When you visit or register with the Northern Ireland Womens' Private Greens League (NIWPGL) website, you agree to the Privacy Policy detailed below. Please read it to find out how information relating to you will be treated as you use our site.
Introduction
The Privacy Policy applies to the whole website and complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that took effect on 25th May 2018 and any subsequent updates.
Although the GDPR is only for certain countries, this Privacy Policy applies to anyone visiting the website or is a member of the NIWPGL website, irrespective of location.
Summary of our Privacy Policy
This is a summary of our Privacy Policy which takes effect on May 25th, 2018. It covers this website and all of the products and services contained on the website. The detailed policy follows the same structure as this summary and constitutes the actual legal document.
This policy tells you what information we collect from you, what we do with it, who can access it and what you can do about it.
The NIWPGL respects your privacy
We believe personal details should be private and only available to others at the discretion of the individual, therefore the NIWPGL will not share information unless required by law or to facilitate authorised use of your account.
We are completely independent, not part of any group and will not sell information to any third party.
We do not send out spam emails or fill the website with a mass of adverts, you should only receive information about content you have subscribed to, including our newsletter and you always have the option to unsubscribe at any time.
Part 1 - Information the NIWPGL collects and controls
We only collect the information that we actually need and some is information that you actively give us when you sign up for an account, post on the website or buy something from us.
If we receive information indirectly, we will only use that information to complete the request that you made.
If you engage with the NIWPGL on social media (for instance, liking, commenting, retweeting, mentioning, or following us), we will have access to your interactions and profile information even if you later remove it from the social media site.
What we do with your information
We use your information to provide the services you have requested, create and maintain your account and check for unauthorized activity on your account.
We also use it to communicate with you about the products and services you are currently using, new products or services you may like, opportunities for you to give us feedback and any policy updates. We analyze the information we collect to understand user needs and improve our website and services.
We are required to have a legal basis for collecting and processing your information. In most cases, we either have your consent or need the information to provide the service you have requested from us. When that is not the case, we must demonstrate that we have another legal basis, such as our legitimate business interests.
You can decline certain kinds of information to us either by not providing the information in the first place or by opting out later. You can also disable cookies to prevent your browser from giving us information, but if you do so, certain website features may not work properly. We completely disable third-party cookies from the NIWPGL website, services and products.
We limit access to your personal information to NIWPGL authorised personnel and will not share information unless required by law or to facilitate authorised use of your account by other parties who have a legitimate need to use it. If we share your information with other parties they must have appropriate security measures and a valid reason for using your information, typically to serve you.
The European Economic Area (EEA) provides certain rights to data subjects (including access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and the right to object and to complain). The NIWPGL undertakes to provide you the same rights no matter where you choose to live.
We keep your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete, anonymize, or isolate your information, whichever is appropriate.
Part 2 - Information that the NIWPGL processes on your behalf
If you handle other people's data using the NIWPGL applications, such as information in a News Article post, Match Comments or any other content your add to the website, you are entrusting that data to us for processing. The data you entrust to us for processing is called service data.
You own your service data. We protect it, limit access to it, and only process it according to your instructions. You may access it, share it through third-party integrations, and request that we export or delete it.
We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to use the NIWPGL Services. After you terminate your account, your data will be automatically deleted from our active database within 6 months and from our backups within 3 months after that.
If you are in the European Economic Area and you believe that someone has entrusted your information to us for processing (for instance, a bowling club whose services you use), you can request certain actions from us regarding your data. To exercise those data rights, please contact the person or organisation that entrusted the data to us and we will work with them on your request.
Part 3 - General
There are some limitations to the privacy we can promise you. We will disclose personal information if it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, prevent fraud, enforce an agreement, or protect our the safety of our users and or members.
We do not currently honor Do Not Track signals from internet browsers and when a universal standard for processing them emerges, we will follow it.
Third-party websites and social media widgets have their own separate privacy policies. Always check the relevant privacy policy before sharing personal information with third parties.
You may always contact us to ask questions about our privacy practices, alert us if you believe we have collected personal data from a minor or ask to have your personal information removed from any area or all of our website. You can also check our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy at any time.
