PRIVACY POLICY
The London School Of Basketball (and all trading entities, inclusive of ‘London Basketball’ ‘Hoopstars’ and the ‘LSB’) is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
1 – What information do we collect?
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views)
(b) information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services (including all transactions carried out in our online store).
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us (including event registration forms, participation waivers, competitions, voting and any other area of the site in which we request your personal information registration purposes)
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters
(e) any other information that you choose to send to us.
(g) Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website; and monitor page impressions to assess content popularity to help us in our ongoing efforts to provide you with the best site possible. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Our advertisers/payment services providers may also send you cookies.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.
2- Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the website;
(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
(c) enable your use of the services available on the website;
(d) send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
(e) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
(f) send you general communications;
(g) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
(h) send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications (relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology – you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(i) provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
(j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website; and;
(k) OTHER USES.
Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
We will not, without your express consent, provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.
All of our website financial transactions are handled through our services provider, PayPal and/or Google Checkout. You should only provide your personal information to PayPal and/or Google Checkout after reviewing their relevant privacy policies (available at https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full and https://checkout.google.com/files/privacy.html). We will share information with PayPal and/or Google Checkout only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website.
3- Other disclosures
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to any of our agents, suppliers or subcontractors (but only as reasonably necessary for our purposes as set out above); and
(e) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
4- International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States, Japan, Canada) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the EEA.
In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world.
You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.
5- Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall- protected) servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted.
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will not ask you for your password.
6- Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.
7- Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a nominal administration fee.
You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)
8- Third party websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third-party websites.
9- Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
10- Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please contact us by email, directed to accounts@londonschoolofbasketball.com or by post to London School Of Basketball (and all trading entities, inclusive of ‘London Basketball’ ‘Hoopstars’ and the ‘LSB’), 6th Floor, 2 Lakeside Drive, London NW10 7FF.
