Introduction
Basketball Champions League SA (“BCL”) c/o Fédération Internationale de Basketball (FIBA), is aware that you care about how your personal information is used and shared and appreciates your trust that BCL will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Policy explains how BCL and its affiliates (hereinafter “we”) process Personal Data.
Throughout this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Data” means information relating to an identified or identifiable individual (i.e. a natural person). This can be information that directly identifies you or information that can be used to identify you when combined with other data. This Policy applies to the collecting or processing of your Personal Data in accordance with the applicable data protection laws and regulations.
This Privacy Policy has been drafted in English and has been translated into other languages. In the event of any discrepancy between the English and the translated texts, the English text shall prevail.
Data Controller
BCL is the data controller with respect to the processing activities described in this Privacy Policy. Should you have any questions regarding the processing of your Personal Data, you may reach out to us at:
BCL, Fédération Internationale de Basketball, Route Suisse 5, PO Box 29 1295, Mies - Switzerland
Collecting and processing your Personal Data
Where does your data come from?
We generally collect most Personal Data directly from you, when you provide us with your information through various means, such as filling out forms, communicating with us via email or phone, or engaging with our services in a manner that necessitates the sharing of your Personal Data. In addition, it may also happen that we obtain your personal data from a third party (e.g., to obtain a reference, provided we have received your consent).
When you provide us with Personal Data about third parties (e.g., family members, colleagues), we assume that this data is accurate and that you are authorized to do so. We ask you to accordingly inform these third parties and to provide them with this Privacy Policy.
How & for what purposes do we process your data?
We may request specific Personal Data about you in order to help us bring Basketball to the World, improve our services and/or deliver a product or a service that you’ve asked for. You may choose not to provide your Personal Data, but then you might not be able to take advantage of some of the features of our Website and Services.
Website visitors
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Service Provision: To provide services in accordance with the Terms of Service of fiba.basketball, fiba3x3.com, fiba3x3.basketball, play.fiba3x3.com, championsleague.basketball, and courtside1891.basketball; Account and Subscription Management: For registered users, to facilitate account registration and administration and to manage subscriptions to newsletters or other services offered; Website and App Administration: To manage and ensure the stability and security of our website and apps; Content Optimization: To optimize and improve the content available on our platforms for a better user experience; Marketing Communications: To send marketing materials and display advertisements relevant to your interests, subject to your consent; Enquiries and Complaints: To address and resolve any enquiries or complaints submitted by users. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, qualifications; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data; Technical data – e.g. web log entries that contain your IP address, page URL, browser plug-in types and versions, device information and identifier, operating system information, and timestamp. |
Players
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Player Profiles and Publicity: Player profiles are created and published to provide players with a license to play, to promote athletes and the sport and to maintain the sport’s legacy, including highlight videos, real-time game statistics, and sanction information; Team and Event Management: Teams are formed and registered for professional and grassroots competitions and events; Travel and Insurance: Efficient travel arrangements and comprehensive insurance management are provided to ensure players are well-supported logistically and protected against injuries and unforeseen events during competitions; Registration and Eligibility: The registration and eligibility process for the Basketball Champions League is managed to ensure compliance with the sport’s rules and international transfer disputes are resolved to maintain fairness and order; Anti-Doping Measures: Anti-doping efforts include selecting players for testing, managing whereabouts for out-of-competition tests, processing biological samples, and handling Therapeutic Use Exemptions, with a commitment to transparency through the publication of sanctions to promote fair play. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details, national identification/passport number; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, performance data, sanctions; Image recording – e.g. film, photo, audio recordings; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data, income, debts; Health data – e.g. medical certifications and test results. |
Match officials (Referees, Statisticians, Game Directors, Table Officials, Technical Delegates etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Licensing and Nomination: To facilitate the licensing process, which includes the application, testing, approval, and nomination of match officials to ensure they meet the required standards. Competition Organisation: To maintain an inventory of licensed match officials for the efficient organization and scheduling of competitions. Travel and Insurance: Efficient travel arrangements and comprehensive insurance management are provided to ensure match officials are well-supported logistically and protected against injuries and unforeseen events during competitions. Financial Management: To handle payments, billing activities, and other related financial transactions for services rendered by match officials. Preparation and Performance Management: To support a preparation program and manage the performance of match officials, aiming to maintain and improve officiating quality. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details, national identification/passport number Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, performance data, sanctions Image recording – e.g. film, photo, audio recordings Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data, income, debts. |
Fans (Ticket buyers, event guests, visitors etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Product and Service Delivery: To provide you with the products, services, and transactions you request, including allocation and sales of tickets; Information and Offer Sharing: To share information about the game we all love. With your consent, we share (inter alia via newsletters) personalized updates about new products, upcoming events, and special offers, including from our third parties; Fan Account Management and Support: To manage your account and any membership you hold with us, and to respond to your inquiries and feedback. Long-Term-Fan-Relationship: To establish and maintain long-term relationships with you, to to better understand your decision-making at FIBA events, inter alia for the improvement of customer & fan/spectator experience for organisational, statistical and marketing purposes in connection with FIBA events. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality; Electronic identification – e.g. IP address, cookies, connection logs; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data. |
The processing of Personal Data by Event Hosts is not subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy. Event Hosts will have their own Privacy Policy to describe how they handle your Personal Data. When you purchase tickets to an event, you should read and become familiar with the privacy policies of the Event Host.
