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Sharkwaters Data Protection and Privacy PolicySharkwaters wants visitors to its website to know that we are just as concerned as you are about the privacy of any personal information that you may choose to provide us (\"Personal Information\"). Personal Information is any information about you and may include your name and address, date of birth, payment card details, details of betting transactions and account transfers and any other information you may wish to provide. Sharkwaters wants to ensure that our business practices that involve the use of your Personal Information are compliant with privacy regulations in the countries where we operate. Accordingly, Sharkwaters wants not only to advise you of your privacy rights but also explain how we intend to respect them. How is your Personal Information collected by our website? Personal Information may be submitted to both the public and private areas of our website. Personal Information may be submitted on our website in two areas: (a) Public Area If you do provide your name and address on the public area of this website in order to request information about our products and services, you may voluntarily provide additional personal information. You will be asked to provide your Personal Information in this area for the purposes of registering with Sharkwaters and opening an account with us. (b) Private Area If you are already one of our customers and have opened an account with us, you must use a password to enter the Sharkwaters website. A \"session cookie\" is used to enable you to leave and re-enter our website without re-entering your password. Our web server will record the pages you visit within our website. To ensure a good quality of service we may monitor and record any communication you have with us whether in writing, by phone or by electronic mail. E-mail is not encrypted to / from either the public or private areas of this website. Sharkwaters recommends that you do not send us Personal Information by e-mail. How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect. For information about cookies please refer to www.allaboutcookies.org Session Cookies. We use session cookies for the following purposes: • To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information. • Within registration to allow you to access stored information. • Non personal data for tagging purposes only (by random number) Persistent Cookies. We use persistent cookies for the following purposes: • To help us recognize you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly. • To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. • To internally identify you by account name, name, email address, customer ID, currency and location (geographic and computer ID/IP address) • To differentiate users who are on the same network to enable us to correctly allocate bets to the appropriate account. • Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so. Third Party Cookies Third parties serve cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes: • To serve advertisements on our site and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users. • To control how often you are shown a particular advertisement. • To tailor content to your preferences. • To count the number of anonymous users of our site. • For website usage analysis Use of Web Beacons. Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign. Disabling/Enabling Cookies. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. To find out how to enable/disable cookies see www.allaboutcookies.org. How your Personal Information will be used? Sharkwaters will process your Personal Information to administer your account, maintain our accounts and records, monitor website usage levels and the quality of the service we provide and to inform you, from time to time, about products and services that we consider may interest you. Sharkwaters will also retain such information and may analyze it if asked to do so in order to investigate any actual or suspected criminal activity or, in respect of any event featured on our website, any threat to the integrity of that event and/or breaches of the rules of that event as laid down by the relevant governing (including sporting) bodies. All rights in the manner of recording your Personal Information held by Sharkwaters (including copyright and database rights) are and shall remain its property. Telephone calls and betting data relating to users will be recorded and may be actively monitored for which purposes all users hereby consent. To whom and where personal information may be disclosed? Your Personal Information may, for the purposes described above, be transferred or disclosed to any company within Sharkwaters Limited group of companies (\"the Group\") or, subject to appropriate agreement to third parties, for the processing of that Personal Information on our behalf. The Group may, from time to time, retain third parties to process your Personal Information for the purposes listed above and such processing will be governed by a contract in the form required by law. Where required by law, your Personal Information may also be disclosed to an applicable governmental, regulatory, sporting or enforcement authority. Additionally, your Personal Information may be disclosed to any regulatory or sporting body in connection with policing the integrity or enforcing the rules of a sport or game and/or prevention and detection of crime and with whom the Group has agreements from time to time for the sharing of such data and where the Group considers that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that you may be involved in a breach of such rules or the law, have knowledge of a breach of such rules or the law or otherwise pose a threat to the integrity of the relevant sport or game. Those bodies may then use your Personal Information to investigate and act on any such breaches in accordance with their procedures. In connection with the above purposes it may be necessary for Sharkwaters to disclose information to entities located in countries outside the UK and EU in each case in accordance with appropriate technical and organizational security measures. By agreeing to this policy, by use of the Sharkwaters site or otherwise, you agree that Sharkwaters may store and use historical data relating to you and your account(s) for the purposes outlined in this policy. Consent By providing your Personal Information and registering with us or logging on with us when you enter our website, you explicitly consent to the Group processing and disclosing your Personal Information for the purposes, and otherwise in the manner, set out on this page, or as otherwise provided in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. If you wish to qualify, vary, modify or limit your consent in any way then please notify us. Our contact details are located in the \'Contact Us\' pages of our website. General information You may at any time request a copy of your Personal Information held by the Group in accordance with subject access rules in the Data Protection Act 1998. The Group includes all direct and indirect subsidiaries and related companies of The Sharkwaters Limited wherever located in the world as may exist from time to time. In accordance with the Terms and Conditions, Sharkwaters reserves the right to alter the purposes for which it processes your Personal Information. In the event that Sharkwaters considers it appropriate to make any such change, you will be notified as soon as practicable. For full details about Group members, where they operate, or for a copy of your Personal Information or any other queries you may have about our data protection policy please contact The Sharkwaters Limited. Again, our contact details are located in the \'Contact Us\' pages of our website. © 2005 Sharkwaters Limited. All rights reserved. SHARKWATERS is a registered trade mark of Sharkwaters LTD |