Privacy Policy

Yorkshire Billiards & Snooker Association Privacy Policy & Cookie Notice

  1. Introduction

1.1     We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website service users and participants of the snooker tournaments.

1.2     This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of those partaking in snooker tournaments and leagues.

1.3     We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website, however, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

1.4     Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can [specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communications and limit the publication of your information]. You can access the privacy controls via [www.ybsa.co.uk].

1.5     In this policy, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Yorkshire Billiards & Snooker Association.

  1. How we use your personal data

2.1     In this Section we have set out:

(a)      the general categories of personal data that we may process;

(b)      The purposes for which we may process personal data; and

(c)      The legal bases of the processing.

2.2     We may process full names, contact numbers and email addresses and Date of birth/age, the usage data is for the sole purpose of advertising and documenting snooker games/draws on our website www.ybsa.co.uk that are due or about to take place. The source of the usage data is.

  • Yorkshire Billiards & Snooker Association Officials

This usage data may be processed advertising upcoming matches and documenting historical matches. The legal basis for this processing is consent given by all

2.3     We may process the information you provide on the form you complete when signing up for a snooker match & league[S] (“personal data“).  This data may include your full name, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender and date of birth/age. The profile data may be processed for other participants to contact you in regards to upcoming matches or to arrange/discuss details of scheduled matches. The legal basis for this is you written consent which is clearly outlined on the form.

2.4     In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out above, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another individual.

2.5     Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless you have their express permission to do so and they have completed the consent form.

  1. Providing your personal data to others

3.1     We may disclose your personal data to (Refer to section 2.2 for list of organizations) for the purpose of arranging a suitable time, date and location of the matches. Each third party will act as a data controller in relation to the enquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party’s use of your personal data.

3.2     In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another individual. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

  1. Retaining and deleting personal data

4.1     This Section 5 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

4.2     Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary.

4.3     We will retain your personal data as follows:

(a)      Personal data will be retained for a minimum period of 40 years and a maximum period of 60 years.

4.5     Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

  1. Amendments

5.1     We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

5.2     You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

  1. Your rights

6.1     In this section, we have summarised the rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.

6.2     Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a)      the right to access;

(b)      the right to rectification;

(c)      the right to erasure;

(d)      the right to restrict processing;

(e)      the right to object to processing;

(f)      the right to data portability;

(g)      the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and

(h)      the right to withdraw consent.

6.3     You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee.

6.4     You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.

6.5     In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include where your personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

6.6     In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.

6.7     You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

6.8     You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

6.9     To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:

(a)      consent; or

(b)      that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,

and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

6.10   If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence.

7. Cookie Policy for Y.B.S.A

This is the Cookie Policy for Y.B.S.A, accessible from https://www.ybsa.co.uk/

7.1 What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

7.2 How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

7.3 Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

7.4 The Cookies We Set

Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

7.5 Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

7.6 Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; {List the social networks whose features you have integrated with your site, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. YouTube
  4. AddToAny Share

7.7 More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site

However, if you are still looking for more information than you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

Email: admin@ybsa.co.uk

8. Our Details

8.1     This website is owned and managed by Y.B.S.A Yorkshire Billiards & Snooker Association (Owner) Kevin Firth (Webmaster).

8.2     You can contact us:

(a)     [using our website contact form]; found at https://www.ybsa.co.uk/contacts/committee/

(b)     [by email, using [the email address published on our website from time to time]. admin@ybsa.co.uk,

Published: May 2018