We will contact you to let you know if we make any major changes to our Privacy Policy, or in the highly unlikely event that we ever decide to sell Ulster Transport Bowling Club.
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy statement is made by the NIWPGL and is effective as of 25th May 2018.
The NIWPGL Privacy Commitment
We ask for only the least amount of information necessary, gathering only what we believe is essential for doing business, or for the specific transaction at hand. We let members and customers know the information we have on them and allow them to opt out of specific engagements.
The goal of this policy is to make explicit the information we gather on our users, how we will use it, and how we will not. This policy is unfortunately longer than we would like, but we must unambiguously address all the relevant cases. We will try and keep the language simple and direct as much as possible.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to this website and all of the products and services contained on and provided by the NIWPGL through this website.
This Privacy Policy is divided into three parts:
Part 1 – Information the NIWPGL collects and controls
This part deals with how the NIWPGL collects and uses information about website visitors, members, users of the NIWPGL products and services, and others who contact the NIWPGL through forms or email addresses published on or linked to our website.
Part 2 – Information that the NIWPGL processes on your behalf
This part deals with how the NIWPGL handles data that you entrust to the NIWPGL when you use our products and services and/or share any personal or confidential information with us.
Part 3 – General
This part deals with topics that are relevant to both Parts 1 and 2 and other general topics such as the NIWPGL security commitments and how we will inform you when we change this Privacy Policy.
Part 1 – Information the NIWPGL collects and controls
What information the NIWPGL collects
We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. The NIWPGL will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) The NIWPGL has automatically collected the information, or (c) The NIWPGL has obtained the information from a third party. Below we describe the various scenarios that fall under each of those three categories and the information collected in each one.
Information that you provide to us
i. Website Visitor: The NIWPGL collects information about the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer automatically when you use the internet. This information is only collected in aggregate (in other words, we are not able to monitor your individual usage of the site) and helps us monitor site traffic patterns in order to improve our service.
This site uses cookies for some interactive features. A cookie is a small amount of data, which includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Most browsers will automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser to reject cookies but some parts of the web site may not function properly if the cookies are rejected.
ii. Account signup: When you sign up for an account to access one or more of our services, we ask for information like your name and email address to complete the account signup process. You will also be required to choose a unique username and a password for accessing the created account. You may also provide us with more information such as your bowling club, photo, time zone and language, but we don't require that information to sign up for an account.
iii. Newsletter and other form submissions: We record information that you submit when you (i) subscribe to our newsletter or any other mailing list, (ii) participate in contests or respond to surveys or (iii) submit a form to contact the NIWPGL for any other purpose.
iv. Share-This Page Services: When you provide the email address of a friend for the NIWPGL to forward a web address, we guarantee that we will only use it for that purpose.
v. Payment processing: When you buy something from us, we ask you to provide your name, contact information and payment account information. When you submit your card information, we store the name and address of the cardholder, the expiry date and the last four digits of the credit card number. We do not store the actual credit card number. For quick processing of future payments, if you have given us your approval, we may store your credit card information or other payment information in an encrypted format in the secured servers of our Payment Gateway Service Providers.
vi. Testimonials: When you authorize us to post testimonials about our products and services on websites, we may include your name and other personal information in the testimonial. You will be given an opportunity to review and approve the testimonial before we post it. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us using the online contact form.
vii. Interactions with the NIWPGL: We may use your interactions with us, including email, for improving our interactions with you and other members and visitors.
Information that we collect automatically
i. Information from browsers, devices and servers: When you visit our website, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our website.
ii. Information from first party cookies and tracking technologies: We use temporary and permanent cookies to identify users of our services and to enhance user experience. We embed unique identifiers in our downloadable products to track usage of the products. We also use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, understand email campaign effectiveness and for targeted visitor and user engagement by tracking your activities on our websites. We only use first-party cookies and do not use third-party cookies or other third-party tracking technologies on our websites.
iii. Information from application logs and mobile analytics: We collect information about your use of our services and products from application logs and in-house usage analytics tools and use it to understand your needs and improve the services and products provided by the NIWPGL. This information includes clicks, scrolls, features accessed, access time and frequency, errors generated, performance data, storage utilized, advertising ID to manage crash statistics, user settings and configurations, and devices used to access and their locations.
