This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used by the Sheffield Steeldogs Ice Hockey Club. PII, is described as information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle Personally Identifiable Information.
When/how do we collect information and how is this stored?
We collection information in a variety of ways:
1) We receive a list of e-mail addresses of those who book tickets via Ticket Master once per-month – stored securely on mailchimp.com and e-shot.net.
2) We receive a list of e-mail addresses from corporate or sporting groups of those who book tickets via the Sheffield Steeldogs Group Ticketing Office – stored securely on mailchimp.com and e-shot.net
3) Via the Newsletter sign-up on the home page of www.sheffieldsteeldogs.co.uk. First name, surname and e-mail addresses are collected on submission of voluntary sign-up – stored securely on mailchimp.com and e-shot.net
4) Via opt-in of a social media competition. First name, surname (or more likely company name) and e-mail addresses (and possibly telephone number) stored on mailchimp.com and e-shot.net
5) Via submission of Season Ticket or other booking forms such as Mascot packages (e-mail, in-person or telephone)
The Season Ticket form includes submission of the following:
First name and surname
Full address including postcode
Daytime and mobile telephone number
Date of birth if applying for under 16, 16-18 or senior season ticket
Credit/Debit card details
Signature
Paper forms are stored securely in a locked away file within our head office – First name, surname and e-mail addresses are the only data stored online. These are added and stored securely on mailchimp.com, e-shot.net and on a spreadsheet within protected account of the Sheffield Steeldogs at docs.google.com. Credit/debit card details are NOT stored online by the Sheffield Steeldogs.
We do not collect information from visitors to our website.
We collect your first name, surname and email address in order to:
Send periodic e-mails regarding tickets (order confirmation, tickets to print)
To send a regular newsletter (only to those subscribed)
To advertise and promote future games and club events, this includes offers of products or packages for sale such as jersey sales and fan experience packages
To promote offers of our partners
We agree to the following:
How do we protect your information?
We use well-established secure sites such as mailchimp.com, e-shot.net and Google docs where a secure login is required to store and access data
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards
We do not use an SSL certificate on www.sheffieldsteeldogs.co.uk
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
www.sheffieldsteeldogs.co.uk
Do we use ‘cookies’?
We do not use cookies for tracking purposes on our website
Third-party links
We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website
We have not enabled Google AdSense on our site but we may do so in the future
We agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously
Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
We do not allow third-party behavioral tracking
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years’ old
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email
In order to help make our PR and social media engaging for our fans, the Sheffield Steeldogs are increasing the use of photographs from our games, not only game action but also of the crowd, not least for our on Social Media.
Whilst we make every effort to ensure that all photos used are appropriate for purpose and the people in them look their very best, we are aware that some individuals may wish for their picture not to be appear online.
We would like to kindly remind fans that if you purchase a ticket for a Steeldogs game, given the amount of photographs taken there is every chance you will appear in the crowd.
Please do note though, if there is a picture used in Steeldogs PR which you would like removed, please email office@steeldogs.co.uk and we will have the photo taken offline as soon as possible.
Contacting Us
You can change your personal information:
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
www.sheffieldsteeldogs.co.uk
Head Office
Sheffield Steeldogs
2B Birley Moor Road
Sheffield, South Yorkshire S12 2AU
England
office@sheffieldsteeldogs.com
0114 242 35 35
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
Last Edited on 2023-08-17
