Ford City of Tomorrow Privacy Statement
1. General Statement:
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This privacy statement explains our policies and practices regarding online customer information. It is through this disclosure that we intend to provide you with a level of comfort and confidence in how we collect, use, and safeguard personal and other information we collect or that you provide through this website, and how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns. It is our sincere hope that by explaining our data handling practices we will develop a trusting and long-lasting relationship with you. By using the site, you agree to the terms of this privacy statement.
2. Information About Our Organization and Website and General Data Collection Practices:
This Privacy Statement applies to https://web.cvent.com/event/d12cf541-46b2-40b3-806b-d5f2a144062a/summary and vanity URL FordCityOfTomorrow.com and the Ford City of Tomorrow mobile app (collectively referenced herein as “Ford City of Tomorrow”, “site”, “website” and “app”). The Ford City of Tomorrow webpages and App reside on the Cvent and/or Compass Crowd website and platform on behalf of Ford Motor Company, Marketing, Sales and Service Division, 16800 Executive Plaza Drive, Dearborn, MI 48126.
The business purpose of this website is to provide you the opportunity to register for the Ford City of Tomorrow Symposium, message other Symposium participants if you opt in, and to complete a survey after the Symposium.
3. Personally Identifiable Information We Collect From You:
When you visit Ford City of Tomorrow we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. For purposes of this Privacy Statement, personally identifiable information is information that identifies you as an individual such as your name, street address, telephone number, and email address. If you opt not to provide us with personally identifiable information you can still access our website, however you will be unable to register for the Symposium, message other participants, complete a survey, or receive marketing or promotional materials including emails.
Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information from you when you visit Ford City of Tomorrow is to provide you the functionality and services that you need to have a meaningful and customized experience while using the site features.
4. How We Use the Personally Identifiable Information We Collect:
Personally identifiable information collected on Ford City of Tomorrow may be used to:
· Fulfill a site user request (e.g., register for the Symposium, message other participants, complete a survey, brochure fulfillment, send marketing or promotional materials including emails)
· Respond to your comments or requests for information
· Meet a request for or to develop new products or services
· Make the user experience more customer friendly
· Develop new and improved products, services and marketing
· Contact you if necessary in the course of processing your registration
· Generate site analytics that improve our site layout, content, product offerings and services
· Compile user data that is stored in our corporate database and may be used for marketing and other purposes
· Match personal data collected here with data about you that we collect through other sources
· Comply with legal requirements
5. Other Information We Collect From Site Visitors:
See the Cvent website privacy policy for information on the use of cookies and similar tools at https://www.cvent.com/en/cvent-global-privacy-policy#cookies.
6. Sharing Your Information:
Ford City of Tomorrow does not share, sell, or rent personally identifiable information with independent companies for their own use without providing you a choice.
Personally identifiable information that you provide to us in the course of requesting a product or service through this website may be gathered and stored in one or more of our corporate databases and be used for purposes of contacting you for things like promotional offers, marketing programs, or other communications from this website or other Ford Motor Company programs and services.
We may share personally identifiable information that we collect about you with other companies within the Ford Motor Company family of companies or subsidiaries. Our “family of companies” is the group of companies related to us by common control or ownership. We share information within this “family” as a normal part of conducting business and offering products and services to our customers.
We may share personally identifiable information with vendors, contractors or partners in the normal course of business. Vendors, contractors or partners of Ford City of Tomorrow who have access to your personally identifiable information in connection with providing services for Ford City of Tomorrow are required to keep the information confidential and are restricted in their use of the data.
Ford City of Tomorrow will disclose your personally identifiable information, without notice, if (1) in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Ford Motor Company, its affiliates or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Ford Motor Company, its affiliates or this site; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Ford Motor Company or affiliate personnel, users of their websites, or the public; or (2) if required to do so by law.
7. Access To and Control Over the Use of Your Information:
To correct or update your personally identifiable information contact us at
Telephone
800-392-3673
800-232-5952 (TDD for the hearing impaired)
Available Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST
Mailing Address
Ford Motor Company
Customer Relationship Center
P.O. Box 6248
Dearborn, MI 48126
so that we may be able to process your changes. Ford City of Tomorrow will use reasonable efforts to correct any factual inaccuracies in your information.
The scope of access available for this request is for information stored in the database that holds the data for Ford City of Tomorrow. Any personally identifiable information that has been collected from you on other Company websites will not be accessible or changeable through the processing of this request.
Also see the Cvent privacy policy at https://www.cvent.com/en/cvent-global-privacy-policy#cookies for information on how to correct or update your personal information.
8. Security of Your Information:
Safeguarding information of visitors to our website is important to us. While no systems, applications or websites are 100% secure, we use systems, policies and procedures to reasonably protect information from loss, misuse or alteration.
Vendors, contractors or partners of Ford City of Tomorrow who have access to your personally identifiable information in connection with providing services for Ford City of Tomorrow are required to keep the information confidential.
Vendors are not permitted to use this information for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for Ford City of Tomorrow.
9. Processing of Personal Data:
By visiting this site and by providing your personally identifiable information to us, you understand and consent to the collection, use, processing, transfer, and disclosure of your personally identifiable information globally --- including to the United States – in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Therefore, by visiting this site and by providing such information, you consent to the transfer of such information across country borders, and to the use, processing, and disclosure of such information in global locations. Your consent shall be deemed to include your consent to transfer of the personally identifiable information to locations that may have different levels of privacy protection than in your own country.
10. Links to Other Sites:
Ford City of Tomorrow may provide links to other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of all sites that you visit, including those whose links are provided so that you can understand how those sites collect, use and share your information. Ford City of Tomorrow is not responsible for the privacy statements, content or data handling practices on other websites.
11. Children’s Privacy:
Ford City of Tomorrow does not knowingly intend to collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age.
If a child has provided us with personally identifiable information a parent or guardian of that child may contact us at the phone number or mailing address listed in section 14 if they want this information deleted from our records. We will then make reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from the database that stores information for Ford City of Tomorrow.
12. Contacting Us:
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this online privacy statement for Ford City of Tomorrow, Ford City of Tomorrow privacy practices, or have any questions regarding the contents of this website please contact us at
Telephone
800-392-3673
800-232-5952 (TDD for the hearing impaired)
Available Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST
Mailing Address
Ford Motor Company
Customer Relationship Center
P.O. Box 6248
Dearborn, MI 48126
Ford City of Tomorrow is committed to working with consumers to obtain a fair and rapid resolution of any complaints or disputes about privacy and the handling of your data. Ford City of Tomorrow will be happy to respond to your questions and comments.
13. Privacy Statement Effective Date and Revision Days:
Occasionally we may update the privacy statement for Ford City of Tomorrow in order to reflect any changes to the website or our privacy practices. If we update this statement, the new statement will be posted to the website ten (10) days prior to the changes taking effect.
The effective date of this privacy statement is April 16, 2019.
Under California’s "Shine the Light" law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2019 will receive information regarding 2018 sharing activities).
To obtain this information on behalf of Ford Motor Company’s Ford and Lincoln U.S. operations please send an email message to calprivy@ford.com with "Request for California Privacy Information" on the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your e-mail address in response.
Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the "Shine the Light" requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response.
For an explanation of our privacy practices please review our privacy statement by clicking the "Privacy" link on our home page.
