Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 05/31/2026

Car Show Scout (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website and app at . This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you use our platform to discover car shows, register for events, make payments, or request insurance quotes.

Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly:

•  Account and profile data: name, email, phone number, username, password.

•  Event registration details: name, contact info, vehicle information like year, make, model, and trim.

•  Payment information: processed securely by our payment provider Stripe — we do not store your full credit card details.

•  Insurance quote requests: when you opt in, we share your name, email, phone, and vehicle details with our insurance partner to generate a quote.

•  Profile and preference data: interests in classic cars, specific makes like Mustangs, or other enthusiast details for personalized recommendations.

We also automatically collect usage data like IP address, device type, browser info, and cookies to improve our service and analyze trends.

How We Use Your Information

We use your data to:

•  Create and manage your account

•  Process event registrations and payments

•  Provide customer support

•  Send event updates and communications

•  Generate depersonalized audience insights for affiliate marketing targeting classic car enthusiasts

•  Facilitate insurance quotes when you request them

•  Improve our platform and prevent fraud

Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with:

• Stripe: to process payments for event registrations.

• Event organizers: basic registration details so they can manage their events, including attendee, vehicle, registration, and event participation information.

• Insurance partners: name, email, phone number, and vehicle details only if you explicitly request a classic car insurance quote or otherwise consent.

• Service providers: companies that help us host the site, process registrations, send emails or SMS messages, analyze usage, provide customer support, or operate CarShowScout. These service providers are only permitted to use your information to provide services to CarShowScout and are required to protect your data.

For affiliate and partner audience insights, we may create and use de-identified, aggregated audience profiles of classic car enthusiasts. Users may opt out of having their activity included in partner audience insights or audience-sharing programs.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not share identifiable contact information, vehicle details, registration information, or buyer-interest inquiry information with American Collectors Insurance or other insurance partners unless you explicitly request a classic car insurance quote or otherwise consent.

CarShowScout does not sell, rent, or share mobile phone numbers, SMS opt-in data, or SMS consent information with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, except as necessary to provide the SMS messaging service, operate CarShowScout’s event-related messaging features, comply with law, or protect the rights, safety, and security of CarShowScout, our users, or others.

Your Choices and Rights

You can update your account info, unsubscribe from marketing emails, or opt out of sharing data for insurance quotes at any time. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights like accessing, correcting, or deleting your data — contact us to exercise them.

Data Security

We use reasonable security measures to protect your information, but no system is completely secure.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy and will post the new version with a new effective date.