy and provide additional disclosures where appropriate.
16. Third-Party Accounts and Services
Car Social may allow users to connect or authenticate through third-party services, such as Apple, Google, or other platforms.
If you choose to use such functionality, we may receive information permitted by your settings and authorization with that provider.
For example, an authentication provider may provide your name, email address, unique account identifier, or relay email address.
Third-party services operate under their own privacy policies and terms.
17. External Links
Car Social may link to event websites, businesses, registration platforms, social networks, content creators, advertisers, or other third-party services.
Car Social does not control the privacy practices of those third parties. Information you provide directly to an external service is governed by that service's privacy policy.
18. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing Car Social, maintaining business and transaction records, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, preventing fraud and abuse, enforcing agreements, and maintaining platform security.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and why it is being processed.
We may retain certain records after account deletion where reasonably necessary or legally required, including transaction records, fraud-prevention information, security records, moderation records, and information necessary to establish or defend legal claims.
Backup copies may remain for a limited period until they are overwritten or deleted through normal backup processes.
19. Account Deletion and Privacy Choices
You may request deletion of your Car Social account and associated personal information, subject to applicable legal and operational exceptions.
Deleting an account may not immediately remove:
Content previously shared with or copied by others
Information other users independently submitted
Transaction or booking records we are required or permitted to retain
Fraud, security, or moderation records
Information retained to comply with law
Temporary backup copies
Car Social may also provide settings that allow you to manage profile visibility, communications, location permissions, notifications, and other privacy choices.
20. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
Request access to certain personal information
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion
Obtain certain information about how your data is processed
Receive a portable copy of certain information
Opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing where applicable
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Appeal certain privacy-request decisions where required by law
These rights vary by jurisdiction and may be subject to exceptions.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by applicable law and subject to appropriate verification.
Privacy requests may be submitted using the contact information below.
21. Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals
Where required by applicable law and technically applicable to our processing, Car Social will recognize legally required opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control.
Some browsers also offer “Do Not Track” settings. Because there is not a universally applicable standard governing all such signals, our response may depend on the signal and applicable law.
22. Email, Push Notifications and Communications
We may send transactional communications concerning your account, security, activity, bookings, services, or important changes to Car Social.
If you subscribe to marketing emails or newsletters, you can unsubscribe from marketing communications using the link provided in those messages.
Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional, account, security, or legal communications.
Future mobile applications may also offer push notifications. You can generally control push-notification permissions through your device settings.
23. Data Security
Car Social uses reasonable administrative, organizational, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, or disclosure.
These measures may include access controls, encryption, authentication protections, monitoring, backups, and other security practices appropriate to our Services.
However, no internet service or electronic storage system can guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and should contact us if you believe your account has been compromised.
24. Children's Privacy
Car Social is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not create an account or use the Services.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Certain features may have higher age requirements where appropriate.
Parents or guardians who believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Car Social should contact us.
25. International Users
Car Social is based in the United States.
If you access the Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, processed, or stored in the United States and other jurisdictions where Car Social or our service providers operate.
Privacy laws in these locations may differ from those in your country.
As Car Social expands internationally, we may provide additional jurisdiction-specific notices or rights where required by law.
26. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Car Social will continue to evolve. We may update this Privacy Policy as we introduce new features, change our practices, work with different service providers, or respond to legal or regulatory requirements.
When we update the policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date.
If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice through Car Social, by email, or through another appropriate method.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
27. Contact Car Social
Questions, concerns, and privacy requests may be submitted to:
Car Social LLC
Email: support@carsocialapp.com