Privacy Policy

Last Revised: April 27, 2020

Welcome to www.nyrr.org, the official website of New York Road Runners, Inc. We refer to ourselves, on this page, as: “New York Road Runners,” “NYRR,” “we,” “our,” or “us.” We refer to you as “you” or “your” or “yourself.”

1. Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) governs our privacy practices with respect to our website located at www.nyrr.org and any of NYRR’s other registered domains, mobile apps, or social networking pages, profiles, or feeds that post a link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”).

By using our Services, you are agreeing to this Policy and to allow us to collect, use, store, and transfer your information as described in this Policy. Please note that this means, regardless of where you live, you will be giving us permission to transfer your information to, and to store and process your information within, the United States of America or other countries where NYRR or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or agents maintain facilities or business operations.

If you do not wish to agree to these terms, please immediately cease use of the Services. Your use of our Services is also subject to “Terms of Use,” which are separate from this Policy, and located at www.nyrr.org/terms-of-use.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact us as set forth in the section entitled “Contact Us” below.

2. What Information is Collected

The information we collect includes personal data, which is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. We also collect information that does not identify you (including information that has been de-identified). Some examples of information we collect include the following:

Contact data, including your first and last name, postal address, phone number, fax number, bib, tag, team,and email address.

Credentials, including your passwords, password hints, and information for authentication and account access.

Demographic data, including your age, gender, country, city, state,educational level, annual household income and other data about you.

Business data, including your professional affiliation, industry, charity for which you are running where applicable, and airline miles number.

Payment data, including your payment instrument (such as a credit or debit card number), associated security code, and other data necessary to process your payment if you make a purchase.

Profile data, includingyour interests, personal photograph, performance in Events such as net time, pace per mile, overall place, gender place, age place, age-graded time, age-graded performance percentage, and professional or sub-elite runners biography or status. For example, during races your photograph may be taken by our service providers and/or partners, andmade available to you for download or purchase.

Contacts data, including your family members’ information.

Resume data, including employment history, transcript, writing samples, references and other data necessary to consider you for a job opening if you submit an application to us.

Service use data, including data about the features you use, the pages you visit, the e-mails and advertisements you view, the products you purchase, the time of day you browse, and your referring and exiting pages.

Device identifiers, including your IP address, AD ID (e.g., IDFA or AAID).

Radio-Frequency Identification (“RFID”), which is the technology used by most event timing devices or race bibs and may be associated with your bib number and other personal information about you.

Device connectivity and configuration data, including the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating software, your internet service provider, and your device’s regional and language settings.

Location data, including precise real-time location data (e.g., latitude/longitude data, RFID data) as you proceed throughout an event course,and imprecise location data (e.g., location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level).For example, your exact whereabouts during a race are collected to enable live web and mobile tracking features that allow family members, friends, and other members of the public, to follow your progress during a race. Location data is connected to other categories of data above such as contact data, demographic data, and profile data.

3. How your Information is Collected

A. Information You Provide

We collect information you provide directly via the Services. For example, we collect information when you create an account, become a member, register for a race, class, or volunteer opportunity, make an online purchase, make a donation, respond to our surveys, enter promotions, or otherwise communicate or transact with us through the Services.

B. Information Collected Automatically

We automatically collect information about you when you access or use the Services (including when you interact with our website, e-mails, advertisements, or Events). We use various technologies now and hereafter developed to collect this information including the following:

• Log Files. Log files are files that record and store data about your use of the Services, such as IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, and date/time stamps.

• Cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a web site and stored in the user’s web browser while that user is browsing that web site. When the user loads that web site, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the web site of the user’s previous activity.Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use cookies to obtain and save information about the preferences of our users and the services they select. We also use cookies to help you navigate the Services and for security purposes to protect our users. For example, if a user is logged on and our Services are unused for an extended period of time, we may automatically log the user off. We also use cookies to bring you advertising both on and off the Services.

