Safeguarding and Privacy | Morpeth Chess Club

Safeguarding Policy

Morpeth Chess Club aims to create a safe environment for all players, including children and young adults.

We follow a Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy in line with that of the English Chess Federation.

Complete details of that policy can be found here :

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/safeguarding-children-policy/

What type of information do we collect?

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, Wix may collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and any purchase history. Wix may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also may collect personally identifiable information: although please bear in mind Morpeth Chess Club is a “not for profit” community group and we will always endeavour to be both a respectful and trustworthy Chess club. We will of course always aim to adhere to all of our statutory legal responsibilities.

How do we collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide and operate the Services.
To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support.
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages.
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our Wix partner/s may use to provide and improve our respective services.
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do we store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

Our Chess Club website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to promote our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.   All direct payment gateways that may in future by offered by Wix.com and used by Morpeth Chess Club will adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information and its service providers where applicable .

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our club , or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?

It's important to note that third-party services, such as Google Analytics or other applications offered through the Wix App Market, placing cookies or utilising other tracking technologies through Wix´s services, may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. As these are external services, such practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

How can site visitors withdraw their consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at morpethchessclub@gmail.com or telephone David Watson directly on 0191 2801091 .

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Questions and your contact information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us via email below and/or telephone number listed below.

If you have any other Privacy or Data-specific concerns or comments, please contact us via email at: morpethchessclub@gmail.com

Or alternatively by telephoning - David Watson on 0191 2801091.

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