Your privacy is important to the Port Melbourne Football Club (ABN 95 074 614 136) (PMFC). This Privacy Policy provides information about the personal information that PMFC collect and the ways in which PMFC may use, hold and disclose this personal information.
The PMFC will collect and use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When used in this document, depending on the context, “we,” “our” and “us” refers to PMFC.
Protecting personal information is fundamental to the PMFC’s relationship with our supporters, employees, players and business partners. All personal information received in connection with a PMFC product or service, or in the conduct of the PMFC’s business, is therefore treated seriously, having regard to the PMFC’s legal obligations.
Personal information is information that identifies you or could identify you. The PMFC are subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles.
Generally, the PMFC collect personal information directly from you via your use of the products and services on offer, use of PMFC Online, if you apply for a position with the PMFC and any registration you make to participate with or receive information from, the PMFC and any business relationship between you and us, including via email. The personal information which the PMFC may collect and hold includes:
In addition, you may also provide to us and we may collect and hold additional personal information, such as:
We also may collect additional non-personally identifiable information (for example, browser version, IP address), including that will provide information regarding the general use of PMFC Online.
By providing us with personal information, you consent to that information being collected, used, disclosed and stored in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
If you do not give personal information to us, it may affect our ability to provide you with products and/or services.
We may also collect information about you which is considered sensitive under applicable privacy and data protection laws. Generally, we will ask for your consent to handle your health or other sensitive information or, in certain circumstances, you will consent to our collection by providing your health or other sensitive information to us.
Where we engage with you multiple times over a short period in relation to the same matter, we may not provide you with a separate notice about privacy each time we engage with you however we will provide you with an opportunity to opt–out of receiving communications about that matter within each of those communications.
You can easily unsubscribe at any time you want to our communications by contacting us at using the contact details specified in paragraph 12 of this Privacy Policy or by following the instructions contained in an e-mail.
It may take some time to put an opt-out or an unsubscribe in effect so you may still receive communications from us for several weeks after your request is received.
For the avoidance of doubt, by opting–out or unsubscribing yourself from a mailing list of PMFC product or service this will ensure your removal from that particular mailing list but will not guarantee your removal from other mailing lists that the PMFC may store your details in as a result of your engagement with a different service or product.
During the course of business, the PMFC may also collect personal information that is given to them by a third party (for example, a corporate partner of the PMFC or information that is on a publicly maintained record). This information forms part of the personal information described in this Privacy Policy. The PMFC will not intentionally solicit personal information that is unintentionally disclosed.
We may also receive information about you from third parties in relation to other websites. For example, you may choose to participate in a third party application or feature as part of our services (such as logging in through Facebook Connect or Google+ or otherwise linking to the services from another website or interactive service) or on a third party website or service (such as a Facebook application or a similar application or feature) through which you allow us to collect (or the third party to share) information about you, including personal information. When you choose to participate, you may be opting to link your activity on PMFC Online services with that third party website or service, which may then collect information about your visits to PMFC Online and may publish that activity as you request to your “profile” or similar feature with that third party (such as if you choose to share content you find on PMFC Online with your “connections” on the third party’s website or service).
The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. However, the information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party’s privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us or with other third parties, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on that third party’s website or service. The third party may allow you to remove the application or feature, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through the application or feature, but we may retain the information previously collected. In addition, we may receive information about you if other users of a third party website or service give us access to their profiles and you are one of their “connections” or information about you is otherwise accessible through your “connections'” web page, profile page, or similar page on a social networking or other third party website or interactive service.
The PMFC may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on PMFC Online or mobile applications. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. The PMFC are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.
Wherever reasonably practicable, the PMFC will store personal information on data servers that are owned and controlled by the PMFC and are located within the geographical borders of Australia. However, some of your personal information may be transferred, stored, processed, used or disclosed overseas by the PMFC, or by the PMFC’s third party service providers. In particular, at the date this Privacy Policy was most recently updated, your personal information may be disclosed to recipients in the USA, United Kingdom, Gibraltar, and other countries from time to time.
This may happen if our service providers are located overseas, or if transactions, information, services or products have an overseas connection. Where such parties are located overseas, you may have rights to enforce such parties’ compliance with applicable data protection laws, but you may not have recourse against those parties under the Australian Privacy Act (Cth) 1988 in relation to how those parties treat your personal information.
You agree to the disclosure and use of such personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and consent to its disclosure overseas and its use by third parties, including our service providers, in the USA, Gibraltar, China and such other countries in which those parties or their computer systems may be located from time to time, where it may be used solely for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, without us being responsible for such use (or for any breach). Where the PMFC use cloud computing services we will use our reasonable endeavours to ensure that such disclosures are in compliance with Australian privacy laws.
The PMFC collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information for purposes including, without limitation:
The PMFC may also disclose personal information where it is otherwise permitted to do so by law.