• Web Beacons (“Tracking Pixels”). Web beacons are small graphic images, also known as "internet tags" or "clear gifs," embedded in web pages, e-mail messages, and advertisements. Web beacons are often used in combination with cookies to track activity by a particular browser on a particular device. Web beacons may be used to count the number of visitors to the Services, to monitor how users navigate the Services, and to count content views. We may also incorporate web beacons or SDKs from third parties that allow us track our conversions, bring you advertising both on and off the Services, and provide you with additional functionality, such as the ability to connect our Services with your social media account.

• Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services. It is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server or a third party with whom we work, is active only while you are connected to the Services, and deleted or deactivated thereafter.

• Device Fingerprinting. Device fingerprinting is the process of analyzing and combining sets of information elements from your device’s browser, such as JavaScript objects and installed fonts, in order to create a “fingerprint” of your device and uniquely identify your device and applications.

• Location-Identifying Technologies. GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and other location-aware technologies may be used when you enable location-based services through your device. Location data may be used for purposes such as verifying your location and delivering or restricting relevant content based on your location

• In-App Tracking Methods. When you download or use our mobile applications or access one of our unique mobile optimized websites we may receive information about your mobile device. There are a variety of tracking technologies that may be included in mobile applications, and these are not browser-based like cookies and cannot be controlled by browser settings.Some use device identifier, or other identifiers such as “Ad IDs” to associate app user activity to a particular app and to track user activity across apps.

For further information on tracking technologies and your rights and choices regarding them, seethe “Third Parties” and “Your Rights and Choices” sections below.

C. Information from Events

We may combine information collected through your participation in NYRR’s races, classes, expos, or other events (“Events”) with information we have collected about you through the Services. To the extent we combine Event information with information we have collected about you on the Services, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described under this Policy.

D. Information from Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources. To the extent we combine such third party sourced information with information we have collected about you on the Services, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described under this Policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data. These third party sources vary over time, but have included:

• Social networks when you reference our Services or grant permission to us to access your data on one or more of these Services, such as third party running apps.

• Partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities. For example, we partner with a third party to take photographs of race participants and email participants offers to purchasethe photographs.

• Data brokers from which we purchase demographic data that supplements the data we collect.

• Publicly-available sources such as data in the public domain.

We are not responsible for the accuracy of any information provided by third parties or third party policies or practices.

4. How We Use Your Information

We may use information about you, including your personal data, for any purpose consistent with our statements under this Policy and applicable law, including to:

• Manage your registration, accounts, memberships, purchases, volunteer activities, classes, and donations.

• Respond to your requests or correspondence, and provide customer service.

• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information regarding changes to our policies, and support and administrative messages.

• Prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm.

• Assist with system administration, load balancing metrics, and to create reports on user demographics and Services traffic patterns.

• Conduct research, including focus groups and surveys.

• Manage your race data, including bib, tags, net time, pace per mile, race activity and results.

• Improve the Services or other NYRR websites, applications, marketing efforts, products and services.

• Send you advertisements and communicate with you regarding our and third party products, services, offers, promotions, rewards and events we think you may be interested in.

• Serve advertising tailored to your interests on our Services and third party services.

• Fulfill any other purpose disclosed to you and with your consent.

We may use information that does not identify you (including information that has been de-identified) without obligation to you except as prohibited by applicable law. For information on your rights and choices regarding how we use your information, please see the section entitled “Your Rights and Choices” below.

5. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information, including personal data, for any purposes consistent with our statements in this Policy and applicable law, including under the following circumstances:

• Service Providers. We employ third party agents or third party service providers to perform services on our behalf, including helping us run our Services, manage races and provide race data, fulfill contests or sweepstakes, administer surveys, process online transactions, send emails, analyze data, execute and optimize marketing/advertising campaigns, consulting services for technical projects, and manage and enhance user data. These third parties have access to information that is needed to perform their functions. These service providers are prohibited from using the information that we share with them for any reason other than performance of the services for which they have been engaged, although we may permit them to use aggregate information which does not identify you or de-identified data for other purposes.

