Privacy statement
The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to Mazda, and any personal data collected during visits to our web sites is processed by us according to the legal provisions valid for the countries in which the web sites are maintained. Our web sites may include links to other sites whose content is not under our control and Mazda cannot accept any responsibility for the content within these web sites.

Collecting and processing personal data
When you visit our web sites, our web server automatically records the name of your internet service provider, the web site from which you visit us, the web sites you actually visit and the date and length of your visit. Additional personal data is only stored if volunteered by you, for example in the context of a registration, survey, contest, or in execution of a contract.

Use and disclosure of personal data and purpose specification
Mazda Motors UK Limited will use any personal information collected for customer administration and marketing related purposes including customer support and to inform you about new products and services. Your data will be treated in accordance with current Data Protection legislation and will only be disclosed to Mazda Motors UK Limited affiliated or associated companies, agencies and dealers for the purpose of marketing and customer administration including customer support.

Freedom of choice
We would like to use your data to inform you about our products and services, and where applicable request your opinion. This includes the newsletter. Naturally your participation is completely voluntary. You have to agree to receive it, and you can choose not to receive it at any time.

Security
Mazda uses technical and organisational security measures in order to protect the data we have under our control against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorised persons.

Use of ‘cookies’
Our website use ‘cookies’. A cookie is a small data record filed on your hard disk. This data record is generated by the web server with which you have established a connection (eg Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator), and will be sent to you them. Through cookies, you will be ‘recognised’ next time you visit. This means you do not have to re-enter data. Most browsers are currently set by default to automatically accept cookies. However, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to check you accept every time one appears. You can also delete cookies on your system at any time. Please use the help function in your operating system for this purpose.

Questions and commentaries If you have any questions or suggestions about data protection, please contact our Webmaster.


Forum Terms & Conditions
Please take a moment to review the forum Terms and Conditions.

When using the discussion forum section of the site, you will be asked to provide a name and email address. For further information as to how that information is used by Mazda see our privacy statement .

The discussion forums are an area on the MX-5.com site dedicated to promoting discussion and interactivity between our users. It is intended as a social space to share stories, thoughts, ideas etc.

Mazda is not responsible for any messages that are posted on these forums. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message.

The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of Mazda. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to use the facilities provided within the forums to report the message, or contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.

This discussion forum service is provided for the purpose of supporting Mazda MX-5 owners to participate in, and make valuable contributions to, their communities.

You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

You agree, by logging in to this forum, that you will not knowingly subvert the functionality of the forum system. This includes any action that manipulates the underlying software application or other technologies in order to interrupt the service, access information or otherwise derive results that are not part of the intended purpose of this discussion forum. We consider such actions "malicious misuse" and we reserve the right to revoke membership of the forum and take appropriate legal action if at any time we suspect any user of having such intentions.

You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by the forum owners. By submitting content to the forums you are attesting that you are the original author of the work and that any citation or appropriation of others people work within its content has been appropriately referenced or otherwise cleared and approved by the relevant copyright holder. Any work submitted to the forum remains the property of you, the author, and will be publicly attributed as such via your forum display name.

By submitting content to the forums you grant Mazda royalty-free and irrevocable permission to reproduce, and the right to download and print any material that you post.

If you believe that your work has been used by Mazda in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, contact webmaster@mx-5.com