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When you sign up or register with Competition Countdown to avail of a service we collect only the information needed to provide that service.
What we process:
Personal Identifier– we collect an identifier such as your email address or social login.
Password – we collect a password to ensure that your data is kept safely on our systems and that other users cannot access your personal data.
Optional social information – we collect basic social profile information such as the photo provided that you have agreed to share this with us.
Why we process this data: The legal basis for processing this data is to enable us to deliver registration services that you have consented to.
The personal identifier allows us to recognise you when you come to our site or service. This enables us to provide you with the service that you signed up for.
For example, access to your competitions, viewing your newsletter preferences etc. Details of these specific services are provided elsewhere on this page.
Who has access: Customer registration identity information is only ever accessible to Competition Countdown employees.
Delete My Account: If you wish to delete your Competition Countdown account please email info@competitioncountdown.live and request that your account is deleted.
What we process:
Registration & login data as described in the Sign Up and Social Sign Up Sections
Why we process this data: The legal basis for processing this data is to enable us to deliver services that you have consented to receive.
This registration data allows us to provide you with access to various Competition Countdown sites with as little hassle as possible.
It also allows us to understand which of these services are of interest to you so that we can provide you with a better service.
Who has access: Customer registration identity information is only ever accessible to Competition Countdown employees. Sometimes aggregated statistics about usage may be made available to others.
What we process:
Identity data – your email address and name
Why we process this data: The legal basis for processing this data is to enable us to deliver the newsletters that you have consented to receive.
Who has access: Only Competition Countdown employees will have access to this data through our email and customer identity systems.
Access may be granted to third parties such as our email campaign provider in order to resolve problems sending emails etc. but only under the strictest governance by Competition Countdown.
Site Function
We use analytics providers in order for us to understand our audience, the content that appeals to them and how well our site is working.
We also provide tools from the major social networks (Twitter, Facebook etc.) to allow you to share content from our site.
Payments
All payments on this site are handled and processed by Stripe.
Use of content
By using this service you give full consent that we may use your content including text and images to create content for our website and social media channels
No responsibility will be accepted on our part for listings/ content or other that breaches Facebook or other social media terms of service.
Listings that breach terms of service on social media but are otherwise listed on CompetitionCountdown.live will still incur a fee.
A listing of a competition is based on the duration of that listing. Competition extensions will incur and additional fee.
Listings do not appear on CompetitionCountdown.live without a closing date.
We may choose, at our sole discretion, to remove a listing from the website or social media without notice if we deem that it may be in breach of our or other terms of service.
Analytics
Analytics tools allow us to understand how our audience interacts with our site and our content and enables us to provide a better service to our site visitors.
We do not collect or process any personal information in our analytics platform.
What we process:
Your IP address- in order to track your activity on our site we process your IP address
Anonymous data about your device – your operating system (e.g. iOS11), device type (e.g. tablet)
Anonymous aggregated demographics- for example your current city and other anonymous data.
Anonymous data about your browsing- competitions you viewed, types of content consumed and browsing patterns.
Why we process this data: The legal basis for processing this data is the legitimate interests of Competition Countdown to manage and optimise the running of our site and its content.
This data helps us optimise the way the site is structured and how content is arranged on the site.
It also allows us to show interested parties how many people access the different parts of our site and on average how often they visit.
This allows understanding of how many people look at our content at different times of the day etc.
These statistics are always calculated on an aggregated basis – never individually. We use the data for future marketing and personalisedAdvertisement
(https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2700409?hl=en-GB&utm_id=ad).
Who has access: Anonymised versions of the data are hosted on Google Analytics platform.
At no point do we have access to personally identifiable information through Google Analytics.
Anonymous aggregated reports about the general behaviour of our audience may be made available to the public, or advertisers, or others.
Stop being tracked: These analytics tools run on most sites across the web.
If you wish to opt out of analytics tracking you must do so on these 3rd party sites or by changing your browser settings.
Where links are provided on the site to other websites, Competition Countdown bears no responsibility for such sites.
These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.
Where links are provided to websites that process your data. Competition Countdown will not be privy to any processing that occurs and accepts no responsibility
in relation to the processing of your data by these third parties.
By using this Site and by disclosing your Data to us, you understand that we may collect, store, process, use and disclose your Data as described in this Privacy Statement.
If you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Statement, you can discontinue using our Site or not provide us with any further personal data.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time.
Terms updated: 8th Jan 2021