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The Internet contains a wealth of information; unfortunately, it may also contain personal details about you that you don’t want everyone to know. For example, your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter egos or nicknames), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you go online, sites you visit may be gathering information about you without your knowledge. At American Quarter Horse Association, we strive to help our members, subscribers and customers protect their privacy while enjoying our services.
We collect information from our members or subscribers during the registration process and, occasionally, at other times. This information, which ranges from limited personal data such as age and address to facts about members or subscribers’ computers, professions, leisure and equestrian habits, is then securely stored on separate servers. American Quarter Horse Association’s policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users.
IQHA Privacy Policy
IQHA and its subsidiaries and related organizations, including the American Quarter Horse Foundation (AQHF), take your right to privacy and the protection of your personal data seriously. For decades, we have successfully protected data related to the registration, ownership and membership records of millions of American Quarter Horses and hundreds of thousands of IQHA members.
In conjunction with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, 2018, we wanted to update you on the IQHA Privacy Policy to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage and control your information.
Information IQHA Collects
IQHA is committed to serving the horse community. As such, people have the opportunity to engage with IQHA in a number of different ways, and the personal information we collect differs depending on the way in which you are engaging with IQHA. To keep things simple, we will describe the IQHA audience as two separate groups: Association members and community members.
We collect contact information such as address, telephone number and email address. In the near future, you will also be able to choose to add additional personal information to your member account at IQHA.com, including payment information, birthday and relationships to other Association members.
How IQHA Keeps Your Personal Information Secure
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our Association and community members is of utmost concern to us. We exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Access to customer data via the IQHA website is encrypted via industry standard security tools. While we strive to protect your personal information, IQHA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL encryption.
Your IQHA member account is password protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to your account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. IQHA will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.
How You Can Manage and Control Your Personal Information
By using the IQHA website, newsletters and/or Association services, you signify your assent to IQHA’s Privacy Policy. Your continued use of IQHA sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
While use of our services signifies your consent to the IQHA Privacy Policy, you have options regarding how to manage and control your personal data. Currently, you can update your personal information by contacting IQHA via phone, email, mail or other communication methods. In the near future, you will be able to update your personal information by logging into your member account at IQHA.com.
At any time, you can opt out of (unsubscribe from) email newsletters IQHA sends you regarding IQHA, our corporate partners or our publications. However, if you are an Association member, you cannot opt out of communication required to conduct normal business with IQHA.
The GDPR affords you the right to have your personal information deleted by IQHA upon request at any time. However, because of the historical importance of accurate registration and ownership records related to the integrity of the studbook, your Association member information will not be removed from records related to registered American Quarter Horses. Additionally, AQHF must retain historic data related to charitable giving records.
How You Can Control Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.
Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use www.IQHA.com, though your access to some functionality and areas of www.IQHA.com may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Questions?
Please reach out to us at racing@iqhracing.com if you have questions about our privacy policy or the ways in which we protect your personal information.
Email and Texting Scams
Unfortunately, the Internet can be used to spread false information about our Association or the horse industry. If you receive a questionable or inappropriate email or text that claims to be part of or affiliated with IQHA, a sponsored program or a marketing program, please be aware of the signs of an email or texting scam.
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, phishing is “the act of sending an email falsely claiming to be an established legitimate business in an attempt to dupe the unsuspecting recipient into divulging personal, sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, and bank account information after directing the user to visit a specified website. The website, however, is not genuine and was set up only as an attempt to steal the user’s information.”
Common signs that an email message could be part of a scam or phishing campaign:
• Incorrect sender address. IQHA’s emails are sent only from @IQHA.org, @list.IQHA.net or @IQHA.com. IQHA will never send email from Yahoo!, AOL, Hotmail, etc.)
• Spelling and grammatical errors
• Improper use of company trademarks
• Improper use of IQHA corporate partner names/products
• Requests for personal information and the promise of quick financial gain
• Inappropriate topics, such as lotteries or sweepstakes you did not enter.
Overall, if an email or text looks suspicious or appears too good to be true, it probably is. Do not reply to these emails or texts with any information.
If you believe you may have received and/or fallen victim to this type of scam, hit the “spam” button in your email provider, and file a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Internet Crime Complaint Center or the APWG.
Please also alert IQHA to any suspicious email or text activity by using the online Contact form. We will look into these issues with utmost seriousness and let you know if they are, indeed, fraudulent.
Important Facts
We do not release member or subscriber names to any outside organization except certain IQHA Corporate Partners who agree not to sell the list or make it available to any other organization. We do not sell our membership or subscriber lists to any other organization. We may send members or subscribers e-mail notifications of new features, services and topic-based news alerts. Only those members or subscribers who sign up for these announcements will receive them. Members or subscribers may edit registration information or cancel a membership or subscription at any time. We reserve the right to contact any member or subscriber at any time regarding membership and subscription renewals or other IQHA or Journal-related problems or questions as well as any changes.
Links To The Other Sites
Users should be aware that when you are on IQHA online, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from IQHA’s pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you “click” on a banner advertisement or an IQHA search result, the “click” takes you off IQHA’s site. This includes links from advertisers, Corporate Partners and partners that may use IQHA’s logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online — for example, via message boards or chat — that information can be collected and used by people you don’t know. While IQHA strives to protect its user’s personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.
IQHA’s policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore IQHA’s control and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.
Linking to IQHA
IQHA encourages appropriate persons, firms and organizations (hereinafter referred to as “you”) to place a link from their site on the Internet to IQHA.com or another IQHA website. By linking to an IQHA site, you agree that: (1) You have no rights in or to IQHA trademarks or service marks by virtue of such link; (2) Such link does not confer to you any rights to distribute, publish or otherwise use copyrighted material of IQHA; (3) You have no rights in or to the trademarks or service marks of any third party displayed on an IQHA site; and (4) You will not use such link for any illegal, immoral, or improper purpose, nor will you have any material detrimental to IQHA on your site. You further agree that, upon e-mail or other notice to you from IQHA, you will immediately remove all links from your site to IQHA.
Security
The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our members, subscribers or other guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise reasonable care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, IQHA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.
Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer 128 bit and 40 bit) encryption.
Your IQHA member account is password protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to your account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. IQHA will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.
Remember to sign out of your IQHA account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café.
Your Acceptance Of These Terms
By using this site, you signify your assent to IQHA’s Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of IQHA sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.