Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 22, 2025

Racer Media & Marketing, Inc., Racer Network LLC, and their  affiliates and subsidiaries (“Racer,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed while providing our products or services to you (“Services”) and on the websites, applications, and online platforms that link to this Notice (collectively, “Site”). It also describes rights you may have under applicable laws. Please read this Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it. To access this Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please click here.

1.Personal Information We Collect

We collect several categories of Personal Information from and about users of our Site and Services. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. The categories of Personal Information we collect may include: 

• Contact Information – If you submit an inquiry, become a partner, or provide information on or through our Site or Services, we may collect your contact information including your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, company, website URL, industry type, marketing goals, primary content focus, audience size, and Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook handles. 
• Commercial Information – If you submit an inquiry, or provide information on our Site, we may collect commercial information including information about your purchases, subscriptions, and Services you have shown interest in.
• Usage Information – When you use our Site, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (“IP address”), geolocation of your device, browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our Site.
• Communication Information – We may collect Personal Information contained within your communications with us via email, social media, telephone, or otherwise, and in certain cases we may use third-party service providers to do so. Where permitted by applicable law, we may collect and maintain records of calls with our agents, representatives, or employees via message, chat, post, or similar functionality.
• Financial Information – If you use our Services, we may collect financial information such as credit card details via our third-party payment processor to facilitate online payments.

2. How We Collect Personal Information 

• Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us directly, for example, if you choose to contact us, request information from us, sign up to receive updates, or otherwise utilize our Site or Services.
• From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties, including but not limited to business partners, advertising networks, social networks, data analytics providers, mobile device providers, and Internet or mobile service providers.
• Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information automatically as you navigate our Site. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Site or transmitted to other users of the Site or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Site or Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. 

If you delete your User Contributions from the Site, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Site or Services users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Site and Services, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

3. How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

• To provide and personalize our Site and Services, such as processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, providing and personalizing our Services, processing payments, providing customer service, maintaining or servicing accounts, verifying customer information, creating and maintaining business records, and undertaking or providing similar services.
• To optimize, improve, and maintain our Services, including understanding how users interact with our Services, gauging user interest in certain Services or Site functionality, and troubleshooting problems.
• For internal research and development, such as testing, verifying, and improving the quality of our Services or developing new ones.
• For marketing and advertising, including using your information to send you messages, notices, newsletters, surveys, promotions, or event invitations about our own or third parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. We also use Personal Information to conduct interest-based advertising as discussed in the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. You can unsubscribe from any marketing emails or text messages that we may send you by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence or emailing us at privacy@racer.com.
• For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions and comments or notifying you of changes to our Site or Services.
• For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights, complying with legal requirements, enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies, detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents, and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
• As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including purposes described when you provide the information or give your consent.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We may disclose your Personal Information with your consent or in the following circumstances:

• Employees and Other Personnel – We may share Personal Information with our employees and personnel (such as contractors) who have a need to know the information for our business purposes.
• Affiliates and Subsidiaries – We may share Personal Information within our family of companies for their and our business and marketing purposes, including providing you with information about the Services we think may be of interest to you.
• Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with the service providers that we use to support our business, including but not limited to, data analytics providers, website hosting providers, and other technology providers. 
• Business Partners – We may disclose Personal Information with trusted business partners. For example, we may disclose your Personal Information with a company whose products or services we think may be of interest to you or who we co-sponsor a promotion or service with. 
• Ad Tech Companies and Other Providers – We may share or make available limited Personal Information (such as a mobile device identifiers) with ad tech companies and other online service providers. When we share your Personal Information in this context, we follow applicable legal requirements, which may require that we provide opt-out rights or other individual rights.
• Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Racer, its employees and clients, or the public against harm.
• Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you notice prior to such disclosure.
• Other – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties when explicitly requested by or consented to by you, or for the purposes for which you disclosed the Personal Information to us as indicated at the time and point of the disclosure (or as was obvious at the time and point of disclosure).

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies 

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our Site. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies and web beacons that permit us to verify system and server integrity and generate statistics around the popularity of certain content. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our Site, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our Site that you and other users are most interested in. 

Website Delivery and Appearance – We may use third-party providers to enable certain customer interaction opportunities, content delivery (like video), or other service capabilities. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following functionality:

• Content Delivery: For example, we use Adobe Typekit to serve fonts on our Site, which is governed by Adobe Typekit's Privacy Policy. We also partner with companies like YouTube and Vimeo to deliver specific content delivery like video. For more information about how YouTube collects and uses your data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy.
• Customer Interaction: We enhance our customer interactions by offering features like Google Maps to locate our Service locations, payment processors to facilitate online payments, and Disqus to facilitate commenting. Each of these offerings are governed by the terms, conditions, and policies of the underlying service provider. For example, please see Google Maps/Google Earth Terms of Service and Google’s Privacy Policy for more information on how that feature operates.

