‍This privacy policy sets out how Alpha Business Systems Limited (“Alpha Timing”) uses and protects any information that you give Alpha Timing when you use the Alpha website, Alpha Race Hub Mobile App, Alpha Race Pro Online Entry System, Alpha Flow booking system, Alpha Timing System, Alpha Scanning System, Alpha Live Timing, Alpha Live Streaming or Alpha Results web applications (the "Services"). Alpha Timing is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

‍Alpha Timing may collect the following data on behalf of our clients:

We look after the above data on behalf of our clients so that they can manage their race entries, bookings, event administration, communications with their clients, timing of events, the publication of event results online, for reporting and for safe storage of the data in order that our clients can meet their contractual and legal obligations.

If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, or where the processing is in our, or our customers’, legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect the personal information in question. If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide Your personal information).

Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our or our customers’ legitimate interests and those interests are not already listed above (in the "What do we use your data for?" section), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

We keep your data for as long as our clients instruct us to. We automatically delete data in accordance with the instructions provided by our clients. For example if one of our clients instructs us to delete data after 2 years after the date of your last entry or booking then our systems will perform that function automatically.

Our clients may use our timing system for the purposes of timing their events. Our timing system may use the following information provided by you via our online entry system on behalf of our clients: Name, Team Name, Race Team Name, Race Number, Class, Town, Club, Engine Name, Chassis Name, Vehicle Details. Our timing system software will generate information such as position, lap times, session results, overall event results and championship tables. All of this generated data plus any of the information that you have provided listed above is likely be published online in the public domain on behalf of our clients. This information (race and event results) will be published online for an indefinite amount of time due to the public and historical interest in the results.

Our clients may use our barcode scanning system for the purposes of keeping track of tyre, chassis, engine and other equipment item usage at their events. Barcodes on the side of tyres, engines or chassis may be logged against your name, licence number, race number and class at venues / championships which use our barcoding software. For where our clients are members of governing bodies, this information may be shared with their respective governing bodies in order to provide aggregated information about tyre usage across the jurisdictions covered by the governing bodies.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

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Our Services may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the following data protection rights:

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

This policy may be modified from time to time, so please review it frequently. Changes to this policy will be posted on our website. If we materially change the ways in which we use or share personal information previously collected from you with our customers, we will notify you by email or other communication