Celbridge Lawn Tennis Club Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy is to explain how we may use personal information submitted by you either by means of the Celbridge LTC website or through another method, for example by applying for membership, tournaments, garda vetting, email / What’s App notifications  It explains how we comply with the law on data protection in the territories we operate in and what your rights are in relation to this policy.

References to organisation, we, our or us in this privacy policy are to Celbridge Lawn Tennis Club. Celbridge LTC may also need to transfer your personal information to Tennis Ireland, Leinster Tennis, DLTC, and other tournament organisers who will process it strictly on Celbridge LTC’s behalf.

This Privacy Policy describes our approach to privacy. It includes detailed information about the type of personal data that we process and how it is processed by Celbridge Lawn Tennis Club.

Contact details are set out in the “Contact Us” section at the end of this privacy policy.

 

Whose data we may have:

In operating the club, we process personal data of players, coaches, employees, Committee Members, Officials, Post Holders, Open Tournament entrants, and Website Visitors. 

What data we process 

Depending on the type of interaction with us, you may initially provide us with or we may obtain personal information about you, such as information regarding your:

  • personal contact details that allows us to contact you directly such as name, title, email addresses and telephone numbers;
  • date of birth, gender, health information;
  • records of your interactions with us such as telephone conversations, emails and other correspondence and your instructions to us;
  • any credit/debit card and other payment details you provide so that we can receive payments from you and details of the financial transactions with you;
  • records of your attendance at any events hosted by us;
  • CCTV footage and other information obtained through electronic means;
  • images in video and/or photographic form
  • details of any garda vetting;
  • details of next of kin, family members, coaches and emergency contacts;
  • records and assessment of any player rankings, grading or ratings, competition results, details regarding events/matches/games attended and performance (including that generated through player programs);
  • any disciplinary and grievance information
Who we share our data with 

To provide leading tennis services to you or process your request, we may share your personal data:

  • Organisation employees, volunteers etc. as applicable for the interaction
  • To any governing bodies or regional bodies for our sport: to allow them to properly administer the sports on a local, regional, national and international level. These include Sport Ireland, Tennis Ireland Branches, Tennis Europe, The International Tennis Federation (ITF), and Irish Tennis Umpires Association, and affiliated Tennis Organisations, e.g., Dublin Lawn Tennis Council (DLTC), Tennis Coach Ireland
  • The government: where we are required to do so by law or to assist with their investigations or initiatives. These include Revenue Commissioners
  • Gardaí or PSNI: to assist with the investigation and prevention of crime.
  • With our selected third parties including certain service providers we have retained in connection with the services we provide, such as event management software, and event management specialists;
Children

Children may not provide any personal information (including name, email address, phone number or any other information that others could contact them directly) without verifiable parental consent. Celbridge LTC and Tennis Ireland does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for any of our services.

Retention 

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements.

The applicable retention period for each category of data is set out in the sections below.

Upon expiry of the applicable retention period, we will securely return it to our clients if requested, however, normally we destroy your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

Your Rights 

You have various rights with respect to the use of your personal data:

  • Informed: You have the right to be informed when your personal data is being used
  • Access: You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you. There are exceptions to this right, so that access may be denied if, for example, making the information available to you would reveal personal data about another person, or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. If you wish to do this, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
  • Accuracy: We aim to keep your personal data accurate, current, and complete. We encourage you to contact us by emailing us at the contact box on this website or by emailing membership@celbridgetennis.ie to let us know if any of your personal data is not accurate or changes, so that we can keep your personal data up to date. However, we do ask members to keep their personal information as up to date as possible by editing their information provided on their Smart Club dashboards.
  • Objecting: In certain circumstances, you also have the right to object to our processing of your personal data and to ask us to block, erase and restrict your personal data. If you would like us to stop using your personal data, please contact us by emailing us at the contact box on this website or by contacting membership@celbridgetennis.ie
  • Porting: You have the right to request that some of your personal data is provided to you, or to another data controller, in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Erasure: You have the right to erase your personal data when the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or when, among other things, your personal data have been unlawfully processed. This right is limited to certain circumstances.

