Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy at Formula1News.net reflects a few of our fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

It is always our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

Website Visitors

Like most websites, Formula1News.net collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Formula1News.net purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website.

Formula1News.net also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Formula1News.net does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Formula1News.net website choose to interact with Formula1News.net in ways that require Formula1News.net to gather personally-identifying information. For example we ask visitors who are willing to comment on a particular post, to provide a username and email address. Formula1News.net collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the website. Formula1News.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Formula1News.net may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Formula1News.net may monitor the most popular posts on its website. However, Formula1News.net does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Formula1News.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Formula1News.net’s behalf or to provide services available at Formula1News.net’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Formula1News.net’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Formula1News.net will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Formula1News.net discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Formula1News.net believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Formula1News.net, third parties or the public at large. Formula1News.net takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies & Web Beacons

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. A web beacon it is simply a way to automatically send information about pages and content used to an analysis tool and does not personally identify you. Formula1News.net uses cookies to help identify for example visitors who have commented or voted on its posts.

Formula1News.net visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Formula1News.net’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Formula1News.net’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. In such case, Formula1News.net visitors should consult their web browser’s documentation for more information.

Third-party Advertisers

Formula1News.net uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit its website. These companies may use information (NOT including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, visit the links below.

Formula1News.net does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Formula1News.net website, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Formula1News.net’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

Currently, Formula1News.net has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks:

  • Google, Inc.: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
  • Google, Inc.: http:/www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Please note that:

  • Google Inc., as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Formula1News.net’s website.
  • Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Formula1News.net users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet.
  • Formula1News.net’s users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Formula1News.net may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Formula1News.net’s sole discretion. Formula1News.net encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.