Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Blue Collar Dream Rides – Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 9, 2025
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and your rights under applicable laws such as the EU / UK GDPR and the California CCPA.
1. Website Address
Our website address is: https://bluecollardreamrides.com
2. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, plus the visitor’s IP address and browser-user-agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a “hash”) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/.
After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images.
4. Cookies
– If you leave a comment you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies so you don’t need to re-enter them next time. These cookies last 1 year.
– If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
– When you log in, we set several cookies to save your login information and screen-display choices. Login cookies last 2 days, screen-option cookies 1 year. Selecting “Remember Me” keeps your login active 2 weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
– If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie (no personal data) will be saved in your browser that records the post ID; it expires after 1 day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content—including tracking if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
6. Password-Reset Information
If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset-email header to help with fraud detection and security.
7. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We share it only with trusted service providers who help us operate the website and deliver the Services (for example: email-delivery vendors, analytics and hosting providers, payment processors).
These providers are contractually required to keep your data secure and to use it only for the purpose of providing services to us.
8. Information We Collect via Social Login (Facebook, Google, and X/Twitter)
If you choose to log in using a social-media account such as Facebook (Meta), Google, or X (formerly Twitter), we may receive the following information from that provider:
– Name
– Profile picture
– Email address
– Public profile ID or username
– Any other information you choose to share through your social-media account’s permission screen
We do not receive your social-media password.
You can revoke our access at any time through your account settings with the respective provider.
9. Categories of Personal Information (Required by CCPA)
We collect and use the following categories of personal information:
Identifiers: Name, email address, Facebook/Google/X user ID or username – to authenticate login, communicate with you, deliver Services – shared with service providers only.
Profile Information: Profile picture, info you choose to share via Facebook/Google/X – to personalize your account & improve experience – shared with service providers only.
Internet / Network Activity: IP address, browser type, device info, usage logs – to secure and improve the site, troubleshoot issues – shared with analytics / security vendors.
Commercial Information: Records of interactions with our Services (e.g., memberships) – to deliver Services, support transactions, provide offers – shared with payment & email vendors.
Geolocation Data: Approximate location inferred from IP address – to improve security and localize content – shared with analytics only.
Inferences: Preferences inferred from activity – to personalize content and improve Services – not shared.
We do not sell personal information as defined under CCPA.
10. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data to:
– Authenticate your login and provide secure access
– Communicate with you about our business, promotions, and updates
– Improve our website and offerings
– Comply with legal obligations
11. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)
We process your data on the following bases:
– Consent – when you choose to log in via social media or opt-in to communications.
– Legitimate Interests – to operate, secure, and improve our Services.
– Legal Obligations – where processing is required to comply with law.
12. Data Retention
We keep your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described above, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so that we can recognize and automatically approve follow-up comments.
Registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal data at any time (except username); site administrators can also see and edit that information.
13. Your Rights
GDPR (EU / UK): You have the right to access the data we hold about you, request correction or deletion of your data, object to or restrict processing, request a portable copy of your data, and withdraw consent at any time. Contact us at bluecollardreamrides@gmail.com . You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local Data-Protection Authority.
CCPA (California Residents): You have the right to know what categories of personal information we collect and how we use it, request access to and deletion of your personal information, opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information (we do not sell your data), and not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. To exercise these rights, contact us at bluecollardreamrides@gmail.com
14. Revoking Social-Login Access
You may revoke our app’s access to your social-login data at any time by changing the permissions in your Facebook, Google, or X/Twitter account settings.
15. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)
Our Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
If you believe we have collected data from a child, please contact us immediately so we can delete it.
16. Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures—such as SSL/TLS encryption and restricted access—to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, or misuse. However, no system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute protection.
17. Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the new version on this page and update the “Effective Date” above.
18. Contact Us
For any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data rights, contact us at:
Blue Collar Dream Rides
214 Heritage St #1
Stevensville, MT
59780