Sportifico Platform Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Community Guidelines

Introduction

By using or accessing Sportifico Services, you are freely accepting and agreeing that we can collect and use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time.

Sportifico’s mission is to connect professionals and enthusiasts in sport and allow them to be more productive and successful. Our registered users (“Members”) present their professional identities by building their sports profiles and sharing achievements, knowledge and information. Sportifico also provides coaches and players the opportunity to organize activities and communications in a simple and efficient team management tool called TeamMates. Securing the privacy of your information and earning your trust, along with providing you with a top of the call social networking experience, is our top priority, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:

We protect your personal information and will only provide it to third parties: (1) with your consent; (2) where it is necessary to carry out your instructions and requests; (3) as reasonably necessary in order to provide our features and functionality to you; (4) where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Sportifico is subject; (5) where it is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Sportifico or by a third party, where such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data or (6) as necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or protect the rights, property, safety or other vital interests of Sportifico, our Members and Visitors, other natural persons  and the public.

We have implemented appropriate security safeguards designed to protect your information in accordance with industry standards.

This Privacy Policy applies to Sportifico.com and the Sportifico mobile application, and all other Sportifico websites, apps, developer platforms and other products and services (collectively “Services”). We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Website, or by other means so that you may review the changes before you continue to use our Services. If you object to any changes, you may contact us to ask for further clarifications, to point out why these changes should not be put into effect, or, if you fundamentally disagree with them, you can close your account. Continuing to use our Services after we publish or communicate a notice about any changes to this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting to the changes.

Data Controller

Your personal information is controlled by Sportifico LLC, located in Danicareva 61, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. If you have any concerns about providing information to us or having such information displayed on our Services or otherwise used in any manner permitted in this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service, you should not become a Member, visit our websites, download our applications or otherwise use our Services. If you have already registered, you can close your accounts.

The relevant authority for data protection in Serbia is Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection, located in Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra 15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. Website: http://www.poverenik.rs/en

Consent for data processing

By providing personal information to us when you create or update your account and profile, you are expressly and voluntarily accepting the terms and conditions of our Terms of Service and freely accepting and agreeing to our processing of your personal information in ways set out by this Privacy Policy. You can withdraw or modify your consent to our collection and processing of the information you provide at any time, in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service, by changing your account settings or your profile on Sportifico or by closing your Sportifico account. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing of your data based on consent before its withdrawal.

What information we collect?

We collect your personal information in the following ways:

Registration

To create an account on Sportifico, you must provide us with at least your full name, your Sport, Club and Role, email address, a password, and agree to our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines which govern how we treat your information. You may provide additional information during the registration flow (for example, your Country and City, Position, and Team) to help you build your profile and to provide you more customized services (for example: language-specific profile pages, updates, content). You understand that, by creating an account, we and others will be able to identify you by your Sportifico profile.

Profile Information

After you create an account, you may choose to provide additional information on your Sportifico profile, such as descriptions of your Personal, Physical and Career history and positions. Providing additional information enables you to have more benefit from our Services by helping you express your sport identity and attributes; find other sports professionals and enthusiasts, career opportunities, and information; and help other players, coaches to find you.

Customer Service

When you contact our customer support services (e.g. on our Help Center), we may have to access your Messages, TeamMates and other contributions to our Services and collect the information we need to categorize your question, respond to it, and, if applicable, investigate any breach of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy. We also use this information to track potential problems and trends and customize our support responses to better serve you. We do not use this information for marketing nor do we divulge it to any third party.

Using the Sportifico Sites and Applications

We collect information when you use our websites, applications, our platform technology or other Services. For example, we collect information when you perform a search, join and participate in TeamMates, install our mobile application, view content on ProFeed. If you are logged in on Sportifico.com or one of our cookies on your device identifies you, your usage information and the log data, such as your IP address, will be associated by us with your account. Even if you’re not logged into a Service, we log information about devices used to access our Services, including IP address. We also collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with or the frequency and duration of your activities.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies, including mobile application identifiers, to help us recognize you across different Services, learn about your interests both on and off our Services, improve your experience, increase security, measure use and effectiveness of our Services. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. By visiting our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies and Beacons in your browser and HTML-based emails in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Camera and Photos

Some of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s file system storing images by a phone camera. We will access your device’s files and folders only for images you try to upload to the Service.