Website Analytics and Session Replay – We use analytics and session replay services, that use cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information, to assist us with analyzing our Site traffic and site usage to optimize, maintain, and secure our Site and inform subsequent business decisions (including, e.g., advertising). These include, but are not limited to, the following third-party services: 

• Google: We use Google Analytics to collect analytic data about your use of the Site and provide remarketing. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data from sites or apps that use our services.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this does not prevent the use of other analytics tools. To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites. Additionally, third parties, including Google (through, for example, our use of Google advertising features), may place and read cookies on your browser, or use web beacons to collect information in connection with ad serving on or through the Site, including for the purposes of showing our ads on sites across the internet. Our partners will collect personal information for personalization of ads and may use first-party cookies or other first-party identifiers and third-party cookies and other third-party identifiers for personalized and non-personalized advertising and measurement. Ad serving may be based on users’ visits to our Site or other websites on the Internet, and your activity may be tracked over time and across websites. For information about how Google collects, shares, and uses data, please click here: . You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page . For more information, please visit Google’s privacy policy. You can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or control the use of device identifiers by using your device’s settings. 

• Meta: We use Meta pixels to track user activity on our Site and improve downstream offerings, including interest-based advertising for our services and those of our partners and service providers. We further use the Meta Pixel to analyze user activity on our Site for remarketing and behavioral targeting. The Meta Pixel is triggered when you perform certain activities on the Site, and aids us in displaying Facebook ads to Facebook users who have visited our Site, or Facebook users who share certain characteristics with visitors to our Site. Meta and other third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect information from the Site and from other internet websites, and use that information for the purposes of targeting ads and providing measurement services. Meta may track your activity over time and across websites. For more information about the data Meta collects, please visit Meta’s privacy policy . For specific information about Meta Pixel, please click here . For more information about ad targeting and exercising your choice to opt out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, please click here: , or here .

• Mailchimp: We use Mailchimp to record page views and link clicks on our Site, which we may use to create audience segments to target contacts and send emails or ads. We may also use Mailchimp to see who has opened our emails. For more information about how Mailchimp collects and uses your information, please visit the Mailchimp Global Privacy Statement, available here.

Interest-Based Advertising – We may also allow or enable third parties to collect Personal Information to provide their interest-based advertising on behalf of our products and services, or their own. Interest-based advertising occurs when advertisements are shown to you based on information collected from your online interactions over time and across multiple websites, devices, or online services that you visit or use. Some companies may engage in cross-context behavioral advertising to predict your preferences and show you advertisements that are most likely to be of interest or relevant to you. We do not control these third parties’ collection or use of your information for these purposes, or the opt-out options they may individually offer you via their terms, conditions, and privacy policies. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Examples of the third-party service providers we engage to serve interest-based advertisements include OpenX, Google Ads (including Google Signals), Meta Ads (including Meta Pixels and Facebook advertising services), Demandbase, Outbrain, NextRoll (please note that any email addresses provided will be hashed, stored, and combined with other identifiers for cross-device recognition purposes and targeted advertising and measurement and analytics by NextRoll; for more information about the categories of data collected by NextRoll, and the purposes for which data is collected and used by NextRoll, please see NextRoll’s Service Privacy Notice, available here), LiveRamp (please note that we share data with LiveRamp for the purpose of digital targeting; for more information, please visit LiveRamp’s privacy policy, available here ), and Taboola (Taboola uses pixels to collect data from our digital properties for the purposes of: (i) storing and/or accessing information on a device; (ii) selecting basic advertisements; (iii) creating a personalized ads profile; (iv) selecting personalized ads; (v) creating a personalized content profile; (vi) selecting personalized content; (vii) measuring advertisement performance; (viii) measuring content performance; (ix) developing and improving products; (x) ensuring security, preventing fraud, and debugging; (xi) technically delivering ads or content; (xii) matching and combining offline data sources; (xiii) linking different devices; (xiv) receiving and using automatically-sent device characteristics for identification; (xv) using limited data to select content, and (xvi) understanding audiences through statistics). 

Cookie Choices – We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. Except as required by law, we do not respond to Do-Not-Track signals at this time; however, we have enabled mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information. To manage your preferences with respect to these technologies, you can: 

• Visit our preferences page, or customize your browser settings to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable certain cookies, please note that some parts of our Site may not function properly. These settings may be lost and require reconfiguration if you delete your cookies.
• Block the collection and use of your information by online platforms and ad tech companies for the purpose of serving interest-based advertising by visiting the opt out pages of the self-regulatory programs of which those companies are members: National Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance (or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, if you are located in the European Economic Area). Please note that even if you opt out of interest-based advertising, you may still see “contextual” ads which are based on the context of what you are looking at on the websites and pages you visit. 
• Review and execute any provider-specific instructions to customize your preferences or opt-out of certain processing, including interest-based advertising, by third-party service providers. For example, to opt-out of this type of advertising by Google, customize your ad preferences, or limit Google’s collection or use of your data, visit Google’s Safety Center and Google’s Ad Settings and follow Google’s personalized ad opt-out instructions. Meta also offers an Ad Preferences center to customize your settings, as well as a Privacy Policy with additional information on how you can exercise your rights. 

