You can read all of Pedalan without giving your name or signing up. We receive personal details only when you send a form: an event entry, a question to an organizer, or a message to the curator.
What the entry form asks for
- Your full name.
- Your mobile number, so the organizer can text you.
- Your email address, so we can send you a copy of your entry.
- Your town or city.
- The kind of bike you ride.
- Your jersey size, if the event gives one.
- The name and number of an emergency contact.
- A note for the organizer, if you want to add one.
You also tick a box to say you are fit to ride, will wear a helmet, and agree that the organizer may contact you about the event. We record when you ticked it.
The site takes no payments and never asks for card or bank details. It records only whether your fee is paid. The organizer may add the same details for a rider who enters by phone or in person.
Why we ask, and who can see it
The organizer uses your details to run the event: to confirm your entry and payment, to order jerseys, and to reach your emergency contact if needed. Your details are not sold or used for advertising.
Only the site administrator and the event organizer can see entries, and they are never published.
Messages and questions
The contact form asks for your name, your email address, a topic and a message. The message is sent by email to the curator and is not saved in the site’s database.
A question sent from an event page is emailed to that event’s organizer, with your name and email address so the organizer can reply. It is not saved in the database either.
When you send an entry, the site emails a notice of it to the event’s organizer and the site administrator. You also get one copy with your entry number and what to do next. No form adds you to a mailing list.
Email from the site is sent from [email protected] through Resend, an email delivery company in the United States, which processes each message to deliver it. Replies to that address are not read. The curator answers from his own address.
Limits on misuse
A hidden field on each form catches automated programs. From one internet connection, the site accepts no more than six entry attempts an hour, and no more than five messages or questions. It refuses a second entry under the same name and mobile number for the same event.
To keep count, the site holds a scrambled (hashed) form of your connection’s address for one hour. It is not stored with your entry or your message.
Cookies and sharing buttons
Pedalan’s own software sets no cookies for visitors. WordPress, the software behind the site, sets cookies only for people who log in to manage it. The text size button saves your choice in your own browser, not with us.
The sharing buttons on our pages are plain links. They load nothing from the social networks and send nothing until you press one.
One picture comes from outside the site. The portrait on the curator’s page is loaded from Gravatar, a service of the company Automattic. When you open that page, your browser asks Gravatar for the picture, so Gravatar sees your connection’s address.
Keeping, copying and removing entries
Entries are kept until the event’s records are closed. You may ask for a copy of yours, or for its removal, at any time.
Ask through the contact form. We use WordPress’s own personal data tools, which can export a copy of your entry details or erase the whole entry.
These tools find entries by email address. If the organizer wrote your entry down for you, it may have none. Send your name, mobile number and entry number instead.
The law
We wrote this notice with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 in mind. We ask only for what is needed, say what it is for, and remove it when asked. This page is a plain account of what the site does, not a legal document.