Car Competition Hub

Your Trusted Guide to UK Car Competitions

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 24, 2025

Important Note: This privacy policy is provided as a template. It is essential that you review and customize it to accurately reflect your website's data practices. This does not constitute legal advice. Consult with a qualified legal professional to ensure full compliance with UK GDPR and other relevant laws.

1. Introduction

Welcome to Car Competition Hub ("we," "us," "our"). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://carcompetitionhub.com, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the "Site").

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

We operate as a comparison and information website focusing on UK car raffle and competition sites. We do not operate car raffles ourselves.

This policy is written in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Who We Are (Data Controller)

The data controller responsible for your personal data is the operator of Car Competition Hub.

You can contact us regarding data protection matters at: [email protected]

3. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data: While you can browse our site without providing direct personal information, you might voluntarily provide us with personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, if you use a contact form or subscribe to a newsletter (if offered).
  • Derivative Data (Usage Data): Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. This data is often collected via server logs and analytics tools.
  • Cookie Data: We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. For more information on how we use cookies, please refer to Section 5 (Cookies and Tracking Technologies) below.

4. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

  • Operate and Maintain our Site: To ensure the Site functions correctly and securely. (Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interests)
  • Improve the Site: Analyse usage and trends to improve the Site's content, layout, and user experience. This data is typically anonymised or aggregated. (Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interests, or Consent for certain analytics cookies)
  • Respond to Enquiries: If you contact us, we will use your information to respond to your questions or comments. (Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interests, or taking steps prior to entering a contract if applicable)
  • Send Newsletters/Updates (If Applicable): If you opt-in to receive communications from us, we may use your email address to send you newsletters or other updates you have requested. (Lawful Basis: Consent)
  • Monitor and Prevent Fraud/Security Issues: To protect the security and integrity of our Site. (Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interests)
  • Affiliate Link Tracking: If you click on affiliate links to third-party car raffle sites, cookies may be used by those third parties (via the affiliate network) to track the referral. We may receive aggregated, non-personally identifiable data about referred traffic or successful entries from affiliate networks. (Lawful Basis: Legitimate Interests for us to track performance, Consent for the third-party tracking cookies set via our site)
  • Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations. (Lawful Basis: Legal Obligation)

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to analyse user behaviour, administer the Site, track users' movements around the Site, and gather demographic information.

  • What are Cookies: Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, mobile) when you visit certain web pages.
  • Types of Cookies We May Use:
    • Essential Cookies: Necessary for the basic functionality of the Site.
    • Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with the Site by collecting and reporting information anonymously (e.g., Google Analytics).
    • Affiliate Cookies: Used to track if you click through to one of the raffle sites we link to via an affiliate link, which may result in us earning a commission. These are typically set by the affiliate network or the destination site.
    • Advertising Cookies: If we display third-party advertisements (e.g., Google AdSense), these cookies may be used to personalise the ads you see.
  • Your Consent: For cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of the Site (like Analytics, Affiliate, Advertising cookies), we will seek your consent, typically through a cookie consent banner when you first visit the Site.
  • Managing Cookies: You can usually control and manage cookies through your browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some parts of the Site may not function properly.

6. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including data analysis (e.g., Google Analytics), hosting services, and email delivery (if applicable). These providers will only have access to the information necessary to perform their functions and are obligated to protect it.
  • Affiliate Networks: Aggregated or anonymised data regarding traffic clicking on affiliate links may be shared with or accessed via affiliate network platforms.
  • Third-Party Websites: The Site contains links to third-party websites (the car raffle sites we review). These websites have their own privacy policies, and we are not responsible for their practices. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing them with any personal information.

We will not share your voluntarily provided personal data (like email address from a contact form) with the car raffle sites we review unless you explicitly ask us to or it's necessary to fulfil a specific request you make.

7. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. We use SSL encryption (HTTPS) for data transmitted to and from our Site. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

  • Usage/Analytics Data is typically retained according to the policies of the analytics provider (e.g., Google Analytics) or anonymised.
  • Contact information provided via forms may be kept until the enquiry is resolved, or longer if required for legal reasons.
  • Server logs containing IP addresses may be kept for a limited period for security and debugging purposes.

9. Your Data Protection Rights (Under UK GDPR)

As a UK resident, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

  • The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
  • The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • The right to withdraw consent: If we are relying on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within one month.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us in the first instance.

10. Policy for Children

This Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a user under the age of 18, we will delete the information from our records.

11. Links to Other Websites

Our Site contains links to other websites (primarily the car raffle sites being compared). If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

[email protected]