PRIVACY POLICY

Wee Wonders Limited is concerned for the privacy of visitors to its websites; protection of privacy is extremely important to us. However, please remember that the security of information transmitted over the Internet cannot be assured. This Privacy Policy sets out the way in which your personal data is handled. Therefore please read this policy carefully, as it explains what information we will collect about you, how we will use it, and the steps we take to ensure that it is kept safe.

Personally Identifiable Information

Wee Wonders Limited collects personally identifiable information about you and any child entering a competition via this website of whom you are a parent or guardian when you voluntarily submit it to our website and when we engage in telephone conversations, email correspondence and written and verbal communications with you. We may, for example, keep a record of your name, address, delivery address, email address, telephone number and credit card details. We may also record details of any disability or health needs which you or the child may have at the time of booking an event or service to help ensure your safety.
We may use the information to improve our level of service and the content of our website; provide you with news and updates; and for our own internal purposes.

Please note that by submitting personally identifiable information you are, unless you have otherwise indicated, consenting to such information being processed for the above listed purposes. Further, you agree that unless otherwise stated Wee Wonders Limited shall have the unrestricted right to use and store on its internal systems any such information provided by you. In this context please note that your information may cross national borders during processing but will remain within the European Economic Area.

Under relevant data protection legislation (the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK) you are entitled to obtain from Wee Wonders Limited (the Data Controller for the purposes of the data protection legislation) a printout of the data held concerning you and to have any inaccuracies in this data rectified. Should you wish to contact us for this purpose, please write to us setting out your request at:

HSBC Wee Wonders, C/O Octagon Golf Team, Octagon House, 81-83 Fulham High Street, London, SW6 3JW

Your rights to access your personal information

You have the right to receive a copy of the personal information that we hold about you or any child of whom you are a parent or guardian. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any requests you make.

How to contact us

If you would like any further information or have any comments about the privacy policy or any other aspect of our website or service, please contact us at the address below:

HSBC Wee Wonders, c/o Octagon Golf Team, Octagon House, 81-83 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JW.

Wee Wonders Limited recognises that as the HSBC Wee Wonders website is aimed at children more rigorous safeguards need to be put in place in order to ensure that the processing of personal information is fair. Accordingly, Wee Wonders Limited endeavours to ensure that parental consent is obtained both before collecting personal data submitted by children under 14 and to the publishing of any of that data on the website. In accordance with the guidance received from the office of the Information Commissioner the provision of credit card details or mailing of a cheque from a parent or guardian in order to make payment for an entry in to the HSBC Wee Wonders Championships 2008 shall be deemed indicative of explicit and verifiable parental consent having been given to the submission of the personal data of the child concerned and the use of that data in accordance with the terms of this policy (including by way of publishing the name and age of the child on the website in connection with the staging and results of the HSBC Wee Wonders Championships 2008).

Non-personally identifiable information

Wee Wonders Limited also collects (and also uses the services of third parties to collect) non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to track data such as the total number of visits to our websites, the number of visitors to each page of our websites, and the domain names of our visitors’ Internet service providers. We use this information, which remains in aggregate form, to understand how our visitors use our web sites so that we may improve it.

No personally identifiable information is disclosed in this process.

Use of IP addresses

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your Internet service provider or through your organisation’s local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.

Wee Wonders Limited may collect IP addresses for the purposes of systems administration and to audit the use of our site. We do not ordinarily link a user’s IP address to personally identifiable information of that user, which means each user’s session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. However, we may use IP addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with the site’s terms of use, or to protect or service, site or other users.

Links to other websites

HSBC Wee Wonders website provides links to third party websites as a service to our users. The privacy policy described here does not apply to those sites. Please ensure you check the legal and privacy policy sections of any site you link to.

Cookies

Wee Wonders Limited may place a “cookie” in your computer’s browser. Cookies are small text files that provide us with information about how often someone visits our site, and what they do during those visits. Cookies do not themselves contain any personally identifiable information but if you provide such information to us, for example by registering with us, it may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

The web browsers of most computers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web browser to disable cookies or to inform you when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your computer’s cookie file. However if you do disable cookies this may limit the services we are able to provide to you over the website.

Please visit http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q283185 (Microsoft specific) to discover how to disable and delete cookies.

Security

Wee Wonders Limited operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. Wee Wonders Limited has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.

We take the security of your personal information seriously. When you submit your credit card details, we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to guard your information. In addition, we have security procedures in place to protect our customer database from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within it. However we cannot guarantee that any data transmission over the Internet is completely secure.

Only authorised employees have access to the information you provide us. Further, we impose strict rules on Wee Wonders Limited’s employees who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host our services. Whilst we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we make every effort to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

Sharing Personally Identifiable Information With Third Parties

Wee Wonders Limited will share the information that you have provided about yourself and any child of whom you are the parent or guardian with HSBC Holdings plc, HSBC Bank plc and the other companies in the HSBC Group so that it may be used by such parties for the purpose of administering the HSBC Wee Wonders Championships, and also for promotional purposes both in the UK and Eire and throughout the world. This may include using pictures, names and postal districts of Championship winners and other competitors in HSBC’s own promotional materials including websites, and the provision of such information to national and international golf and other news agencies to enable them to report on the Championships.

If you have agreed, Wee Wonders Limited and HSBC Holdings plc, HSBC Bank plc and the other companies in the HSBC Group will also use your contact details to keep you informed by post or email of future golf related promotions (including next year’s HSBC Wee Wonders Championships).

Except as set out above, Wee Wonders Limited will not sell or rent personally identifiable information to any third party for any purpose.

In certain special cases, we may disclose your personally identifiable information, or that of any child of whom you are the parent or guardian namely: (i) sometimes carefully selected third parties are used to provide Wee Wonders Limited with support services in connection with its websites and such parties may, from time to time, have access to your information to enable them to provide those services to Wee Wonders Limited. Please rest assured that all companies providing such support services are required by Wee Wonders Limited to meet the same high standards of data protection; (ii) when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering with Wee Wonders Limited’s rights, property or operations, other users of this site, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities; or (iii) when we believe the law requires it, or in response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administration investigation.

The website and the database that will hold any information submitted by you are hosted by Wee Wonders Limited’s selected third party supplier in the United Kingdom, in accordance with instructions issued by Wee Wonders Limited and this privacy policy.

Binding Nature

By submitting personal data you agree to be bound by our privacy policy and agree that Wee Wonders Limited may, in its sole discretion, disclose information about you or any child of whom you are a parent or guardian in the circumstances and to the extent set out in this policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change our security and privacy policies at any time. Accordingly we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review current policies.