Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

The CIPR Sports Network (“we” or “us” or “our”) aims to promote excellence and share best practice in crisis communications.  We operate this website http://www.ciprsportsnetwork.com, a google email account and several social media platforms (the “Service”).

This page tells you how we collect and use your Personal Information when you use our Service (our “Privacy Policy”).

We are a volunteer group/committee of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (“CIPR”), which operates its own website http://www.cipr.co.uk, email and social media platforms.  Click here for CIPR’s Privacy Policy (cipr.co.uk)

It is your responsibility to review and understand our Privacy Policy before providing any Personal Information to us.  You should also review our Terms and Conditions. If you do not accept and agree to our Privacy Policy and/or Terms and Conditions, please do not provide your Personal Information to us or access our website, email or social media platforms.

We use your Personal Information to provide and improve the products and services we deliver to you. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We commit to using Personal Information responsibly and in accordance with all applicable laws and data privacy regulation. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we collect and use your Personal Information.

We will only use Personal Information in a way or for a purpose that you would reasonably expect, which does not intrude on your privacy.

We will or may share your Personal Information with CIPR, but otherwise we will not use or share it with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection And Use

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:

  • Name

  • Email address

    • Other contact details such as mailing address or telephone number

  • Social media or website details

  • Biographical or professional information

  • Areas of interest

We may use your Personal Information in (but not limited to) the following ways:

  • To communicate with you about your membership of the CIPR Sports Network and any products, services, news and information that may be of interest to you.

  • To improve your experience of the CIPR Sports Network.

  • To enhance and improve our products and services and to request your participation in surveys or other initiatives which help us to gather information used to develop and enhance our products and services.

  • To respond to your requests, comments and enquiries.

  • Internal purposes, such as website and system administration or internal audits and reviews.

  • To comply with applicable law(s) or to carry out professional ethics/conduct investigations.

  • From time to time we may provide statistics about the usage level of the Service and other related information to reputable third parties, but these statistics will not include information which will allow you to be identified.

  • We may use the information you provide to us and which we obtain from other sources to better understand your interests so we can try and predict what other products, services, news and information you might be most interested in.

We process your Personal Information on the following legal bases:

  • Where it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

  • Where such processing is necessary to support your membership of CIPR.

  • For the purposes of providing and enhancing the provision of our products, services, news and information.  We are a CIPR volunteer group that exists for the benefit of CIPR members. Our committee consists wholly and exclusively of CIPR members. We support CIPR’s endeavours to provide the best possible service and experience for its global membership.

Your Communication Preferences

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as you are a member of the CIPR Sports Network. You can update your communication preferences at any time by visiting MyCIPR or if you are not a CIPR member by emailing ciprsports@gmail.com . Any promotional emails we may send will include a link which will immediately allow you to unsubscribe.

Log Data

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We use third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we discover that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information immediately.

Compliance With Laws

We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Subject Access/User Rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

  • The right to be informed about how we use your Personal Information.

  • The right of access to your Personal Data and the right to have your data corrected or erased (which must be balanced with other rights and obligations).

  • The right to restrict processing of your Personal Information.

Complaints

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights please contact us at ciprsports@gmail.com. When you make any request, you may be required to provide us with appropriate evidence so we can verify your identity before we respond.

If you make a request and are not satisfied with our response, you should in the first instance contact CIPR Volunteer Support at volunteersupport@cipr.co.uk.  You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at ciprsports@gmail.com.