Privacy/Disclaimer

The Welsh Sports Association’s website is maintained for your personal use and viewing. Access and use by you of this site constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms and Conditions that take effect from the first date of use. The Welsh Sports Association reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time by posting changes online.

Copyright

All rights reserved, including copyright and database right. All material on this web site is copyright of the Welsh Sports Association. 

Material on the site may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium for research, private study and personal non-commercial use. This is subject to the material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. 

You can download and use the service on a single CPU at a time and you can print out a single hard copy of any part of the content on the Welsh Sports Association’s website for your personal use. 

Otherwise, no part of this website may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the Welsh Sports Association. 

The permission to reproduce the Welsh Sports Association’s material does not extend to any material on this site which is identified as being the copyright of a third party (for example photographs, logos etc.) Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.
Requests for use of copyright material should be emailed to admin@welshsports.org.uk
The Welsh Sports Association encourages users to establish hypertext links to this site.

Content disclaimer

The information on our web pages is provided for convenience as part of the service we offer at this website. 

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in these pages. The Welsh Sports Association, its servants or agents shall not at any time, in any circumstances, be held responsible or liable to any party in respect of any loss, damage or costs of any nature arising directly or indirectly from reliance placed on the material in these pages, or any other guidelines or policies issued by the Welsh Sports Association. Visitors who rely on this information do so at their own risk. 

All liability for loss, disappointment, negligence or other damage caused in the event of the bankruptcy or liquidation or cessation of trade of any company, individual or firm mentioned is hereby excluded. 

Similarly no adverse inference should necessarily be drawn from the fact that any organisation or person or other information has been omitted from these pages, the content of the pages being determined in the sole discretion of the Welsh Sports Association. 

The Welsh Sports Association is not responsible for the content or reliability of linked websites. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over availability of pages.

Intellectual property

The names, images, pictures and logos identifying the Welsh Sports Association, are proprietary marks of the Welsh Sports Association. Copying our logos and/or any other third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without prior approval from the relevant copyright owner. 

Requests for permission to use our logo should be directed to admin@welshsports.org.uk. Tell us how and why you wish to use our logo. Please include your contact details, name, address, telephone number, fax number and email.

Hyperlinking to us at the Welsh Sports Association

You do not have to ask permission to link directly to pages hosted on this site. We do not object to you linking directly to the information hosted on our site. However, we do not permit use of our logo as a link without prior permission or our pages to be loaded into frames on your site. The Welsh Sports Association’s pages must load into the user's entire window.

Virus protection awareness

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Privacy statement

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the Welsh Sports Association’s web site does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address that is automatically recognised by the web server.

Cookies

The Welsh Sports Association’s website uses cookies (A cookie is a file created by an Internet site to store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site as well as helping the site customize the view for you the next time you visit.) in order to enhance your visit to the site – you may however choose to disable cookies on your CPU by which means no trace of your visit will be left on the Welsh Sports Association’s website.

Personal Information

Certain information in relation to web usage is revealed to the Welsh Sports Association. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. We record some of the following data.
1. The IP address of the server you are using.
2. The date and time you access our site.
3. The pages you have accessed and the documents downloaded. 

This information is used to find out how many people are visiting our sites and for statistical purposes and also to allow us improve the information we are supplying to you. Some of the above information is used to create summary statistics which allow us to assess the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, discover what information is most and least used, inform us on future design and layout specifications, and help us make our site more user friendly. 

Except for the use of cookies the Welsh Sports Association’s website does not automatically gather any other personal information unless it is personally submitted by you in the course of an enquiry, competition entry or other form of data gathering.

Data Protection

The Welsh Sports Association is a privacy conscious organisation and is committed to your privacy rights. 

The Data Protection Act 1998 came into force on 1 March 2000. The Act sets rules for processing personal information and applies to data held on paper as well as on computers to which the Welsh Sports Association have signed a declaration to abide by the Act. 

The Act states that organisations who process data as part of their business must be open about how the information is used and therefore have to follow eight basic principles laid out in the Act in terms of data handling:
• Fairly and lawfully processed
• Processed for specified purposes
• Adequate, relevant and not excessive
• Accurate, and where necessary, kept up to date
• Not kept for longer than is necessary
• Processed in line with the rights of the individual
• Kept secure
• Not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area unless there is adequate protection for the information. 

The Welsh Sports Association is also committed to the principles of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations of 2003 whereby permission will be sought before electronic marketing communications are sent out to individuals from the Welsh Sports Association – however if the individual has consented to receiving electronic communications from the Welsh Sports Association by giving us their e-mail address the Welsh Sports Association will from time to time send out relevant information to the recipient (e-newsletters, news, competitions etc.)

Website disclaimer

The Welsh Sports Association’s web site and material relating to information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services) is provided 'as is', without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. 

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or server that makes it available are free or viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials. In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of the Welsh Sports Association’s web site. 

If any of these Terms and Conditions should be determined to be illegal, invalid, or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these Terms and Conditions is are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction which that Term or Condition is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from this clause and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable. 

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. 

If these Terms and Conditions are not accepted in full, you do not have permission to access the contents of this website and therefore should cease using this website immediately. 

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