Your privacy

Overview

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for billingscommuterchallenge.com. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information collection, use, and sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only collect information that you voluntarily give us, such as when you register, log trips, join a team, or contact us. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request (for example, to answer a question) or with the service providers we use to run this website.

We use these service providers, which handle your information only to provide their service to us:

• Amazon Web Services (Amazon S3) stores the profile photos you upload.
• Postmark delivers the emails this website sends, such as password reset emails. It receives your email address and the contents of those emails.
• Mailchimp manages our email newsletter. Signing up for the challenge does not sign you up for the newsletter. Only if you choose to subscribe, using the newsletter sign-up form, will your email address and anything else you enter on that form be sent to Mailchimp. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link at the bottom of any newsletter email.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about the challenge or changes to this privacy policy.

To determine prize winners, the event organizers download a spreadsheet of participants' names, usernames, email addresses, teams, and trip totals. This information is used only by the organizers to run the challenge and award prizes.

Information shown publicly

The challenge is a public competition. The following information is shown on this website to anyone, including visitors who are not signed in:

• Your first and last name
• Your profile photo, if you add one
• When you joined and the year you started commuting
• Your team
• Your trip totals (days, trips, and miles) on the standings, team, and profile pages

Your email address, username, password, commute distance, and the details of individual trips are not shown publicly.

Incentive emails

Participants receive incentive emails that can be redeemed for discounts and free items from local businesses. To redeem an incentive, you show the email to the business, and they may check the name on the email against your ID.

Your access to and control over information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given below:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

How long we keep your information

We keep your account information and the trips you log for as long as your account exists. Trips are kept from year to year so that all-time totals stay accurate. If you would like your account and information deleted, email us at the address below and we will delete it.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

All information you send to this website is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon in your web browser's address bar, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page. Your password is stored in encrypted form and is never visible to us.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only event organizers who need the information to run the challenge are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Registration

In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information: name, username, email address, a password, the year you started commuting, and your one-way commute distance. At your option, you may also add a profile photo. This information is used to run the challenge and to contact you about it.

Children

This website is intended for participants 13 and older. Children under 13 should not create an account without a parent or guardian's permission. If you believe a child under 13 has given us personal information without permission, contact us at the address below and we will delete it.

Cookies

We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a small piece of data that your web browser stores for a website. We use cookies only to make the site work:

• To keep you signed in as you move from page to page.
• To keep you signed in on your device between visits, if you check "Remember me" when you sign in.
• To protect the forms on this site from misuse.

We do not use cookies to track you across other websites or to show you advertising. If you block cookies in your browser, you will not be able to sign in.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.