Privacy Policy for The Great British Rally
Last Updated: 27/08/2024
The Great British Rally, operated by Future Aerospace Engineering Ltd, is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or participate in our events. It also outlines your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Personal Data: We may collect and process the following personal data about you:
- Identity Data: Name, title, date of birth, and gender.
- Contact Data: Address, email address, and phone numbers.
- Financial Data: Payment card details or bank account information for processing transactions.
- Transaction Data: Details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
- Profile Data: Username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, and feedback.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
1.2 Special Category Data: We do not routinely collect special category data (e.g., race, religion, health information). If we ever need to collect such data, we will obtain your explicit consent unless we are otherwise legally permitted to do so.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To Provide Services: To process and deliver your orders, including event tickets and merchandise.
- To Manage Our Relationship With You: To notify you of changes to our services, send you administrative information, and provide customer support.
- To Improve Our Services: To analyze how you use our website and services to improve our offerings.
- To Market Our Services: To send you promotional materials and offers related to our products and services, where you have opted in to receive such communications.
- To Comply With Legal Obligations: To fulfill our obligations under the law, such as maintaining accurate records and responding to legal requests.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. However, we may share your information with:
- Service Providers: Third-party companies that help us operate our website, process payments, and deliver services.
- Business Partners: Other companies within our group, if relevant, or trusted partners with whom we collaborate on events or promotions.
- Legal Authorities: When required to comply with the law or respond to legal processes.
4. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, access controls, and secure data storage practices.
5. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When your data is no longer needed, we will securely delete or anonymize it.
6. Your Rights
Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights:
- Access: The right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: The right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data we hold about you.
- Erasure: The right to request the deletion of your personal data when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
- Restriction: The right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Data Portability: The right to request the transfer of your personal data to another party.
- Objection: The right to object to our processing of your personal data where we rely on a legitimate interest.
- Withdraw Consent: The right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time, where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email address]. We may require you to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
7. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to enhance your experience, analyze website traffic, and provide targeted advertising. For more information about our use of cookies, please see our [Cookie Policy].
8. Third-Party Links
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: great (at) great-british-rally (dot) co (dot) uk
Address: 8 Blythe Close, Blythe Bridge, Stoke on Trent, ST119HT
Thank you for trusting The Great British Rally with your personal information. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring your data is handled responsibly.
Who we are
Suggested text: Our website address is: https://great-british-rally.co.uk.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.