Information that we collect from third parties
i. Information from service providers: The NIWPGL may receive information about you from review sites if you comment on any review of our products and services.
ii. Information from social media sites and other publicly available sources: When you interact or engage with us on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram through posts, comments, questions and other interactions, we may collect such publicly available information, including profile information, to allow us to connect with you, improve our products, or better understand user reactions and issues. We must tell you that once collected, this information may remain with us even if you delete it from the social media sites. The NIWPGL may also add and update information about you, from other publicly available sources.
Purposes for using information
In addition to the purposes mentioned above, we may use your information for the following purposes:
To communicate with you (such as through email) about products that you have downloaded and services that you have signed up for, changes to this Privacy Policy, changes to the Terms of Service, or important notices
To keep you posted on new products and services, upcoming events, offers, promotions and other information that we think will be of interest to you
To ask you to participate in surveys, or to solicit feedback on our products and services
To set up and maintain your account, and to do all other things required for providing our services, such as enabling collaboration, providing website and mail hosting, and backing up and restoring your data
To understand how users use our products and services, to monitor and prevent problems, and to improve our products and services
To provide online support and to analyze and improve our interactions with users
To detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, to report spam, and to protect the rights and interests of the NIWPGL, the NIWPGL's users, third parties and the public
To update, expand and analyze our records and provide products and services that may be of interest to you
To analyze trends, administer our website and track visitor navigations on our website to understand what visitors are looking for and to better help them
Legal bases for collecting and using information
Legal processing bases applicable to the NIWPGL: If you are an individual from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for information collection and use depends on the personal information concerned and the context in which we collect it. Most of our information collection and processing activities are typically based on (i) contractual necessity, (ii) one or more legitimate interests of the NIWPGL or a third party that are not overridden by your data protection interests, or (iii) your consent. Sometimes, we may be legally required to collect your information, or may need your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Withdrawal of consent: Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
Legitimate interests notice: Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis and those legitimate interests are not specified above, we will clearly explain to you what those legitimate interests are at the time that we collect your information.
Your choice in information use
Opt out of non-essential electronic communications: You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential messages by using the 'unsubscribe' function included in all such messages. However, you will continue to receive notices and essential transactional emails.
Disable cookies: You can disable browser cookies before visiting our website. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features of the website properly.
Optional information: You can choose not to provide optional profile information such as your photo. You can also delete or change your optional profile information. You can always choose not to fill in non-mandatory fields when you submit any form linked to our website.
Who we share your information with
We do not sell any personal information.
We share your information only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy and only with parties who adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
NIWPGL Personnel: Access to the information covered in Part 1 is provided to authorised NIWPGL Personnel on a need-to-know basis and they are required to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Third-party service providers: We may need to share your personal information and aggregated or de-identified information with third-party service providers that we engage, such as web analytics providers and payment processors. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Other cases: Other scenarios in which we may share the same information covered under Parts 1 and 2 are described in Part 3.
Your rights with respect to information we hold about you as a controller
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights with respect to information that the NIWPGL holds about you and the NIWPGL undertakes to provide you the same rights no matter where you choose to live.
Right to access: You have the right to access (and obtain a copy of, if required) the categories of personal information that we hold about you, including the information's source, purpose and period of processing, and the persons to whom the information is shared
Right to rectification: You have the right to update the information we hold about you or to rectify any inaccuracies. Based on the purpose for which we use your information, you can instruct us to add supplemental information about you in our database.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected.
Right to restriction of processing: You may also have the right to request to restrict the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as when you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Right to data portability: You have the right to transfer your information to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, in circumstances where the information is processed with your consent or by automated means.
Right to object: You have the right to object to the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as the use of your personal information for direct marketing.
Right to complain: You have the right to complain to the appropriate supervisory authority if you have any grievance against the way we collect, use or share your information. This right may not be available to you if there is no supervisory authority dealing with data protection in your country.
