Privacy Policy

Runhappy.org.uk (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

Who we are

Runhappy.org.uk (“We”)

Our website address is: https://runhappy.org.uk.

Our business address is: 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, W1W 7LT

This policy (together with our terms of use 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 views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting runhappy.org.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Runhappy.org.uk of 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London W1W 7LT.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site runhappy.org.uk (the “Web Site”) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you enter an event, sign up for our newsletter/updates, search for a product, place on order on our Web Site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on the Web Site, and when you report a problem with our Web Site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to the Web Site we may 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 Web Site (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), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
  • information we receive from other sources. We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

Cookies

Our Web Site uses cookies – please refer to our Cookie Policy for more details on this.

Uses made of the information

We use information held in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:

to operate our Web Site and report on events, promote events as described in more detail in the Event Terms (found on the Terms and Conditions page).

in particular, when you enter events and use social media features offered on and through our Web Site:

Your name, image and contact details will be used by us and our partners for the purposes of:

the promotion and marketing of the event and the Web Site.

adding you to a mailing list to keep you informed about any future events and services which we believe you might be interested in, such as leisure activities relating to either similar types of events, activities or future events;

promotional and marketing material in respect of similar events, other activities organised by us and/or our partners

we may use photographs you upload, post or otherwise provide to us in any way which we may see fit including, but not limited, to display on the Web Site and inclusion in other publications and publicity materials.

to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;

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. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means, only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please notify us at runhappy.org.info@gmail.com;

to notify you about changes to our service;

to ensure that content from our Web Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

to administer our Web Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

to improve our Web Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and 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 Web Site 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 Web Site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

If you do not login or update any information within your Runhappy account, we will automatically delete it and any associated data attached to your account after a period of 7 years.

Disclosure of your information

We may share your information with third parties including;

Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or 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 may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. 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.

Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Web Site.

We may disclose your information to third parties:

In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

If Runhappy.org or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply the terms of the Agreement and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of Runhappy.org.uk, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

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”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We 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 Web Site, 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 Web Site; any transaction 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 usually 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. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at runhappy.org.info@gmail.com.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes and/or events, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at runhappy.org.info@gmail.com. We will then give you the opportunity to select to be removed from our database and/or delete your Runhappy account.

Our Web Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites partner networks, 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. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may 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 runhappy.org.info@gmail.com.

Cookie Policy

Our Web Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Web Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Web Site and also allows us to improve our Web Site.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.