Last Updated: March 21, 2025
Introduction
Welcome to BestTriathletes.com (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the site.
Information We Collect
Personal Information
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Comment on blog posts
- Contact us through our contact form
- Register for an account (if applicable)
This information may include:
- Name
- Email address
- Profile information (if you create an account)
- Any other information you choose to provide
Automatically Collected Information
When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Time and date of your visit
- Pages you view
- Time spent on those pages
- Referral sources
- Other browsing statistics
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.
Types of cookies we use:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for the website to function properly
- Preference cookies: Enable the website to remember information that changes how the website behaves or looks
- Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our website
- Marketing cookies: Used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you about our content, offerings, and promotions
- Send you newsletters if you have subscribed
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our website
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
- Moderate comments and protect against malicious, abusive, or harmful content
- Display relevant advertisements (if applicable)
Sharing of Your Information
We may share your information with:
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our website, provide services on our behalf, perform website-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our website is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Examples include:
- Email marketing services (to send newsletters)
- Analytics providers (such as Google Analytics)
- Comment management systems
Analytics Partners
We use third-party analytics services like Google Analytics to gather and analyze website traffic. These services may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
Advertising Partners (if applicable)
If we display advertisements on our website, we may work with advertising partners who may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
Business Transfers
If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the security of your personal information. However, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- The right to access information we hold about you
- The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- The right to request deletion of your personal information
- The right to object to or restrict processing of your personal information
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this policy.
For more detailed information about your rights under the GDPR (if applicable), please see our GDPR Compliance section below.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To enable certain functions of the website
- To provide analytics
- To store your preferences
- To enable advertisements delivery (if applicable)
Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it.
- Functionality cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our website.
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.
Your Choices Regarding Cookies
If you prefer to avoid the use of cookies on our website, you can turn off cookies in your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.
Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our servers.
Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
For analytical data, we typically retain this information for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our website, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our 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 “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
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.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: contact@besttriathletes.com
- By visiting the contact page on our website