Seiken Ryu Karate Association

SEIKEN RYU KARATE ASSOCIATION

PRIVACY POLICY

 

What is the GDPR?

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on May 25th, 2018, aims to protect the fundamental right to privacy and the protection of personal data of European Union (EU) citizens. 

This regulation affects any entity (including websites) that processes EU citizens' personal data. Whether or not our association is located in the EU, if we have EU site visitors, or if our marketing campaigns target EU citizens, this affects Seiken Ryu Karate Association (SRKA). 

 

What does the GDPR mean for Seiken Ryu Karate Association?

Transparency and communication with our site visitors are key elements of the GDPR. As part of the new regulation, SRKA must let our site visitors know how we collect, store, and use their data, in a clear and transparent way. In addition, SRKA must comply with our site visitors' requests to receive a copy of their data that is processed on our site. 

 

What type of information do we collect?

SRKA receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information. We 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 collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information).

 

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 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:

1. To provide and operate the Services;

2. To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized SRKA-related notices and promotional messages;

3. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

4. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

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

Seiken Ryu Karate Association’s website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides SRKA with the online platform that allows us to provide our updates and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company 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 by our store and its service providers.

 

How do we communicate with our site visitors?

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 associations activities, 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 and text messages.

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at SRKA@aol.com

 

How do SRKA use cookies and other tracking tools?

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser, usually used to keep track of their movements and actions on a site. 

In accordance with the GDPR, we must inform our users that we are using cookies on our site.

 

Cookies are implemented in every site built by Wix.

Take a look at the table below to view which cookies Wix implements on Wix sites:

 

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Privacy policy updates

SRKA 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. 

 

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at SRKA@aol.com