This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Sportcount Europe, collect and process your personal data through your use of this website, https://sportcount-europe.com (our website), or where we otherwise obtain or collect your personal information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We recommend that you print off a copy of this Privacy Policy and any future versions in force from time to time for your records.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOU
We collect personal data about you. This means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. This data is only collected from you when you provide it to us, such as through your use of our website and its features, when you contact us directly by email, phone, in writing, or via social media, when you order goods and services, when you use any of our other websites or applications or any other means by which you provide personal information to us.
INFORMATION RECEIVED ABOUT YOU FROM THIRD PARTIES
We may receive information about you from third parties such as our affiliates, business partners, (where authorised or permitted by law) credit and fraud checking agencies, as well as third parties with whom we have had no prior contact.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE
We also collect information about your use of our website through cookies and similar technologies. Our cookies policy sets out more of the information on how we use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about you.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT OR OBTAIN ABOUT YOU
The type of information we collect about you includes information such as:
your name;
your email address;
your address;
your phone number;
your payment information (e.g. your credit or debit card details);
your IP address;
information about your device (e.g. device and browser type);
information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time you viewed them and what you clicked on);
information about your mobile device (such as your geographical location);
INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM YOU
When you contact us by email, the information we collect about you will be your name and email address and any other information you provide to us.
When you contact us using the contact form on our website, we will collect:
your name
email address
We also collect any other information you provide to us, including any optional information.
Such as:
phone number
address
When you place an order for goods or services on our website, we will collect:
your name
email address
phone number
billing address
shipping address
company name (if applicable)
payment details
We also collect any other optional information you provide to us collected by optional fields.
INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES
Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but also any additional information they provide to us.
We may also obtain personal information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, such as the electoral register, online customer databases, business directories, media publications, social media, websites, and other publicly accessible sources.
Please note that there are circumstances in which we may not be required to provide you with the information contained in this Privacy Policy (if you already have the information, for example).
CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE WE WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY IF WE OBTAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM SOMEONE OTHER THAN YOU
Where we obtain personal information about you from a source other than yourself, we will provide you with the information in this Privacy Policy unless:
you already have the information;
providing you with the information would prove impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort;
we are under an EU or EU member state law obligation to obtain or disclose the information which provides appropriate measures to protect your legitimate interests; or
we are obliged to keep the information confidential as a result of an obligation of professional secrecy regulated by EU or EU member state law.
TIMEFRAMES FOR PROVIDING YOU WITH THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY WHERE WE HAVE OBTAINED YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM A SOURCE OTHER THAN YOU
Where we obtain personal information about you from a source other than yourself, and we are required to provide you with the information in this Privacy Policy, we will provide it to you at the following points in time:
if we intend to use your personal information to communicate with you, at the point when we first communicate with you;
if we envisage that we will disclose your personal information to a third party, when we disclose your personal information to that third party (at the latest); and
in any other circumstances, within a reasonable period after obtaining your personal information (and in any event within one month at the latest), taking into account the specific circumstances in which we use your personal information.
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUSINESS PURPOSES
Improving our website and business, including personalising our website and services for you and other customers. This is necessary for our legitimate interest of better understanding our customers’ and potential customers’ preferences and tailoring our website, products and services to their needs, preferences and desires.
Communicating directly with you with information, updates and changes to our website and in response to enquiries we receive from you. This is necessary for our legitimate interests of informing you about changes to our business, website and privacy policy and responding to enquiries we receive from you.
Providing you with offers relating to our products and services which are similar to the products and services which you purchased from us or were in negotiations to purchase from us (provided that you did not opt-out from receiving such communications either at the time or subsequently). This is necessary for our legitimate interest of direct marketing and advertising our products and services.
Protecting our business and our business interests, including for the purposes of credit and background checks, fraud and website misuse prevention and debt recovery. This is necessary for our legitimate interests of preventing criminal activity such as fraud or money laundering, for ensuring that our website and services are not misused. Where we carry out credit and background checks, we will only carry out such checks to the extent that we are permitted or authorised by law to do so and to the minimum extent necessary.
Communicating with our business advisors and legal representatives. This is necessary for our legitimate interests of obtaining legal or professional business advice. In such circumstances, we will only share your personal information where it is necessary to do so, to the minimum extent necessary, subject to appropriate confidentiality restrictions and on an anonymised basis wherever possible.
We use a third party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our e-newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/.
Processing or passing on your personal information to third parties, such as payment service providers, including PayPal, Checkout.com, in order to process your payments for goods and services you order from us. This is necessary for us to perform a contract we have entered into with you (or to take steps, at your request, to enter into a contract with you) and for that third party’s legitimate interest in processing your payment(s) for goods and services you order from us. You can access the privacy policy of PayPal, Checkout.com here: https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev, https://www.checkout.com/legal/privacy-policy.
