Ford News Feed provides this Privacy Policy to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of Ford News Feed.
Information Collection and Use
Ford News Feed does not collect any personally identifiable information. Unless you subscribe to the Ford News Feed newsletter, Ford News Feed does not collect personally identifiable information concerning the operation of the Ford News Feed Website. If you contact Ford News Feed by email through the Ford News Feed Website, Ford News Feed may keep a record of your contact information and correspondence. It may use your email address and any information that you provide to Ford News Feed in your message to respond to you. Ford News Feed treats this information as it would treat any other unsolicited business correspondence and has no obligation to keep it confidential or take any security measures to protect it.
If you subscribe to a Ford News Feed newsletter, you must provide us with your email address. We will use the email address you provide to us to subscribe to our newsletter(s) to send you the newsletter(s), marketing or promotional opportunities from us and our partners we believe may interest you, and certain administrative communications regarding the newsletters. We will not sell or rent your email address to anyone else for their marketing. You may unsubscribe from any or all of our newsletters or marketing communications at any time using the link provided in the email, and we will delete your email address from our records.
When you visit a Ford News Feed Website, Ford News Feed’s servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type or the domain from which you are visiting. For most users accessing the Internet from an Internet service provider, the IP address will be different every time you log on. Ford News Feed uses Log Data to monitor use of the Ford News Feed Website and the services we offer via the Ford News Feed Website and for the Ford News Feed Website’s technical administration.
Cookies and Other Analytic Tools
Like many Websites, the Ford News Feed Website also uses “cookie” technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the Ford News Feed Website and the services offered via the Website. A cookie is a small data file that Ford News Feed’s servers transfer to your computer’s hard disk. Ford News Feed may also use tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are tiny graphic images used in email messages to determine whether the messages were opened and whether the links were clicked or are used on the Ford News Feed Website to collect information about the browser and device viewing the Ford News Feed Website. Ford News Feed does not use cookies or tracking pixels to collect personally identifiable information.
Ford News Feed mainly uses “session cookies,” which enable certain features of the Ford News Feed Website and services offered via the Ford News Feed Website to understand better how you interact with the website and services we offer via the Ford News Feed Website, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Ford News Feed Website, and to improve the Ford News Feed Website and services offered via the Ford News Feed Website. Session cookies should be deleted from your computer when you disconnect from or leave the Ford News Feed Website.
Ford News Feed also uses a persistent cookie on some of the Ford News Feed Websites that stay on your computer for a while after you leave the Ford News Feed Website for the sole purpose of ensuring that where rating, voting, or survey functions are available, you do not participate more than once.
Third-Party Advertisers
Ford News Feed Website includes advertising from third-party advertisers. Ford News: The feed does not provide any personally identifiable information to these advertisers. Third-party advertisers or companies working on their behalf may directly serve the advertisements on the Ford News Feed Website to your browser, allowing them to receive Log Data (as defined above). They may also use cookies, JavaScript, tracking pixels, and other technologies to measure their ads’ effectiveness and personalize advertising content. Ford News Feed does not control any third-party advertiser tracking or measurement technologies, and this Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of third-party advertisers. Feel free to contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.
Our advertising partners may include Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows users to control advertising on the platform. Instructions are here: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217. Twitter allows users to control advertising and cookie preferences on the service. Instructions are here: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies.
To learn more about interest-based advertising or to opt out of this type of advertising by those third parties that are members of self-regulatory programs such as the Network Advertising Initiative, please visit the NAI’s website http://optout.networkadvertising.org/, which will allow you to opt out of Interest-Based Advertising by one, or all, NAI members. Similarly, information regarding opting out of targeted advertising by Digital Advertising Alliance members can be found here: https://optout.aboutads.info.
Opting Out
Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. To opt out of receiving cookies from us, you can disable all cookies (which will affect the functionality of most Websites) or only third-party cookies, which may affect the functionality of some Websites. Most advertisers use third-party cookies.
