General

This privacy statement sets out how Fast Lane Competitions complies with European Union data protection requirements. This applies to the entire website. Any changes to these policies will be posted on this website.

We have structured our website so that, in general, you can visit Fast Lane Competitions on the web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

For your protection, we are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998.
What we collect

We may collect the following information:

When using our services we will collect your name, contact information.
We may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, experiences with our services and contact preferences in order to provide you with further correspondence about our services.
Some pages use cookies, a data analysis technique.
Contact Information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
Demographic information such as post code, preferences and interests;
Financial information such as credit / debit card numbers;
IP address (automatically collected);
Web browser type and version (automatically collected);
Operating system (automatically collected);

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our services.
We may periodically send promotional e-mail about new services or other information which we think you may find interesting using the e-mail address which you have provided when you registered as a user on this site.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by e-mail, phone, or mail.

About cookies & What They Mean

Cookies are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date. Our website uses session 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 our site.

We use the following cookies on our website:

Google cookies – _utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz

Fast Lane Competitions uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at:http://www.google.com/privacypolicy/. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Old Browser Cookies – old-browser_continue

Fast Lane Competitions uses this cookie to allow users with older browsers to continue to use our website. Users with older browsers are advised to upgrade or continue to use this site with their old browser. This cookie remembers their selection so they do not need to see the warning more than once.
Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.
In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.
In Google Chrome click on the spanner icon, click “settings” “Show advanced settings” In the “privacy” section click the “content settings” button

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites. If you have any questions then please feel free to email us at queries@mcvcompetitions.com
Remarketing Policy

Fast Lane Competitions uses a PIXEL & Google remarketing cookie on our website – this allows us to collate lists of visitors who have visited our website, and show tailored, targeted adverts to them at a later date.

Our remarketing activities are limited to the Facebook and Google Display Network – a network of websites and blogs throughout the Internet. Fast Lane Competitions may show adverts about our services to you if you have previously visited our website and are viewing a website that is part of the Google Display network or Facebook.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Fast Lane Competitions website. Any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.

You may opt out of the remarketing cookie by visiting your Google’s Ad Settings, usually reachable through the following link:http://www.google.com/settings
Accessing your personal Data

You have the right to ask for a copy of any of your personal Data held by Fast Lane Competitions (where such Data is held)