British Sidecar Championship

We are The British Sidecar Championship. We are the Data Controller for all personal information about you that is held by us, which means that we are responsible for storing that personal information securely and only using it in accordance with privacy and data protection laws and regulations.

Our website

When someone visits britishsidecarchampionship.co.uk we use a third party service, Google Universal Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.

We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small text file composed of alphanumeric characters, which is created on your computer when your browser accesses a website that uses cookies. The files are used to help people navigate the website and fully use all its features, such as logins, preferences, language settings and themes, among other common features.

Most cookies are used solely to help your browser process a website and don’t snoop any data within your file system. Cookies can however be used for more intrusive purposes since they store information about a user’s browsing preferences and history, both on a specific site and browsing among several sites. Cookies can also be used to act as a form of spyware.

To find out more about cookies and how they work, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

From the 26 May 2011, new EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations came into effect stipulating how cookies should be used. We encourage you to accept the cookies our website uses as they help us to improve the user experience for you and many others.

Social media cookies

So you can easily ‘Like’ or share our content on Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

We use cookies to help us do this, which are set by ShareThis.com.

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.

Anonymous visitor cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology you are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long you spend on the site, what site you came from originally (e.g. Google search page) and what page you look at. We make assumptions on your age, gender, and interests based on this information. This helps us to continuously improve our website.

We use Google Analytics to help us do this.

Controlling the cookies we use to collect information about you

When you accept our use of cookies this helps us to provide a better service to you.

If you do not want to receive cookies from our website, select the ‘cookie settings’ under the ‘privacy settings’ in your browser options, and add our domain name to the list of websites you do not want to accept cookies from.

Under settings you can also delete individual cookies or any cookies that your browser has stored. You can find more information on how to delete and control cookies at https://www.aboutcookies.org/.

If you set your browser to refuse cookies, please be aware that there may be functionality on various websites that do not work, including ours.

Other websites

Our privacy policy does not cover the links within this site that link you to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements available on the other websites you visit.

Your rights

You have a range of different rights under data protection legislation. These rights are not absolute, and must be balanced against other rights and applicable laws within the United Kingdom that apply, but wherever possible we will respect your rights and abide by your wishes with respect to your personal information.

You have:

The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to object
The right to rectification
The right to restrict processing
The right to request rectification of data
The right to be forgotten
The right to data portability

A ‘Guide to your rights under new data protection laws’ has been produced by the Council. Alternatively, you can visit the Information Commissioner’s website to find out more detailed information about your rights and how to apply them at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/.

Usually, we will have one month in which to respond to any request you make to apply your rights. If we don’t feel we can apply the right you have asked for, because there is an overriding interest not to, we will inform you of our decision before the expiry of one month from the date we received your request.

You can submit your request in any way, but it would help us to apply your rights if you are able to email your request to info@britishsidecarchampionship.co.uk.