Policies


Privacy policy

Fair processing.
By submitting Personal Information to this website, you agree that Old Halesonians Hockey Club may process it in the manner described in this policy which describes our current practices with regard to Personal Information which is hosted by Pitch Hero Ltd. The term 'Personal Information' refers to information about you personally, which, from time to time, you will be asked to submit (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. As a result of changes in the law and technology, our practices will change over time. When this happens, we will post the changes on our website as soon as is practicable and, therefore, we encourage you to check the site frequently. We will always deal with your Personal Information fairly and in accordance with your instructions.
Use of Personal Information
We will tell you the purposes for which we will process personal information. Such purposes include the following:

1. maintaining our membership database.
2. to inform you of selection for teams or invitations to club events.
3. contacting you with information pertinent to your membership or application for membership and details of events and other matters which we think will be of interest to you.
4. marketing and market research.
5. internal use to help us improve our services and to help resolve any problems.

Disclosure
Any information you provide to us will only be used by us and possibly passed to our partners for the purpose of dealing with payments and using communications portals. It may also be disclosed to your organisation’s Governing Body. You should also be aware that your information may be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law to do so.

Timescale
We will hold your Personal Information within our systems for as long as you remain a member of the club. When you cease to be a member all personal data will be deleted within 6 weeks of the date of your resignation.

Cookies
A 'cookie' is a small amount of information that is placed on your computer's hard drive when you visit a website. It collects details of visitor behaviour, which can be used to improve the service delivered to you on a website.
Your computer can be set to accept or reject cookies if you visit the "help" menu on your web browser. However, by rejecting cookies, you will not be able to use the "members' area" of the site and you will not be able to complete the registration process.

When you visit this site, your Personal Information may be collected using 'cookies'. Such information is subject to data protection laws and is dealt with in accordance with this Policy. For more information please visit : http://www.aboutcookies.org.

This site uses Google Analytics to collect usage data and Google also uses cookies for this purpose. Google has its own Privacy Policy which can be viewed at http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html. Where the site links to other websites and services these may also involve cookies. You are advised to check the privacy policy of each of these sites before using them.

Security
Your data will be managed by Pitch Hero Ltd who manage data for hundreds of similar clubs in a secure hosting environment. Your data will be retained within the European Economic Area (EEA) other than where it is transferred to a third party for the purpose of setting up a payment regime where it will only leave the EEA if security meets the EU’s security requirements.

Data policy

Old Halesonians Hockey Club and Cookies
Most of the websites you visit will store tiny text files on your computer when you visit them, so that the site can remember things about you the next time you visit. These text files are known as "cookies".
Cookies can be put to all sorts of different uses, including: remembering if a visitor has logged in so they can access private areas of a website; remembering visitors' specific preferences and settings; tracking what pages of a website visitors are browsing to.

Some websites use cookies to observe visitors' browsing habits and then serve targeted advertising to them. Old Halesonians Hockey Club does not set any cookies that observe browsing behaviour for the purposes of advertising or marketing.

As well as the cookies this website sets on your computer, some other websites can also set cookies whilst you browse Old Halesonians Hockey Club. This is through embedded third-party content, from places like Facebook or Twitter.

What cookies does Old Halesonians Hockey Club set?
We have split our cookies into three categories: strictly essential; website information; and third-party.

Strictly essential - cookies are used for identifying members who have logged in and out of the Old Halesonians Hockey Club members area. When the member closes their browser, the cookies are deleted.

Website information - both Old Halesonians Hockey Club and their host Pitch Hero Ltd set cookies for the purposes of recording anonymous information about visitors to the website. This information is used to monitor where visitors come from, which pages and features are popular, and ultimately to deliver an improved service to visitors.

Third-party - some pages may contain content embedded from third party websites, such as Fixtures Live, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and others. These third parties may set their own cookies (please refer to the privacy policy for the third party concerned). Old Halesonians Hockey Club only allows content to be embedded from known, trustworthy third parties.

Controlling cookies from Old Halesonians Hockey Club?
Some people find the idea of websites setting cookies intrusive. If you want to restrict all or certain cookies, you can do so through your browser settings. Instructions of how to do so will vary from browser to browser, but you can find out more at www.aboutcookies.org.

Some browsers have a Do Not Track option which allows you to tell websites you don't want your browsing behaviour and patterns tracked, but to still accept those cookies websites class as strictly essential. More information about Do Not Track can be found at www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track.

You can set your preferences with Old Halesonians Hockey Club and manage exactly which cookies you do or don't permit to be set on your computer or phone.

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