Privacy Statement
This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use our service and tells you about Your privacy rights. We use your Personal data to provide and improve the our service. By using the service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Participants’ personal data
When you enter the 22nd IARU World ARDF Championships, we will ask you for the following personal information:
- Contact details – name, address, date of birth, email address, phone number
- Participation details – age group, name and surname, date of birth, representing country, nationality
Why we need your personal details – contractual purposes
When you enter the 22nd IARU World ARDF Championships, we need to collect your personal information so that we can honour your entry and to enable you to participate in the event.
If you do not provide us with all of the personal information that we need to collect then this may affect our ability to manage your entry.
Why we need your personal details – legitimate purposes
We also process participants’ personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interest to:
- Promote and encourage participation in 22nd IARU World ARDF Championships by sending participants communications and entry information for upcoming events. Our events may be filmed or photographed and your personal information may also be used in images captured from our events, which we use for promotional and development purposes.
- Provide competition in ARDF by accepting and managing entries for our competitions and checking your personal information to ensure you are entered into the correct category.
Where we process your personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to us using your personal information for the above purposes. If you wish to object to any of the above processing, please contact us at info@ardf2025.lt. If we agree and comply with your objection, this may affect our ability to undertake the tasks above for the benefit of you as a participant.
Who we share your personal information with
If your personal information is included in any images or videos taken by us at our competitions and events, we may share this with the relevant subject for promotional and/or journalistic purposes.
22nd IARU World ARDF Championships employs third party suppliers to provide services, including IT. These suppliers may process personal information on our behalf as “processors” and are subject to written contractual conditions to only process that personal information under our instructions and protect it.
In the event that we do share personal information with external third parties, we will only share such personal information strictly required for the specific purposes and take reasonable steps to ensure that recipients shall only process the disclosed personal information in accordance with those purposes.
Participants’ personal data
We publish the results of our competitions on our website. This includes competitors’ name, representing country, age group and result.
How we protect your personal information
Your personal information is stored on our electronic filing system and our servers based in the Lithuania and is accessed by our volunteers for the purposes set out above.
How long we keep your personal information
We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with services related to your entries to 22nd IARU World ARDF Championships. Unless you ask us not to, we will review and possibly delete your personal information where you have not entered our events for 6 years. We will keep certain personal information of participants for longer in order to confirm your identity and when you were a participant. We need to do this in the event of a claim against the 22nd IARU World ARDF Championships.
Your rights
You can exercise any of the following rights by writing to us at info@ardf2025.lt. Your rights in relation to your personal information are:
- You have a right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you by making a “subject access request”;
- If you believe that any of your personal information is inaccurate or incomplete, you have a right to request that we correct or complete your personal information;
- You have a right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information for specific purposes; and
- If you wish us to delete your personal information, you may request that we do so.
Cookies
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The browsers of most computers, smartphones and other web–enabled devices are typically set up to accept cookies. If you wish to change your cookie preferences for this website or any other websites, you can do so using your browser settings. Your browser’s ‘help’ function will show you how to do this.
We are working on more advanced tools for you to manage the setting of cookies on this website but for now, continued use of this website implies that you are happy for these cookies to be set.
The table below explains the cookies we use and what they do.
| Cookie Name | Purpose |
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