Privacy and cookie policy

Introduction

This policy describes how HCA Marathon collects and processes the personal data that you provide to us when registering for HCA Marathon events and programmes.

 

When you visit our website, information about you is collected and used to customise and improve our content. 

If you do not want information to be collected, you should delete your cookies and refrain from further use of the website. Below we have elaborated 

Personal Data

Personal data is any kind of information that can be attributed to you to one extent or another. When you use our website, we collect and process a number of such information. This happens, for example, when you access content, sign up for our newsletter, participate in competitions or surveys, register as a user or subscriber, use other services or make purchases via the website.

We typically collect and process the following types of information: A unique ID and technical information about your computer, tablet or mobile phone, your IP number, geographical location and which pages you click on (interests). To the extent that you enter the information yourself, we also process Name, phone number, e-mail, address and payment information. This will typically be in connection with creating a login or making a purchase.

Purpose

The information is used to identify you as a user and show you the adverts that are most likely to be relevant to you, to register your purchases and payments, and to provide the services you have requested.

We also use the information to optimise our services and content.

Cookies

Our website uses “cookies”, which are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile, tablet or other device you use to access the website. The purpose of cookies is to recognise the website, remember settings, improve the user experience, perform statistics and target ads. Cookies cannot contain malicious code such as viruses.

When you use our website, you will be asked to accept necessary cookies, while you have the option to opt out of other types of cookies. Among other things, we use cookies to collect information to improve your user experience and to record visitor statistics. We use cookies that recognise you as a user if you later sign up for another event in our platform. We also use cookies that ensure that your user session cannot be taken over by others with the intention of hacking.

The website may also contain cookies from third parties, which may include media partners (including Meta). Data about your use of the website, geographical location, gender and age segment, etc. may be disclosed to these third parties. This is always done in anonymised form, and the parties only process the data on our behalf and with our consent and may not use it for their own purposes.

If you do not want us to use cookies, you can completely or partially block unnecessary cookies. You can do this by selecting ’Reject’ when you are asked on the website whether we can collect your cookies. If you have mistakenly allowed us to collect cookies, you can delete cookies in another way via your browser settings.

You can use our website even if you do not allow cookies on your computer, browser or device. However, if you delete or block cookies, you may risk that the website does not function optimally or that there is content that you cannot access as cookies are largely used to ensure user functionality.