Privacy Policy

What is Personal Information?

Personal information is any information about you, that identifies you or by which your identity can reasonably be ascertained.

What kinds of personal information do we collect and hold about you?

Wests Rugby only collect personal information that is necessary for one or more of its functions or activities.

How is personal information collected?

Regardless of how it is collected, all personal information is handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Generally, we only collect personal information from this website when you voluntarily supply that information to us, for example by requesting to become a sponsor of Wests Rugby via the email form on the website.

Information collected by our ISP

Like most Internet Service Providers (ISPs), in order to give you access to our website, our ISP needs to collect some information about you. This information is made available to us.

When you read or download information from our website, our ISP collects the following information about you:

your Internet address;

your domain name, if applicable;

and the date and time of your visit to our website

Our ISP also collects information such as the pages our users’ access, the documents they download, links from other websites they follow to reach our website, and the type of browser they use.

However, this information is anonymous and is only used for statistical and website development purposes.

Use of Cookies

In order to improve our website, we are keen to understand better what sections of our website you find to be most useful and interesting.

"Cookies" allows our website to store tokens of information in your browser. They give your browser an identifier which is used by our website while you are on it. Cookies help us to identify what areas of our website are popular based on traffic to those areas.

The use of cookies is now standard operating procedure for most websites. This website uses cookies to collect anonymous information about users for statistical purposes only.

Cookies are not used to determine or track the identity of any user. This website will not store personal information such as email addresses or other details in a cookie. We use session (not permanent) cookies.

Most Internet browsers are set up to accept cookies. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you may be able to change the settings of your browser to refuse all cookies or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to your computer, giving you the choice whether to accept it or not.

Through our ISP and by using cookies, we can identify your web browser but not you.

Cookies might also be used for Google conversion tracking and Google Analytics. When Google uses such cookies, Google uses a variety of techniques to protect a users privacy.

Use and disclosure of personal information

Wests Rugby uses the personal information it holds in order to provide its clients with the services that they request. Wests Rugby will not use or disclose personal information collected by us for any purpose other than:

the purposes for which it was provided or secondary related purposes in circumstances where you would reasonably expect such use or disclosure; or

for the purpose of improving our relationship with you, or to provide you with direct marketing material such as new products, services and research that may be of interest to you, to inform you about any new products and services or special offers from time to time.

Document storage and security

We will at all times seek to ensure that the personal information collected and held by us is protected from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. At all times your personal information is treated as confidential and stored securely.
The Internet is not a secure environment. If you use the Internet to send us any information, including your email address, it is sent at your own risk.

What is not covered

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the following:

corporate information (unless it is also about any identifiable person); or

if you access another website through a link from ours. In this case the Privacy Policy of the owner of the other website (if any) will apply. We cannot and do not make any warranty or representation as to the practices of any linked websites in the handling of your personal information.