Privacy Policy
(Last updated: April 2013) 1. INFORMATION ABOUT US Welcome to Bootbag
www.bootbag.com (our site), the sport social network where fans of all
sports can get real time information, news and social interactions
tailored to their passions in sport. Whether it’s a status update, a
comment, a prediction or an article that you use to express your
opinion, the world will have access to it just as you’ll have access
to those of other users. Our site is operated and owned by Sapien
Interactive Ltd whose registered address is 6 Maya Apartments, London,
E20 1FY, United Kingdom with registration number XXXXXXXX (“we, us or
our”). We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to
protecting and respecting it. This Privacy and Cookies Policy
(together with the documents referred to on it and the terms and
conditions) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect
from you, or that you provide to us, either though our site or email
notifications, applications, buttons and widgets (the services), will
be processed by us . Please read the following carefully to understand
our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will
treat it. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the
“Act”), the data controller is by Sapien Interactive Ltd whose
registered address is 6 Maya Apartments, London, E20 1FY, United
Kingdom We will only collect and process information about you in
accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy. By using our site and
other services, you consent to such processing. 2. INFORMATION WE MAY
COLLECT FROM YOU We know how important your privacy is to you, and
it’s important to us that you feel safe and secure on our site and
other services. We want to make sure that you have the very best
experience of our site and other services and so we may sometimes ask
you for certain information and you may send personal data to us. We
may collect and process the following data about you: • Information
that you provide when you fill in forms on our site, such as your
name, username, password, date of birth, address, email address,
gender and location. Some of this information, for example, your name
and username, is listed publicly on our site and services, including
on your profile page and in search results. We may also ask you for
information when you report a problem with our site and/or services. •
Additional information when you provide us with profile information to
make public, such as a micro biography, your website, or a picture.
You may provide further information to customize your account. Your
account settings control whether others can find you by your email
address. • Information about you such as your name, address and
contact details when you enter a competition or prize-draw we may
choose to operate. • If you connect your Bootbag account to your
account on another service in order to cross-post between our site and
that service, the other service may send us your registration or
profile information on that service and other information that you
authorize. • Information of your location in your posts and in your
profile. • If you contact us, we may keep a record of your message,
email address and contact information. • We or our agents on our
behalf may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research
purposes, although you do not have to respond to them. • Details of
your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data,
location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is
required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources
that you access. 3. PUBLIC INFORMATION Most of the information you
provide us is information you are asking us to make public. This
includes not only content you post and the metadata provided with the
posts, such as when you posted, but also the lists you create, the
people you follow, the posts you mark as favourites that result from
your use of our site and services. Our default is almost always to
make the information you provide public for as long as you do not
delete it from our site and services, but we may give you settings to
make the information generally more private if you want. This can be
altered in your Profile Visibility in Account Settings. Your public
information is broadly and instantly disseminated. For instance, your
public user profile information and public posts may be searchable by
search engines. When you share information or content like photos,
videos, and links via our site, you should consider carefully the
information you are making public. 4. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES We use
analytics to collect and store anonymous statistical data about our
users’ visits to our site and services. We may also collect
information about your computer, mobile phone (or other portable or
static device used to access our site and services) and your visit to
our site, including where available your IP address, operating system,
session_id, login, screen name and browser type, for system
administration and to report aggregate information to our partners and
if necessary our advertisers. We may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file and/or similar tools
which are stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain
information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive to
report back anonymous data to us. They help us to improve our site and
to deliver a better and more personalised service. Our site uses the
following cookies: 4.1 Google Analytics and AdWords Conversion This
web analytics and conversion service provided by Google Inc helps us
to analyse how users use our site. It counts the number of visitors
and tells us things about their behaviour overall, such as typical
length of stay on our site or the average number of pages a user views
and whether they have clicked on ads. This information generated by
the cookie about your use of our site will be transmitted to and
stored by Google on their servers. Google will use this information
for the purpose of evaluating your use of our site, compiling reports
on website activity and providing other services relating to website
activity. Generally, cookies may be used to enable us: • To estimate
our audience size and usage pattern. • To store information about your
preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your
individual interests and provide a more personalised experience to
you. • To speed up your searches. • To recognise you when you return
to our site. Some third party cookies are set by services that appear
on our site. They are set by the operators of that service and are not
in our control. They may be set by Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest,
Tumblr, Instagram and other third party services and relate to the
ability of users to share content on our site. You may refuse to
accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows
you to refuse the setting of cookies, as explained below: How to
manage cookies Google Chrome • Click the spanner icon on the browser
toolbar. • Select 'Settings'. • Click 'Show advanced settings'. •
Under 'Privacy', click 'Content settings'. • In the 'Cookies' section,
you can manage your cookie settings. Microsoft Internet Explorer •
Click 'Tools' on the browser toolbar. • Select 'Internet options'. •
Click the 'Privacy' tab, where you can manage your cookie settings.
