The Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.  This document sets out the WACA’s policy on how it 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 does the WACA collect your personal information?
Personal information about you is collected by the WACA in a number of ways, including:

• directly from you, for example, when you provide information to the WACA by phone, email, in an application form or through the WACA web site; and
• from third parties, such as Cricket Australia.

How does the WACA use your personal information?
Your personal information may be disclosed by the WACA, and Cricket Australia to whom the WACA discloses that information, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and may be used by them 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 the WACA, Cricket Australia or their respective corporate partners, licensees, suppliers and sponsors;
• administer and manage their respective web sites and provide you with access to those web sites;
• keep you informed of news and information (such as advance notice of ticket sales) 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 other sports; and
• research and develop new products, services and merchandise relating to cricket and other sports.

If you do not wish to receive WACA newsletters, publications and other communications, please contact the WACA (contact details are set out below).

Health and sensitive information
In some circumstances the WACA may collect:

• information about your health; or
• other sensitive information about you (for example, information about your racial or ethnic origin).

Health information about you may be used to ensure that cricket programs in which you participate are run safely and in accordance with any special health needs you may have and for insurance purposes.
In addition, the WACA may use de-identified health information and other sensitive information to carry out research, to prepare submissions to government or a government body or to plan events and activities.  De-identified information is information which has been aggregated or otherwise de-identified so that it cannot be used to identify you or any other individual.

When does the WACA disclose your personal information?
Your personal information may be disclosed to:

• Cricket Australia;
• Organisations (other than Cricket Australia) involved in cricket and sporting programs and initiatives in Australia;
• companies that the WACA has engaged to carry out functions and activities on our behalf;
• our professional advisers, including our accountants, auditors and lawyers;
• our insurers;
• the Australian Institute of Sport; and
• otherwise as required or authorised by law.

WACA web sites
When you visit a WACA web site, our systems may record certain information about your use of those web sites (such as which web pages you visit and the time and date of your visit).  This information is used to help analyse and improve the performance of the WACA’s web sites.

In addition, “cookies” may be used on the WACA’s web sites.  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.  In some cases, the cookies that we use may collect some personal information about you.  This information will be treated in the same way as other personal information collected about you by the WACA.  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.

The WACA has engaged Nielsen NetRatings to help analyse how its web sites are used.  This analysis is performed using data collected from the web sites.  However, this information is not intended to and will generally not include any personal information.  If you would prefer that Nielsen NetRatings do not collect even any anonymous data about how you use the WACA web sites, you can opt-out by visiting the following web page: http://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs

The WACA may also collect Internet Protocol (IP) addresses relating to you when you access and use the web sites.  IP addresses are assigned to computers on the internet to uniquely identify them within the global network of computers which makes up the internet.  The WACA may collect and manage IP addresses for internet session management and security purposes.

Accuracy of your personal information
All reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the personal information collected, used and disclosed is accurate, complete and up-to-date.  However, the WACA relies on the accuracy of personal information as provided to the WACA both directly and indirectly.
If you find that the personal information the WACA holds about you is inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date, please contact the WACA immediately (contact details are set out below) and reasonable steps will be taken to ensure that it is corrected.

How can you access the personal information the WACA holds 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 the WACA holds about you, then you will be required to put your request in writing.  If the WACA  does not allow you access to any part of the personal information that is held about you, you will be told  why.  The WACA will not charge you for lodging a request to access your personal information, but it may charge you for its 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,
please contact Rebecca Neylon, HR Coordinator via the following media:
Mail: PO BOX 6045, East Perth, WA 6892
Telephone: 08 9265 7263
Email: rebecca.neylon@waca.com.au

Changes to this Privacy Policy
From time to time, the WACA may need to change this Privacy Policy to reflect its changing business practices.  The Privacy Policy may be changed at any time by posting the changed Privacy Policy on the WACA’s web site at www.waca.com.au and by posting a notice to all users on the homepage of that web site stating that a change has occurred.