British Columbia Mainland Cricket League (BCMCL) - Data Privacy Statement

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.  This document sets out our policy on how we will manage your personal information.

What is personal information?
Personal information is information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database) from which it is possible to determine your identity.  Examples of personal information include your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.

How do we collect your personal information?
We collect personal information about you in a number of ways, including:
-directly from you, for example, when you provide information to us by phone, email, in an application form or through our web site; and
-from third parties, such as from our member associations and clubs and from Cricket British Columbia and national and provincial cricket associations (together the "Other Cricket Associations").

How do we use your personal information?
We and third parties (including the Other Cricket Associations) to whom we disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, may use your personal information in order to:
-verify your identity;
-develop, run, administer and market competitions, programs, activities and other events relating to cricket and other sports;
-market products, services, merchandise and special offers made available by us, our member associations and clubs, the Other Cricket Associations or our respective corporate partners, licensees, suppliers and sponsors;
-administer and manage our web site and provide you with access to our web site;
-keep you informed of news and information relating to cricket and other sports, including by distributing newsletters, publications and other communication via various mediums;
-research and develop new competitions, programs, activities and other events relating to cricket; and
-research and develop new products, services and merchandise relating to cricket.
If you do not wish to receive our newsletters, publications and other communications, please advise us in writing (contact details are set out below).
We will require parties that we disclose personal information to, to keep the information confidential and not to use the information other than the purpose for which it is disclosed to them.

When do we disclose your personal information?
We may disclose your personal information to:
-our member associations and clubs;
-organisations (including the Other Cricket Associations ) involved in cricket and sporting programs and initiatives in Canada;
-companies that we have engaged to carry out functions and activities on our behalf;
-our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
-our insurers;
-the Sport British Columbia; and
-otherwise as required or authorised by law.

Our web site
When you visit our web site, our systems may record certain information about your use of our web site (such as which web pages you visit and the time and date of your visit).  We use this information to help analyse and improve the performance of our web site.
In addition, we may use "cookies" on our web site.  Cookies are small text files that help a web site to remember your preferences and improve your experience of using that web site.  Using cookies is standard practice for most large web sites. We will treat this information in the same way as other personal information we collect about you.  If you prefer, you may be able to disable cookies on your internet browser.  However, if you do so, you will not be able to enjoy the enhanced user experience that our cookies offer.
Websites linked to our website are not subject to our privacy standards, policies or procedures. These individual websites would need to be contacted or reviewed directly to determine their privacy standards, policies and procedures.

Accuracy of your personal information
We take all reasonable precautions to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.  However, we rely on the accuracy of personal information as provided to us both directly and indirectly.
If you find that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact us immediately and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that it is corrected.

Protecting Personal Information
We store personal information in paper and/or in electronic form.  The security of information is important to us and reasonable steps to protect it from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure will be taken.
Some of the security measures that we use include:
(a)        confidentiality requirements of our members and service providers;
(b)        security measures for computer/data base system access; and
(c)        security measures on our websites, www.bcmcl.ca and bcmcl.org

How can you access the personal information we hold about you?
Subject to some exceptions provided by law, you have the right to access your personal information.  For security purposes, if you would like to access personal information that we hold about you, we require you to put your request in writing.  If we do not allow you access to any part of the personal information we hold about you, we will tell you why.  We will not charge you for lodging a request to access your personal information, but we may charge you for our reasonable costs in supplying you with access to this information.

How to contact us

If you have any questions in relation to this Privacy Policy, you can write to us Box 100 - 12886 96th Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3V 6A8 or send an email to
 
Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, we may need to change this Privacy Policy to reflect our changing business practices.  We may change the Privacy Policy at any time by posting the changed Privacy Policy on our web site.

British Columbia Mainland Cricket League
February 2013