Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31 July 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Scuderia Fans Ltd. collects, uses and protects personal data when you visit ScuderiaFans.com (the “Website”), submit a comment, use a contact form or otherwise interact with the Website.

You can browse most of the Website without directly providing personal information. ScuderiaFans does not currently offer public user accounts or operate an email newsletter.

Who is responsible for your personal data?

The data controller responsible for the Website is:

Scuderia Fans Ltd.
199 Republicii Street, 5A
Ploiești, Romania, 100392
Email: [email protected]

Information we collect

Information collected automatically

When you visit the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our servers and technology providers. This may include:

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
Browser type, device type and operating system;
Approximate location derived from your IP address;
Date and time of access;
Pages viewed and links followed;
Referring and exit pages;
Cookie identifiers, consent preferences and similar online identifiers;
Advertising interactions and general website-usage information.

This information is used to deliver and secure the Website, diagnose technical problems, understand how the Website is used, measure content performance and support advertising, subject to your cookie choices where consent is required.

Contact and commercial enquiries

When you use our Contact or Advertise forms, we may collect your name, email address, subject, message and any other information you voluntarily include.

Form submissions may be stored in the Website’s database and delivered to ScuderiaFans by email. We use this information to respond to enquiries, manage requests, discuss potential commercial relationships and maintain appropriate records of correspondence.

Comments

When you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, including your display name, email address and comment. We may also collect your IP address and browser information to assist with comment moderation, security and spam prevention.

Your comment and display name may be published publicly. Your email address is not displayed publicly.

If you select the option to save your details for future comments, WordPress may store your name and email address in cookies on your device. These cookies are optional and are created only when you select that option.

An anonymised value created from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use it. If your comment is approved and a Gravatar profile is associated with your email address, your profile image may appear publicly beside your comment. You can read Automattic’s Privacy Policy for more information.

How and why we use personal data

Depending on the circumstances, we process personal data for the following purposes and legal grounds:

Operating and securing the Website: based on our legitimate interest in providing a reliable and secure publication, preventing fraud, spam and misuse, and diagnosing technical problems.
Responding to enquiries: based on our legitimate interest in communicating with readers and business contacts, or taking steps at your request before entering into a commercial arrangement.
Publishing and moderating comments: based on our legitimate interest in encouraging relevant discussion while protecting the Website and its readers from spam, abuse and unlawful content.
Analytics: where required, based on your consent to analytics cookies or similar technologies.
Advertising and personalisation: where required, based on your consent to advertising cookies, personalised advertising and related technologies.
Legal and regulatory obligations: where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law or respond to a lawful request.
Protecting legal rights: based on our legitimate interest in establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.

When processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.

Cookies and similar technologies

The Website uses cookies, local storage, pixels, tags and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on your device that can support essential website functions, remember preferences, measure audiences and help deliver advertising.

The Website may use the following categories:

Strictly necessary technologies: required for security, consent management, network operation and essential website functionality. These cannot always be disabled through the Website.
Preference technologies: used to remember settings, including comment-form and privacy preferences.
Analytics technologies: used to understand readership, traffic sources, page performance and general interaction with the Website.
Advertising technologies: used to display, measure and, when permitted, personalise advertising.
Embedded-content and social-media technologies: used when pages contain videos, social-media features or content supplied by another platform.

Where required by law, non-essential analytics and advertising technologies are activated according to the choices made through the Website’s consent-management system.

Cookie and advertising providers

Services used on the Website may include:

Google, including Google Analytics and Google advertising services;
Snack Media for advertising management and monetisation;
Pubstack for advertising technology and performance measurement;
Primis for video content and advertising;
Membrana Media for media and advertising services;
Exit Bee for advertising and website-engagement technology;
Admiral for consent management and related visitor-preference services.

Advertising providers may work with additional technology vendors. The most current list of applicable advertising vendors, purposes and choices is presented through the Website’s consent-management interface.

These providers may process online identifiers, IP addresses, device and browser information, approximate location, browsing activity, consent signals and advertising interactions. Their processing is also governed by their respective privacy policies.

