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This Privacy Policy governs the use of our services we provide to you (“Service”) and the use of our website/platform on your device and on our app of RACE Software (“RACE Software”) such as race.software, including any related Services offered on such Websites collectively, (“Websites”). This Privacy Policy gives details of which information is collected by and provided to RACE Software, how RACE Software may use such information and whether such information constitutes personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”). When visiting our home page, we consider it as very important to protect your personal data when collecting, processing and using it. Your data is protected according to the requirements of the legal provisions. Please find below some information indicating which data is recorded during your visit on our home page and how it is used.

Topics:

  1. What data do we collect?
  2. How do we collect your data?
  3. How will we use your data?
  4. How do we store your data?
  5. Marketing
  6. What are your data protection rights?
  7. Cookies?
  8. How do we use cookies?
  9. What types of cookies do we use?
  10. How to manage your cookies
  11. Privacy policies of other Websites
  12. Changes to our privacy policy
  13. How to contact us
  1. What data do we collect?

Using and accessing RACE Software’s Services means we collect, and receive the following information.

RACE Software collects the following data:

  • Personal identification information – When creating a RACE Software account, you are required to give to RACE Software information including name, email address, phone number, password etc. Additional information may be needed from time to time in order to create a more developed user profile. This additional information is optional;
  • Information about you will be collected when you report a problem with our Website, software, services, reporting suspected piracy, or reporting any other issue;
  • Communication: Information will be collected when you communicate with RACE Software by email, writing, or contributing to RACE Software’s online forums;
  • Billing – Payment related information is collected for paid subscriptions or any other services for use of a RACE Software Service, including applications within our app/platform for which we perform billings. Payment information is passed to our chosen payment processing partner, this includes card details, name etc. Data for payments made with digital currencies will also be retained. Billing information is not stored with RACE Software. Billing information is passed to our payment processing partner. As such, their privacy policy will apply to the taking of payment and processing of your personal information;
  • Device information: Device information including what type of device you are using, what operating system you are using, your device settings, unique device identifiers and crash data will be collected. The type of device you are using and its settings will determine if all or only some of this information will be collected;
  • Geo-location information: IP addresses will be collected from your browser or device determining your devices approximate location thereby improving the service we provide to you;
  • Usage data: This information is collected to learn what functions and features you use of RACE Software to help us better understand and learn opportunities to assist us in improving the quality of the service provided and to detect future issues with the service;
  • Engineering data used by you (hard points, bush stiffnesses, spring and damper data, component structural stiffness etc.) will be kept secured and only available to you in the RACE platform. Nobody except you have access to your engineering confidential data.

When visitors leave comments on the Website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP and/or MAC address, cookies (as described in section 7) and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Visitors are individuals who visit the Website without registering themselves.

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.

  1. How do we collect your data?

You directly provide RACE Software with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

  • Register online or place an order for any of our products or services;
  • Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email;
  • Use or view our Website via your browser’s cookies;

RACE Software may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Websites affiliated with RACE Software.
  1. How will we use your data?

RACE Software collects your data so that we can:

  • Perform contracts. We will only process your personal data where the processing is in our legitimate business interests or required to perform a contract entered into between you and RACE Software;
  • Ensure that the presentation of our site is presented in the most optimised manner for you and your device;
  • Provide you with services that you have requested from RACE Software, including information which we feel will be of interest to you;
  • Process your order and manage your account;
  • Notify you regarding changes to our services and updates to our Website;
  • Inform you of optional events, interactive activities, including educational services that you are registered to attend or are interested in. Email you with special offers on other products and services we think you might like. As these Services are optional, you can opt-out of these services at any time;
  • Retain and evaluate records of events you attend or speak at, so that we may use these materials for the sole purpose of promotional material and educational material;

When RACE Software processes your order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

  1. How do we store your data?

RACE Software securely stores your data on secured servers.

RACE Software will keep your data when using our Services and while you have a membership. This data will be retained indefinitely. You may request for this data to be removed by writing to RACE Software via email with the subject line: REMOVE USER

Your Personal Data may be processed outside your jurisdiction, and in countries that are not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission or your local legislature and/or regulator, and that may not provide for the same level of data protection as your jurisdiction, such as the EEA. We ensure that the recipient of your Personal Data offers an adequate level of protection, if required, standard contractual clauses for the transfer of data as approved by the European Commission.

  1. Marketing

RACE Software would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.

You have the right at any time to opt-out from RACE Software contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the RACE Software Group.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, use the link on the footers of e-mail correspondence to unsubscribe.

  1. What are your data protection rights?

RACE Software would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request RACE Software for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that RACE Software correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request RACE Software to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that RACE Software erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that RACE Software restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to RACE Software’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that RACE Software transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: contact@race.software

  1. Cookies

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our Websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. This information may include information such as your web browsing activities such as the address of the page you are visiting, the time you are viewing the page, and your browsing environment.

While cookies are not mandated to use our Services, and you may reject all cookies on your browser, this may greatly impact your experience and cause certain features not to perform as intended. Please note that if you choose to block cookies, certain features that are reliant on your acceptance of cookies may not be able to be used. Deleting cookies from your device will cause pre-filled information, preferences, settings, and advertising preferences to be deleted.

  1. How do we use cookies?

RACE Software uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our Website, including:

  • Keeping you signed in;
  • Understanding how you use our Website;
  • To recognise you and pre-fill forms to streamline your experience while using our services.
  1. What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Website uses:

  • Functionality – RACE Software uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our Website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
  • Advertising – RACE Software uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our Website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. RACE Software sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another Website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our Website.
  • Session cookies – Cookies that last until you close your browser;
  • Persistent cookies – Cookies that are stored on your device for longer periods of time;
  • Additionally, we use third party vendors who set and access their own cookies to assist us with various activities such as Google Analytics to help us monitor our website traffic. The use of these cookies by third parties is not covered by our Privacy Policy; the information generated by the cookies about your use of the Service (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the third parties.
  1. How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. However, in a few cases, some of our Website features may not function as a result.

  1. Privacy policies of other Websites

Our privacy policy applies only to our Website, if you navigate to another Website their privacy policy will apply and you should read their privacy policy.

  1. Changes to our privacy policy

RACE Software keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 15 January 2021.

  1. How to contact us

If you have any questions about RACE Software’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: contact@race.software

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