Privacy policy

Ridekicks ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (along with our terms of service describes how you can expect any of the personal data you provide, or we collect, will be processed by us.

Ridekicks limited is the data controller for the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1988.

Information we may collect from you

  • Information that you provide us by filling out forms on our website www.ridekicks.com (our site). This includes registration, posting material, requesting help or taking part in competitions and market research carried out by Ridekicks Limited.
  • If you contact us we may keep records of the correspondence.
  • We may from time to time ask you to help us improve our site by taking part in surveys, you are under no obligation to respond to them.
  • Details of transactions that you carry out through our site. Booking details and other information that is collected by sharing rides.
  • Correspondence between yourself and other users.
  • Details of your visits to our site.

IP Adressess and cookies

We may collect information about your personal computer and any other device that you use to visit our site. This may include your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data and is aggregated as to not identify individuals. We may also obtain information about your general internet usages by using cookies to help us:

  • Estimate audience size and usage patterns
  • To store information about your preferences and speed up your searches
  • To recognise when you return to the site

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect can be stored or transferred to destinations outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also processed by staff outside the EEA, due to our relationships with suppliers. By submitting your personal data you are agreeing to the transfer, storing and processing of your data in this way.

All of the personal information that you provide us is stored on secure servers, Any payments or transactional activity will be encrypted using SSL technology. You are responsible for looking after the password that we have provided you with to access certain parts of our site, we ask you not to share your password online with anyone.

We do our very best to look after your personal data, unfortunately any information provided to us is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will follow strict security protocols to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses made of the information

  • To ensure that our site is optimised for both you and your computer
  • To provide you with information, products or services (either ours or third parties) that we feel may improve your experience of the site or might interest you
  • To carry out our contractual obligation between you and Us
  • To allow you to participate in interactive parts of our site
  • To notify of changes to our services

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, this includes our subsidiaries, or our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may disclose your information to third parties:

  • In the event that we purchase or sell business assets, in which case we may disclose your information to prospective buyers or sellers of such business assets.
  • If Ridekicks limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data about its customers may be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we under duty to share your personal data in order to comply with legal obligations, to enforce our terms of use.

Your rights

You have the right to suppress your data from being used for marketing purposes, we will usually inform you before collecting any data if we wish to use it for such activity. If you leave our site via a link please bear in mind that these sites have their own privacy policy's.

Access to Information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. We reserve the right to charge a £25 administration fee for this service.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy will be updated and posted on this page and where appropriate communicated to you by email.