Privacy Policy

This Privacy Statement is effective as of January 2026.
The Intertidal Website and Event is managed by Whippet Trail Events (WTE).

WTE take the importance of protecting your personal information seriously and are committed to processing it responsibly in compliance with applicable data protection laws.
This Privacy Statement sets out WTE general privacy policies that apply to all personal information we collect and use.

Why and how we collect and use your personal information

We may collect your personal information as an individual for various purposes, such as the following:

• Access and use of websites or other online services
  When entering one of our websites, or using an online service, we will record information necessary to provide you with access, for the operation of the website and for us to comply with security and legal requirements in relation to operating our site. We also collect statistics to help us secure, improve and further develop our websites, products and services.
• Responding to your request for information or support 
  When you contact us (online or offline) regarding a request for information or providing you with support. We collect the information necessary to fulfill your request, provide you with the required support and to be able to contact you. This information can include:
  • Your name and contact details (business and/or home)
  • Details of your interactions with us, including any which occur electronically or in person
• We retain such information for administrative purposes, defending our rights, and regarding our relationship with you.

Event Registration Data

Event data is held with Race Nation and their privacy policy applies - Race Nation Privacy Policy.

Participant Information

Name, Nationality, Category and Club may be used with the live tracking application GeoTracks. Their privacy policy applies Privacy Policy | GPS Event Tracking | geotracks.co.uk.

Marketing

At present we do not conduct any direct marketing using Personal Information.

Cookies

We do not use cookies.

Information Security and Accuracy

We intend to protect your personal information and to maintain its accuracy. WTE implements reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to help us protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use and disclosure. We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorised access, use and disclosure.

Retention Period

We will not retain personal information longer than necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is processed, including the security of our processing complying with legal and regulatory obligations (e.g. audit, accounting and statutory retention terms), handling disputes, and for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

How to contact us

If you have a question related to this Privacy Statement, please contact us by using this form or by emailing info@theintertidal.je. Your message will be forwarded to our Data Protection Lead or other appropriate team member.
For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the controller of your personal information is WTE, 1st Floor, 9 Great Union Road, St. Helier, Jersey, unless indicated otherwise.

Your Rights

• You can request to access, update or correct your personal information. You also have the right to object to direct marketing.
• Where we process your data for our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to such processing.
• Where our processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent by contacting us.
• You may also have the right to request to have your personal information deleted or restricted and ask for portability of your personal information.
• You may have additional rights pursuant to your local law applicable to the processing.

Please bear in mind that if you object to processing or withdraw your consent, this may affect our ability to deliver services to you.
Should you wish to discuss the exercise of any of your rights, please contact us.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you find our processing of your personal information not to be compliant with the applicable data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint:

• Directly with WTE
• With the Jersey Data Protection Authority, whose contact details can be found at https://oicjersey.org/
• With the competent data protection authority local to you. The name and contact details of the Data Protection Authorities in the European Union can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.

Third-Party Sites

The WTE website may from time to time contains links to other third-party sites whose information practices may differ from those of WTE. If you should visit such third-party sites, you should ensure that you review the appropriate privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

Changes to our Privacy Statements

On occasion we may update this or any other Privacy Statement we issue. If we do make changes to this Privacy Statement, we will add a new date at the top of this Privacy Statement.