Privacy

26m is founded on the principles of helping runners, triathletes and anyone interested in fitness to discover new information by enabling them to share what they find interesting and informative with others. The content shared can be links to other resources, your own stories or articles, or even personal race reports. 26m knows that you care how your personal information is used and shared, and 26m takes your privacy very seriously.

The following document is our Privacy Policy. By visiting 26m you are accepting the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.

The privacy policy covers 26m’s treatment of personal information that 26m gathers when you are on the 26m website and use any of 26m’s services. 26m does have partners and advertising agreements and this policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that 26m does not own or control, or to individuals that 26m does not employ or manage.

Information collected and how we use it

We only collect personal information that is relevant to the purpose of our website. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide – In order for you to share links, articles, stories, race reports, or shorten a URL you must complete the registration form. As part of this registration form, we require a few pieces of personal information (including a username, email and password).

Cookies – When you visit 26m, we send one or more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your computer or other device that uniquely identifies you browser. We use cookies to improve your browsing experience. This allows us to store your user preferences, improve search results, capture trends (like how you search) and if logged in maintain your user status throughout the site.
Some of our business partners, like our advertisers, may use cookies on our website. We have no access to, or control over, these cookies.

Tracking – 26m may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. This includes User profile pages. 26m may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our search technology, customized content and advertising.
Some of our services, including 26m sharing bar, send the uniform resource locator (URL) of web pages that you request to 26m. When you use these services, 26m will receive and store the URL sent by the web sites you visit, including any personal information inserted into those URL’s by the web site operator.

User communications – When you send an email or other communications to 26m, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Information sharing – At this time, 26m does not share any of your information with other sites. If 26m becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will ensure the confidentiality of any personal information in such transactions are carried over. We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated non-personal information such as number of users searching for certain resources, but this information does not identify you individually.

Keeping information secure

Your 26m account information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. We hash (scramble) your password in the database so no one has access to it but you. Protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by logging off once you have finished using a shared computer.

Changes to this privacy policy

26m may ammend this privacy policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the privacy policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our website.