Privacy Policy of American Boat Racing Association

Effective: April 25, 2023

American Boat Racing Association operates the h1unlimited.com website and H1 Unlimited social media pages which provides the SERVICE.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service, the H1 Unlimited website.

If you choose to use our SERVICE, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the SERVICE. We will not use or share your information with anyone, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

  1. Information Collection

For a better experience while using our Service, we may collect the following types of data:

A. Personal Data

Personal data that may be collected when using the SERVICE includes any information that may be used to specifically identify or contact you, such as your name, address, or phone number. Personal data also includes information that may be used to identify you indirectly, including by reference to an online identifier, location data, or an identification number. In general, we do not automatically collect your personal data when using the SERVICE. On some occasions, we may request that you submit your personal data in connection with features associated with our SERVICE.

B. Usage Data

 Usage data is any information that does not personally identify you that is automatically collected anytime you use our SERVICE. Usage data may include but is not limited to browser type and referring websites. Usage data can include certain personal data that has been rendered anonymous. We obtain usage information about you from information provided to us by you, either separately or together with your personal data. 

C. Location Data

 When using our SERVICE, we may automatically collect certain device specific information. This includes the general or specific location of your device through GPS, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals. Some instances may occur where your operating system may not allow you to install our SERVICE without giving us consent. Regardless, you may withdraw your consent by disabling location features for your device – the SERVICE will still work, although certain location features may not function.

  1. Information Use

A. Personal Data

Personal data voluntarily submitted to the SERVICE is generally used to better accommodate you. We may use this information for later communications, such as customer service response, providing promotional information, or to communicate with you about shared content posted via use of our SERVICE. In addition, we may share your personal data with our affiliates from time to time. Any such affiliates will process your personal data in accordance with the disclosures in this Privacy Policy.

On occasion, we may share your personal data with third parties performing functions on our behalf or accessing the SERVICE. This includes but is not limited to vendors that process credit card orders, deliver our merchandise, administer our promotions, provide us with marketing assistance, analyze our data, and assist us with customer service. These third parties agree to use this information, and we share information with them, only to provide services.

In addition, we may share your personal data with participating sponsors to a promotion (such as, a sweepstakes or contest) you enter via our SERVICE, and with third parties who assist us in using the content or other information you have posted or shared with us via our SERVICE. Additionally, we may share your personal data with third parties with whom we have marketing or other relationships.

B. Usage Data

 Our SERVICE utilizes usage information in several different manners.  This may include but is not limited to the following: analyze site traffic, understand customer needs, track promotional activities, and manage purchases. This data is used to improve our SERVICE.  We may use your usage information solely or combine it with other SERVICE users.  We may share your usage information with third parties or allow them to collect such information directly from you. We may sell the usage information to third parties to achieve these and any other business objectives (i.e., generate revenue, form alliances).  This information is anonymous and does not personally identify you, directly or indirectly. 

C. General Use and Disclosure

We use and share the information, including personal data, we collect from users for the purposes described below.

  • Provision of Services

If you use the website, mobile app, or any social media page, we will use your information to process and respond to your requests, comments, inquiries, and other forms you submit.

  • Individual’s Vital Interest Protection

In emergency situations, we will use or share your information when necessary to protect an interest that is essential for an individual’s life.

  • Improving our SERVICE

We use your information to enhance our understanding of preferences and optimize the performance of our SERVICE.

  • Processing Online Purchases

We use your Financial Data to process any purchases made on the Website, including disclosure of your Financial Data to third party payment processors.

  • Legal Obligations Compliance

We will share your information with law enforcement, government officials, regulatory agencies, or other parties when we are required to do so by applicable law.  We will also disclose your information to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or legal process.

  • Disclosures to Service Providers

We share your information with third party service providers that assist us with operating the SERVICE. This includes hosting and maintaining the SERVICE, processing credit card information, analyzing online activity on the SERVICE, marketing, and managing our SERVICE. We share only the minimum amount of personal data with these service providers that they need to perform their tasks.  We enter contracts with these service providers that require them to protect personal data.

  • IP Addresses

When visitors request pages from our website, our servers typically log their IP addresses. We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration, to report non-personal aggregate information to others, and to track the use of our SERVICE. This information is not considered identifiable information and may also be shared as provided above.

  • Electronic Communications

We may use your personal data to respond to your questions or comments sent through a form on our SERVICE or by direct email. We may save these communications for future reference.  For security reasons, we do not recommend that you send sensitive personal information to us by email. Sensitive personal information includes passwords, social security numbers, bank accounts and credit card information.

We may communicate with you by email for a variety of reasons which may include emails in response to your request for service, your registration for a feature that involves email communications (Email Newsletters), or that relate to purchases from our online store.  In certain instances, we may provide you with the option to set your preferences for receiving email communications from us and allow “opt-out” options from receiving future commercial emails from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” button. We reserve the right, however, to send you transactional emails such as customer service communications.

  • California Privacy Rights

Under certain provisions of the California Civil Code § 1798.83, residents of the State of California have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing as provided in Section I below. For more information about your rights under California Civil Code § 1798.83, see our Privacy Notice for California Residents.

  • Other Legitimate Interests

We will use and disclose your information when necessary for our legitimate interests, unless such interests are not overridden by our users’ interests, rights, and freedoms with respect to their personal data.

D. Legal Bases for Processing

The legal bases for processing your personal data for the purposes described above or elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, including in Section C below, are, without limitation, that:

  • It is necessary to fulfil a contract with you (sale of goods or services) or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
  • It is necessary to comply with a legal obligation (such as notifying you of Privacy Policy changes)
  • It is necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate interests or those of a third party.
  1. Cookies

Cookies are files with small amounts of data that are commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

  1. Security

We value your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

  1. Links to Other Sites

Our SERVICE may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

  1. Children’s Privacy

Our SERVICE does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.

  1. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us by email at [email protected]. We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that we may not be able to fulfill certain requests.