International Rugby Board (including its associated companies) ("IRB", “us, “our” or “we”) have created this privacy statement to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. The following is a full description of our information gathering and dissemination practices for www.keeprugbyclean.com and/or www.irbkeeprugbyclean.com ("the site"). It sets out the way in which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1988 (as amended), the data controller is the International Rugby Board having its principal place of business at First Floor, Huguenot House, 35-38 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Ireland.
In general, you can visit the site without providing personal information. However, there may be times when we will request personal information in order that you may participate in the site's activities or features. Information is typically requested when you wish to take part in certain activities available on the site, such as when you wish to contact us, request particular information, or subscribe to our newsletter services and/or other services (for example, subscription services) that may be made available on the site from time to time. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on the site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to tell us in what language the site should be presented to you, to improve the site and deliver a better and more personalised service. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser setting to prevent cookies being stored. However, if you adjust your browser setting in this way, you may be unable to access certain parts of the site.
Please note that third parties advertising on our site may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
When you submit personal information to IRB through the site, you agree that your information may be stored and processed by and/or on behalf of IRB.
IRB may also collect information about your interaction with the site and the services on the site. This may include information about your computer and, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. In particular, IRB reserves the right to perform statistical analysis of user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to ascertain the number of users that have visited particular web pages. In performing statistical analysis, parts of the site use Google Analytics (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.) to capture and analyze site statistics. Google Analytics is a cookie-based analytics program that uses cookies to track internet website activity. Google Analytics typically collects, at least temporarily, information about your use of the site, including IP address, network location, hostname, web pages requested, referring web page, browser used and date and time. No personal information is stored within the cookies. Cookies can be disabled within a browser’s preference or option menu. For more information about Google Analytics, see Google’s Privacy Policy and Google Analytics Terms of Services, accessible via www.google.com. IRB will provide only aggregated data from these statistical analyses to third parties and this statistical data does not identify any individual.
IRB confirms that in general it will only use the personal information you provide within IRB. Where we want to pass your personal information on to someone else, unless you have already and/or previously given us your permission to do so, we will tell you - refer to the notices on particular web pages that let you know why we are requesting your personal information and to whom it will be made available. The option will then be yours to submit your personal information or not.
We collect and use your information in order to give you a better service and to provide you with information you request, including information about the IRB, its events, the Game of Rugby Union and the IRB Keep Rugby Clean programme. Your information may also be used to fulfil your requests for certain services and/or to participate in certain activities and make the site more useful to you.
The personal information you provide may be used by us or our associated organisations to deliver the information or services you request. Your personal information is also used to contact you when necessary.
You have the right to prevent marketing information being sent direct to you. If you prefer not to receive information from us or from any other organisation to which we may wish to disclose your personal information, ensure that you do not tick the "opt in" box which appears where you are submitting your personal data. If you wish, at any time, to be removed from the newsletter list, please send an email with "unsubscribe" in the Subject line to irb@irb.com.
The associated organisations to which, with your permission, we will release your personal information are limited to our worldwide partners, tournament sponsors and official suppliers, IRB (including its associated companies), and the Member Unions thereof, organisations associated with us and the organising committees of IRB tournaments. IRB will only disclose your personal information without notice when it believes disclosure to be required by law or regulation, or necessary to protect or defend the rights or property of IRB, the safety of the public or the users of the site.
We comply with the terms of the European Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (Directive 2002/58/EC) and, in particular:
Please understand that where you have opted out of receiving further communications, it may take us a few days to process your request.
If you are under 16, you must obtain the approval of a parent or guardian before you send us any of your personal information (such as your name, e-mail address, home address, date of birth etc).
We reserve the right to change our security and privacy policies at any time. Accordingly, we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review our current policies.
The site may contain links to other websites whose privacy and information practices may be different to ours. You should consult the other websites' privacy statements and/or notices. IRB is not responsible or liable for the content or privacy policies of other websites.
We use physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard the information we collect from you online. We urge you to take precautions to protect your personal information when you are on the Internet. Keep any passwords safe and make sure you use a secure browser.
Some of the organisations to which we may disclose your personal information may be situated outside of the European Union. In order to provide you with the information and services you require, we may need to transfer your personal information to these countries, some of which may not protect privacy and personal data rights as extensively as in the European Union. If you do not consent to your personal information being sent outside the European Union, please do not send it to us.
You have the right to receive a copy of and/or access, correct, modify and/or remove the personal information that we hold about you.
If you wish to receive a copy of the personal information that we hold about you, you shall make a request in writing to the contact details set out below. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any particular request you make for a copy of such personal information.
If you wish to access, correct or modify any personal information you have provided to us, you have the right to access such information and to have same corrected and/or modified, if applicable. Any request(s) to access, correct and/or modify your personal information shall be in writing and shall be directed to the contact details as set out below and shall include enough information to enable us to satisfy ourselves as to your identity and to process your request.
If you wish to have the personal information you provided to us removed and/or if you no longer wish for your personal information to be processed, stored and/or used, your request shall be in writing and shall be directed to the contact details as set out below and shall include enough information to enable us to satisfy ourselves as to your identity and to determine the personal information you request to be removed.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the site or your dealings with the site, you can contact us at the contact details as set out below.
You can contact us by emailing us at irb@irb.com or by writing to us at the address set out below.
This privacy statement is subject to change without notice.
This privacy statement was last updated on 28th October 2009.
International Rugby Board
Huguenot House,
35-38 St. Stephen's Green,
Dublin 2,
Ireland.
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