Sideline Sport
Privacy Policy

Sideline Sport Pty Ltd (“we,” “us”, “our”) (see section 14), including our affiliates, understand that you care about your personal information and how it is used. We value your trust in sharing your personal information with us and are committed to protecting your privacy, as further described in this Privacy Policy.

We are committed to handling your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the “Privacy Act”) and the Australian Privacy Principles (the “APPs”).

Our Privacy Commitment

This Privacy Policy sets out what personal information (as defined in the Privacy Act) we collect about you and how we use and disclose your personal information. It also incorporates our Credit Reporting Policy which sets out how we collect, use and share credit related information about you.

The types of information we collect, how we collect it, how we use the information, and who we disclose it to, will depend on the Services you apply for or use, and the relationship we have with you.

Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out what personal information (as defined in the Privacy Act) we collect about you and how we use and disclose your personal information. It also incorporates our Credit Reporting Policy which sets out how we collect, use and share credit related information about you.

The types of information we collect, how we collect it, how we use the information, and who we disclose it to, will depend on the Services you apply for or use, and the relationship we have with you.

What information do we collect and how ?

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect directly from you or automatically via your behaviour/interaction with us, when you apply for or use our Services or interact with us offline or online (including through social media), as well as information we collect from other sources.

If you choose not to provide the information we request from you, we may not be able to provide you with the Services.

1. Information we collect directly from you. We may collect information directly from you when you:

a) register for or use our Services (e.g. your name, contact information, date of birth, gender, preferences, payment information, identification information where required, information relating to your credit worthiness, and the username and password for your account);

b) make an enquiry or complaint or otherwise interact with our customer support representatives by email, phone, webchat or social media;

c) subscribe to a newsletter or participate in our competitions, rewards programs, promotions, surveys, research or marketing campaigns;

d) participate in online forums, blogs or discussions on our websites, social media sites or apps;

e) apply for a job or contract with us (e.g. your contact information, education, work history or other information included in your CV or collected by us as part of your application process); and

f) acquire a third party product or service and we collect payment from you on behalf of the third party.

We may also need you to provide information about someone else, for example, where you nominate an authorised representative on your account for a Service. If so, you must have their consent to provide their information to us and notify them of this Privacy Policy.

2. Information we collect automatically. When you access, use or interact with us and/or our Services, we may collect the following information automatically:

a) information about your interactions with our Services, such as viewing and browsing habits, the frequency of viewed shows/channels/websites, the content you record, search queries and activities, advertisements you have been shown, and how you access or view content, including when you use our applications;

b) information about your interactions with third party applications made available via our Services, such as when and how you launch the application;

c) information about the device used to access our Services such as, browser type, operating system, software or hardware information, IP address (which may indicate your general location), network connection type (e.g. Wi-Fi) and provider, unique device identifiers (including resettable device IDs also known as advertising identifiers) and the geolocation and other transactional data from your device (which may include precise location data);

d) a voice command (e.g. search requests or instructions) via the Foxtel Voice Remote that is transmitted as a recording and converted to a text log to action the request/instruction. Voice recordings are stored anonymously and only for as long as necessary to action the command; they are not linked to personal information we hold about you;

e) details of your interactions with our marketing, advertising and service messages (e.g. whether you have opened an email from us) and your interactions with third party advertising on our Services;

f) details of your interactions with our customer support representatives (e.g. transcripts of any chat conversations and call recordings);

g) information collected through tracking technologies such as cookies, pixels and web beacons, including information about websites you visit before and after visiting our websites, pages and advertisements you view, or links you click. This data does not generally identify individual people but does identify the internet browser. For more information about cookies and tracking technologies and how to block cookies, see our Cookie Policy. Where we link this data with personal information we hold about you, such as where you have logged into a Service, we treat your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy;

h) information about how you use your broadband/home phone service such as:

(i) information about your call usage including the date, time and duration of your communications and your location;

(ii) information about your data usage including the date, time and duration of your internet browsing, search queries, the websites visited and your location; and

(iii) information about our network performance.

