Autobahn is committed to protecting you and your family's
personal information when you are using Autobahn’s services. We
want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our
audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal
information you provide to us through the Autobahn website.
In order to provide you with the full range of Autobahn’s
services, we are sometimes required to collect information about
you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
- What information Autobahn may collect about you;
- How Autobahn will use information we collect about you;
- When Autobahn may use your details to contact you;
- Whether Autobahn will disclose your details to anyone
else;
- Your choices regarding the personal information you have
provided to us;
- The use of cookies on the Autobahn website and how you can
reject these cookies.
As set out above, Autobahn is committed to safeguarding your
personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are
legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws
concerning the protection of personal information, including the
Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively
in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The websites may contain hyperlinks to websites owned and
operated by third parties. These third party websites have their
own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review
them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit
or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do
not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy
practices of such third party websites and your use of such
websites is at your own risk.
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When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from
Autobahn’s website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats,
message boards or register online, we may ask for personal
information about you. This can consist of information such as your
name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or
date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal
information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable
Autobahn and its service providers to provide you with the services
you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will
require you to provide additional personal information, and
sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this, we will
specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your
information and how we will use it.
Autobahn may also use cookies and collect IP addresses (an IP
address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer
or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software
to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing
your user experience. This information is not used to develop a
personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
We may also use your IP address to determine whether you are
accessing the services from the UK or not.
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Autobahn will use your personal information for a number of
purposes including the following:
- For "service administration purposes", which means that
Autobahn may contact you for reasons related to the service you
have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to
provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a
particular service has been suspended for maintenance);
- To contact you about a submission you have made to the
websites, including any content you provide;
- To personalise the way Autobahn content is presented to
you.
IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the
number of visits from different countries and also to block
disruptive use; and
To analyse and improve the services offered on autobahn.co.uk.
e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation
experience.
Where Autobahn proposes using your personal information for any
other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also
be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for
your use other than as listed above.
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Autobahn may contact you:
- In relation to the functioning of any service you have signed
up for in order to ensure that Autobahn can deliver the services to
you;
- Where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
- In relation to any contribution you have made to
autobahn.co.uk, e.g. on a message board on the site;
- To invite you to participate in surveys about Autobahn services
(participation is always voluntary); and
- For marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to
this (see paragraph 5 below)
Local pages will give you detailed information about how
Autobahn will contact you in relation to specific services.
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Autobahn won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote
new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted
for these purposes.
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We will keep your information confidential except where
disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to
government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in
paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information
within Autobahn. However, sometimes Autobahn uses third parties to
process your information. Autobahn will require these third parties
to comply strictly with its instructions and Autobahn will require
that they do not use your personal information for their own
business purposes.
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If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable
content anywhere on or to autobahn.co.uk, or otherwise engage in
any disruptive behaviour on autobahn.co.uk, Autobahn may use your
personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where Autobahn reasonably believes that you are or may be in
breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content
you have posted may be defamatory), Autobahn may use your personal
information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer,
school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about
the content and your behaviour.
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If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's
permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to
Autobahn's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to
provide us with personal information.
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We will hold your personal information on our systems for as
long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set
out in any relevant contract you hold with the Autobahn 's
corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which
documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you
wish to cancel your registration as a an Autobahn member, once an
account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while
people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system
for a period of one year for administration purposes before being
deleted automatically.
Where you contribute to autobahn.co.uk Autobahn will generally
only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for
the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, Autobahn
will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for
the duration of the competition. However other items are likely to
have a longer, or even permanent, duration.
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Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a
copy of the personal information Autobahn holds about you and to
have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £25 for information
requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces
of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable
efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you
on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other
question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer,
Autobahn, Fastlane Buildings, Dunchurch Highway, Coventry, CV5 9QA
(Email: admin@autobahn.co.uk ).
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This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may
wish to check it each time you submit personal information to the
autobahn.co.uk website. The date of the most recent revisions will
appear on this page.
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