MR2 Roadster Owners Club - Privacy policy
This policy explains in detail how “MR2 Roadster
Owners Club” along with its affiliated companies (hereinafter “we”, “us”,
“our”, “MR2 Roadster Owners Club”, “http://www.mr2roc.org/phpBB3”) and phpBB
(hereinafter “they”, “them”, “their”, “phpBB software”, “www.phpbb.com”, “phpBB
Group”, “phpBB Teams”) use any information collected during any session of
usage by you (hereinafter “your information”).
Your information is collected via two ways.
Firstly, by browsing “MR2 Roadster Owners Club” will cause the phpBB software
to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded
on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just
contain a user identifier (hereinafter “user-id”) and an anonymous session
identifier (hereinafter “session-id”), automatically assigned to you by the
phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics
within “MR2 Roadster Owners Club” and is used to store which topics have been
read, thereby improving your user experience.
We may also create cookies external to the phpBB
software whilst browsing “MR2 Roadster Owners Club”, though these are outside
the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by
the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by
what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an
anonymous user (hereinafter “anonymous posts”), registering on “MR2 Roadster
Owners Club” (hereinafter “your account”) and posts submitted by you after
registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter “your posts”).
Your account will at a bare minimum contain a
uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter “your user name”), a personal password
used for logging into your account (hereinafter “your password”) and a
personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter “your e-mail”). Your information
for your account at “MR2 Roadster Owners Club” is protected by data-protection
laws. Any information beyond your user name, your password, and your e-mail
address required by “MR2 Roadster Owners Club” during the registration process
is either mandatory or optional, at the discretion of “MR2 Roadster Owners
Club”. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is
publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to
opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software.
Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that
it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same
password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of
accessing your account at “MR2 Roadster Owners Club”, so please guard it
carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “MR2 Roadster
Owners Club”, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your
password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I
forgot my password” feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will
ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will
generate a new password to reclaim your account.