Log Files, IP Addresses, and Information About Your Computer and Mobile Device

When you visit or leave our Services by clicking a hyperlink or when you view a third-party site that includes our plugin or cookies (or similar technology), we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came or the one to which you are directed. We also receive the internet protocol (“IP”) address of your computer or the proxy server that you use to access the web, access times, pages viewed, your computer operating system details, your type of web browser, your mobile device (including your mobile device identifier provided by your mobile device operating system), your mobile operating system (if you are accessing Sportifico using a mobile device), and the name of your ISP or your mobile carrier.

In the case of our Android apps, you will be provided notice of the types of data that will be sent to us. If you choose to use our app after this notice, we process this data to enable registration or preview product features for you. If you choose not to become a Member, we will delete this information.

Information others provide about you

We also collect content and information that other Sportifico members or visitors provide when they use our Services, including information about you, such as when they share a photo of you, send a message to you, your contact information or contribute to your profile in any way.

Sensitive data

Supplying to us any information deemed “sensitive” (such as personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation) is entirely voluntary on your part and you are in no obligation to give out this information.

Other

Our Services are a dynamic, innovative environment, which means we are always seeking to improve the Services we offer you. We often introduce new features, some of which may result in the collection of new information. Furthermore, new partnerships or corporate acquisitions may result in new features, and we may potentially collect new types of information. If we start collecting substantially new types of personal information and materially change how we handle your data, we will modify this Privacy Policy and notify you in accordance with Section Changes to this Privacy Policy.

How is your personal information used

Beware what you publish

The personal information that you provide to us and publish on your profile may reveal or allow others to identify aspects of your life that are not expressly stated on your profile (for example, your picture may reveal what is your home address).  Your profile is public and all the Sportifico members and users will be able to see your posts and content. TeamMates functionality is by default private and can’t be public, so only members of certain TeamMates can see TeamMates Talk. Your massages and email are by default private and can’t be public.

User Communications

Many communications that you initiate through our Services (for example, chat) will list your name in the header of the message. For coaches, messages you initiate may also provide the recipient with aggregate information about your TeamMates (for example, how many players there are in your TeamMates). Other communications that you initiate through the Services, like a request for an introduction, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal email address contact information. Once you have connected with an individual, regardless of who sent the invitation, your contact information will be shared with that individual in accordance with your privacy settings.

Sharing information about you with other Members and the public

Following information will be shared with other Members:

Service Development

We use information and content that you and other Members provide to us to conduct research and development for the improvement of our Services in order to provide you and other Members with a better, more intuitive experience and drive membership growth and engagement on our Services and to help connect sport professionals to career opportunity.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We do not rent or sell personal information that you have posted on our Services, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We will not disclose personal information that is published to your profile or generated through engagement with our other services, such as TeamMates, except to carry out your instructions and requests or unless we have a good faith belief that disclosure is permitted by law or is reasonably necessary to: (1) comply with a legal obligation to which the Sportifico is subject, including, but not limited to, civil and criminal subpoenas, court orders or other compulsory disclosures; (2) enforce this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service; (3) respond to claims of a violation of the rights of third parties; (4) respond to Member service inquiries; (5) protect  legitimate interests pursued by the Sportifico or by a third party, where such interests are not overridden by your fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data or (6) protect the rights, property, safety or other vital interest of Sportifico, our Services, our Members and Visitors, other natural persons  and the public.

Search

You can search for Coaches and Players. We use personal information from our Services, including Member profiles to inform and refine our search service.

TeamMates

If you participate in TeamMates, share content and send messages you should be aware that any information you choose to disclose using these services can be read, collected, and used by other Members from that TeamMates group. We are not responsible for the information you choose to submit in TeamMates. However, others may have copied and used the information that you shared.