You consent to the PMFC using your personal information for sending you information, including promotional material, about the PMFC products and services, as well as the products and services of selected third parties, now and in the future. You also consent to us contacting you with such information by means of direct mail, email, SMS, MMS messages, social media and via telephone.
Sharing Information With Third Parties
We engage third parties to perform services in connection with the operation of our business. Examples of these services include payment processing and authorisation, fraud protection and credit risk reduction, product customisation, order fulfilment and shipping, marketing and promotional material distribution, website evaluation, data analysis and, where applicable, data cleansing.
We may need to share personal information with these third parties so that they can perform these services, however, we limit the personal information that we give to them and authorise them to use this information only for the purpose of performing those services.
We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our agents, including agencies or third party vendors so that they can provide marketing analysis and consult on advertising strategies. This information does not identify individual users. We also may share non-personal information, such as the number of users who visited PMFC Online during a specific time period or who purchased a specific product through the website, with our marketing partners, advertisers and others from time to time. This information generally is shared in an aggregated form.
The PMFC do not otherwise disclose personal information without your permission, unless the disclosure is:
“PMFC Online” refers to the PMFC website with its top-level domain located at http://www.portmelbournefc.com.au/, all related sub-domains and any other PMFC website which provides a PMFC product, PMFC service or PMFC-related product or service including related mobile applications. You need not disclose your identity to the PMFC in order to visit PMFC Online, except where personal information is voluntarily supplied, however the PMFC internet server may automatically record details about any computer used to access the website (such as the IP address, domain name and browser type), the date and time of access, and details of the information downloaded. This information is used for internal statistical purposes and to improve PMFC Online.
Cookies
The PMFC may use “cookies” on PMFC Online. A cookie is a small text file that PMFC Online may place on your computer. Usually, cookies are used as a means for our websites to remember your preferences and are thus designed to improve your experience of PMFC Online. Cookies may collect and store personal information about you.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you disable the use of cookies on your web browser or remove or reject specific cookies from our website or linked sites then you may not be able to gain access to all of the content and facilities on PMFC Online.
Website Analytics
When you visit and browse PMFC Online, our website host and some third party service providers may collect information for statistical, reporting and maintenance purposes.
Subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy, this information is used to administer and improve the performance of PMFC Online and will not be used to identify you. The information may include:
The PMFC may use website analytic services to help analyse how you use PMFC Online (Website Analytics). Website Analytics generate statistical and other information about website use by means including but not limited to cookies which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated is used to create reports about the use of PMFC Online. Our third party providers of these services may store this information. The PMFC will not (and will not allow any third party to) use Website Analytics to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to PMFC Online. The PMFC will not associate any data gathered from PMFC Online with any personally identifying information from any source as part of the PMFC’s use of Website Analytics.
The PMFC treat personal information that may be obtained through cookies and any other information supplied to us (for example if you send us an email) in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Links
PMFC Online may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. We make no representations or warranties in relation to the privacy practices of any third party website and we are not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of any third party website. Third party websites are responsible for informing you about their own privacy practices.
Children’s Privacy
If you are under 18, you should only use PMFC Online with involvement of a parent or guardian. For their protection, we ask that anyone under 18 years of age does not attempt to register with PMFC Online or otherwise provide us with any personal information without the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
The PMFC will take reasonable steps to protect all personal information within their direct control from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. The PMFC will take reasonable steps to hold information securely in electronic or physical form in access controlled premises or in electronic databases requiring logins and passwords.
In the event of any loss, or unauthorised access or disclosure of your personal information that is likely to result in serious harm to you, the PMFC will investigate and notify you and the Australian Information Commissioner as soon as practicable, in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).
The privacy laws of some jurisdictions give individuals the right to access, amend or delete their personal information or, in some circumstances, to restrict or object to the processing of their personal information.
Information we hold about you should be up-to-date and accurate. Please advise of any changes to your information using the contact details set out in this paragraph 12.
An individual may:
by contacting the PMFC by email at info@portmelbournefc.com.au
Alternatively, you may write to the PMFC via Port Melbourne Football Club, 541 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, Victoria 3207 or telephone on 03 9646 1768.
Access
You will be required to provide proof of identity in order to obtain access to your personal information. If you would like to request a copy of your data, or would like to take steps to exercise your rights, please contact us as set out in this paragraph 12. The PMFC may charge an administration fee where access is provided. The PMFC may refuse to provide access if permitted to do so by law. The PMFC aims to provide access to your personal information within 30 days of a valid request.
Complaints
At all times, privacy complaints:
The PMFC’s Privacy Officer will commence an investigation into your complaint. You will be informed of the outcome of your complaint within a reasonable period of time following completion of the investigation.
We may vary this Privacy Policy from time to time, by posting an updated Privacy Policy accessible via the PMFC website. This Privacy Policy was last updated in March 2024.
ETU Stadium,
541 Williamstown Road,
Port
Melbourne
3207 VIC
PO Box 247,
Port Melbourne
3207 VIC
info@portmelbournefc.com.au
(03) 9646 1768
