Privacy Policy
Tennis Ireland 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 Tennis Ireland website or through another method, for example by applying for membership, tournaments, garda vetting, a coach licence, an education course, to join one of our high-performance programmes, app, email notifications and/or newsletters or for a job with Tennis Ireland. 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 Tennis Ireland, Sport Ireland Campus, Snugborough Road, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. Tennis Ireland may also need to transfer your personal information to its Branches, affiliates, agents or sub-contractors – who will process it strictly on Tennis Ireland’s behalf.
We have appointed a Data Protection Compliance Manager to oversee our compliance with data protection laws. In the vast majority of cases, we are the Data Controller of personal data processed as described in this privacy policy for the purposes of Irish and UK Data Protection legislation and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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 Tennis Ireland.
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 organisation, 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 and voice recordings; • identification documents such as passports and identity cards; • 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 or HM Revenue & Customs. • 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. 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. Consent forms are available on request to Tennis Ireland. In the event that Tennis Ireland learns that personal information has been collected without verification of parental consent, the information will be deleted as soon as possible. |
International Transfers | The personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of Ireland and the European Union. Some of these jurisdictions require different levels of protection in respect of personal information and, in certain instances, the laws in those countries may be less protective than the jurisdiction you are typically resident in. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is only used in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws and is respected and kept secure and where a third-party processes your data on our behalf we will put in place appropriate safeguards as required under data protection laws. For further details please contact us by using the details set out in the “Contact Us” section below |
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. |
Your Rights | You have various rights with respect to the use of your personal data: |
Our approach to Security | Approach |
Social Media | The organisation is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube 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 uses analytical tools which aggregate social media engagement in order to measure the performance and success of the organisations social media activities. |
CCTV | The organisation’s main location is based on a University grounds. CCTV systems are provided and managed by the University. They are in place for the purpose of crime prevention, and public safety. |
Categories of Data Subjects
The table below describes the main purposes for which we process your personal information, the categories of your information involved, our lawful basis for being able to do this and the retention period assigned.
Purpose | How we collect the data | Personal data used | Lawful bias | Retention period |
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Squad Participants | ||||
For the purposes of running tennis or multi-sport camps, the organisation will request personal contact details from participants. This information will only be used for the purposes of running the event/camp. | Registration forms and/or email | 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. (Performance of a contract) We process your health information 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.
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.