• Partners. We partner with third parties to offer you products or promotions on our Service orproducts and services related to your use of our Events or Services. For example, we work with third parties to offer you special discounts when you purchase products or services on our Services, and, as part of such promotion, we may provide these third parties with information about users who participated in the promotion. We also allow certain third parties to integrate components of our Services into their own websites and apps. For example, we collaborate with a partner running app to host virtual races, for which participants register through NYRR’s website or mobile app and track their overall performance, including pace, splits, and total time by uploading the race to our partner’s platform, and this information may be shared with us and disclosed in the ways set forth in this Privacy Policy. Our partners are responsible for managing their own use of the information collected in these circumstances. We recommend you review the privacy policies of the relevant partner to find out more about their handling of your personal data.

• ther Third Parties. For purposes of facilitating your requests and in connection with tailoring ads, and measuring and improving our Service and advertising effectiveness.

• Affiliates. With our affiliates for purposes consistent with this Policy. For example, we may share your information with our affiliates for customer support, marketing, and technical operations.

• Corporate Transactions. In connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale or any other type of acquisition or business combination of all or any portion of our assets, or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company.

• Legal Purposes. Where we are legally compelled to do so or as reasonably necessary to comply with the law or protect safety or rights.This includes complying with court orders, subpoenas, responding to requests from law enforcement agencies; enforcing contract terms; responding to and resolving any claims (including user complaints); or otherwise protecting the safety of rights (including intellectual property rights) of NYRR, our business customers, users, or the general public.

• Consent. With your consent or at your direction.

• Geolocation and Publicly Available Race Result Information. NYRR uses a radio-frequency identification (“RFID”) tag in race bibs or other technology to track runners’ geolocation during any Events. Such information allows anyone, including the general public, to use the NYRR website and/or applications to determine a runner’s exact real-time geographic location during the Events and to connect it to a runner’s full name, gender, age, distance run, net time, pace per mile, overall place, gender place, age place, age-graded time, age-graded performance percentage and/or, if applicable, race-day photos, and other information, including but not limited to, where applicable, team name, personal ID number, bib number, city, state, country, charity for which an individual is running, biography, and professional or sub-elite status (each individual and collectively “Race Results”). Race Results from virtual races also include information from third party app trackers and platforms. NYRR collaborates with a third party running app to host virtual races for which participants register through NYRR website or mobile app and track their overall performance, including pace, splits, and total time, by uploading the race to the third party app platform. This information is included in Race Results. Participants must agree and consent to have their Race Results, including geolocation information collected, used, tracked, disclosed, and publicly published. By default, real-time geolocation information is publicly available. For information on your choices regarding Race Results, see the Race Geolocation Choices section (below).

Without limiting the foregoing, in our sole discretion, we may aggregate information you and others make available in connection with the Service, post it publicly or share it with third parties, partners or affiliates for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law. For example, we may share aggregate information with third parties for research, business or other purposes, such as to make recommendations for running routes, to improve running and walking experiences for runners, and to help our partners understand more about runners.For information on your rights and choices regarding how we share your information, please see the section entitled “Your Rights and Choices” below.

6. Augmented Reality
This privacy policy governs your use of the marathon application United Airlines NYC Half 2024 - Augmented Reality for mobile devices.
The Application has an augmented reality feature developed to allow users to click their picture wearing a finisher medal.

A. What information is your app collecting?
For Augmented Reality feature, app uses TrueDepth API that collects face features with the help of which we can display medal image on the phone screen. User then places the medal image around his neck and clicks his picture.

B. For what purposes are you collecting this information?
The Augmented Reality (AR) feature in the app enables to click a picture with a medal around their neck. True depth API identifies the users facial features and brings up the medal on the screen. Users now have to place the medal around the neck and click their picture. We are not collecting any user information from this feature.

C. Will the data be shared with any third parties? Where will this information be stored?
No, data will not be shared with any 3rd parties. User can click the picture and it can be shared to whomsoever with his consent.