Whilst this privacy policy sets out a general summary of your legal rights in respect of personal information, this is a very complex area of law. More information about your legal rights can be found on the Irish Data Protection Commission’s website at www.dataprotection.ie or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office website at www.ico.org.uk

To exercise any of the above rights, or if you have any questions relating to your rights, you may contact us by using the details set out in the “Contact Us” section on our website.

Our approach to Security 

Approach

We endeavour to use appropriate technical and physical security measures to protect your personal data which is transmitted, stored or otherwise processed by us, from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access. Our service providers are also selected carefully and required to use appropriate protective measures.

When you contact us to ask about your information, we may ask you to identify yourself. This is to help protect your information.

Limitations

As effective as modern security practices are, no physical or electronic security system is entirely secure. No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure or confidential. Although we will do our best to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of your data transmitted to our site. Any transmission of data is at your own risk. Once we receive your data, we will use appropriate security measures to seek to prevent unauthorised access. We will continue to revise policies and implement additional security features as new technologies become available.

In the unlikely event that there is an interception or unauthorised access to your personal data, we will not be liable or responsible for any resulting misuse of your personal information.

Social Media 

Celbridge LTC is active on Facebook and Instagram and shares links to some of our content on these platforms. The club utilises these channels to provide information to the public regarding the organisation, the sport of tennis and to answer queries sent through these channels.

The Club Captains use Invitation What’s App groups to communicate quickly with members regarding day-to-day business. When you join, you will be invited to join these groups, and you can decide to share your mobile details or not with them. Some of these groups are set to Admin only posts.

CCTV 

The courts and clubhouse location are based on our grounds on the Hazel Hatch Road. CCTV are in place there for the purpose of crime prevention, and public safety only.  

Any weather cam that may be introduced at the club will be for the purpose of supplying an overview of the weather situation at the club so that members can decide if the conditions are suitable at the grounds to come and play tennis. Recordings will not be made or gathered from a weather cam.

Purpose  How we collect the data  Personal data used  Lawful bias  Retention period 
Squad Participants, camp participants, league participants, coaching prog participants             
For the purposes of running tennis or multi-sport camps, tournaments etc… the organisation will request personal contact details from participants. This information will only be used for the purposes of running the event/camp/ tournament  Registration forms and/or email/ What’s app messages/ Google/ Microsoft Forms  Name, address, phone number(s), email address, DOB/Age Category, health information. 

In order to process your request to participate in the event/camp and ongoing services such as payment processing, changes to schedule, expected during and after the event/camp.  

We process your health declaration e.g. Asthma, allergies etc… in your vital interest. It is to ensure you are safe during the duration of the event/camp. 

Name and contact details: 400 days 

Health information: Upon completion of the event/camp 
Website Visitors             
Details are provided in our Cookie Policy available on our website.  N/A  N/A  N/A  N/A 

Notes: 

For some of your personal information you will have a legal, contractual or other requirement or obligation for you to provide it to us. If you do not provide us with the requested personal information, we may not be able to provide our service or we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you or comply with legal obligations. For other personal information you may not be under an obligation to provide it to us, but if you do not provide it then we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you. 

Where you have given us your consent to use your personal information in a particular manner, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, which you may do by contacting us as described in the “Contacting us” section on the website or by emailing membership@celbridgetennis.ie 

Please note however that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect any use of the data made before you withdrew your consent, and we may still be entitled to hold and process the relevant personal information to the extent that we are entitled to do so on bases other than your consent. Withdrawing consent may also have the same effects as not providing the information in the first place, for example we may no longer be able to provide certain member benefits to you. 

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.

Smart Club Solutions  

Follow this link to see how Smart club Solutions manages membership data, what they hold in their  Cloud and how secure is it?