Then, if you know which cookies you want to delete, you can delete those, or you can delete all of your cookies (which, again, will affect the functionality of most Websites—for example, you may lose your login status).
You must repeat the cookie management process for each browser you use. From our perspective, each browser is a separate device, and we do not use, track, or store data from mobile browsers.
If you choose not to receive tracking pixels, you will need to disable HTML images in your email program and browser, but that may affect images in other emails you receive and the web pages you browse.
Ford News Feed also uses analytics technologies such as Google Analytics, Quantcast and comScore.
For Google’s privacy practices, see www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html. To opt out of Google Analytics’ data recording and analysis on the Ford News Feed Website, see tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For Quantcast’s privacy practices, see www.quantcast.com/privacy. To opt out of receiving interest-based content and ads enabled by Quantcast, see www.quantcast.com/opt-out.
For comScore’s privacy practices, see www.comscore.com/About-comScore/Privacy-Policy and www.scorecardresearch.com/privacy.aspx. To opt out of having comScore associate site visits with your browser, see www.scorecardresearch.com/preferences.aspx.
California Consumer Privacy Act
In accordance with California Consumer Privacy Act legislation, compliance information and any user actions are available here: Addendum A—Special Information Regarding California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
Do Not Track
Some web browsers may transmit “do not track” signals to the Website and other online services with which the browser communicates. Ford News Feed will treat a “do not track” signal as a request not to track the user for advertising purposes. For more information regarding Do Not Track mechanisms, see allaboutdnt.com.
United States Operation; International Rights.
Our Services are operated from the United States, and the privacy laws of the United States may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside of the United States and choose to use the Services or provide your information to us, you agree that your information will be transferred, processed, and stored in the United States. Your use of the Services represents your agreement to this practice. However, our collection, storage, and processing of your personal information will always be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Further, under the applicable laws of various countries, you may have certain rights concerning your data, such as under EU law, the right to access to, rectification or erasure of, and/or restriction of processing or objection to the processing of your data, and the right to data portability. If you have questions about our collection or processing of your data, please contact us at privacy@static.com. Before we process any request, we may request personal information to verify your identity were allowed by law. Where permitted by local law, we may reject unreasonable or impractical requests.
If you are a resident of the European Union, you also have the right to at no cost to lodge a complaint with EU data protection authorities. This right may also exist in other countries. If you have questions, please ask the data protection authority in your country.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Ford News Feed cooperates with government and law enforcement officials or private parties, to enforce and comply with the law. Ford News Feed may disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as Ford News Feed, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Ford News Feed or a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to comply with the law.
If any or all of the assets of Ford News Feed are acquired by or merged with another entity, Ford News Feed will share with this entity some or all of the information collected through the Ford News Feed Website.
Security
Ford News Feed does not collect personally identifiable information from the Ford News Feed Website and does not take any specific security measures to protect the information we collect.
Links to Other Sites
Ford News Feed Website may contain links to other web sites (“Linked Sites”) operated by Ford News Feed or third parties. Linked Sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. This Privacy Policy addresses only the use and disclosure of information that Ford News Feed collects through the Ford News Feed Website. Other sites follow different rules regarding using or disclosing the personal information you submit to them. Ford News Feed does not exercise control over third-party Linked Sites. Your use of any Linked Site operated by Ford News Feed is subject to the terms and conditions provided by Ford News Feed for such Linked Site. Ford News Feed encourages you to read the privacy policies or statements of the other website you visit.
Our Policy Towards Children
The Ford News Feed Website is not directed to children under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided Ford News Feed with personally identifiable information without consent, he or she should contact Ford News Feed at privacy@FordNewsFeed.com. If Ford News Feed becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided Ford News Feed with personally identifiable information, it will remove such information from its files.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Ford News Feed reserves the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice. Any changes to this policy will be posted here. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@fordnewsfeed.com.
Last Update: November 16, 2024