Privacy Policy – Blacklight Run

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us.

At Blacklight Run we have a few fundamental principles:

*We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

*We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

*We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

*Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals. It is Foam Glows policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.


Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Blacklight Run collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Blacklight Run purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Blacklight Run visitors use its website.

Blacklight Run also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses when athlete’s register for a race and for users leaving comments on our site. Blacklight
Run only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the registration system where the athlete signed up at.


Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Blacklight Run websites choose to interact with Blacklight Run in ways that require Blacklight Run to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that
Blacklight Run gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, when signing up for a race, Blacklight Run collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Blacklight Run. Blacklight Run does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities, like registering for an event.


Aggregated Statistics

Blacklight Run may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Blacklight Run may monitor the most popular posts on the site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Blacklight Run may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Blacklight Run does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.


Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Blacklight Run discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Blacklight Run behalf or to provide services available at Blacklight Run websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Blacklight Run website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Blacklight Run will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Blacklight Run discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Blacklight Run believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Blacklight Run, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of Blacklight Run website, or if you’ve register for a Blacklight Run event and have supplied your email address, Blacklight Run may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Blacklight Run and our events. We primarily use various blogs to communicate this type of information,
so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. Each email communication will include a link to unsubscribe from future emails. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Blacklight Run takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.


Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Blacklight Run uses cookies to help Blacklight Run identify and track visitors, their usage of Blacklight Run website, and their website access preferences. Blacklight Run visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Blacklight Run website, with the drawback that certain features of Blacklight Run websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.


Business Transfers

If Blacklight Run, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Blacklight Run goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any
acquirer of Blacklight Run may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.


Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online
advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Blacklight Run and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.


Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Blacklight Run may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Blacklight Run sole discretion. Blacklight Run encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.