Compliance with Legal Process and Other Disclosures

It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information, profile information, or information about your activities as a Member or Visitor when required by law, whether in Serbia or other jurisdictions, when it is necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce the Terms of Services, investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, or protect the security or integrity of our Service; or (3) exercise or protect the rights, property, or safety of Sportifico, our Members, personnel, or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their personal information when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order.

Disclosures to Others as the Result of a Change in Control or Sale of Sportifico LLC

We may also disclose your personal information to a third party as part of a sale of the assets of Sportifico LLC a subsidiary, or division, or as the result of a change in control of the company or one of its affiliates, or in preparation for any of these events. Any third party to which we transfers or sells our assets will have the right to continue to use the personal and other information that you provide to us in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

Service Providers – Processors

We may employ third party companies (‘’Processors’’) and individuals to facilitate our Services (e.g. maintenance, analysis, audit, marketing and development). These Processors have limited access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated to Sportifico not to disclose or use it for other purposes. These Processors will implement appropriate technical and organizational measures in such a manner that processing will meet the requirements of this Privacy Policy and ensure the protection of the rights of the data subject.

Data Processing Outside Your Country

We may transfer your information and process it outside your country of residence, wherever Sportifico, its affiliates and service providers operate.

Rights to Access, Correct or Delete Your Information, and Closing Your Account

You have a right to (1) access, modify, correct, or delete your personal information controlled by Sportifico regarding your profile, (2) change or remove your content, and (3) deactivate or delete your account. You can request your personal information that is not viewable on your profile or readily accessible to you (for example, your IP access logs) contacting Sportifico through Help Center.

We retain the personal information you provide while your account is in existence or as needed to provide you services. If you want to deactivate your Sportifico account, your profile will no longer be visible to other users on the network. They would not be able to find you on the platform or mobile applications, to send you a message or to contribute your profile in any way. All data previously submitted to the profile, such as posts, basic information, photos, messages or any other data would not be deleted and they will be remembered on our servers. When you want to reactivate your account you need to request activation email from us.

If you request us to delete your account, your information will generally be removed from the Service within 10 business days. We generally delete information and will de-personalize any logs or other backup information through the deletion process within 10 business days of account closure, except as noted below. If you ask to delete your account, you will have up to 5 business days to tell us to restore your account before we delete your information from our servers. To delete your account contact Sportifico through Help Center.

Please note that information you have shared with others (for example, through messages or content sharing) or that others have copied may also remain visible after you have closed your account or deleted the information from your own profile. TeamMates content associated with closed accounts will show as coming from an inactive user, with their last profile photo and name shown. In addition, you may not be able to access, correct, or eliminate any information about you that other Members copied or exported out of our Services, because this information may not be in our control. Your public profile may be displayed in search engine results until the search engine refreshes its cache and index.

Also, we may retain your personal information even after you have deactivated your account if retention is reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations or enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

Our Customer Service may retain information for as long as is necessary to provide support-related reporting and trend analysis only, but we generally delete or de-personalize closed account data, except in the case of our plugin impression data (i.e., the information that you visited on sites carrying our social plugin, but which you did not click on), which we de-personalize within 7 days (although we do maintain 30 days worth of webserver logs for security, debugging, and site stability purposes only) by creating aggregate data sets that cannot be traced back to individuals.

Security of your data

We have implemented security safeguards designed to protect the personal information that you provide in accordance with industry standards. Access to your data on our Services is password-protected, and all transactional data is protected by SSL encryption when it is exchanged between your web browser and the Services. We also offer secure https access to the app.sportifico.com website. To protect any data you store on our servers, we also regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we use a tier-one secured-access data center. However, since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us. There is no guarantee that information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information. Please note that emails, instant messaging, and similar means of communication with other Members are not encrypted, and we strongly advise you not to communicate any confidential information through these means. Please help keep your account safe by using a strong password.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make significant changes in the way we treat your personal information, or to the Privacy Policy, we will provide notice to you on the Services or by some other means, such as email. Please review the changes carefully. If you agree to the changes, simply continue to use our Services. If you object to any of the changes to our terms and you no longer wish to use our Services, you may close your account. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. Using our Services after a notice of changes has been communicated to you or published on our Services shall constitute consent to the changed terms or practices.