Privacy
Policy

You can visit our website and learn about NYC Car Club without registering or providing personal information.

We may collect personal information when you choose to provide it to us, including when you:

• Join or inquire about NYC Car Club
• Register for an event
• Sign up for emails, texts, or updates
• Make a donation or purchase
• Volunteer
• Submit a form
• Contact us by email, phone, website, or social media
• Participate in a youth, education, restoration, design, or automotive program

The information we collect may include:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Mailing address
• Emergency contact information, if needed for an event or program
• Membership or registration information
• Vehicle make, model, year, color, and other vehicle details you choose to provide
• Event attendance history
• Donation or transaction information
• Photos, video, or other media from events
• Parent or guardian information for youth programs
• Any other information you voluntarily provide

We do not intentionally collect Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, insurance information, VINs, financial account numbers, or other sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for a specific program, legal requirement, safety process, or insurance purpose.

If you make a donation, purchase, or pay an event fee, your payment may be processed by a third-party payment provider. NYC Car Club does not store full credit card numbers. Payment information is used only to process your transaction, issue receipts, prevent fraud, and maintain required financial records.

We may use your personal information to:

• Register you for events
• Communicate about club news, events, programs, and updates
• Process donations, purchases, tickets, or memberships
• Send confirmations, receipts, reminders, and safety notices
• Manage event parking, arrival instructions, and guest lists
• Support volunteers, sponsors, partners, and community programming
• Improve our website, events, and member experience
• Respond to questions and requests
• Protect the safety, security, and integrity of our events and community
• Comply with legal, tax, accounting, nonprofit, insurance, or regulatory obligations

We may also use aggregated or de-identified information to understand attendance, improve programming, report general community impact, or support sponsorship and fundraising efforts. Aggregated or de-identified information does not identify a specific person.

NYC Car Club will not publish, sell, rent, or exchange member rosters.

We will not publicly share member home addresses, personal phone numbers, email addresses, emergency contact information, VINs, insurance details, or other sensitive member information without permission, unless required by law, safety needs, insurance, or a specific event process.

Vehicle information provided for event registration may be used to plan parking, curate displays, manage event logistics, communicate with registrants, and support safety. We may reference vehicles in event promotions, social media, or recaps, but we will not publish or share sensitive vehicle identifiers such as VINs.

NYC Car Club events may be photographed or recorded by us, attendees, photographers, press, sponsors, venues, or the public. Photos and videos may be used for event recaps, social media, newsletters, websites, press, sponsor materials, fundraising, and promotional purposes.

We make reasonable efforts to be respectful of privacy. If you do not want to be featured in NYC Car Club media, please contact us at [email protected] or speak with event staff. We will make reasonable efforts to honor requests for future use of media controlled by NYC Car Club.

We cannot control photos, videos, or posts made by attendees, venues, media, sponsors, or third parties.

If you sign up for emails or provide your contact information in connection with NYC Car Club, we may send you event updates, registration confirmations, newsletters, community announcements, fundraising updates, and related communications.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting [email protected].

If we send text messages, we will use them for event updates, reminders, urgent notices, or communications you have agreed to receive. You may opt out of texts by replying STOP or by contacting us.

Even if you opt out of marketing messages, we may still send transactional or important administrative messages, such as event confirmations, safety updates, payment receipts, policy notices, or direct responses to your requests.

NYC Car Club does not sell personal information.

We may share information only when needed to operate the club, including with:

• Event registration platforms
• Payment processors
• Email and text communication providers
• Website hosting and analytics providers
• Insurance, legal, accounting, and professional advisors
• Event venues, production partners, or parking teams when necessary for logistics
• Sponsors or partners only when you have given permission, or when information is aggregated or de-identified
• Law enforcement, government agencies, or other parties when required by law or necessary to protect safety, rights, or property

We do not exchange mailing lists with other organizations. We do not provide member lists to sponsors, advertisers, partners, clubs, or third parties for their independent marketing without your permission.

Like many websites, nyccarclub.org may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, or similar technologies to understand website traffic, improve the site, measure campaigns, and share relevant NYC Car Club updates.

These tools may collect information such as browser type, device type, pages viewed, links clicked, approximate location, referring site, and time spent on the website.

You can adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some parts of the website may not work as intended if cookies are disabled.

If NYC Car Club uses targeted advertising or social media pixels, those platforms may process information under their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review the privacy settings and policies of any social media or advertising platforms you use.

NYC Car Club uses social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms to share events, stories, photos, videos, and community updates.

If you interact with us on social media, the platform may collect information about you according to its own privacy policy. NYC Car Club does not control how social media platforms collect, use, or share your information.

NYC Car Club may offer youth-focused automotive, restoration, design, education, or community programs.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate parent or guardian consent. For youth programs, we may collect limited information needed to register participants, communicate with parents or guardians, manage safety, and operate the program.

Parents or guardians may contact us at [email protected] to review, update, or request deletion of a child's information, subject to legal, safety, insurance, and recordkeeping requirements.

NYC Car Club takes reasonable steps to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

These steps may include limiting access to personal information, using secure service providers, maintaining appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and reviewing our practices as the club grows.

No website, email system, payment platform, or digital storage system is completely secure. We encourage members not to send sensitive personal information by email unless necessary.

We keep personal information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including event operations, membership records, tax and accounting obligations, nonprofit records, safety, insurance, dispute resolution, and legal compliance.

When information is no longer needed, we will take reasonable steps to delete, de-identify, or securely dispose of it.

If NYC Car Club becomes aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will review the incident, take appropriate steps to protect affected individuals, and provide notices when required by law.

For New York residents, we will follow applicable New York data breach notification requirements.

You may contact us to:

• Update your contact information
• Unsubscribe from marketing communications
• Ask what information we maintain about you
• Request correction or deletion of your information
• Ask us not to share your information with partners
• Request that we avoid using a photo or video of you in future NYC Car Club-controlled materials

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. Some requests may be limited by legal, safety, accounting, insurance, nonprofit, or recordkeeping obligations.

Our website, emails, and social media posts may link to other websites, including event platforms, sponsors, partners, venues, payment processors, social media platforms, and third-party services.

NYC Car Club is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of those third-party websites. Once you leave our website or interact with a third-party platform, that platform's privacy policy applies.

NYC Car Club may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates will be posted on our website with a revised effective date.

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be sent to: