Privacy Policy

This is the Privacy Policy of Comets Sports Club.

1. Our commitment to privacy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors. This policy explains what information we may collect about you and your visits to our website, how we use them, and about use of cookies on our website.

2. Website administration

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy please contact us:

  • by email: privacy@comets.org.uk
  • by post:
    Comets Sports Club 94 Allandale Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire HP2 5AT United Kingdom

3. Policy validity

This policy is valid for 1 day from the time it is loaded by a client.

We reserve the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. It is your responsibility to check the Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

4. Information collection and use

For each visitor to our website we log HTTP request to our server. This includes:

  • client IP address
  • request date and time
  • page requested
  • HTTP code
  • HTTP referer
  • user agent
  • bytes transferred

We use this data for the following purposes:

  • website administration
  • anonymous user analysis
  • anonymous user profiling and decision-making
  • anonymous marketing and advertisement purposes

We do not collect personally identifiable information on our website.

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. This information is for our internal use only and it's not passed to third parties unless it is required, as described in Clause 10: Information Disclosure.

5. Users aged 16 or under

Children aged 16 or under must get their parent's or guardian's permission before using our website. Users without this consent are not allowed to use our website, nor provide us with personal information.

If you are aged 16 or under, never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).

6. Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies, also known as web cookies, HTTP cookies or tracking cookies, are small pieces of data generated by a web server and sent to a web browser. The data is stored on user's hard drive and is returned to the web server each time the user requests a page from that server.

Cookies on our website

This is a list of cookies that our website sets, and what they are being used for:

  • session_id: currently not used, reserved for future use
  • cookies starting with _utm: used in conjunction with Google Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics read Clause 7: Google Analytics

Allowing and disallowing cookies

Web browsers have built-in functionalities to allow or disallow cookies and to notify user when a cookie is issued. Please check the manual or Help of your web browser to learn how to set your cookie preferences.

7. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse and generate reports about use of our website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies. The generated information is stored by Google and it's governed by Google Privacy Policy.

8. Linked websites

Our website contains hyperlink to external websites, owned and operated by third parties. These websites have their own privacy policies and we suggest to review them.

We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

9. Email security

Emails sent to us may not be secure. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information.

Given the inherent operation and nature of the Internet, all email transmissions are done at the user's own risk.

10. Information disclosure

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose personal information about you:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law
  • in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings
  • in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.