Managing your choices

Where a consent banner is displayed, you can accept, reject or manage non-essential technologies. You can change your selections later by reopening the privacy or consent settings available on the Website.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain technologies may affect the operation or appearance of some Website features.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Website. Depending on your consent choices, Google Analytics may collect information such as pages viewed, visit duration, approximate location, device category, browser type and traffic source.

We use this information in aggregated reports to evaluate readership and improve the Website. More information is available in Google’s explanation of Analytics data protection.

Advertising

ScuderiaFans is funded partly through advertising and commercial partnerships. Advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to select, deliver and measure advertisements and, where you have consented, personalise advertising according to interests inferred from browsing activity.

ScuderiaFans does not sell the personal information submitted through its contact forms or comment forms. However, advertising partners may process or share online identifiers and browsing information for advertising purposes as described in their policies and in the Website’s consent-management interface.

Embedded content and external websites

Articles may contain embedded videos, images, social-media features or other content supplied by third parties such as YouTube. Embedded content may behave as though you visited the provider’s website directly and may allow that provider to collect technical and usage information, subject to your consent choices and the provider’s policies.

The Website also contains links to external websites, including sources, social networks, commercial partners and affiliate services. ScuderiaFans does not control how those external websites collect or use personal data. Please review their privacy policies before providing personal information.

Who may receive personal data?

Personal data may be disclosed when necessary to:

Website hosting, security, maintenance and technical-service providers;
Contact-form, email and comment-management providers;
Analytics, consent-management, advertising and media providers;
Professional advisers where necessary to obtain legal, accounting or technical assistance;
Public authorities when disclosure is required by law or a valid legal request;
A successor organisation in connection with a legitimate sale, restructuring or transfer of the Website or its business activities.

We limit disclosures to information reasonably necessary for the relevant purpose.

International data transfers

Some technology providers may process personal data outside Romania or the European Economic Area. Where international transfers are subject to the GDPR, appropriate safeguards may include European Commission adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses or another legally recognised transfer mechanism.

Further information about a provider’s processing locations and transfer safeguards can be found in its privacy policy.

How long we retain information

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including:

Contact-form submissions and correspondence are retained until the enquiry is resolved and afterwards only for as long as necessary for appropriate business records or legal claims.
Comment information may be retained while the comment remains published and for as long as necessary for moderation, spam prevention, security and legal purposes.
Server logs are retained for the period reasonably necessary for security, troubleshooting and website administration.
Analytics, advertising and cookie information is retained according to consent choices and the retention periods applied by the relevant providers.
Consent records may be retained for as long as necessary to demonstrate and respect your privacy choices.

Information may remain temporarily in secure backups after deletion from active systems. When personal data is no longer required, it is deleted or anonymised where reasonably possible.

How we protect information

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, accidental loss or misuse. However, no website, transmission method or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Your data-protection rights

Subject to the GDPR and any applicable limitations, you may have the right to:

Request access to the personal data held about you;
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information;
Request deletion of personal data in appropriate circumstances;
Request restriction of processing;
Object to processing based on legitimate interests;
Receive certain information in a portable format;
Withdraw consent at any time where consent is the legal basis;
Lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.

To exercise a right, email [email protected]. We may request information necessary to verify your identity before processing the request.

We normally respond to valid requests within one month. This period may be extended where permitted by law if a request is particularly complex or multiple requests have been made.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Romanian National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing:

Autoritatea Națională de Supraveghere a Prelucrării Datelor cu Caracter Personal
B-dul G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru 28-30
Sector 1, 010336 Bucharest, Romania
Website: www.dataprotection.ro

Automated decision-making

ScuderiaFans does not use information submitted through comments or contact forms to make automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Advertising providers may use automated systems to select or personalise advertisements, subject to your consent choices.

Children’s privacy

The Website is not specifically directed at children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly request personal data from children. If you believe that a child has submitted personal information through the Website, please contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, remove it.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Website, its technology providers or applicable legal requirements. The latest version will be published on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.