COOL CAR GUY PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated: August 2026
This Privacy Policy applies to CoolCarGuy.com, TheCoolCarGuy.com, CoolCarGuys.com, and related Cool Car Guy pages, forms, features, and services that link to it.
CoolCarGuy.com is owned and operated by Cool Car Guy, Inc. Cool Car Guy, Inc. may be referred to as Cool Car Guy, we, us, or our.
CoolCarGuy.com is a WordPress automotive advertising website. This Policy explains the information reasonably needed to operate accounts, publish Parking Spots, process purchases, run the Affiliate Program, prevent abuse, and respond to users.
We do not need your life story.
We collect and use information reasonably connected to operating the website and the features you choose to use.
1. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE
Depending on how you use CoolCarGuy.com, you may provide information such as:
- Your name, username, email address, telephone number, and account information
- Business, dealership, vendor, or profile information
- Vehicle details, Parking Spot titles, descriptions, prices, categories, photographs, videos, links, and contact information
- Affiliate registration, referral, commission, tax, and payout information
- Purchase, billing-contact, refund, and transaction information
- Messages, comments, support requests, and other information you choose to submit
Please do not provide highly sensitive information unless it is specifically requested through an appropriate secure method.
2. PUBLIC PARKING SPOTS AND PROFILES
Information you intentionally place in a public Parking Spot, profile, comment, story, or other public area may be visible to anyone. It may also be indexed by search engines, shared on social media, linked from other websites, cached, downloaded, copied, or saved by visitors.
Public information may include your display name, business name, photographs, descriptions, vehicle details, prices, general location, telephone number, email address, website links, social-media links, embedded videos, and anything else you choose to publish.
DO NOT PUT INFORMATION IN A PUBLIC PARKING SPOT THAT YOU DO NOT WANT THE PUBLIC TO SEE.
Removing information from CoolCarGuy.com does not guarantee that copies will immediately disappear from search engines, browser caches, social-media posts, archives, backups, or other locations outside our control.
Photographs may contain metadata, including location data. Remove that information before uploading an image if you do not want it included.
3. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Like most WordPress websites, CoolCarGuy.com and its service providers may automatically receive basic technical information when you visit or use the website.
This may include:
- IP address and approximate location derived from it
- Browser, device, and operating-system information
- Referring page or website
- Pages viewed, links clicked, and access times
- Login, session, account, form, and transaction activity
- Cookie or similar identifiers
- Error, security, spam-prevention, and server-log information
This information may come from WordPress, HivePress, website hosting, cookies, security tools, reCAPTCHA, payment processors, AffiliateWP or other affiliate software, embedded media, and services actually used to operate CoolCarGuy.com.
4. HOW WE USE INFORMATION
Cool Car Guy may use information to:
- Create, authenticate, and maintain accounts
- Publish, edit, display, and manage Parking Spots, profiles, Garages, Channels, and public content
- Process purchases, refunds, payment disputes, and transaction records
- Provide purchased advertising and promotional services
- Operate the CoolCarGuy.com Affiliate Program
- Track referrals, connect qualifying customers to affiliates, calculate commissions, and administer payouts
- Send account, purchase, affiliate, support, security, and service messages
- Prevent spam, fraud, automated abuse, unauthorized access, and manipulation
- Moderate content and enforce website policies
- Diagnose technical problems and improve website operation
- Maintain records and comply with legal obligations
We may send optional promotional emails where permitted. You may unsubscribe from promotional messages, but necessary account, purchase, affiliate, security, support, and legal notices may still be sent.
5. COOKIES, ORDER ATTRIBUTION AND AFFILIATE TRACKING
CoolCarGuy.com uses ordinary browser cookies and related technologies for website functions such as login, sessions, preferences, security, spam prevention, order processing, WooCommerce order attribution, embedded content, and affiliate referral tracking.
When someone arrives through an affiliate link, CoolCarGuy.com may store a referral cookie identifying the referring affiliate. The current cookie period may be up to 120 days unless it expires sooner, is blocked or deleted, is replaced by another qualifying referral, or cannot be read because of browser, device, or technical limitations.
An eligible customer account may also be connected to the referring affiliate for qualifying future purchases under the current Affiliate Terms.
Blocking, deleting, restricting, or otherwise preventing cookies may affect login functions, embedded content, order attribution, purchases, saved preferences, affiliate tracking, and the ability to credit a qualifying purchase to an affiliate.
CoolCarGuy.com does not currently use a behavioral advertising system or a secret recommendation algorithm to determine what advertising a visitor sees or who receives an affiliate commission. Affiliate attribution is based on available referral links, cookies, customer-account connections, transaction records, and the current Affiliate Terms.
Additional information about these practices is available in this Privacy Policy and the CoolCarGuy.com Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with these practices, please do not use the website.
6. PAYMENTS
Payments may be processed by Stripe, PayPal, or another provider identified at checkout. The payment processor collects the payment information needed to complete the transaction.
Cool Car Guy generally does not receive or store your complete payment-card number or card security code. We may receive limited information such as your name, billing contact, transaction identifier, payment status, payment-method type, card brand or last four digits, refund or chargeback status, product purchased, and purchase history.
Payment processors use information under their own terms and privacy policies.
7. COMMENTS, reCAPTCHA, AND EMBEDDED CONTENT
If comments are enabled, WordPress may collect information entered in the comment form, the commenter’s IP address, browser information, and information used for moderation and spam prevention. A Gravatar image may appear when enabled.
Some forms may use Google reCAPTCHA to reduce spam, fake registrations, and automated abuse. Google may receive technical and interaction information when reCAPTCHA loads.
