Red Bull Reporter (“It”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions of Use) and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Red Bull Company Limited of The Courtyard, 12 Sutton Row, London, W10 4AD.
What this Privacy Policy covers
- This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Red Bull Reporter does not own or control, or to people that Red Bull Reporter does not employ or manage. In addition, most Red Bull Reporter partners companies have their own privacy statements which can be viewed on their sites.
- This policy covers how Red Bull Reporter treats personal information that Red Bull Reporter collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.
Children (Under 16)
- If a parent believes that his or her child has submitted personal information to Red Bull Reporter, he or she can contact us via e-mail listed below. Red Bull Reporter will promptly delete the information upon learning that the parent is unhappy about the child participation. Red Bull Reporter believes that parents should supervise their children’s online activities and consider using parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a child-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from otherwise disclosing online their name, address and other personal information without parental permission.
- Red Bull Reporter is a general audience site and is not directed to children under the age of 16. Red Bull Reporter respects the privacy of parents and children and is committed to complying with the data protection act.
- Red Bull Reporter requires that a parent or legal guardian gives consent should their child, under the age of 18, be selected for a Red Bull Reporter Assignment.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.redbullreporter.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Red Bull Reporter, and when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.
- Red Bull Reporter may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
- When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, post code and personal interests. Once you register with Red Bull Reporter and sign in to our services, your information will be known to us.
- Red Bull Reporter collects information about your interactions with us.
- Red Bull Reporter uses information for the following general purposes: to improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.
IP Addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Where we store your personal data
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
- Red Bull Reporter does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
- We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
- We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with Red Bull Reporter under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help Red Bull Reporter communicate with you about offers from Red Bull Reporter and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
- We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;
- We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Red Bull Reporter’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
- We transfer information about you if Red Bull Reporter is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Red Bull Reporter will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
- Red Bull Reporter works with vendors, partners, advertisers, and other service providers in different industries and categories of business.
Confidentiality and Security
- We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
- We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with the data protection act to protect personal information about you.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@redbullreporter.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Your Ability to Edit Your Account Information and Preferences General
- You can edit your Red Bull Reporter Registration Information, at any time.
- You may upload new submissions by logging in.
- We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Red Bull Reporter service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the Red Bull Reporter newsletter, that are considered part of your Red Bull Reporter account.
Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of up to £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@redbullreporter.com
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