6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We retain your information for as long as needed: (i) to conduct business with you; (ii) fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice; and (iii) to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements. 

Criteria we will use to determine how long to retain your Personal Information include the nature and length of our business relationship with you; our legal rights, obligations, and retention requirements; and if we have an ongoing business purpose for retaining your Personal Information, such as communicating with you about ongoing or prospective Services you requested.

7. Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Site, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy policy. 

In some cases, we offer links to social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter) and YouTube) that enable you to easily connect with us or share information on social media. Any content you post via these social media pages is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies for those platforms.

We may also integrate with other websites to provide enhanced services, technological capabilities, or resources for you. These plug-in services and capabilities are governed by the terms, conditions, and policies of the underlying companies. 

8. International Use and Cross-Border Data Transfers

If you are visiting our Site from outside of the United States, please note that our Site is hosted in the United States. Where permitted by applicable law, we may transfer the Personal Information we collect about you to the United States and other jurisdictions that may not be deemed to provide the same level of data protection as your home country, as necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice. By agreeing to this Notice, you consent to allow your Personal Information to be transferred outside of your home country to Racer and third parties working on its behalf for processing. While your information is in another jurisdiction, it may be accessed by courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities.

For individuals in Canada, the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland, and United Kingdom: Racer will only transfer Personal Information to third parties located outside of this region when it has ensured appropriate safeguards for such Personal Information through use of the standard contractual clauses or other lawful and approved methods. To request a copy of applicable cross-border data transfer agreements, please reach out using the information in the Contact Us section.

9. How We Protect Personal Information

We have implemented commercially reasonable measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems. 

10. Exercising Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights with respect to your Personal Information under applicable data protection laws:

• Access – The right to request access to and obtain a copy of any Personal Information we may have about you.
• Deletion – The right to delete your Personal Information that we have collected or obtained, subject to certain exceptions.
• Correction – The right to request that we correct any inaccuracies in your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.
• Opt Out of Certain Processing – The right to: (a) opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for purposes of targeted advertising, (b) opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information; (c) limit the use of your sensitive Personal Information (if applicable), and (c) opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not profile you or other individuals in a manner that would result in legal or similarly significant effects, so we do not offer an opt out.
• Objection/Restriction of Processing – The right to object or restrict us from processing your Personal Information in certain circumstances.
• Withdraw Consent – The right to withdraw your consent where we are relying on your consent to process your Personal Information.
• Automated Decision-Making – The right to know when you are subject to automated decision-making, the Personal Information used to render the decision, the principal factors and parameters involved in the decision, and human review or correction of the decision (or its underlying data, where appropriate). You may also have the right to consent or opt out of this automated decision-making, depending on your location.
• Lodge a Complaint – The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority or other regulatory agency if you believe we have violated any of the rights afforded to you under applicable data protection laws. We encourage you to first reach out to us so we have an opportunity to address your concerns directly before you do so.

To exercise any of the privacy rights afforded to you under applicable data protection laws, e-mail us at privacy@racer.com, or call us at 949-417-6700. 

You will not be discriminated against in any way by virtue of your exercise of the rights listed in this Notice. However, should you withdraw your consent or object to processing of your Personal Information, or if you choose not to provide certain Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some, or all, of our Services to you. 

Only you, or an authorized agent that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child. We must verify your identity before fulfilling your requests, and if we cannot verify your identity, we may request additional information from you. If you are an authorized agent making a request on behalf of another person, we will also need to verify your identity, which may require proof of your written authorization or evidence of a power of attorney. We endeavor to respond to requests within the time period required by applicable law. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your requests unless they are excessive or repetitive. If we determine that a request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request. We may deny certain requests, or only fulfill some in part, as permitted or required by law. If you are not satisfied with the resolution of your request and you are afforded a right to appeal such decision, you will be notified of our appeal process in our response to your request.

11. Children’s Privacy 

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children, as defined under applicable law, without verified written parental consent. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at privacy@racer.com.

12. Individuals in Canada, the European Union, European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom

This section provides additional information regarding Racer’s processing of Personal Information of people located in Canada, the European Union (“EU”), European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (“UK”) in accordance with applicable data protection laws . 

Legal Bases for Processing

Our legal basis for processing Personal Information depends on the Personal Information involved and the context in which we process it. Where Racer acts as a controller, we process your Personal Information: with your consent; where necessary to perform a contract; to comply with our legal obligations; and where doing so is in our legitimate interests (including the purposes described in this Notice) and such interests are not outweighed by your rights and freedoms.

Special Category Data

Racer does not intend to collect any special category data, which is any data that reveals your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious, moral or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political views, the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of identifying a person, and data concerning health or a person’s sex life and/or sexual orientation. Please refrain from sending us any special category data.

13. California Residents

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any. To make such a request, please contact us at privacy@racer.com. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

14. Changes to this Notice 

Please note that we may modify or update this Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you according to applicable law. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our Site. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Site and this Notice to check for any changes. 

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Notice, please contact us at privacy@racer.com or call us at 949-417-6700.