Privacy Policy

This policy 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 practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting https://www.therunningchannel.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy (subject to any further opt-in consents you may grant The Running Channel on our Website or elsewhere).

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is The Running Channel Limited of Unit 403, Clerkenwell Workshops, 31 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R 0AT.

Information we collect from you

We will collect and process the following data about you:

• Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our Website or by corresponding with us by e-mail or otherwise. It includes information you provide when you register to use our Website, subscribe to our services, search for a product, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our Website, enter a competition, promotion or survey, and when you report a problem with our Website. The information you give us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, personal description and photograph and other feedback given through competitions or surveys. In each case where we collect this information, we seek your consent and will not use your information otherwise than in accordance with such consent.
• Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our Website we will automatically collect the following information:
  
  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
  • information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Cookies

Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve it. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy below this Privacy Notice.

When you view and interact with our content on other platforms, for example on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, those platforms may also use cookies. We are not responsible for such cookies used by platform providers, and if you are in any doubt about the cookie policies of those platforms, we would suggest that you review them at the following links:

• Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/;
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/legal/cookies/;
• Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514; and
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines.

Uses made of the information

• Information you give to us. We will use the information you give us to carry out any obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us, and/or to notify you about changes to our services which may affect you (as appropriate). Additionally, subject to your consent to the same, we will use your information:
  • to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
  • to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you;
  • to profile and match your data with data collected from our Website and provided by third parties so as to ensure that content from our Website and communications we may send you are presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer, and that our communications are relevant to you and tailored as much as possible to your requirements.
• Information we collect about you. This includes information collected using cookies, browser cache, Locally Stored Objects and similar technologies used when you visit our sites, which we (and selected third parties) may use:
  • to administer our Website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our Website to ensure that content 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;
  • as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure;
  • to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Website about goods or services that may interest you or them.
• Information we receive from other sources. We will combine the above information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We will use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive and the consents you give us in relation to that information).

Disclosure of your information

You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

• Selected third parties including:
  • business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you;
  • advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we will provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 250 women aged under 25 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, men in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience;

We will disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Running Channel, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud prevention.

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) where we are satisfied that this is compliant with the Act and does not pose any danger to your personal information. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. The Running Channel will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Website, 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 Website; 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.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will 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, and you will be given the option to opt in or out of such data processing. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at hello@therunningchannel.com.

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partners, 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.

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.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to hello@therunningchannel.com.

Cookie Policy

Information about our use of cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets us know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use Google Analytics cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Declining cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website or accessing certain areas or services. You can find instructions on how to remove cookies using the links in the ‘changing your cookies’ section of this policy.

Our use of cookies
We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

Analytical/performance cookies

They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose, and pool this information with anonymised information provided to us by third parties.

Third party cookies

Please note that third parties (including for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. Accordingly, when you view and interact with our content on other platforms, for example on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, those platforms may also use cookies. We are not responsible for such cookies, and if you are in any doubt about the cookie policies of those platforms, we would suggest that you review them at the following links:

Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/policies/cookies/;
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/legal/cookies/;
Twitter: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514; and
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines.

You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of some or all cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Changing your cookie settings

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org or www.youronlinechoice.eu.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.