Privacy Policy and Data Protection

General Statement of Privacy

The Kyokutan Karate Club is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting any personally identifiable information that you provide to the Kyokutan Karate Club. Except as indicated below, the Kyokutan Karate Club will not sell, rent or share any personally identifiable information that you provide without your consent.


Collection of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Our web servers automatically capture non-personally identifiable information including, but limited to, your domain name, the IP address of the web page from which you enter our site, the pages that you visit on our site, the click-through rates, and the amount of time that you spend here. However, the individual user will remain anonymous. We may use and analyze this data for trends and to improve our site. Any non-personally identifiable information that we give to third parties will be provided in aggregate form only.


Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

When you engage in activities such as registering for events, you may be required to submit personal information to the Kyokutan Karate Club. This information may include data such as your name, address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail address. If you choose not to provide the information that is requested by the Kyokutan Karate Club you may be unable to access certain areas of the Kyokutan Karate Club web site and may be unable to take advantage of some Club services or activities.


The Kyokutan Karate Club will not provide any personally identifiable information to any third parties without your consent. However, the Kyokutan Karate Club reserves the right to provide personally identifiable information to third parties if the Kyokutan Karate Club reasonably believes that this release of information is necessary to: (1) comply with legal requirements or legal process, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of the Kyokutan Karate Club, or (3) protect the other users of the site or the public.


Privacy with Respect to Minors

The Kyokutan Karate Club does not knowingly collect or use information from children under the age of 16 without the consent of a parent or guardian.


Cookies

When you visit our web site, we may place a cookie on you computer that will allow us to track your visit to our site and help us to improve the site. The cookies will not provide the Kyokutan Karate Club with any personally identifiable information about you.


Other Web Sites and Links

The Kyokutan Karate Club web site contains links to other web sites. If you choose to use any of these links, you will be leaving the Kyokutan Karate Club web site and going to a new web site. Protection of your privacy at these linked sites will be governed by the privacy policy at that site. You should take the time to read the privacy policies at these sites. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, we are not responsible for the privacy practices such sites or the use of any information that you provide.


Security

Although our site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information that is under our control, the Kyokutan Karate Club cannot guarantee complete security.


International User

Irrespective of your domicile or place of doing business, by using this web site, you agree that the Kyokutan Karate Club may collect, use and transfer your information as described in this Privacy Policy Statement.


Changes to Policy

This policy may change over time. Your continued use of the site after these changes are posted constitutes your agreement to the changes with regard to information collected.

Data Protection

The club is required to comply in a number of ways with the Data Protection Act 1988.

The Data Protection Act 1998 requires the club to comply with the following eight principles in relation to computer data and personal data.

Data shall be:

· fairly and lawfully processed;

· processed for limited purposes;

· adequate, relevant and not excessive;

· accurate;

· not kept longer than necessary;

· processed in accordance with the data subject’s rights;

· secure;

· not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area without adequate protection.