Last Updated and Effective Date – June 8, 2025

Who we are

This Privacy Policy covers Empire Velo (empirevelo.com), which uses advanced analytics to explore professional cycling, and API Velo (apivelo.com), which manages the racing database used by Empire Velo.

If you do not agree to your information being used in the manner described in this Privacy Policy, please do not use our services. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please ask us through contact at empirevelo dot com (and select “Privacy” in the subject line).

Information We Collect and Receive

Obviously, we love data; cycling data. However, your data is your own. We make every effort to keep user tracking out of our services.

Information You Directly Provide

We receive the information you choose to provide when using our services.

  • For example, you may directly provide us with information in connection with certain uses of our Services, such as when you register for our Services, sign up to receive electronic or other marketing communications, comment on an article, or complete a survey or questionnaire, including:
    • Identifiers such as your first and last name, username, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, email address and mobile phone number;
    • Demographic information, such as language spoken, age, gender, race/ethnicity, household composition, income and size;
    • Photographs or videos; and
    • Other information about your use of our services.
  • If you use a “share with a friend” or “invite a friend” feature on our services, we collect your name and email address, as well as the name and email address of your friend. We do not use the names or email addresses of your friends submitted in these circumstances for any purpose other than sending an email on your behalf, unless we obtain your or your friend’s consent or receive this information independently. Please ensure that you only submit email addresses of individuals with whom you have a personal or family relationship and who would want to receive the email. We rely on you to ensure that you have obtained your friend or family member’s consent to share their personal information with us.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Where your data is sent

  • Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
  • Disclosure for Legal Purposes. We may be required to disclose your personal and non-personal information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use, disclose or share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or as required by law.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

Future changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted to empirevelo.com/privacy-policy and a site-wide notification banner will be displayed to let you know where to find the new Privacy Policy.