Retention of information
We retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or required by law, such as to maintain suppression lists, prevent abuse, if required in connection with a legal claim or proceeding, to enforce our agreements, for tax, accounting, or to comply with other legal obligations. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We will also securely store the information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until deletion is possible.
Security Precautions to protect your Information
The transfer of online transaction data to and from the NIWPGL website is protected by the implementation of a Secure Sockets Layer protocol. The NIWPGL Verisign 128-bit secure certificate allows web browsers to verify the authenticity of our domain and communicate with our site securely, protecting confidential information from interception and hacking.
It is your responsibility to keep your password secure at all times to avoid unauthorized use of your NIWPGL account.
Part 2 – Information that the NIWPGL processes on your behalf
Information entrusted to the NIWPGL and purpose
Information provided in connection with services: You may entrust information that you or your organization ("you") control, to the NIWPGL in connection with use of our services. This includes information regarding your members (if you are a controller) or data that you hold and use on behalf of another person for a specific purpose, such as a member to whom you provide services (if you are a processor). The data may either be stored on our servers when you use our services, or transferred or shared to us as part of a request for other services.
(All the information entrusted to the NIWPGL is collectively termed "service data")
Ownership and control of your service data
We recognize that you own your service data. We provide you complete control of your service data by providing you the ability to (i) access your service data, (ii) share your service data through supported third-party integrations, and (iii) request export or deletion of your service data.
How we use service data
We process your service data when you provide us instructions through the various modules of our services. For example, when you use our newsletter campaign service, the email addresses of the persons on your mailing list will be used for sending the emails.
Who we share service data with
NIWPGL Personnel: We may provide access to your service data to authorised NIWPGL Personnel so that they can (i) identify, analyze and resolve errors, (ii) manually verify emails reported as spam to improve spam detection, or (iii) manually verify scanned images that you submit to us to verify the accuracy of optical character recognition. We ensure that access by authorised NIWPGL Personnel to your service data is restricted to specific individuals, and is logged and audited. The authorised NIWPGL Personnel will also have access to data that you knowingly share with us for support or to import data into our products or services. We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to authorised NIWPGL Personnel and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the NIWPGL.
Collaborators and other users: Some of our products or services allow you to collaborate with other users or third parties. Initiating collaboration may enable other collaborators to view some or all of your profile information. For example, when you edit a document that you have shared with other persons for collaboration, your name and profile picture will be displayed next to your edits to allow your collaborators to know that you made those edits.
Third-party integrations you have enabled: Most of our products and services support integrations with third-party products and services. If you choose to enable any third-party integrations, you may be allowing the third party to access your service information and personal information about you. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of the third-party services and products before you enable integrations with them.
Other cases: Other scenarios in which we may share information that are common to information covered under Parts 1 and 2 are described in Part 3.
Retention of information
We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to use the NIWPGL website. Once you terminate your NIWPGL user account, your data will eventually get deleted from the active database during the next clean-up that occurs once every 6 months. The data deleted from the active database will be deleted from backups after 3 months.
Data subject requests
If you are from the European Economic Area and you believe that we store, use or process your information on behalf of a third party (for example a bowling club official), please contact the third party if you would like to access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to processing, or export your personal data. We will extend our support by responding to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Part 3 - General
Children's personal information
Our products and services are not directed to individuals under 16. The NIWPGL does not knowingly collect personal information from children who are under 16 years of age. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information.
If you believe that a child under 16 years has provided personal information to us, please contact us with the details, and we will take the necessary steps to delete the information we hold about that child.
How secure is your information
We take data security very seriously at the NIWPGL and have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or destruction of the information you entrust to us. If you have any concerns regarding the security of your data, we encourage you to check our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy or contact us with any questions.
Data Protection Officer
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our management of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices with respect to your personal information, you can reach out to our Data Protection Officer by using our online contact form.
Do Not Track (DNT) requests
Some internet browsers have enabled 'Do Not Track' (DNT) features, which send out a signal (called the DNT signal) to the websites that you visit indicating that you don't wish to be tracked. Currently, there is no standard that governs what websites can or should do when they receive these signals. For now, we do not take action in response to these signals.
