(a) when you wish to become a registered user of this website (www.runnersworld.co.uk) and/or
(b) when you wish to buy or utilise any of our products or services.

(a) your name, address, and email address; and
(b) your postcode and telephone number; and
(c) (if you make purchases) your credit card or other financial or payment details.

We may also ask you to provide other personal data to us for particular purposes, such as supplying our products or services to you. In each case it will be your decision as to whether you supply us with the information in question or not.

(a) to identify you as a registered user of our website and to allow you to post messages on our forum;
(b) to provide you with products and services (which may include products and services that we supply in association with other businesses);
(c) to process any applicable payments from you;
(d) to identify the area in which you live for the purposes of enabling you to use our website function that allows you to find races taking place within a specified distances of your home;
(e) to send you information regarding our products and services with your consent;
(f) to send you information regarding the products and services of other businesses with your consent;
(g) to notify you of any changes to our Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions from time to time;
(h) for our own internal purposes in connection with risk control, resolving consumer disputes; and
(i) for producing statistics and other information relating to our business and the users of our website.

You may at any time revoke your consent to us contacting you for the purposes noted in (e) and (f) above by contacting us at members@runnersworld.com, or by unsubscribing from our email mailing lists by following the procedure set out in any of the relevant emails that we send you.

(a) to verify and process any payment instructions that you give us when you order any of our products or services;
(b) to other businesses, when we are providing products or services to you in association with those businesses (see 3(b) above);
(c) to prepare or send you any communications to you, or to assist us in connection with any of our administrative or business functions, or in the provision of any of our products or our services to you;
(d) to verify your credit worthiness or financial circumstances, for the purpose of making credit decisions, and in connection with fraud prevention and tracing debtors; and
(e) if we are asked to do by any legal or regulatory authority, or if we believe that it would be proper to do so in connection with any legal or regulatory matter.

Unless they are already legally bound to keep your personal data confidential, we shall enter into agreements with anyone to whom we disclose your personal data under (a), (b), (c) and (d) above obliging them to keep your personal data confidential.

(a) We shall not sell your personal data to anyone else, though with your permission we may rent it for limited use or contact you by post or email on behalf of other carefully selected companies. You can switch your permission on and off on your 'My Details' page.

(b) Subject to the exception in point 4(e) above, we shall not supply your personal data to anyone else so that they can use it for their own purposes.

All data that is processed and stored overseas shall be held securely and shall remain subject to the restrictions on its use and disclosure set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may collect information about your viewing habits when you visit our website through your IP address and by using cookies and other web tools in the following ways.

(a) Cookies. A "cookie" is a small electronic file that collects information when someone visits a website. A cookie can identify the pages that are being viewed, and this can assist us to select the pages that the viewer sees. Some cookies only exist whilst viewers are online, but "persistent" cookies - which are not session-based - remain on the viewer's computer, so that he or she can be recognised as a previous visitor when he or she next visits our website. This information allows us to collect information about a viewer's browsing habits, and this can be useful in assisting us to monitor and improve our services.

We do not store sensitive information such as account numbers or passwords in "persistent" cookies, and cookies, in themselves, do not contain enough information to identify you. You will only acquire a personal identity in relation to your browsing habits after you have formally provide us with your personal data for the purposes outlined in point 3 above.

(b) GIF and other web tools. In addition to using cookies, we might also use GIFs and other web tools to collect information about your browsing activities. In this respect the information that is provided is similar to the information supplied by cookies, and we use it for the same purposes.Information that we automatically collect and analyse about you may include: the Internet Protocol (IP) address that you use to connect your computer to the Internet; your login, email address, and password; the computer and connection information relating to you (such as browser type and version, operating system, and platform); your purchase history; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from this website (including date and time); and any items you viewed or searched for. Any information that we acquire about you using cookies, GIFs or other web tools, or which we collect in any other way is subject to the same restrictions and conditions as any of the more formal personal data we collect about you.

NOTE. Some of the advertisements on our website may contain cookies, GIFs, or other web tools that are set by other people such as advertising agencies, or the businesses to which the advertisements in question relate. We do not have access to any information that might be collected in this way, and (if you are concerned) you should contact the advertiser for more information.

Please contact us at members@runnersworld.co.uk in relation to the matters to which this point 8 relates, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policy.