Handball Club strives to build on recent success

How we use your personal data

1. Verify your identity to permit membership of a Club and/or Society.
2. Correct and update information at your request.
3. Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
4. Dealing with issues of Health & Safety, processing possible insurance claims, and/or “In Case of Emergency Numbers” whilst engaged in the activities of Clubs & Societies, in particular when overseas. Both the Staff of the Clubs & Societies Department & the individual C&S Committee members that volunteer to organise and run the activities of their specific club and/or society you may choose to join, will have access to this particular data.
5. Communicating with you via email, phone or post in relation to matters specific to Clubs & Societies from the Clubs & Societies Department or from the individual C&S Committee members that volunteer to organise and run the activities of their specific club and/or society you may choose to join. You have the right to withdraw your consent to communications at any time by using the tools within the website or contacting us via to email.
6. If elected by the membership of a particular Club/Society to the position of a committee member, we will provide where approved by you, your name, preferred email and mobile number via our website and touch screens. This is for contact by
   1. Potential new members
   2. Current Members.
7. If, as a committee member, you are approved as a COVID-19 Officer your name will be displayed on the Club/Society public profile.
8. Occasionally we conduct surveys on your particular experience within Clubs & Societies to help assist with the continuous improvement and development of the service. A professional third party is engaged however your data cannot be identified or utilised, and will only be used for purposes specific to the Clubs & Societies, agreed and set by the Clubs & Societies Department.
9. Your personal data may be used to generate previous membership contact lists for special events such as Club and Society Re-Unions or UL Student Life Re-Unions/ specific initiatives that may be of interest to you because of your membership of Clubs & Societies.
10. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how you use our website.

Legal basis for processing your personal data

The legal basis upon which we hold personal data is the following:

• Our legitimate interest and the interest of the Clubs and Societies which operate under our umbrella: we require this information about our members in order to fulfil our function providing services to our members and the student body.
• Legal Obligation: We and the individual Clubs and Societies have legal obligations, including for example, obligations to ensure the safety our members and third parties pursuant to which it is necessary to hold the information retained.
• Performance of Contract: We and the individual Clubs and Societies may enter contractual arrangements with members and third parties and information is required in order to complete the performance of such contractual obligation.
• Consent: Where none of the above bases apply, we will obtain and process personal data only with your consent, which you may withdraw at any time.

Existing Data Information with Clubs & Societies (UL Wolves)

We will use our best endeavours to guarantee that all Personal Data that you have submitted to us is maintained and up to date. However, it is your responsibility to inform us of any changes to your Personal Data to ensure that it is up to date.

Marketing

If you are a Club or Society committee member, we may also pass information to you directly to assist with the promotion and development of your particular Club or Society i.e. offers/discounts/sponsorship from Hotels, Entertainments, Travel providers. We will not share your personal data with these providers.

Sharing your data with others

We do not disclose to any third party personal data that we may collect or you provide to us with the exception of third parties expressly mentioned in this privacy policy.

1. Personal data collected by us is shared as necessary with individual Clubs and Societies which you join.
2. Personal data, in particular contact details is shared between members of the Clubs & Society department, who legitimately need the information to carry out their normal duties to promote Clubs & Societies that may be of a legitimate interest to you.
3. Your personal data may also be shared with UL Student Life where there is a legal requirement or there is deemed to be an appropriate and legitimate interest
4. Where you have provided consent by opting in, we will share your contact details with Student Life for marketing and communications purposes
5. We contract with other entities in particular the hosting provider, web developer and/or tech support to perform certain tasks on our behalf and who have a Data Sharing Agreement with Clubs & Societies (UL Wolves).
6. Professional advisors such as solicitors and insurers and other outside professional advisors (i.e. Health & Safety Consultants) relevant to the activity of Clubs & Societies only.
7. We require that all third parties respect your personal data, and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
8. Unless prevented by applicable law, we will notify you when it might be necessary to provide your personal data to third parties in ways other than explained above, and you may have the option to prevent such sharing at the time that we notify you.
9. There may be other reasons where it is not possible or appropriate to gain your consent such as disclosures to the Gardaí for prevention or detection of crime, or to meet statutory obligations.

Data Retention

• Any person who creates an on-line membership account and provides all their personal data but then chooses NOT to join any club or siciety during that Academic Year will have all their data deleted after two years.
• People who do join Clubs & Societies and become active members during their undergraduate and/or postgraduate studies or even as Alumni will have all personal data deleted after a period of 7 years from the date upon which they cease to be a member of a Club or Society.

Rights

You have the following rights;

Right to be informed
This Privacy notice provides the information you are entitled to receive on how your data is collected, stored and processed. In a clear and accessible way.

Right of Access
Please contact us if you would like to request access to a copy of your data in electronic form There is no charge for us providing you with this data and it will usually be provided within one month of the request. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse your request in these circumstances. We may need specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access.

Right of correction/deletion
You may exercise your right to have your personal data erased in a number of circumstances e.g. if the data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was created or you withdraw consent. If you have provided consent for the processing of your data, you have the right (in certain circumstances) to withdraw that consent at any time which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing, before your consent was withdrawn.

Security

The security of your Personal Data is very important to us.

We will ensure that we have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent unauthorised or unlawful processing of Personal Data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to Personal Data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

Identity and contact details of Controllers and Data Protection Office

Clubs & Societies (UL Wolves) under the auspices of UL Student Life is the controller and processor of data for the purposes of the Data Protection Act.

If you have any concerns as to how your data is processed you can contact;

Paul Lee
Head of Student Engagement
UL Student Life
University of Limerick
061-213477
Paul.Lee@ul.ie

Any complaints with regard to this policy should be directed to:

Martin Ryan
General Manager
UL Student Life
University of Limerick
061-202325
Martin.Ryan@ul.ie

You also have a right to complain to the Data Protection Commissioner:

dataprotection.ie

21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland
+353 578 684 800
+353 761 104 800

Or to apply for review by the Court pursuant to the Data Protection Act, 2018.