© 2026 Crash Media Group. All rights reserved.
Crash Media is a company registered in the UK with Company Number 3729433 and registered address at 4 Office Village, Forder Way, Cygnet Park, Hampton, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, PE7 8GX.
Crash Media Group is committed to respecting and protecting your data while it is in our care. We collect personal information to understand your needs and guide how we communicate with you about our products and services. We maintain strict procedures to protect your data during submission, processing, and long-term storage on secure servers.
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent data rights authority, and comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
We collect both Personal Data (information that identifies you, such as your name, postal address, and email address) and Anonymous Data (aggregate metrics, such as survey participation or page views).
Our servers are protected using HTTPS and SSL encryption technology. We take all reasonable steps to meet our obligations under UK data protection laws. When engaging third-party service providers, we verify that they maintain equivalent technical and organisational security controls.
We collect personal details when you register on our websites, subscribe to services, opt in to email communications, participate in community forums, enter competitions, or cast votes in hosted awards.
With each visit to our websites, we may automatically collect:
You can create an account or log in to our websites using your Google or Facebook account. If you choose to do this, you authorise Google or Facebook to share certain account details with us — typically your name, email address, date of birth, and location — so that we can create and manage your Crash Media Group account. Depending on your privacy settings with Google or Facebook, we may also receive information about your networks or contacts. We only use this information to operate your account and will not post to your Google or Facebook profile without your permission.
When you subscribe to our newsletters or opt in to marketing emails, we process your contact details to deliver requested updates and relevant promotional offers from Crash Media Group or selected partners.
Email Service Provider: We use Campaign Monitor, a third-party email service provider, to send newsletters and marketing emails, manage subscriptions and unsubscribes, maintain suppression lists, and measure email performance. Campaign Monitor processes your data on our behalf under a data processing agreement.
Interaction Tracking: Our emails may contain tracking beacons that record open rates, link clicks, timestamps, and device types to help us optimise email content. Where this information is linked to your email address, we treat it as personal data.
Opting Out: Every marketing email includes a direct “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom. You can opt out at any time. Opting out of marketing does not affect essential service communications (e.g., transactional receipts or account security notices).
When Crash Media Group websites host industry or user-voted awards:
LiveRamp: When you enter your email on our site, we may share hashed, pseudonymous versions of your email, IP address, or browser info with LiveRamp, acting as joint controllers, to create online identification codes for targeted advertising. You can opt out at: https://liveramp.com/opt_out/
Contentpass: On our website we offer you a service for advertising and tracking-free access with Contentpass. This is an offer of Content Pass GmbH, Wolfswerder 58, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany. When you take out the service, Contentpass becomes your contractual partner.
In order to be able to display and thus offer you this service on our website, Contentpass, on our behalf, processes your IP address when you visit our website. For the registration as well as the handling of Contentpass's contracts and the associated data processing, Contentpass is the controller within the meaning of the GDPR. We are exclusively responsible for the processing of your IP address.
The basis for the data processing of the IP address, which Contentpass carries out on our behalf as our processor, is our legitimate interest in offering you the opportunity to access our website free of advertising and tracking and your interest in using our website practically without advertising and tracking [Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR]. In addition, we hereby fulfil the legal obligation to obtain legally compliant consent to data processing requiring consent [Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR].
Please click on the following links to learn more about data protection at Contentpass. You can also login or register with Contentpass for each of our sites below
| Site | LogIn | Register |
|---|---|---|
| Car Throttle | LogIn | Register |
| Crash | LogIn | Register |
| GolfMagic | LogIn | Register |
| Visordown | LogIn | Register |
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16 for marketing purposes. If you believe we have inadvertently collected data from a child under 16, please contact us using the details below and we will delete it.
Some of our service providers — including Contentpass (based in Germany) and Google Analytics — may process personal data outside the United Kingdom. Where personal data is transferred to or accessed by service providers outside the UK, we ensure appropriate legal safeguards are applied in accordance with UK GDPR requirements (such as standard contractual clauses or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement).
Under UK data protection law, you hold the following rights:
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our privacy team:
The Privacy Lead
Crash Media Group
White Collar Factory, 1 Old Street Yard
London, EC1Y 8AF, United Kingdom
Email: dataprotectionofficer@crash.net
You have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection, at www.ico.org.uk or by calling 0303 123 1113.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Where changes are material, we will notify you by email or via a prominent notice on our website. Continued use of our services after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Last updated: Aug 24 2026
© 2026 Crash Media Group. All rights reserved.