TMX Toyota Athlete Program Web Site Privacy Policy
Effective as of January 26, 2007
(Continental United States Only)
Introduction to the TMX Toyota Athlete Program Web Site Privacy Policy
Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
Third Party Advertising Companies
This document describes Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.'s (hereafter referred to as "Toyota") policy regarding information received about you during visits to the TMX Toyota Athlete Program Web site. The amount and type of information received depends on how you use the site. These privacy provisions apply solely to Toyota's online information collection activities on the TMX Toyota Athlete Program Web site and are not applicable to information collection practices Toyota may be engaged in elsewhere, including other Web sites it may sponsor.
By using this site, you signify your assent to the TMX ToyotaAthlete Program Web Site Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so please visit us frequently.
Your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by Toyota. Toyota shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site.
You can visit the TMX Toyota Athlete Program Web site to browse the site without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. When you do this, we collect and store the name of your Internet service provider, the browser (including available plug-ins and browser functionality) and type of machine you are using, the IP address, the Web site that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time of those requests.
We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of customer visits. We do not collect or store personally identifiable information such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number or social security number from consumers that are simply browsing the site.
Collection and Sharing of Personally Identifiable Information
If you elect to register in the TMX Athlete Program as a racing competitor, we will collect the following types of personal information from you through your Rider Entry Form.
- Name & Nick name
- Address
- Phone Number
- Date of birth
- Classes you compete in
- The brand of your motorcycle (optional)
- AMA Region
- Your essay on your greatest achievement in sport to date
- Goal for 2007
- Top 3 Sponsors
- Your essay on why you should be a Toyota Athlete in 2008
- Head and action photo (optional)
- Current Toyota ownership and future truck purchase consideration (optional)
Some of the information you provide to us as a participant may be visible to the general public via your athlete profile. The information posted on your profile may include:
- Name & Nick name
- Your age
- Classes you compete in
- The brand of your motorcycle
- AMA Region
- Your essay on your greatest achievement in sport to date
- Goal for 2007
- Top 3 Sponsors
- Your essay on why you should be a Toyota Athlete in 2008
- Head and action photo
If you elect to register in the TMX Athlete Program as a Fan competitor, we will collect the following types of personal information from you through your Rider Entry Form.
- Name & Nick name
- Address
- Phone Number
- Date of birth
- The brand of your motorcycle (optional)
- Your favorite MX moments
- Head and action photo (optional)
- Current Toyota ownership and future truck purchase consideration (optional)
Some of the information you provide to us as a participant may be visible to the general public via your athlete profile. The information posted on your profile may include:
- Nick name
- Your age
- The brand of your motorcycle
- Your favorite MX moments, favorite racer and favorite track
- Head and action photo
If you are a not a participant in the TMX Athlete Program, but wish to receive updates about the Program, upcoming events, special offers, exciting news and new product announcements, we will collect the following types of personal information from you through your Email Update Form.
- Email address
Whether or not you are a participant in the TMX Toyota Athlete Program, there may be instances where Toyota requests personally identifiable information to provide you with a service or information (new vehicle information alerts, promotions and mailed brochures). Depending upon the type of request, the information we collect will include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number, and what service or information you have requested. Your personal information is collected and stored by Toyota in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data. The information you provide is also used by Toyota to improve the services we provide you.
Your personal information may be shared with our business partners to assist us in fulfilling your request. We may also share your personal information with companies affiliated with Toyota, our private distributors, and our authorized dealers and dealer advertising associations.
Access to Your Information
If you are a participant, you may review and modify the information that you provide to us about yourself. You may do this by logging into your rider profile. In order to access your account, you must have your user identification and password available.
Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes so that we may track site and user activity. The use of cookies is an industry standard and you will find them at most major Web sites. By showing how and when visitors use the site, cookies help Toyota to track those areas of our site that are popular and which areas are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the site, like the configuration areas, will not function properly if you do so. Also, we will not be able to recognize you as a visitor over time.
Third-Party Advertising Companies
Toyota shares Web site usage information about visitors to our Web site with one or more reputable third-party advertising companies for the purpose of measuring the effectiveness of our online advertising initiatives. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising companies note some of the pages you visit on our Web site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). We may also utilize Web beacons to determine the correlation between Toyota purchasers and the online sites they visit. The information collected by our third-party advertising companies through the use of these pixel tags and Web beacons is not personally identifiable. For more information about Web beacons or opting out, please click here.
This site includes links to other websites, such as www.toyota.com and www.toyotacross.com. These sites have their own privacy and information security policies and terms and conditions. Please review the privacy policy and terms and conditions sections of these websites for additional details. To reach the privacy policy for www.toyota.com, please click here. To reach the privacy policy for www.toyotacross.com, please click here.