The World Cricketers’ Association (the WCA) is the global players’ representative body in cricket. WCA was established in 1998 to co-ordinate the activities of all national players’ associations, which protect the interests of professional cricketers throughout the world.
In this Privacy Policy, any use of the words “you”, “yours” or similar expressions shall mean any user of the Website. Terms such as “we”, “us, “our” or similar expressions shall mean the WCA.
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy will explain how we use the personal data we collect from you when you use our website www.worldcricketers.com (Website), in accordance with the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation as defined in the Data Protection Act 2018 (as amended) (the DPA) and other applicable data protection legislation including the DPA (together, the Data Protection Law).
All the provisions of this Privacy Policy are important, but please pay special attention to the parts that are in bold writing. These parts contain information about provisions that have special consequences for You. These parts are only intended to bring such provisions to Your attention, and, where necessary, to explain their fact, nature and effect. Where explanations are given, they may be contained in a box. Such boxed explanations are aids to understanding only and are not provisions themselves. They do not limit the meaning or application of the provisions, and do not apply only to the situations and examples described in the boxes or only to similar situations or examples.
When personal data is collected and used for the purposes of this policy, the WCA is a “controller” under the Data Protection Law which means that we are responsible for deciding how we use the personal data that we collect about you.
In accordance with the Data Protection Law, we will ensure that the personal data we hold about you is, at all times:
We shall be accountable for and able to demonstrate our compliance with our obligations under the Data Protection Law, and this policy is one of the ways in which we do that.
By using and continuing to use the Website, you provide us with your express consent to process your Personal Data in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. There may be limited instances where we require your express consent for us to Process your Personal Data. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or are concerned about any aspect as it relates to your Personal Data, please do not continue to use the Website, its services or otherwise interact with us.
In the paragraph above you expressly give your permission to us to process your Personal Data in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. By doing this, you know and accept that you are giving up certain parts of your right to privacy.
Personal Data means any information about you from which you can be identified. It does not include data where your identity has been removed (i.e. anonymous data). There are also more sensitive Personal Data which require a higher level of protection, for example personal data revealing or concerning a person’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientations, political opinions and information about health, genetic data and biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person (Special Category Data).
We may collect the following information:-
You directly provide us with most of the Personal Data we collect. We collect and process Personal Data when you:-
We may also receive your data indirectly / passively from the following sources:-
We collect your data so that we can:-
We may collect and use anonymous data to compile profiles for statistical purposes and may freely trade with such profiles and statistical data, provided that the profiles or statistical data remain anonymous and cannot be linked back to you.
We will not intentionally disclose, for commercial gain or otherwise, your Personal Data other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, as permitted by applicable law or with your permission.
You expressly agree and consent that your Personal Data may be shared under the following circumstances:
We will get your permission before disclosing your Personal Data to any third party for any other purpose.
We store your Personal Data:
From time to time, WCA and its service providers may need to transfer to and/or store your Personal Data on servers in a jurisdiction other than where it was collected, and we hereby notify you, and you acknowledge, that such jurisdiction may not have comparable data protection laws.
If the jurisdiction to which Personal Data is transferred does not have laws which provide for the protection of Personal Data in a manner which is at least similar to the protections afforded under English law, we will take reasonably practicable steps to ensure that your Personal Data is adequately protected in that jurisdiction.
We take appropriate reasonable technical and organisational measures to secure the integrity of Personal Data, using accepted technological standards to prevent unauthorised access to or disclosure of your Personal Data, and protect your Personal Data from misuse, loss, alteration or destruction.
We also create a back-up of your Personal Data for operational and safety purposes.
Even by taking the above measures when Processing Personal Information, we do not guarantee that Your Personal Information is 100% secure. Subject to the provisions of this clause 8, as far as the law allows, we will not be liable for any loss, claim and/or damage arising from any unauthorised access, disclosure, misuse, loss, alteration or destruction of Your Personal Information.
In the paragraph you acknowledge that you know and you accept that technology is not absolutely secure and there is a risk that your Personal Data will not be secure when processed by means of technology. We do not promise that we can keep your Personal Data completely secure. You will not be able to take action against us if you suffer losses or damages in these circumstances.
We may keep Personal Data for as long as you continue to access and use the Website, content and/or features available on or through the Website or for as long as reasonably necessary or until you contact us and ask us to destroy the retained information.
Notwithstanding the above and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, we may keep some or all of your Personal Data if and for as long as:
We would like to ensure that you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. You are entitled to the following:-
The right to access your data: you have the right to request that we provide you with copies of your Personal Data. We may charge a nominal fee for this service.
The right to rectification: you have the right to request that we correct any of your Personal Data that you believe is inaccurate. You may also request that we complete any Personal Data that you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: you have the right to request that we erase your Personal Data under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: you have the right to object to us processing your Personal Data under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: you have the right to request that we transfer the Personal Data we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
The right to object: as we have already highlighted, you have the right to object to your Personal Data being used for direct marketing purposes.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. In the event that you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by email at info@theworldca.com.
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You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you may choose to remove cookies from your browser. However, in certain instances, some of the Website features may not function as a result of this.
We are not responsible for any use of your Personal Data which you provide to any third party applications or websites that may be accessed via the Website. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of any third party application or website that you use before providing any of your Personal Data.
We review this Privacy Policy regularly and place any changes on this page. This Privacy Policy was last updated on [DATE ]. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of any updates and amendments to this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, the Personal Data of yours that we hold, or if you would like to exercise your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us by emailing: info@theworldca.com.
Should you wish to report a complaint or you feel that we have not addressed any of your concerns satisfactorily, you may contact the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).
The ICO website is available at https://ico.org.uk/ and their contact information can be found at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/contact-us-public/.
