Mass Participation Events Ltd. (referred to in this privacy policy as "MPE", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy on-line. We use the information we collect about you to provide services to you when you visit our website. We appreciate that you do not want any personal information you provide to us distributed indiscriminately and here, we explain how we collect information, what we do with it and what controls you have.

It is your responsibility to read and understand this Privacy Policy. If you do not understand or accept this Privacy Policy then you should contact our Information Protection Officer whose contact details are set out below. If you do not agree to all of this Privacy Policy and do not wish to be bound by it, you are not authorised to access or otherwise use our website.

1. What information do we collect?
So that we can provide a personalised service, we may, upon registration or at other times, ask you to submit personal information such as a name, email address, postal address, telephone number, your gender and date of birth. You are under no obligation to provide such information. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services. If you are registering specifically to hear from us, we will take this as your consent, so we will not ask you to tick 'yes' or 'no'. Please note that sometimes on particular web pages on our website we may require you to provide additional personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

2. Where is the information stored?
Information which you submit via our website is sent to a computer located in the United Kingdom. Information submitted by you may be transferred to, stored and processed by our service providers and other reputable third party organisations, which may be situated outside the European Economic Area. In addition if you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those services.

3. How is the information used?
We will use the information you provide to us to:

• monitor, develop and improve the website, services and your experience;
• assist in and administer the provision of services to you;
• process and deal with any complaints or enquiries made by or about you;
• investigate any suspected breach of any terms and conditions relating to you and to monitor compliance.

4. When may we contact you?
We may contact you in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that we can deliver the services to you, where you have opted to receive further correspondence, in relation to any contribution you have made to our website and for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below). Local pages will give you information about how we will contact you in relation to specific services.

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
Where and only where requested by you we will:

• send you and keep you updated with information by email, telephone (including SMS) or mail about existing and new services and special offers from us; and/or
• send you information by email, telephone or mail about related products or services of selected third parties that may be of interest to you; and

You can tell us not to contact you or share the information with a third party either at initial registration or later through updates or amendments to your personal information. We may occasionally contact you about products and services we feel may be of interest to you. This will only come from us (or our agents) and only if you have indicated that you do not object to these offers.

6. Will we share your personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your personal information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or is required to stop you posting or sending offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to our website. If we use third parties to process your information we will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

7. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to our website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information. If we become aware that you are under 16 and are attempting to or have submitted personal information via our website without your parent/guardian's permission, we will not accept such information and we will take steps to remove such information from our records. This may involve us having to access and verify your age and other relevant details.

8. Can I find out what personal information we hold about you?
Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files. Please address requests and questions about this to the Information Protection Officer whose contact details are set out below.

9. Limitation Of Liability
Our website may contain links to other websites where information practices may be different to ours. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or content of such websites and have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Sometimes we may offer content sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties, with whom your personal information may be shared. We are not responsible for and have no control over these third parties' use of this information. We may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at our website. This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that a third party ad server may have collected from you.

10. Legal Disclaimer
We are not responsible nor will be liable to you in any way for events beyond our direct control. We cannot guarantee nor do we represent that our performance will be error free, and to the maximum extent permitted by law we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential or punitive damages or other loss suffered by you and relating to the use or release of your personal information.

11. Security
Our website has security installed to ensure that any personal data entered onto our website is protected against loss, misuse or alteration. However, due to the nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee the protection of your personal information and we cannot be responsible for any outcomes resulting from a breach of security when our website is used.

12. Use of cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords and credit card information are not stored in cookies.

We may use cookies to:

• identify who you are and to access your account information;
• estimate our audience size and patterns;
• control how often visitors see similar ads; and
• track preferences and to improve and update our website.

13. Keeping our records accurate
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible, but we depend on our users to update their personal information whenever necessary. You can review, change or delete the details you have supplied to us at any time by clicking on this link This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you have another query relating to your information, please contact us as set out below.

14. Your acceptance of these terms
By using this website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by MPE and to the MPE Privacy Policy. We reserve the right, from time to time, and at our sole discretion, to change or update this Privacy Policy. If we change our Privacy Policy in any way, we will post these changes on this page. Each change will become effective and you will be deemed to be aware of and bound by it.

15. Contacting us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
The Information Officer, Mass Participation Events Limited, PO Box 60, Cheltenham, Glos, GL54 2WN. Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it