Parking Spots may include videos, maps, links, or other content from YouTube, Rumble, Vimeo, TikTok, social-media platforms, or other third parties. Loading or interacting with embedded content may allow that third party to receive your IP address, browser or device information, cookies, account status with that service, and interaction information.
Cool Car Guy does not control the privacy practices of those third parties.
8. WHO MAY RECEIVE INFORMATION
Cool Car Guy does not sell personal information for money and does not provide customer lists to unrelated companies for their independent marketing.
Information may be available to or processed by:
- The public, when you intentionally publish it
- Website hosting, database, WordPress, plugin, email, security, anti-spam, and technical-service providers
- Payment processors
- Affiliate software and eligible affiliates receiving limited referral or commission information
- Third-party platforms whose links, videos, forms, maps, or other content you choose to use
- Professional advisers, contractors, or vendors when reasonably necessary
- Government authorities or other parties when required by law or reasonably necessary to address fraud, safety, legal claims, or enforcement
- A buyer or successor if Cool Car Guy, Inc. or one of its websites is sold, transferred, reorganized, or combined with another business
Affiliates do not receive complete payment-card information. Cool Car Guy may limit or hide customer-identifying details where reasonably appropriate.
9. USER-SELECTED LINKS AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
Users may place external links, affiliate offers, booking links, videos, widgets, advertisements, or other third-party material inside their own Parking Spots.
Those third parties may collect information when their content loads or when a visitor clicks or interacts with it. Cool Car Guy does not operate, control, endorse, guarantee, or adopt every third-party service selected by an advertiser.
CoolCarGuy.com does not currently operate a behavioral advertising or data-broker business.
10. DATA RETENTION AND SECURITY
We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate accounts and Parking Spots, maintain affiliate and transaction records, process payments and disputes, prevent fraud, meet tax or legal obligations, maintain backups, and protect the website.
Public Parking Spots may remain active until removed under the applicable terms. Transaction, affiliate, security, and accounting records may remain after an account or Parking Spot is deleted.
Cool Car Guy uses reasonable security measures appropriate for a WordPress website, which may include passwords, access controls, encrypted connections, software updates, hosting security, backups, anti-spam tools, reCAPTCHA, and established payment processors.
No website or online storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Users are responsible for protecting passwords, securing their devices, and reporting suspected unauthorized access.
11. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
You may be able to view or update account information through your CoolCarGuy.com account. You may also email support@coolcarguy.com to request access, correction, deletion, or a portable copy of personal information associated with your account.
Please identify the account email and information involved. We may verify that you control the account or email address before responding.
We may retain information when reasonably necessary for transactions, taxes, accounting, fraud prevention, security, disputes, legal obligations, another person’s rights, or continued website operation.
Where applicable privacy law provides additional rights—including rights relating to access, correction, deletion, portability, sale, targeted advertising, or profiling—Cool Car Guy will process qualifying requests as required.
Based on our current practices, Cool Car Guy does not sell personal information for money or operate a cross-context behavioral or targeted-advertising program using personal information collected through CoolCarGuy.com.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a supported browser-based privacy preference signal, we will process that signal as required. We do not discriminate against users for exercising legally protected privacy rights.
12. CHILDREN
CoolCarGuy.com is not directed to children under 13, and children under 13 may not knowingly create accounts, purchase advertising, join the Affiliate Program, or submit personal information.
If you believe a child under 13 improperly submitted personal information, contact support@coolcarguy.com.
Minors should not post home addresses, personal telephone numbers, school information, precise location, financial information, or other sensitive personal information in public Parking Spots.
13. UNITED STATES MARKET
CoolCarGuy.com is operated from the United States, and its website, products, advertising services, Affiliate Program, and other commercial services are intended for users and customers in the United States.
Cool Car Guy does not intentionally market its commercial services to residents of foreign jurisdictions.
CoolCarGuy.com may be publicly accessible through the Internet from locations outside the United States. Public accessibility does not mean that Cool Car Guy intentionally offers its commercial services in every jurisdiction from which the website can be viewed.
Information may be processed or stored in the United States or wherever our service providers operate.
If you are located in a jurisdiction whose requirements are incompatible with the normal operation of CoolCarGuy.com, please do not create an account, purchase a product, participate in the Affiliate Program, submit content, or otherwise use the commercial services.
14. CHANGES AND CONTACT
We may update this Privacy Policy when our websites, providers, features, or information practices change. The revised version will be posted with a new effective date.
This Policy should be read with the CoolCarGuy.com Terms and Conditions, Advertising Terms, Advertising Refund Policy, Affiliate Terms and Conditions, Legal & Earnings Disclosure, and other applicable policies.
Questions, concerns, or privacy requests may be sent to:
Cool Car Guy, Inc.
Email: support@coolcarguy.com
Do not email passwords, complete payment-card numbers, card security codes, Social Security numbers, government identification, or other highly sensitive information unless specifically requested through a secure method.
THE SIMPLE VERSION
- CoolCarGuy.com is owned by Cool Car Guy, Inc. It is not a Freak Site.
- CoolCarGuy.com is operated for the U.S. market.
- We collect the information reasonably needed to run an ordinary WordPress automotive advertising website.
- Information you intentionally place in a public Parking Spot is public.
- Cookies help operate the website, process orders, provide security, attribute purchases, and track affiliate referrals.
- Stripe, PayPal, Google, video platforms, and other providers follow their own privacy practices.
- We do not sell personal information for money or operate a behavioral advertising or data-broker business.
- You may contact us about your account or personal information.
- Do not publish private information you do not want the public to see.