Thursday, 3 October 2024

Privacy and Security

Privacy policy

Cycling Industry News website, magazine and associated newsletters are published by Stag Publications LTD. This privacy policy explains how we use and collect your personal information.

Topics:

What information do we collect about you?
How will we use the information about you?
Marketing
Access to your information and correction
Cookies
Other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us

1. What information do we collect about you?

We collect information about you when you register to receive our newsletter(s), subscribe to our magazine(s), contact us via the website or if you place an online comment on any of our website’s pages and posts. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback or participate in competitions.

Website usage information is collected using cookies.

2. How will we use the information about you?

We primarily collect information about you to communicate with or reply to you.

For newsletters: If you choose to opt in, we will use your information to email you our newsletters and we use a third-party company called Adestra to manage and store your personal data. Adestra’s privacy policy can be seen here.

Stag Publications LTD will not share your personal information for marketing purposes or with external companies.

3. Marketing

We would like to send you information about our magazines, events, services and other companies in our group, which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt out at any time using the preference centre link at the bottom of each email we send.

You have the right to stop us from contacting you or using your information for marketing purposes. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, you can update your preferences or unsubscribe at any time via our subscription page or by using the link provided at the bottom of each email you receive.

4. Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us at the address shown at the end of this privacy policy. We may make a small £15 admin charge for this service.

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You can edit your email preferences at any time using the preference centre that can be accessed via our subscription page or using the personalised link at the bottom of each email you receive.

For magazine subscriptions, please complete the carrier sheet that is sent with each new issue of our magazine(s) with any amended details or with an unsubscribe request, which you can then post to us or scan and send by email.

For online comments: Once posted, you cannot change or remove comments submitted on our website pages and/or posts. However, if you would like to have this information removed please contact us and we will do this for you.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet use and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of our websites and to compile statistical reports on website activity. However, it is important to note that the data is anonymous and does not identify you as an individual.

For further information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases some of our website features may not function as a result.

We use cookies for Google Analytics, Google DFP and Adsense (that deliver relevant advertising to you on our website), as well as social media sites Twitter and Facebook that we use to enhance visitor interaction and which may store cookies in your browser.

6. Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so when you link through to other websites you should read their respective privacy policies.

7. Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 16 May 2018.

8. How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:

by email: [email protected]

by phone: +44 (0)1727 739 160

write to us at: Stag Publications LTD, 18 Alban Park, Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL4 0HA, United Kingdom.