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Privacy Notice

We are committed to respecting your privacy. This notice is to explain how we may use personal information we collect before, during and after your visit with us. This notice explains how we comply with the law on data protection, what your rights are and for the purposes of data protection we will be the controller of any of your personal information.

This notice applies to you if you are either:

  1. An individual player/ participant of pickleball who has registered his/her interest in participating in the sport competitively and/or whose details we have collected from one of our affiliated clubs, schools, universities or other third-party referral;

  2. A coach, technical official or referee who has visited the Premier Pickleball League website to find out more about the training clinics and festival services we offer; or

  3. A fan, participant or supporter of the Premier Pickleball League who has contacted us to purchase any of our online merchandise and/or signed up to receive updates about upcoming events, offers and ways to get involved further with pickleball.

References to we, our or us in this privacy notice are to the Premier Pickleball League Ltd (Company number 15100487).

We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our compliance with data protection laws as we are not required to do so, but our Directors overall responsibility for data protection compliance in our organisation.

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Contact details are set out in the “Have Your Say” section at the end of this privacy notice.

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1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

When you sign up for clinics, festivals or events with us, you may provide us with or we may obtain personal information about you, such as information regarding your:

  • personal contact details that allows us to contact you directly such as name, title, email addresses and telephone numbers;

  • date of birth;

  • gender;

  • records of your interactions with us such as telephone conversations, emails and other correspondence and your instructions to us;

  • any credit/debit card and other payment details you provide so that we can receive payments from you and details of the financial transactions with you;

  • use of and movements through our online portal, passwords, personal identification numbers, IP addresses, user names and other IT system identifying information;

  • CCTV footage and other information obtained through electronic means such as swipe card and key fob records;

  • records of your attendance at any events or tournaments hosted by us or a member pickleball club;

  • images in video and/or photographic form and voice recordings; and

  • your marketing preferences so that we know whether and how we should contact you.

Players/Participants

If you are a player/participant who has registered his/her interest in participating in the sport competitively, you may also provide us with or we may obtain the following additional personal information from you:

  • identification documents such as passport and identity cards;

  • details of any club and/or county membership;

  • details of family members and coaches;

  • records and assessment of any player rankings, gradings or ratings, competition results, details regarding [events/matches/games] attended and performance (including that generated through any youth development  programme);

  • any disciplinary and grievance information;

  • any details required for the purposes of awarding scholarship funding or grants;

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2. SPECIAL CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of more sensitive personal information regarding you:

  •  information about your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs and sexual orientation;

  • information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records, medical records and health professional information; and

  • biometric information about you, for example fingerprints, retina scans.

We may not collect all of the above types of special category personal information about you. In relation to the special category personal data that we do process we do so on the basis that

  • the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on a lawful basis;

  • it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;

  • it is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising our or your rights in the field of employment and social security and social protection law; or

  • based on your explicit consent.

In the table below, we refer to these as the “special category reasons for processing of your personal data”.

We may also collect criminal records information from you. For criminal records history, we process it on the basis of legal obligations or based on your explicit consent.

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3. WHERE WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We typically collect personal information about our you when visiting our website www.premierpickleball.co.uk, to purchase any services or products we offer e.g. festival entries, clinics, team kit order, when you make a query and/or complaint or when you correspond with us by phone, e-mail or in some other way.

If you are a player/participant pickleball  we also may collect personal information about you from any club, school or other organisation you are affiliated with or from other referrals such as from coaches or talent scouts.

If you are providing us with details of referees, next of kin, beneficiaries, family members and emergency contacts they have a right to know and to be aware of what personal information we hold about them, how we collect it and how we use and may share that information. Please share this privacy notice with those of them whom you feel are sufficiently mature to understand it. They also have the same rights as set out in the “Your rights in relation to personal information” section below.

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4. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

Information provided by visitors will be used only for the general purposes and operation of Premier Pickleball League

  • For some of your personal information you will have a legal, contractual or other requirement or obligation for you to provide us with your personal information. If you do not provide us with the requested personal information we may not be able to admit you or we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you or comply with legal obligations and we may have to refuse you entry to PPL events, festivals and clinics. For other personal information you may not be under an obligation to provide it to us, but if you do not provide it then we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you.

  • Where you have given us your consent to use your personal information in a particular manner, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, which you may do by contacting us as described in the “Have Your Say ” section below.

