State of Play (“us”, “we”, or “our”), owned by Slate Advisory Pty Ltd ABN 21 647 902 261, operates the www.stateofplay.org website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).

This privacy policy sets out how State of Play uses and protects any information that it collects or which is already in its possession.

Definitions

Service. Service is the www.stateofplay.org website.

Personal Data. Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

Usage Data. Usage Data is data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Cookies. Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Data Controller. Data controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

Data Processors (or Service Providers). Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.

Data Subject (or User). Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection and Use

We collect different types of information to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• First and last name
  
• Business name
  
• Business address
  
• Role
  
• Email address
  
• Phone number
  
• Your date of birth
  
• Your gender
  
• Cookies and Usage Data   

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, surveys, survey results and reports, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.

Usage Data

Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Usage Data are logged for security purposes to detect suspicious logins and to assist the technical support team to resolve errors. No personally identifiable information is logged. We will use third parties, namely AWS, Auth0 and Sentry, to capture this information. These parties have respective privacy policies and do not resell or use this data.

Tracking Cookies Data

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which many include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. We use cookies for security purposes only, to manage user authentication.

Use of Data

State of Play uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To enable you to access and use our Site, associated applications and associated media platforms;
  
• To contact and communicate with you;
  
• For internal record keeping and administrative purposes;
  
• For analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve
  our Service, associated applications and associated social media platforms;
  
• For advertising and marketing, including to send you information about our products and
  services that we consider may be of interest to you; and
  
• To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), State of Play’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
State of Play may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to provide a product or service to you or you have agreed to participate in a State of Play online survey
  
• You have given us permission to do so
  
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights
  
• For payment processing purposes
  
• To comply with the law

Retention of Data

State of Play will retain your Personal Data only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

State of Play will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside Australia and choose to provide information to us, please note that we may transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Australia and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

State of Play will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, State of Play may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). If allowed to by law, State of Play will advise you that we have been requested to disclose your Personal Data.

Legal Requirements

State of Play may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
  
• Protect and defend the rights or property of State of Play
  
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  
• Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

In the case that your data could be exposed by hacking, we will notify you as soon as possible to restore protection of your data.

Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EAA), you have certain data protection rights. State of Play aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions by yourself, please contact us to assist you.
  
• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  
• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of our Personal Data.
  
• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  
• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the
  information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  
• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where State of Play relied on your consent to process your personal information. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
  You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt out of having your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors 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 payment information.

The payment processors we work with are:

Stripe: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy

Links to Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to other websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

For any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@stateofplay.org.

Effective: June 2021