Data, media, and website terms.

Privacy Statement

Cars & Coffee Barbados respects your privacy and uses personal information in a practical, limited way to operate our website, events, galleries, newsletters, social media, and community activities.

We may collect information that you choose to provide, including your name, email address, message details, newsletter signup information, sponsor or media inquiries, and any other information you send to us. We may also collect basic technical information when you use the website, such as device, browser, IP address, usage information, and similar website performance or security data.

Photos, Videos, And Event Media

Cars & Coffee Barbados events are public or community-facing events where photography and video may be captured by us, our photographers, attendees, media partners, sponsors, or other third parties.

By attending, participating in, submitting content to, or engaging with Cars & Coffee Barbados, you understand that photos, videos, vehicle images, social media content, names, handles, and related event content may be used by Cars & Coffee Barbados for website galleries, social media, event promotion, editorial features, digital magazine content, sponsor materials, advertising, archives, and other community or promotional purposes.

If you appear in a photo or video and would like us to review its use, you may contact us. We will consider reasonable requests, subject to practical limits, editorial use, event-record purposes, and any legal or operational reasons for keeping or using the material.

How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to messages and inquiries.
• Send event updates, newsletters, announcements, and the Cars & Coffee Barbados digital magazine.
• Operate, improve, secure, and maintain the website.
• Promote Cars & Coffee Barbados events, galleries, sponsors, partners, and community activities.
• Publish event recaps, photos, videos, social content, interviews, build features, and magazine content.
• Manage sponsor, media, photographer, vendor, and community relationships.
• Prevent spam, misuse, fraud, or security issues.
• Comply with legal, regulatory, or operational requirements.

Marketing And Newsletters

If you join our mailing list, we may send you event updates, gallery announcements, sponsor news, and digital magazine emails. You can unsubscribe at any time using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us.

Sharing Information

We may share information where reasonably needed with service providers and platforms that help us run the website, email, hosting, newsletter, analytics, storage, social media, forms, security, or event operations.

This may include providers such as website hosting services, Google Workspace/Gmail, Brevo, social media platforms, cloud storage providers, photographers, media partners, sponsors, or technical contractors.

We may also share information if required by law, to protect Cars & Coffee Barbados, to enforce our rights, or to respond to lawful requests. We do not sell our newsletter mailing list as a standalone product.

Third-Party Platforms

Our website and communications may link to or interact with third-party platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, X, Google, Brevo, and other services. Those platforms operate under their own privacy policies and terms. Cars & Coffee Barbados is not responsible for how third-party platforms handle your information.

International Processing

Some of the services we use may store or process information outside Barbados. By using the website, joining the mailing list, contacting us, attending an event, or engaging with Cars & Coffee Barbados, you understand that your information may be processed by service providers in other countries where reasonably necessary for the purposes described on this page.

Retention And Security

We keep information for as long as reasonably useful for the purposes described above, including event records, community archives, marketing history, contact management, legal compliance, and operational needs.

Newsletter information is kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to remove it, unless we have a lawful reason to keep a limited record. We take reasonable steps to protect information we collect and use, but no website, email system, or online service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your Choices

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have provided to us, or to object to certain uses of your information. We will respond reasonably and in line with applicable Barbados law.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time. The website and mailing list are not intended for children to submit personal information without permission from a parent or guardian.

Website Terms

The content on this website is provided for general information, event promotion, editorial, archive, and community purposes. Event details may change, and Cars & Coffee Barbados may update, remove, edit, or archive website content at any time.

Unless otherwise stated, Cars & Coffee Barbados and its photographers, contributors, or partners retain rights in their respective photos, videos, logos, writing, graphics, and other content. You may not copy, reuse, modify, sell, or republish website content for commercial purposes without permission.

You are responsible for your own conduct at Cars & Coffee Barbados events and for following venue rules, road laws, safety instructions, and any event-specific guidance. Cars & Coffee Barbados is not responsible for third-party conduct, third-party platforms, venue conditions, vehicle damage, loss, injury, weather, schedule changes, or other matters outside our reasonable control.

Contact

For privacy questions, newsletter requests, photo or media concerns, or website legal questions, contact carsandcoffeebb@gmail.com.