Cookie Policy

Our Sites use cookies and similar technologies.

Use of Cookies – Summary

The Cookies on this website consist of:

Session cookies which help with form filling, remembering the information input when navigating between pages. These are destroyed when the browser window is closed.
Google Analytics cookies for monitoring website usage.

Information about Cookies

Some pages on this website use "cookies," which are small files that the website places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files may be used for website registration and customization the next time you visit us, and to make navigating the website more user-friendly.

A cookie is a piece of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer but not you. You should note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may find it harder to access certain information on this website.

How to Control and Delete Cookies

Browser Settings

All major browsers allow you to change your cookie settings - for example you can set up your web browser to inform you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for further assistance.

You can also delete all cookies that are already on your device and prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a website and some services and functionalities may not work.

Compliance with EU Cookie Law

In accordance with recommendations by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), we have taken the following steps to comply with the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (PECD). These include:

Performing a Cookie Audit
Assessing the Intrusiveness of any Cookies
Providing information about Cookies on the website
Providing information to users to how to control the cookies in their browser

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We may use your information in a number of ways, including to provide the Sites, to personalise and improve the services we offer, to carry out our obligations, communicate with you, to analyse use of our Sites and in other ways that you agree to.

We may share your information with our group companies, law enforcement agencies, service providers, partners, people who operate or take over our Sites and third parties that you agree that we can share it with.

We may disclose your information in order to enforce the terms of use of our Sites, to protect our rights, to comply with applicable laws and as is reasonably necessary to operate our systems and protect us and our users.

We may use your Information:

to communicate with you (including by post, phone, email and/or mobile messaging), such as to let you know about new features, offerings (including goods and services) on our Sites where you have consented for us to do so;
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 create an individual profile for you so that we can understand and respect your preferences;
to authenticate products that you register with us and to provide you with information about registered products;
for record keeping purposes;
to administer and provide services you request;
to carry out market research so that we can improve the products and service we offer;
to improve the quality of our service and security of our Sites;
to understand your preferences so that we can improve the products and services we offer;
to track activity on our Sites;
in conjunction with personal data legally obtained from third party sources;
in such way as you may otherwise expressly consent to;
to comply with legal and regulatory requirements; and/or
for any other purpose that we may notify to you from time to time.

You agree that we will share your Information with:

carefully selected third party organisations to carry out certain processing activities on our behalf where such parties have the necessary protections in place to comply with applicable data protection law;
Formula 1, where you have expressly consented to (this includes consent by way of opting-in to certain marketing and contact from any of them as part of the registration process) and you agree that such parties can contact you in accordance with such consent;
anyone who may take over the running of our Sites, or subcontractors who operate a part of our Sites on our behalf. Any other organisations who access your information in the course of providing services on our behalf will be governed by strict contractual restrictions to make sure that they protect your Information and comply with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We may also independently audit these service providers to make sure that they meet our standards; and/or
any law enforcement agency requesting it once we are reasonably satisfied as to the circumstances surrounding the request.

We will disclose your Information to third parties:

in order to enforce or apply the terms of use of our Sites or any services provided to you;
to protect our rights, property, or safety, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests; and/or
to operate our systems properly or to protect our users and ourselves.
Except as expressly stated in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, share, trade or license your Information to others without your express consent.