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Warwick Sport Privacy Notice
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Warwick Sport Privacy Notice

Source: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/legalandcomplianceservices/dataprotection/otherprivacynotices/warwick-sport/ Parent: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/legalandcomplianceservices/dataprotection/otherprivacynotices/

About this Notice

Our participating students, clubs, customers and partners are extremely important to us, and this notice explains how (and for what reason) Warwick Sport and the wider University of Warwick collects, stores, manages and generally makes use of your personal data- that is any information that relates to you.

In this notice personal data will be referred to simply as ‘information’.

Who we are and what we do

Warwick Sport is part of the University of Warwick and supports the university’s objectives through facilitating participation in activity and sport that builds healthy communities. We do this by offering a range of services and events and providing facilities for the provision of sport and active participation. We also provide advice and work in partnership with other key departments such as wellbeing support services. We work alongside Warwick SU to ensure student sport clubs have what they need to participate in their chosen sport during their time at University and we partner with national sporting bodies and associations to promote key sporting activities.

Explanation of terms

References to “WS”, “University”, “we”, “our” and “us” refers to Warwick Sport and UOW.

References to “you” and “your” refers to students, clubs, customers, alumni, partners, donors and other stakeholders of Warwick Sport and UOW.

The UK General Data Protection Regulation will be referred to as “UK GDPR”.

“Personal data” is any information that relates to you. It can also include expressions of opinions about you.

“Special personal data” is that of a more sensitive nature such as that relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. It also includes any processing of genetic or biometric information if the purpose is to uniquely identify an individual. It also includes information concerning [physical or mental] health or information concerning an individual’s sex life or sexual orientation.

A “data subject” is the person who is the subject of the data i.e. it is about them.

What information do we collect?

The information we collect (either directly from you or given to us by others such as our clubs and memberships or taken from student records) may include:

In addition to the above we may also collect special personal data such as:

Purposes

We process your information to enable us to:

The Law

We lawfully process your ’ordinary’ information in one or more of the following ways, when:

We lawfully process your special data either where we have your explicit consent; to protect your vital interests -where you are incapable of giving consent; in connection with legal claims; for reasons of substantial public interest or for the purposes of preventative medicine or the provision of health treatment.

Consent/Contract

If we rely upon your consent as the legal ground to process your information you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

You must provide some information to us in order for us to enrol you as a member or user of our facilities. If you do not provide the information necessary to do this then we will not be able to enrol you.

How we collect your information (other than from you directly)

Sometimes we receive information from:

Student’s Union, Wellbeing Services, by way of health care professional referral, from Harlands – our direct debit provider, from Alliance Leisure (sales), from NICAS and, from other partners.

Do we share your information?

We may share some of your information with the following:

No Name Why
1 Gladstone For the purposes of access and booking as the Leisure Management System
2 TA6 Alliance Leisure For the purposes of membership sales
3 City of Coventry Swim Club For the purposes of administrating the Learn to Swim Programme
4 Inspire2Coach For the purposes of administrating the Tennis Centre
5 Harlands For the purpose of processing online Direct Debits
6 NICAS For monitoring progress in climbing
7 Mail Chimp For email marketing purposes
8 University of Warwick Departments For shared student and staff support services
Marketing

If at any time you would like to change your preferences to receive marketing communications then you can update your preferences at any time by logging in to Warwick Sport and accessing ‘My account’ or by contacting us by email at warwicksport@warwick.ac.uk

Your rights

The table below briefly summarises your rights and where those rights and the information on those rights can be found within the UK GDPR. You can find more information about these rights on the ICO website.

Rights Article
1 To be informed about our use of your information 13/14
2 Access your own personal data 15
3 Right to correct errors in personal information (rectification) 16
4 Right to erase your personal information (right to be forgotten) 17
5 Right to restrict our processing of your information 18
6 Right to a copy of your personal information or transfer it to another controller (information portability). 20
7 Right to object to our information processing/direct marketing 21
8 Right not to be subject to automated decision-making 22
9 Right to be notified of a personal data breach that poses a high risk to your rights and freedoms 34

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please see ‘how to contact us’, below.

How long do we keep your information?

In short- for no longer than we need to.

For any user of our facilities we generally retain your information for 7 years after you cease to use our facilities.

Full details of the retention periods of records can be found by viewing the records management page and selecting the University’s Record Retention Schedule (RRS), which is kept up to date separately.

How to contact us

Please speak to a member of Warwick Sport first of all if you are unhappy with the way your information has been processed by phone 024 7652 3011 or by email at sportfeedback@warwick.ac.uk You can also contact our Data Protection Officer via email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk After that, if you are still unhappy, you may contact the Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone 0303 123 1113.

Future changes

This notice may be updated from time to time in order to reflect changes in the information that we process and how such information is processed. Where there has been a significant update we will publish the same on our website and publicise the fact around campus. Last revised: 03 February 2023.

Additional help

If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’ above).