Mozilla Firefox • Click the 'Firefox' button, or 'Tools' at the top of
the browser page. • Select 'Options'. • Click the 'Privacy' tab. • Set
'Firefox will:' to 'Use custom settings for history'. • Manage your
settings to accept or reject cookie types. Safari • Click 'Safari' at
the top of the screen. • Select 'Preferences'. • Click the 'Privacy'
tab, where you can manage your cookie settings. By continuing to use
our site and services you give your pre-informed consent to us using
cookies (and other similar tools) on your visit. If you subsequently
wish to revoke this consent, you may do so by deleting the cookies
(and similar tools) via your browser tools settings. However, if you
select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system may issue cookies when you log on to our
site. If you want to learn more about cookies you can do so at
www.allaboutcookies.org 5. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA The data
that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a
destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for
one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to
this transfer, storing or processing. We will endeavour to take all
steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated
securely and in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not
completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your
personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data
transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we
have received your information, we will use strict procedures and
security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. 6. USES MADE
OF THE INFORMATION We use information held about you in the following
ways: • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your device. • To provide you with
information, products or services that you request from us or which we
feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for
such purposes. You may also unsubscribe by following the instructions
contained within the notification or the instructions on our site. •
To help others find your account, including through third-party
services and client applications. You can control this functionality
through you account settings. You may choose to upload your address
book so that we can help you find other users you know. We may later
suggest people to follow on our site based on your imported address
book contacts, which you can delete from our site at any time. • To
provide features of our site and services to improve and customize the
services, for example, with more relevant content like local sports
information, trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to
follow. • To notify you about changes to our service. • To cross-post
which helps us improve our site and service. • To fulfil our legal
obligations and respond to litigation. • For our statistical or survey
purposes to improve our site and communicate our services to you. • To
prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our site and enable third parties
to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf. •
To send you information about our services or to market to you. • If
you consent, to notify you by email of our products, promotions,
competitions and special offers that may be of interest to you. You
may use your account settings to unsubscribe from notifications from
our site. • To create non personally identifiable reports on the user
interaction with our site. 7. HOW YOU CAN REMOVE, UPDATE OR CORRECT
YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION If you wish us to delete your details from
our records entirely, you will need to contact us at
privacy@bootbag.com as we will need to do this manually for you. 8.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION We may disclose your personal
information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries,
our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in
section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006. We may disclose your
personal information to third parties: • In the event that we sell or
buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your
personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or
assets. • If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a
third party, in which case personal data held by us about our
customers will be one of the transferred assets. • If we are under a
duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with
any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and
conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property,
or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of
fraud protection and credit risk reduction. •To our third party
partners as part of providing the full functionality and services of
our site to you and to allow them to provide you with details of their
services and/or products which might be of interest to you. 9. MINORS
If you’re under the age of 18 years and don’t understand this Privacy
and Cookies Policy please ask a parent or guardian to explain them to
you. In any case you must be 13 years or over in order to use our site
and services. You should not share any personal information with us if
you are a Minor (the age of Minors is determined by local laws where
you reside). 10. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY Any changes
we may make to our Privacy and Cookies Policy in the future will be
posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
11. LINKS This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies only to information
collected by us on our site. The site may contain links to other
websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy
and cookies policies of such other websites and we would advise you to
read the privacy and cookies policy of other websites that collects
your personal information. 12. CONTACT If you have any questions,
comments or requests regarding this Privacy and Cookies Policy, the
practices of our site and services or your dealings with our site and
services you can contact us by emailing privacy@bootbag.com 2013 13.