External links on our websites
Some pages of our websites may contain links to websites that are not linked to this Privacy Policy. If you submit your personal information to any of these third-party sites, your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. As a safety measure, we recommend that you not share any personal information with these third parties unless you've checked their privacy policies and assured yourself of their privacy practices.
News Article Posts and Match Comments
We offer publicly accessible News Article Posts and Match Comments on our websites. Please be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be used to contact you with unsolicited messages. We urge you to be cautious in disclosing personal information in these areas. The NIWPGL is not responsible for the personal information you elect to disclose publicly. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account with the NIWPGL. To request the removal of your information from these areas, use the online contact form.
Social media widgets
Our website includes social media widgets such as Facebook "like" buttons and Twitter "tweet" buttons that let you share articles and other information. These widgets may collect information such as your IP address and the pages you navigate in the website, and may set a cookie to enable the widgets to function properly. Your interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.
Disclosures in compliance with legal obligations
We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your personal information and service data to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements.
Enforcement of our rights
We may disclose personal information and service data to a third party if we believe that such disclosure is necessary for preventing fraud, investigating any suspected illegal activity, enforcing our agreements or policies, or protecting the safety of our users.
Business Transfers
We do not intend to sell the NIWPGL. However, in the unlikely event that we do so or get acquired or merged, we will ensure that the acquiring entity is legally bound to honor our commitments to you. We will notify you via email or through a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or in the uses of your personal information and service data. We will also notify you about any choices you may have regarding your personal information and service data.
Compliance with this Privacy Policy
We make every effort, including periodic reviews, to ensure that personal information you provide is used in conformity with this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our adherence to this Privacy Policy or the manner in which your personal information is used, kindly write to us using the online contact form. We will contact you and if required, coordinate with the appropriate regulatory authorities to effectively address your concerns.
Notification of changes
We may modify the Privacy Policy at any time, upon notifying you through a service announcement or by sending an email to your primary email address. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Policy that affect your rights, you will be provided with at least 30 days' advance notice of the changes by email to your primary email address.
If you think that the updated Privacy Policy affects your rights with respect to your use of our products or services, you may terminate your use by sending us an email within 30 days. Your continued use after the effective date of changes to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the modified Privacy Policy.
You will not receive email notification of minor changes to the Privacy Policy. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, you should check back at the NIWPGL website periodically.
Acceptance of our Privacy Policy
Use of the NIWPGL website implies acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you are not satisfied with any aspect of the Privacy Policy please do not continue to use the NIWPGL website. The Privacy Policy may change from time to time and you are deemed to have accepted the current version each time you use the NIWPGL website.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy please write to us using the online contact form.
DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
This summary notice is part of the detailed Pivacy Policy above and is included to make it easier for individuals to understand how the Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League collects, holds, processes. uses, shares and retains your personal data as part of the activities of the Bowling Association.
Personal data
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).
Data Controller / Data Subject
The Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.
The data subject is the individual whose information is held by the Northen Ireland Womens Private Greens League.
Data collected
We might collect the following:
- Name
- Address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Date of birth
We may also hold the following:
- Photographs of you
- Records of when you contacted us or we contacted you either by telephone, email or by any other means
- any disciplinary information or details of any issues you have us or we have with you
Processing of personal data
The Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
Data is processed only on the explicit consent of the data subject (you).
Use of personal data
We use your personal data for one or more of the following purposes: -
- to facilitate communication with member clubs regarding the affairs of the Association
- to facilitate communication between clubs
- to facilitate communication with Officers, Members of Committee, Honorary Members, Association Players and Association Selectors.
- to record the delegates entitled to attend the Annual General Meeting
- to publish relevant data on the Association’s website
Sharing of Personal Data
We will only share your data with third parties with your consent.
Data retention
Data is deleted from our records as soon as it becomes obsolete. Photographs and biographical information may be retained indefinitely in the archives of the Association.
Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- The right to request a copy of your personal data which the Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League holds about you;
- The right to request that the Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
- The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the Northern Ireland Womens Private Greens League to retain such data;
- The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time
- The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
- The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.
Further Processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Privacy Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions.
Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.
Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact the
Data Protection Officer, please use the online contact form.
You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.
You can contact the Data Protection Commission on +353 57 8684800 or via email