Privacy Policy for Top Cyclists Choice

Privacy Policy for Top Cyclists Choice

At Top Cyclists Choice (TCC), accessible from www.topcyclistschoice.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Top Cyclists Choice (TCC) and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Top Cyclists Choice (TCC). This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

User Consent

By submitting information through our Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, and you expressly consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as amended from time to time.

Types of Data We Collect

  • We collect and store the information you provide to us through your use of the Site, including, for example:
    • We may collect information from you, such as your first name, last name, and email address when you sign up to receive our emails and downloadable files.
    • We may collect information from you, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses, password, and other profile information when you create an account to log in to our platforms (an “Account”). We may also retain information on your behalf, such as files that you store using your Account.
    • We may collect your email address if you choose to provide us with it in an application or in connection with the use of one of our products.
    • We may collect information from you, such as your first and last name, email, mailing address, and reservation information, when you submit a reservation for a product.
    • When you order our product(s), we (and/or our third-party payment processors) will collect all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, billing information, and shipping information.
    • If you provide us feedback or contact us via email, we will collect your name and email address, as well as any other content included in the email, to send you a reply.
    • When you participate in one of our surveys, we may collect additional profile information.
    • When you make postings on the message boards of our Site, the information contained in your posting will be stored on our servers and other users will be able to see it.
  • Information Collected Automatically via Technology
    • To make our Site more useful to you, we may automatically collect information from you as you browse our Site, including your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, referring URL, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit.
    • We also use cookies, web beacons, and URL information to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website stores on your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. You may make choices about cookies as described below. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Sites and in our emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage, and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon. We also use cookies and related technologies such as web beacons to better understand your needs, remember your preferences, and to provide targeted advertising.
    • You may opt in to tracking using cookies via the banner presented on the Site on your first visit. Declining cookies will not affect the functionality of the Site for you.
  • Collected Information Retention Period
    • Personal information will be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose for which it has been collected.
    • Personal information collected for the purposes of Top Cyclists Choice’ legitimate interests as outlined in this policy shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes.
  • We may be allowed to retain your personal information for a longer period whenever you have given consent to such processing if such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, we may be obliged to retain your personal information for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
  • Once the retention period expires, your personal information will be deleted. The right to withdraw consent to data collection cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
  • Third Party Data Collection
  • Third parties that provide us with analytics or other services for the Site may also automatically collect some of the information described above, including, for example, IP address, access times, browser type and language, pages and products viewed, device type, device identifiers, and Wi-Fi information. Please consult individual applications or products’ privacy policies for more information on data collection, use, and sharing.
  • Subject to subsection (b) above, other third parties, including advertisers, ad measurement services, and ad networks, may also automatically collect information about you through the Site, including information about your online activities over time and across different websites, devices, online channels, and applications when you use our services. These third parties may use web beacons or cookies on our Site.
  • Some third parties, such as Google, may also collect information for online advertising purposes and to provide us and other statistics about users of the Site.
  • Third Party Services in Use

If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads on third party websites, you may opt-out as indicate below. Please note this does not necessarily opt you out of being delivered advertising. You may continue to receive generic ads. You may opt out of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page. Google has additional information available about their Remarketing Privacy Guidelines and Restrictions. You may view a list of other third party service providers who collect information, and/or opt-out of such collection of information about you, by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the activities, including cookies and web beacons, of these third parties when they are collecting or using data for their own purposes or on behalf of others. Please consult the respective privacy policies and statements of such third parties for more information, including how Google uses data when you use its partners’ sites. If you would like more information about certain advertising practices and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud
  • Operate and improve our Site, internal operations, and systems.
  • Provide services you request and services that are relevant to you.
  • Improve the quality of experience when you interact with our Site.
  • Understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Site.
  • Derive information about the demographics that use our Site.
  • Respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service.
  • Protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
  • Respond to your inquiries related to employment opportunities or other requests.
  • Send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Site and for other marketing purposes if you have provided an email to us for this purpose.

Creation of De-Identified Data

We may also create de-identified or aggregate data records from personal information by excluding or changing information that makes the information personally identifiable to you. We use this data for a variety of purposes, such as to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the content of our Site and improve Site functionality.

Log Files

Top Cyclists Choice (TCC) follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Top Cyclists Choice (TCC) uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our Advertising Partners

Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

  • Google
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Top Cyclists Choice (TCC).

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Top Cyclists Choice (TCC), which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Top Cyclists Choice (TCC) has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Top Cyclists Choice (TCC)’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

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.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

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

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

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

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

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we 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.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Top Cyclists Choice (TCC) does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

  1. We may share your personal information with your consent or, if required by law, with appropriate notice to and consent of your parent or guardian, if applicable.
  2. Third-party Service Providers. We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who need access to your information to do work for us, such as to host our Site on third-party servers; to conduct quality assurance testing and data analytics on our Site; and to provide technical support and crash analytics for the same.
  3. Corporate Restructuring. We may share your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction, or proceeding involving the sale, transfer, divestiture or disclosure of all or a portion of our assets or business to another company. In such an event, this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your information, and any such third party would only be able to handle your personal information as per this Privacy Policy (unless you give consent to a new policy).
  4. Other Disclosures. Top Cyclists Choice may disclose personal information (i) in connection with any legal investigation; (ii) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to legal process served on Top Cyclists Choice; (iii) to protect or defend the rights or property of Top Cyclists Choice, our agents, or users of the Site; (iv) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or our Terms of Use; and/or (v) in an emergency to protect the personal safety of any person.

We may also share aggregated, de-identified, or statistical information with third parties in compliance with applicable local laws.

Your Choices Regarding Your Information

You have several choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your information on our Site.

  1. Marketing emails. If you provide an email through your use of the Site, we may periodically send you newsletters and emails. When you receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email you receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below).
  2. Non-marketing emails. Despite your indicated email preferences, we may send you non-marketing, service-related communication, including notices of any updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
  3. We may not recognize or respond to every type of “do not track” signal or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services, but we give you certain choices about how we collect personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy.
  4. You have certain choices about the use of the cookie technologies described above. Many web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies.
  5. Accessing or Deleting Your Personal Information. You may request access to or deletion of your child’s or your personal information, if applicable, by contacting us through the contact information below.

Security of Your Information

Top Cyclists Choice is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Your Rights as a User

  1. You may exercise certain rights regarding the storage and use of your personal information.
  2. You may withdraw your consent at any time. You have the right to withdraw consent where you have previously given you consent to the processing of your personal information.
  3. You may have your personal information deleted or otherwise removed. You have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain from Top Cyclists Choice the erasure of your data.
  4. You may lodge a complaint. You have the right to bring a claim before your competent supervisory authority, subject to applicable law.

Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to Top Cyclists Choice through the contact details provided below. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as early as possible and always within one month.

Contact Information

Top Cyclists Choice welcomes your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact us here.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date below.

Your Consent

By accessing this website, you are agreeing to be bound by the Site’s Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this Site.

Please use our contact us page if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.