Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously. This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it.

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What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal Information

At no time do we request, nor collate, nor store ANY personal information about you if you just browse our website. If you make a purchase from our competitions site, the only information we collate is your name and contact details to contact you if you are one of our winners. Your email address, is used to send you confirmation of entries purchased on website, including confirmation of your entry details and ticket number(s).

We are not provided with any payment details of yours such as card details, etc – these are all processed by Paypal on our behalf. We are merely advised of payment amount, your name and order number payment is for. We are not supplied with your bank details, if you make payment by bank transfer – again, we are alerted of your name, amount and order number that payment is for.

If you use our Contact Form to send us a message or enquiry, you may provide personal information to enable us to reply to you. We will merely use the information you supply to respond to your query. In such circumstances, your personal information or contact information will not be stored by us either digitally or in hard copy.

Non-Personal Information

Our website collects and records the following non-personal information from you:

the IP address and / or domain name from which you access the internet
the date and time you access our site
the pages you view on our site
the internet address from which you linked to our site
any search terms you used to find our site
details of your web browser and operating system.

This may be linked to personal data you have given us.

We simply use this data to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and evaluate traffic statistics (such as the times of day and days of week at which we see peak traffic) in order to improve performance and help make our site more useful to visitors.

Except as might be required by law or to carry out our business, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties – other than in an anonymous, aggregated format.

We do not sell any information to third parties.

How is the information used?

As above, if you contact us, we will merely use the information to be able to respond to you – be this your name or email address.

If you make a purchase from us, we will use the information to send entry confirmations to and make contact with you if you are one of our winners.

We do not send out “promotional” emails or “sales” emails – so your details will not be used for this

We will never divulge your personal information to any third party.

Routine Information Collection

All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes.

Use of links

Throughout our web pages, you may find links to other carefully selected websites which may contain information or products of interest. We take no responsibility for, and exercise no control over, the organisations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on other websites / servers.

You are entirely free to create a text link from your website to our site and this does not require permission.

Security

We place great importance on the security of your personal information and we always try to take appropriate precautions to protect it.

Our server and its security are monitored regularly.

Despite all of our precautions however, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. So, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information which you disclose to us online and you must understand that you do so at your own risk.

We are also concerned to protect your personal information off-line. We take steps to ensure that access to personal information is restricted to employees who need it. All employees who handle personal information are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Our employees are notified and reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure your information is protected.

We cannot, however, be responsible for the theft, destruction or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information whether we hold it on or off-line.

All our payments are processed by Paypal and will be done so with their full Buyer Protection, Fraud Protection and Data Encryption guarantees. None of your credit or debit card information is supplied to or store by us.

Cookies

Like most websites, Big Beastie Competitions uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.
A cookie is a small piece of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser.

All cookies are created on first page load and remain persistent throughout the site visit.

Third party cookies can be disabled or deleted at any time via your browser settings.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. However, please note that if you avoid the use of cookies you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Further information about cookies, including steps you can take to refuse their use, can be found at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s website www.allaboutcookies.org.

Controlling Your Privacy

Note that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis. Consult your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

Changes

We may make changes to this policy from time to time. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page. Please revisit the policy each time you consider giving personal information.

Your acceptance of this policy

By using our site, you consent to the collection and use of information by Big Beastie Competitions in accordance with this privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site.

Your Rights

Any personal information submitted via our websites is treated in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). To find out more about your entitlements under the data protection legislation, visit the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Access to your personal information

You have the right under the Data Protection Act 1998, to request details from us of personal information which we hold about you. You can make such a request by contacting us. We will take necessary steps to confirm your identity before releasing any information to you. We have the right to charge a small fee for complying with your request. We will respond to your request within 40 days, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

Account related cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

Email newsletter related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Form related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.