Privacy and Cookie Policy
Information sharing
We do not rent or sell your personal identifying information to other companies or individuals. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to ship an order. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your access to and Control over information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number here:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access, unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. When you submit sensitive information via our website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure method. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Secure online checkout
HTTPS SSL connection encrypts your credit card data as you check out. Billing address and credit card CVV # is required for all purchases.
Octanemotorsports.com is a PCI Compliant site, which is an additional security feature that prevents hackers, spam, spyware & online scams. Timely PCI scan is performed through our complete website to prevent any mailcious spyware or virus. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 916-366-0230 or contact us via email here.
Visa / MC / AMEX Gift & Prepaid Cards
Personal credit card security is a major concern these days. To make shopping with Octane MotorSports a secure and pleasant experience, we now accept Visa, MasterCard or American Express Gift Cards.
These pre-paid gift/credit cards are available at all banks, major stores or gas stations (Walmart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, etc). Here are the benefits of using this type of payment method:
- We pay for the card. We are so concerned about YOUR security, that we pay for you to use the card. Each of these cards usually cost about $3.00 - $5.00. While making the purchase, please inform the sales rep. that the card being used is a Gift Card and we will provide you with a discount / credit on that order, up to $5.00 per transaction.
- Once the card is used up (empty), you simply throw it away, no worries!
- These cards can be purchased for different amounts, therefore, you can choose what amount you want to put on the card.
MasterCard Gift Card - Click Here
American Express Gift Card - Click Here
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
List of cookies we collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.
| Cookie Name | Cookie Description |
|---|---|
| FORM_KEY | Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests. |
| PHPSESSID | Your session ID on the server. |
| GUEST-VIEW | Allows guests to view and edit their orders. |
| PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART | A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this. |
| STF | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
| STORE | The store view or language you have selected. |
| USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE | Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies. |
| MAGE-CACHE-SESSID | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| SECTION-DATA-IDS | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
| X-MAGENTO-VARY | Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster. |
| MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
| MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |