Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 28, 2026
The Zom Blog, LLC, a New York limited liability company doing business as The Virtual Velo Network (“The Virtual Velo Network,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information in a transparent, fair, and lawful manner.
Business address: 59 Dune Drive, Riverhead, NY 11901, USA
Email: virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, transfer, and otherwise process personal information when you visit or use our website, content, communications, event pages, results pages, newsletters, submissions, products, services, and any related features we offer (collectively, the “Services”).
By accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
Table of Contents
1. Scope and Who We Are
2. Personal Information We Collect
3. How We Use Personal Information
4. Legal Bases for Processing
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
6. How We Disclose Personal Information
7. International Data Transfers
8. Data Retention
9. Data Security
10. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
11. Supplemental U.S. State Privacy Disclosures
12. Children’s Privacy
13. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
15. Contact Us and Complaints
1. Scope and Who We Are
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect or process through the Services, including when you:
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browse our website;
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contact us;
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sign up for newsletters or other communications;
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register for an account, if available;
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submit forms, event information, results, comments, media, or other content;
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purchase products or services, if available; or
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otherwise interact with us online or offline in connection with the Services.
For purposes of applicable data protection law, The Zom Blog, LLC d/b/a The Virtual Velo Network is the controller of your personal information unless otherwise stated.
2. Personal Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information, depending on how you use the Services.
A. Information you provide directly
We may collect:
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your name;
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email address;
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mailing address;
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phone number;
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username or account details;
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organization, team, club, employer, or affiliation details;
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billing or transaction information;
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information you include in messages, forms, surveys, registrations, submissions, or customer support requests;
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content you upload or submit, including text, images, audio, video, comments, event listings, results, and related materials; and
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any other information you choose to provide.
B. Information collected automatically
When you use the Services, we may automatically collect:
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IP address;
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browser type and version;
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device identifiers;
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operating system;
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general location inferred from IP address;
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pages viewed and links clicked;
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referring and exit pages;
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dates, times, duration, and frequency of visits;
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interaction data and diagnostic information; and
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information collected through cookies, pixels, tags, logs, SDKs, and similar technologies.
C. Information from third parties
We may receive personal information from:
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analytics providers;
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hosting and website platform providers;
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payment processors;
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email and communication service providers;
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advertising, social media, and content partners;
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event platforms, registration tools, or competition partners;
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publicly available sources; and
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other third parties when you direct them to share your information with us.
D. Sensitive personal information
We do not ask for sensitive personal information unless it is reasonably necessary for a lawful and disclosed purpose. Please do not send highly sensitive information through the Services unless we specifically request it.
3. How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
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provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Services;
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create and manage accounts, if available;
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process transactions, registrations, subscriptions, and requests;
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publish event information, results, submissions, or content you choose to make available;
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communicate with you about the Services, updates, support, and administrative matters;
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send newsletters, marketing, and promotional communications, subject to your choices and applicable law;
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personalize content and user experience;
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analyze traffic, usage, trends, and performance;
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monitor, prevent, investigate, and respond to fraud, abuse, security incidents, and other unlawful or harmful activity;
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protect our rights, users, partners, and property;
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enforce our Terms of Service and other policies;
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comply with legal obligations, court orders, and regulatory requests; and
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facilitate a merger, acquisition, financing, asset sale, restructuring, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction that requires a legal basis for processing, we rely on one or more of the following bases, as applicable:
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Consent: where you have given clear consent for a specific purpose, such as certain marketing or non-essential cookies.
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Contract: where processing is necessary to provide the Services you request, complete a transaction, or take steps at your request before entering into an agreement.
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Legitimate interests: where processing is reasonably necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, and those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. These interests may include operating the Services, improving the Services, communicating with users, preventing fraud, securing the Services, and protecting our business.
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Legal obligation: where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or lawful requests from public authorities.
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Vital interests: where processing is necessary to protect someone’s life or safety.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time, but this will not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies, pixels, local storage, tags, SDKs, and similar technologies to operate the Services, remember preferences, analyze usage, measure performance, secure the Services, and support communications or marketing.
These technologies may include:
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Strictly necessary technologies, which are required for core site functionality.
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Preference technologies, which remember settings and choices.
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Analytics technologies, which help us understand traffic and usage.
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Advertising or social media technologies, if used, which may support campaign measurement, personalization, or targeted advertising.
Where required by law, we will request your consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies. You can also manage cookies through our consent banner or preferences center, where available, and through your browser or device settings.
If we are required by applicable law to recognize browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, we will do so where technically supported and legally applicable.
6. How We Disclose Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:
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service providers, processors, contractors, and vendors that help us host, operate, secure, support, analyze, communicate, process payments for, or otherwise provide the Services;
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professional advisors, including lawyers, accountants, insurers, auditors, and consultants;
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business partners, event partners, sponsors, or affiliated organizations where necessary for a disclosed purpose;
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law enforcement, regulators, courts, or other parties when required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, or property;
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parties involved in an actual or proposed corporate transaction; and
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other parties when you direct us to share information or consent to disclosure.
If you submit comments, listings, results, media, or other content to public areas of the Services, that information may be publicly visible and accessible to others.
We do not sell personal information for money.
We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about individuals.
7. International Data Transfers
We are based in the United States and may process, store, or transfer personal information in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate.
Those countries may have data protection laws that differ from the laws of your country. Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers, such as contractual protections, adequacy decisions, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:
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provide the Services;
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maintain business and financial records;
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comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations;
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resolve disputes;
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enforce agreements; and
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detect, prevent, or investigate security incidents or unlawful activity.
Retention periods depend on the type of information, the purpose of processing, the sensitivity of the information, the risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, whether we can achieve the same purpose through other means, and applicable legal requirements.
When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we will delete, de-identify, or anonymize it, or securely store it and isolate it from further use until deletion is possible.
9. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
No method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials, if any, and for using the Services in a secure manner.
10. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have some or all of the following rights:
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to know whether we process your personal information;
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to access or obtain a copy of your personal information;
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to correct inaccurate personal information;
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to delete personal information;
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to restrict or limit certain processing;
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to object to certain processing;
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to withdraw consent where we rely on consent;
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to data portability;
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to opt out of targeted advertising, profiling, sale, or sharing, where applicable;
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to appeal a decision we make about your request; and
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to lodge a complaint with a supervisory or regulatory authority.
A. Marketing communications
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the message or contacting us at virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com. Even if you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as service or transaction-related messages.
B. Cookie choices
You may change cookie preferences through our consent tools, where available, and through your browser or device settings.
C. Exercising your rights
To exercise privacy rights, contact us at virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Request.” We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
D. Appeals
If we deny your request and applicable law gives you a right to appeal, you may appeal by replying to our decision email or by emailing virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com with the subject line “Privacy Appeal.”
E. Region-specific rights
If you are in the EEA or UK, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
If you are in Brazil, you may have rights provided by the LGPD, including rights to confirmation of processing, access, correction, anonymization, blocking, or deletion in certain cases, portability, information about sharing, and revocation of consent where consent is the legal basis.
If you are in Canada, Australia, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with similar rights, you may have the right to request access to and correction of your personal information, to ask questions about our privacy practices, and to complain to the applicable regulator.
11. Supplemental U.S. State Privacy Disclosures
This section supplements the rest of this Privacy Policy for residents of California and other U.S. states with applicable privacy laws.
A. Categories of personal information collected
Depending on how you interact with the Services, we may collect the following categories of personal information:
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identifiers, such as name, email address, postal address, IP address, username, and device identifiers;
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customer or contact records, such as contact details, billing details, and communications;
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commercial information, such as records of purchases, subscriptions, registrations, or other transactions;
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internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing activity, usage data, pages viewed, and interactions with the Services;
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geolocation data, such as approximate location inferred from IP address;
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audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as media you submit or communications you send us;
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professional or employment-related information, such as company, team, club, role, or affiliation details you provide;
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inferences drawn from the categories above, such as preferences or interests; and
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sensitive personal information, if you choose to provide it or if we lawfully collect it for a specific disclosed purpose.
B. Sources of personal information
We collect personal information from:
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you directly;
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your device or browser automatically;
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service providers and analytics vendors;
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payment, communication, and website platform vendors;
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partners and integrations you choose to use; and
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public or publicly available sources.
C. Purposes for collection, use, and disclosure
We collect, use, retain, and disclose personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in Sections 3 and 6 above.
D. Retention
We retain each category of personal information for as long as reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the disclosed purposes for which it was collected, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We apply the retention criteria described in Section 8.
E. Sale, sharing, and targeted advertising
We do not sell personal information for money.
We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under applicable U.S. privacy laws, and we do not engage in targeted advertising.
F. Sensitive personal information
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those permitted by applicable law, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.
12. Children’s Privacy
The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without verifiable parental consent where required by law.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us without required consent, contact us at virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com, and we will take appropriate steps to investigate and delete the information as required.
If any part of the Services is later directed to children or younger athletes, we may provide additional notices and parental or guardian consent mechanisms as required by applicable law.
13. Third-Party Websites and Embedded Content
The Services may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, tools, videos, social media content, registration pages, storefronts, or embedded features. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or data practices of third parties.
Your interactions with third-party services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last updated” date above. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice as required by law.
Your continued use of the Services after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the revised Policy.
15. Contact Us and Complaints
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your privacy rights, contact us at:
The Virtual Velo Network
c/o The Zom Blog, LLC
59 Dune Drive
Riverhead, NY 11901
USA
Email: virtualvelonetwork@gmail.com