Sudbury District Soccer Club Privacy Policy
Introduction
The Sudbury Distrct Soccer Club respects each individual’s right to personal privacy. The SDSC
will collect and use information through our website only in the ways
disclosed in this statement. This statement applies solely to
information collected on the SDSC website.
Part I. Information Collection
The SDSC collects the following information from registered individuals through their website:
- Name, OSA and/or SDSC registration number, date of birth, team and club of players
- Name, OSA and/or SDSC registration number, contact information, team and club of coaches and team administrators
- Name, contact information, and club of club directors and administrators
- Name and contact information of league directors and administrators
The SDSC collect the following general, demographic data that is not personally identifiable information:
- SDSC website usage statistics
- Browser type statistics
The SDSC collect this demographic data in order to help them improve the service to the users and members of the SDSC.
The following information about registered users may be entered into the SDSC database by third parties or other registered members:
- goals scored
- shutouts
- disciplinary issues such as cards and suspensions
The SDSC collect this information through
online roster forms, automatic logging files, game result forms, and
referee report and special incident forms.
Roster forms are completed by a coach or team administrator and are used
to collect information about the player for the efficient and cost
effective operation of the SDSC.
Automatic logging files are used to track server and webpage usage, as
well as additional information such as browser type. This information
is collected automatically when a user accesses the SDSC website.
Information related to a player, but not entered by them, such as goals
scored, shutouts, and disciplinary issues are collected by coaches, team
administrators and referees through online game and referee reports as
part of the SDSC league management system. This information is required
to operate the SDSC.
The SDSC website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file that the
web server used by the SDSC places on a user’s computer hard drive to be
a unique identifier. Cookies enable the SDSC to track usage patterns
and deliver customized content to users. Our cookies have an expiration
date. Our cookies do collect personally identifiable information for
the strict purpose of identifying you and your settings as a logged in
user.
Banner advertising appearing on our website does not collect any information.
Part II. Information Usage
Information gathered through the SDSC website is used for the sole purpose of league operations which includes
- registering players, coaches and administrators with the SDSC
- league statistics such as goal scorers and shutouts
- discipline statistics such as suspensions
- an improved user experience by helping to improve the design of the site to better match website usage trends.
The SDSC offer links to other websites.
When clicking on links to other websites, we encourage you to read their
privacy policies. Their standards may differ from the SDSC’s.
The SDSC will notify you with a posting on the SDSC homepage if the policy on information collection or uses changes.
Part III. Restricting Public Information
A player’s name and team is published on the SDSC website in a public forum to indicate goals scored, shutouts and discipline.
Any player over 18 years of age may request that his or her name be
withheld from public view by writing to the SDSC and requesting such
action. All requests must be signed by the individual.
Any parent or guardian of a player under 18 years of age may request
that the players name be withheld from public view by writing to the SDSC and requesting such action. All requests must be signed by the
parent or guardian.
A player’s name that is withheld from public view can still be seen by the following registered users:
- The player’s team members, coach and team administrators
- The coach and team administrators from other teams in the player’s age group
- The player’s club directors and administrators
- The league directors and administrators
Part IV. Access to Information
The SDSC ask the registered user to verify the accuracy of entered
information by providing a confirmation page before data is posted to
the database.
Users may access their own personal information by viewing their profile
online and contact the SDSC about inaccuracies they may find. In some
instances they may correct the information.
Part V. Problem Resolution
If problems arise, users may contact the SDSC by email, phone or post.
Part VI. Data Storage and Security
The SDSC website uses a league management system provided by E2E
Soccer. As such, information is stored and transmitted by servers owned
by E2E Soccer. E2E Soccer is solely an agent of storage, transmission
and processing of the SDSC’s database information. They will not sell,
share or otherwise disclose any of the SDSC database information except
to third parties specified by the SDSC through the policies listed
above.
SDSC protects user information by storage on firewall protected servers with secure databases.