Ensuring physical, network and information security and integrity. This is necessary for our legitimate interest of ensuring that our IT systems and networks are secure and uncompromised, including, for example, preventing malware, viruses, bugs or other harmful code, preventing unauthorised access to our systems, and any form of attack on, or damage to, our IT systems and networks.
In connection with disclosure requests and in the case of a business or share sale or sale or purchase of a business and/or assets, whether actual or potential. This is necessary for our legitimate interests of selling and/or ensuring and promoting the success of our business. Where we share your personal information with a prospective purchaser or seller, we will do so on a strictly need-to-know basis, subject to appropriate confidentiality restrictions, on an anonymised basis as far as possible and only to the extent strictly necessary for any of these purposes.
ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICAL PURPOSES
Providing statistical information to third parties such as Google Analytics, and SOZO Design Ltd. This is necessary for our and third parties’ legitimate interests of processing personal information for research purposes, including market research, better understanding our respective customers, and tailoring our respective products and services to their needs.
Displaying advertisements to you and analysing the information we receive in relation to those advertisements. This is necessary for our own and for third parties’ legitimate interests in direct marketing and advertising our and their products and services respectively, and for market research purposes.
LEGAL AND ENFORCEMENT OF LEGAL RIGHTS
Enforcing our legal rights. This is necessary for our legitimate interest of protecting our business and enforcing our contractual and other legal rights.
Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority. This is necessary for our legitimate interest of preventing crime, for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, in the general public interest or for the legitimate interests of governmental bodies and competent authorities that prevent crime.
In connection with any legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings. This is necessary for our legitimate interest of resolving disputes and making such disclosures as are required by law or which we consider, acting reasonably, are required by law.
Complying with laws, regulations and other legal requirements. We may need to use and process your personal information in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, we may require your personal information pursuant to a statutory obligation to conduct anti-money-laundering checks or to disclose your information to a court following receipt of a court order or subpoena. We may also need your personal information to comply with ongoing legal obligations, such as tax laws and regulations to which we are subject (where you have placed an order for goods or services with us for example).
The processing of your personal information to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject applies to legal obligations of other countries where they have been integrated into the legal framework of the United Kingdom, for example in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed. Where the legal obligations of another country have not been so integrated, we will process your information to comply with such obligations where it is in our legitimate interest to do so.
HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
In general, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:
the purpose(s) for which we are processing your personal information, such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or for our legitimate interests;
whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information, such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by applicable law; and
whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your personal information, such as your consent.
Where you order goods or services from us, we will retain your information for six years from the end of the financial year in which you purchased those goods or services from us, in accordance with our legal obligations to keep records for tax purposes.
Where you contact us with an enquiry, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and for 6 further month(s), after which point we will delete your information.
OUR USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users of a website.
We use cookies and similar technologies on or via our website.
You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings, but doing so may impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features.
We use Google Analytics on our website to understand how you engage and interact with it. For information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data using cookies, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
We use web beacons in our marketing emails and on our website. For information on how third parties use information gathered from our use of web beacons, please visit https://www.mailchimp.com. Some (but not all) browsers enable you to restrict the use of web beacons by either preventing them from sending information back to their source (e.g. when you choose browser settings which block cookies and trackers) or by not accessing the images containing them (e.g. if you select a “do not display images (in emails)” setting in your email server).
YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR CERTAIN PURPOSE
You have the following rights in relation to your personal information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise the rights in the preceding section (Your rights in relation to your personal information):
to object to us using or processing your personal information where we use or process it in order to carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. predicting your behaviour based on your personal information) based on any of these purposes; and
to object to us using or processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes (including any automated evaluation we make about you or any of your characteristics as a person, to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing).
You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes by:
clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link;
CONSEQUENCES OF NOT PROVIDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US
Where you wish to purchase products or services from us, we require your personal information in order to enter into a contract with you. We may also require your personal information pursuant to a statutory obligation (in order to be able to send you an invoice for products and services you wish to order from us, for example).
If you do not provide your personal information, we will not be able to enter into a contract with you or to provide you with those products or services.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time without providing prior notice to you. If required by law, we will make such changes to our Privacy Policy known to you by posting a notice on the website and/or by us posting an updated version of our Privacy Policy on our website with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your personal information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.
Where we intend to use your personal information for a new purpose other than the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it, we will provide you with information about that purpose and any other relevant information before we use your personal information for that new purpose and obtain your consent if required.
CHANGES TO YOUR INFORMATION
Please inform us of any changes to any information (including personal information) which we hold about you so we can keep the information we hold about you accurate and up-to-date.
COPYRIGHT, CREDIT AND LOGO
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