3. Information obtained from other sources. We may obtain information about you from the following other sources:

a) public databases, publications or public posts (including on social media);

b) information (e.g. your name, username, comments, likes, tweets, status, profile information and photos) from your social media services (e.g. Facebook, Twitter), if you have permitted the service to share your information with us. If you access or log-in to our Services through a third party social media profile or link our Services to your social media profile, you authorise us to collect and handle your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy;

c) information from credit reporting agencies, law enforcement and fraud checking services;

d) commercially available personal, identity, geographic, demographic, and interest and preference information from data brokers, marketers and other analytics companies and advertising related organisations;

e) information from third parties where you have agreed with them that your information may be disclosed;

f) information from third parties who make their products or services available through our Services or third party applications that interact with our Services (e.g. search queries and voice commands);

g) third party payment processors who collect payments for the Services on our behalf;

h) advertisers or ad networks and our trusted business partners with whom we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities;

i) information from third parties who collate information about you in order to derive insights about you;

j) information from third parties when you apply for a job or contract with us such as recruitment consultants, your previous employers, or other referees; and

k) information from our related companies, affiliates and other business partners in Australia or internationally.

4. Other
We collect information about our suppliers and individuals employed by our suppliers (including service and content providers), contractors, dealers, agents and corporate customers, and their related companies. We will explain why we are collecting this information and how we will use that information, unless it is obvious from the circumstances.

How do we use your information ?

We, or service providers acting on our behalf, may use your information to:

1. Provide and administer the Services

a) provide you with the Services;

b) fulfill administrative functions associated with the Services (e.g. customer support, billing, payments, debt recovery and account management);

c) respond to your enquiries, requests and complaints, and otherwise communicate with you (including on social media);

d) assess your application or your credit worthiness for a Service and for other credit related purposes (including credit risk and bad debt reduction), as described in our Credit Reporting Policy (see section 6);

e) verify your identity when you apply for our Services or for credit with us;

2. Monitor and protect our Services

a) monitor your call usage and data allowance in relation to your broadband/home phone service;

b) monitor and analyse your use of our Services, IT systems, network and infrastructure, including for security purposes or fraud detection and network traffic management, including under our Fair Use Policy for broadband and home phone services;

c) protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other unlawful activity including a breach of any of our Services’ terms and conditions;

3. Develop and improve our Services, marketing and advertising

a) develop, measure and improve our Services and the products and services of our related companies, affiliates and business partners by performing research and data analysis of your use of the Services (including by measuring interest in our content and interactions with advertising) and by performing other data and statistical analytics. We may use third party analytics services (e.g. Google Analytics) and third party video measurement software (e.g. Nielsen and OzTAM) to assist with this;

b) develop and improve, and measure the success of, our marketing and research, and to plan and execute our marketing strategies;

c) measure the success of advertising on our Services;

d) improve our Services by associating your browser and/or device with other browsers or devices you use for the purpose of providing relevant and easier access to content, advertising across browsers and devices, and other operational/business purposes;

4. Promote and Market

a) promote and market our Services and the products and services of our related companies, affiliates and business partners;

b) promote and administer our competitions, rewards programs, surveys, market research and events;

5. Deliver relevant content and marketing of our Services

a) improve your experience by, generating customised suggestions/recommendations and delivering tailored content on our Services, and personalising the marketing of our Services to you, in each case, that we think you will find relevant and interesting. To deliver this to you, we may link information collected by us under this Privacy Policy, (including through tracking technologies or software such as cookies and device IDs), with information we hold about you as a customer of one of our Services;

b) personalise the marketing of our Services to you on third party sites, apps or social media services, where we may match an anonymised common account identifier (such as a hashed email address) with third party sources to send you personalised communications (or to exclude you from receiving a particular communication) on the third party site, app or social media service;

You can control whether you receive personalised communications (see section 9).

6. Deliver relevant third party advertising on our Services – We may deliver personalised third party advertising on our Services. Personalised advertising (known as interest based advertising or addressable advertising) delivers you more relevant advertising based on your interests combined with other information (e.g. demographic and location information). Personalised advertising is tailored based on the information we hold about you as a customer and information collected about the use of our Services or your use of various sites or apps across the internet. We may also supplement this information with information collected from other trusted businesses with whom you have a relationship or from public sources. If you are using a browser, information collected through cookies or similar tracking technologies and software may be used to determine your likely interests and to deliver relevant advertising. If you are using a device that includes a resettable advertising ID, it may be used to determine your likely interests and to deliver relevant advertising. We may also use data connectivity platforms or other technologies to match an anonymised common account identifier such as a hashed email address with data from third party sources (e.g. third party advertisers) to deliver more relevant advertisements to you. We, our partners, third party advertisers, ad networks and technology providers also use the information for reporting and attribution, data analytics and market research. We may also share information with third parties to perform ad measurement services on our behalf.

You can control whether you receive personalised communications (see section 9).

