Personal information is collected when you register with 4WheelCity.com, when you use 4WheelCity.com services/products, when you visit 4WheelCity.com pages and when you enter our promotions, sweepstakes, etc. 4WheelCity.com automatically receives and records information from your computer and browser, including your IP address, 4WheelCity.com cookie information, software and hardware attributes, and the page you request.
When you register at 4WheelCity.com we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, occupation, industry, and personal interests. For some of our services we might also ask for your address. When you register with 4WheelCity.com and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us.
4WheelCity.com uses information for the following general purposes: to improve our services, to contact you, internal research, to fullful your requests for services and products, and to customize the advertising and content you see.
Cookies, Passwords, Etc.
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing 4WheelCity.com will cause the website software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter user-id) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter session-id), automatically assigned to you by the website’s software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within 4WheelCity.com and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the website’s software whilst browsing 4WheelCity.com, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the website’s software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter anonymous posts), registering on 4WheelCity.com (hereinafter your account) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter your posts).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter your user name), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter your password), a personal valid e-mail address (hereinafter your e-mail), your first name, and your age group (in an effort to protect children). Your information for your account at 4WheelCity.com is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password, your first name, your e-mail address required by 4WheelCity.com during the registration process is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of 4WheelCity.com. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the website’s software.
Your password is ciphered so to help secure it. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at 4WheelCity.com, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with 4WheelCity.com legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the I forgot my password feature provided by the website’s software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the website’s software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.