COMPETITION TERMS 1. The promoter is: Sapien Interactive Ltd (company
no. XXXXXXXX) whose registered office is at 19 Portland Place London
W1B 1PX 2. Employees of Sapien Interactive Ltd or their family members
or anyone else connected in any way with the competition or helping to
set up the competition shall not be permitted to enter the
competition. 3. There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to
enter this competition. 4. Route to entry for the competition and
details of how to enter are via http://www.bootbag.com 5. Closing date
for entry will be April 30th 2014. After this date the no further
entries to the competition will be permitted. 6. No responsibility can
be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason. 7. The rules
of the competition and the prize for each winner are as follows:
Further information can be found at: http://www.bootbag.com 8. The
promoter reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and
these terms and conditions without notice in the event of a
catastrophe, war, civil or military disturbance, act of God or any
actual or anticipated breach of any applicable law or regulation or
any other event outside of the promoter’s control. Any changes to the
competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the
promoter. 9. The promoter is not responsible for inaccurate prize
details supplied to any entrant by any third party connected with this
competition. 10. No cash alternative to the prizes will be offered.
The prizes are not transferable. Prizes are subject to availability
and we reserve the right to substitute any prize with another of
equivalent value without giving notice. 11. Winners will be chosen: 1.
At random by software provided by BeeLiked.com from all entries
received and verified by Promoter and or its agents. 12. The winner
will be notified by email and/or letter within 28 days of the closing
date. If the winner cannot be contacted or do not claim the prize
within 14 days of notification, we reserve the right to withdraw the
prize from the winner and pick a replacement winner. 13. The promoter
will notify the winner when and where the prize can be collected. 14.
The promoter’s decision in respect of all matters to do with the
competition will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
15. By entering this competition, an entrant is indicating his/her
agreement to be bound by these terms and conditions. 16. The
competition and these terms and conditions will be governed by English
law and any disputes will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of
the courts of England. 17. The winner agrees to the use of his/her
name and image in any publicity material. Any personal data relating
to the winner or any other entrants will be used solely in accordance
with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed
to a third party without the entrant’s prior consent. 18. Entry into
the competition will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and
conditions. 20. The information provided will be used in conjunction
with the following Privacy Policy found at http://www.bootbag.com.
Sapien Interactive Ltd may change this policy from time to time by
updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to
ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective
from August 2013. What we collect We may collect the following
information whilst you visit our site: Name and job title Contact
information including email address Demographic information such as
postcode, preferences and interests Other information relevant to
customer surveys and/or offers What we do with the information we
gather We require this information to understand your needs and
provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following
reasons: Internal record keeping. We may use the information to
improve our products and services. We may periodically send
promotional emails about new products, special offers or other
information which we think you may find interesting using the email
address which you have provided. From time to time, we may also use
your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may
contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information
to customise the website according to your interests. Security We are
committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to
prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place
suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard
and secure the information we collect online. How we use cookies A
cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your
computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the
cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a
particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as
an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your
needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information
about your preferences.We use traffic log cookies to identify which
pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic
and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We
only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then
the data is removed from the system.Overall, cookies help us provide
you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you
find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access
to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you
choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually
modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may
prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.We use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our
website. These companies may use information (not including your name,
address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this
and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and
services of interest to you. If you would like more information about
this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not
having this information used by these companies, click here. Links to
other websites Our website may contain links to other websites of
interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site,
you should note that we do not have any control over that other
website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and
privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such
sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You
should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable
to the website in question. Controlling your personal information You
may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal
information in the following ways: Whenever you are asked to fill in a
form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate
that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct
marketing purposes. If you have previously agreed to us using your
personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change
your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us info@bootbag.com We
will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third
parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do
so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional
information about third parties which we think you may find
interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may
request details of personal information which we hold about you under
the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you
would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us. If
you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or
incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible on
info@bootbag.com. We will promptly correct any information found to be
incorrect.