7. Supplement your information and to derive customer insights

a) derive customer insights about your characteristics, interests and preferences; and

b) supplement it with additional information from publicly available sources, commercially available sources (e.g. data providers and advertisers), third parties with whom you have a relationship, and/or from our related companies, affiliates and business partners. We may share your information with these third parties so that they can do the same thing. Unless you have otherwise consented, where the information is provided to others for their own marketing purposes, it will not contain any information that personally identifies you;

8. Comply with contractual and legal obligations

a) fulfil our contractual obligations, including by entering contracts with you or third parties; and

b)  to comply with our legal obligations, including under the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 (Cth), the Telecommunications Act 1997(Cth) and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (Cth), or any industry code or standard registered under an applicable law.

9. Other – We, or service providers acting on our behalf, may also use your information for any other purpose as notified to you at the time of collection, or where you have provided your consent, if permitted under the Privacy Act, APPs or applicable laws, or for any other purpose outlined in this Privacy Policy.

How do we protect your information ?

1. We hold your information in a combination of electronic and hard copy files.

2. We have implemented a number of technical, administrative and physical security measures to ensure that the information we hold is protected from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure, by the use of various methods, including secure storage, encryption, firewalls, virus detection software, password restricted access and by training our staff to handle personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act, APPs, other applicable privacy laws and this Privacy Policy.

3. Where we store your information with a third party data storage provider, we require them to adopt appropriate security measures and to only use or disclose it for the purpose for which it was provided.

4. Please contact us immediately (see section 13) if you become aware or have reason to believe there has been any unauthorised access to, or misuse or loss of, your personal information.

How to access, correct or update your personal information?

1. In accordance with your rights under the Privacy Act and APPs, you can request to access, correct or update your personal information held by us, by contacting us using the details below (see section 13).

2. Where you request access to your personal information, you may be charged an administration fee to cover our time and postage, handling, retrieval and other costs. We will try to respond to your request as soon as reasonably practicable. There will be instances where we cannot grant you access (e.g. where access would interfere with the privacy of others). If we refuse your request, we will tell you why. If you are not satisfied with our response, you can make a complaint in accordance with the procedure outlined below (see section 11).

Opting Out

We give you the choice of opting out of receiving certain communications and personalised messages such as addressable advertising.

For information on how to opt-out please visit the website.

Complaints

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a privacy related complaint, you can contact us to make a complaint using the contact details below (see section 13). We will contact you promptly to let you know the next steps in resolving your complaint and to obtain any further information we need to consider your complaint. We will endeavour to respond to your complaint within 30 days of receipt of the complaint by our Privacy Officer (see section 13 for our Privacy Officer’s contact details). If you are not satisfied with our response, you may refer your complaint to a relevant regulator, such as the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. If your privacy complaint relates to our broadband/home phone services, you can elect to refer your complaint to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

Other Important Information

1. Linked services. Our Services may be provided through or interact with third party platforms and our websites may contain links to other third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third party platforms or websites and you should check the privacy policy of that service or website to understand how it will handle your information.

2. Data Retention. Even after you cancel your subscription with us, we will retain your information for as long as we reasonably need it for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may retain your information to prevent fraud or to resolve a dispute, or we may retain your inactive account for a period for ease of resubscription. We may also retain your information if required or permitted by law, or to fulfil our contractual obligations to a third party. If you request, we may be able to delete or anonymise your personal data however, in certain circumstances, including where we are prevented by technical or systems constraints, we may not be able to remove all your information.

3. Related Policies. This Privacy Policy may be superseded or supplemented by another policy, statement, notice or terms of use, specific to a Service, survey, competition or program, or a company within the Foxtel Group (see section 14), as otherwise disclosed by us in our communications with you, or at the time of collecting your information.

4. Sensitive Information. We generally do not solicit or collect sensitive personal information (such as information about your racial or ethnic origin, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) and we ask that you do not provide us with this information. If you do provide us with any sensitive personal information, you consent to us collecting and handling that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

5. Collection of personal financial information by a payment service provider. Sometimes we allow you to use an unaffiliated payment service to purchase a Service. If you use a third party payment service, you will be directed to the webpage for that payment service. Any information you provide when using a third party payment service may be collected and used by the payment service provider in accordance with that provider’s privacy policy. You should check the provider’s privacy policy to understand how it will handle your information.

6. Updates to this Privacy Policy. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. The effective date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy tells you when it was last updated. Any changes to this Privacy Policy become effective when we publish it online.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or to request a hard copy, please contact the relevant Privacy Officer at:

Via Email: privacy@sidelinesport.tv

Postal Mail:
Privacy Officer
Sideline Sport Pty Ltd
132 Cremorne Street
Richmond Victoria 3121