We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your
personal information. This document sets out our policy on how we
will manage your personal information.
What is personal information?
Personal information is information or an opinion (including
information or an opinion forming part of a database) from which it
is possible to determine your identity. Examples of personal
information include your name, postal address, telephone number and
email address.
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect personal information about you in a number of ways,
including:
- directly from you, for example, when you provide information to
us by phone, email, in an application form or through our web sites
(including cricket.com.au and crichit.com.au); and
- from third parties, such as the State and Territory cricket
associations.
How do we use your personal information?
We and the State and Territory cricket associations to whom we
disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy, may use your personal information in order to:
- verify your identity;
- develop, run, administer and market competitions, programs,
activities and other events relating to cricket and other
sports;
- market products, services, merchandise and special offers made
available by us or the State and Territory cricket associations or
our respective corporate partners, licensees, suppliers and
sponsors;
- administer and manage our respective web sites and provide you
with access to those web sites;
- keep you informed of news and information (such as advance
notice of ticket sales) relating to cricket and other sports,
including by distributing newsletters, publications and other
communication via various mediums;
- research and develop new competitions, programs, activities and
other events relating to cricket and other sports; and
- research and develop new products, services and merchandise
relating to cricket and other sports.
If you do not wish to receive our newsletters, publications and
other communications, please contact us (our contact details are
set out below).
Health and sensitive information
In some circumstances we may collect:
- information about your health; or
- other sensitive information about you (for example, information
about your racial or ethnic origin).
We may use health information about you to ensure that cricket
programs in which you participate are run safely and in accordance
with any special health needs you may have and for insurance
purposes.
In addition, we may use de-identified health information and
other sensitive information to carry out research, to prepare
submissions to government or a government body or to plan events
and activities. De-identified information is information which has
been aggregated or otherwise de-identified so that it cannot be
used to identify you or any other individual.
hello When do we disclose your personal information?
We may disclose your personal information to:
- the various State and Territory cricket associations;
- organisations (other than the State and Territory cricket
associations) involved in cricket and sporting programs and
initiatives in Australia;
- companies that we have engaged to carry out functions and
activities on our behalf;
- our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors
and lawyers;
- our insurers;
- the Australian Institute of Sport; and
- otherwise as required or authorised by law.
Our web sites
When you visit our web sites, our systems may record certain
information about your use of those web sites (such as which web
pages you visit and the time and date of your visit). We use this
information to help analyse and improve the performance of our web
sites.
In addition, we may use "cookies" on our web sites. Cookies are
small text files that help a web site to remember your preferences
and improve your experience of using that web site. Using cookies
is standard practice for most large web sites. In some cases, the
cookies that we use may collect some personal information about
you. We will treat this information in the same way as other
personal information we collect about you. If you prefer, you may
be able to disable cookies on your internet browser. However, if
you do so, you will not be able to enjoy the enhanced user
experience that our cookies offer.
We have engaged Nielsen NetRatings to help analyse how our web
sites are used. This analysis is performed using data collected
from the web sites. However, this information is not intended to
and will generally not include any personal information. If you
would prefer that Nielsen NetRatings do not collect even any
anonymous data about how you use our web sites, you can opt-out by
visiting the following web page: http://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs.
We may also collect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses relating to
you when you access and use the web sites. IP addresses are
assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them
within the global network of computers which makes up the internet.
We may collect and manage IP addresses for internet session
management and security purposes.
Accuracy of your personal information
We take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal
information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and
up-to-date. However, we rely on the accuracy of personal
information as provided to us both directly and indirectly.
If you find that the personal information we hold about you is
inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us
immediately (our contact details are set out below) and we will
take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.
How can you access the personal information we hold about
you?
Subject to some exceptions provided by law, you have the right
to access your personal information. For security purposes, if you
would like to access personal information that we hold about you,
we require you to put your request in writing. If we do not allow
you access to any part of the personal information we hold about
you, we will tell you why. We will not charge you for lodging a
request to access your personal information, but we may charge you
for our reasonable costs in supplying you with access to this
information.
How to contact us
If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy,
you can write to our Privacy Officer at 60 Jolimont Street,
Jolimont, VIC, 3002 or send an email to privacy@cricket.com.au.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may need to change this Privacy Policy to
reflect our changing business practices. We may change the Privacy
Policy at any time by posting the changed Privacy Policy on our www.cricket.com.au
web site and by posting a notice to all users on the homepage of
that web site stating that a change has occurred.