  • Please note however that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect any use of the data made before you withdrew your consent and we may still be entitled to hold and process the relevant personal information to the extent that we are entitled to do so on bases other than your consent. Withdrawing consent may also have the same effects as not providing the information in the first place, for example we may no longer be able to provide certain member benefits to you.

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5. DIRECT MARKETING

Email, post and SMS marketing: from time to time, we may contact you by email, post or SMS with information about products and services we believe you may be interested in.

We will only send marketing messages to you in accordance with the marketing preferences you set. You can then let us know at any time that you do not wish to receive marketing messages by visiting contact us section . You can also unsubscribe from our marketing by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the marketing messages we send to you.

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6. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share personal information with the following parties:

  • Any party approved by you.

  • To any governing bodies, regional / county bodies for the sports covered by our association: to allow them to properly administer the sport on a local, regional, national level and international level.

  • To clubs / grounds: to allow them to properly administer the sport on an event level.

  • Other service providers: for example, email marketing specialists, payment processors, data analysis, CCTV contractors, promotional advisors, contractors or suppliers and IT services (including support, development, CRM, website, video and teleconference services);

  • Our supply chain partners & sub-contractors, such as couriers, import/export agents, shippers;

  • Our Commercial Partners: for the purposes of providing you with information on any tickets, special offers, opportunities, products and services and other commercial benefits provided by our commercial partners where you have given your express for us to do so.

  • The Government or our regulators: where we are required to do so by law or to assist with their investigations or initiatives.

  • Police, law enforcement and security services: to assist with the investigation and prevention of crime and the protection of national security.

We do not disclose personal information to anyone else except as set out above.

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7. TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION INTERNATIONALLY

The personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the UK and the European Union. Some of these jurisdictions require different levels of protection in respect of personal information and, in certain instances, the laws in those countries may be less protective than the jurisdiction you are typically resident in. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is only used in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable data protection laws and is respected and kept secure and where a third part processes your data on our behalf we will put in place appropriate safeguards as required under data protection laws. For further details please contact us by using the details set out in the “Have Your Say” section below.

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8. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR?

The duration for which we retain your personal information will differ depending on the type of information and the reason why we collected it from you. However, in some cases personal information may be retained on a long-term basis: for example, personal information that we need to retain for legal purposes will normally be retained in accordance with usual commercial practice and regulatory requirements. Generally, where there is no legal requirement we retain all physical and electronic records for a period of 10 years after your last contact with us. Exceptions to this rule are:

  • CCTV records which are held for no more than 31 days unless we need to preserve the records for the purpose of prevention and detection of crime;

  • Information that may be relevant to personal injury claims, or discrimination claims may be retained until the limitation period for those types of claims has expired. For personal injury or discrimination claims this can be an extended period as the limitation period might not start to run until a long time after you have worked for us.

It is important to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date, and you should let us know if anything changes, for example if you change your phone number or email address.

You will be able to update some of the personal information we hold about you through our membership portal. Alternatively, you can contact us using by using the details set out in the “Have Your Say” section below.

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9. YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

  • the right to be informed about how your personal information is being used;

  • the right to access the personal information we hold about you;

  • the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you;

  • the right to request the erasure of your personal information in certain limited circumstances;

  • the right to restrict processing of your personal information where certain requirements are met;

  • the right to object to the processing of your personal information;

  • the right to request that we transfer elements of your data either to you or another service provider; and

  • the right to object to certain automated decision-making processes using your personal information.

You should note that some of these rights, for example the right to require us to transfer your data to another service provider or the right to object to automated decision making, may not apply as they have specific requirements and exemptions which apply to them and they may not apply to personal information recorded and stored by us. For example, we do not use automated decision making in relation to your personal data. However, some have no conditions attached, so your right to withdraw consent or object to processing for direct marketing are absolute rights.

Whilst this privacy notice sets out a general summary of your legal rights in respect of personal information, this is a very complex area of law. More information about your legal rights can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website.

To exercise any of the above rights, or if you have any questions relating to your rights, please contact us by using the details set out in the “Have Your Say” section below.

If you are unhappy with the way we are using your personal information, you can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or your local data protection regulator. We are here to help and encourage you to contact us to resolve your complaint first.

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10. CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. When we change this notice in a material way, we will update the version date at the bottom of this page. For significant changes to this notice we will try to give you reasonable notice unless we are prevented from doing so. Where required by law we will seek your consent to changes in the way we use your personal information.

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11. HAVE YOUR SAY

In the event of any query or complaint in connection with the information we hold about you, please email us.

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