We regularly concludes a joint controller agreement with the Event Host in context with the organisation of basketball events. Such agreement sets out the scope, purposes and means of data processing in context with the hosting of an event, in particular with regard to processing data of ticket buyers. The Event Host shall be primarily responsible for the processing of ticket buyers’ data in context with planning and conducting the event, security checks, health- and safety-protocol as well as in general the Product and Service Delivery. Notwithstanding the contractual agreed responsibilities within the joint controller agreement, we have no control over the use of your Personal Data by any Event Host. If you have special preferences concerning use of your Personal Data by an Event Host, you must communicate those preferences directly to that Event Host.
Media Professionals (Photographers, journalists, broadcast reporters, etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Accreditation: To accredit the media professionals, as required by BCL, FIBA and National Federations. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details, national identification/passport number; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, qualifications; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data. |
Game Personnel (Coaches, team doctors, team delegations, etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Licensing and Registration: To register and to provide game personnel with licenses; Travel Management: Efficient travel arrangements is provided to ensure game personnel are well-supported logistically during competitions; Training: To support a preparation program and manage the performance of game personnel. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details, national identification/passport number; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, qualifications; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data. |
Agents (Coaches, team doctors, team delegations, etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Certification and Registration: To register and to provide agents with licenses. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details, national identification/passport number Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality Professional data – e.g.: employer, work location, compensation, qualifications. |
Event staff & volunteers
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Event Organisation: To coordinate roles and responsibilities of staff and volunteers during BCL events; Distribution of Materials: To allocate and distribute event-specific clothing and equipment to staff and volunteers. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details; Personal characteristics – e.g. age, sex, date of birth, civil status, nationality, clothing size; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, qualifications. |
Business partners (e.g. venue managers, sponsors, etc.)
For what purposes do we use your data? | What information do we collect about you? |
Contractual Management: To manage and fulfill contractual obligations with our business partners, including the facilitation of communication; Financial Transactions: To process payments, invoices, and other financial transactions related to the services provided by or to our business partners. | Personal identification – e.g. name, contact details; Professional data – e.g. employer, work location, compensation, qualifications; Financial data – e.g. bank details, transaction data. |
What gives us the right to process your data?
Depending on the purpose of the processing, the use of your Personal Data is premised on the following legal bases:
Necessity for performance of a contract;
For compliance with legal obligations;
Based on our legitimate business interest; or
Based on your consent.
How long do we keep your data for?
We retain Personal Data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. This ensures that we can provide ongoing services and fulfill our contractual obligations. Certain Personal Data may be retained for historical and statistical purposes. Additionally, we may be required to retain Personal Data for longer periods in accordance with legal, tax, or regulatory requirements.
We keep contact information (such as mailing list information) until a user unsubscribes or requests that we delete that information. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.
What are your choices regarding our marketing materials?
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain Personal Data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. We will obtain your consent with regard to sending you marketing and advertising materials per regulation requirements. In general, we will provide a button, checkbox or other means where you affirmatively opt-in to receive marketing emails or other communications from us. You can change your preferences or ask us to stop sending you marketing messages and/or remove your email from our mailing lists by contacting us at privacy@fiba.basketball or by following the instructions within the marketing messages that you have received.
Transferring your Personal Data
With whom do we share your data?
We may share your Personal Data to fulfill the purposes set out above with select third parties, including:
Event and competition organisers;
National Federations;
Media, technology, and business partners;
Service providers (e.g. IT providers or outsourcing partners);
World-Anti Doping Agency (WADA) and medical experts;
Professional advisors (lawyers, accountants, consultants);
Local and national authorities, offices, courts.
We ensure that all sharing of Personal Data is conducted in compliance with applicable data protection laws and regulations, and we take reasonable steps to ensure that all third parties respect the confidentiality and security of the data shared with them.
Where does your data go?
The Personal Data we collect about you is generally stored and processed by us within Switzerland, the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). Should it be necessary to transfer your Personal Data to a country outside of this area, we can only do so if this is necessary for the data processing described in this Privacy Policy and is in accordance with the applicable data protection laws and regulations. Where we transfer your Personal Data outside Switzerland, the EU or EEA, we will ensure that it is protected in a manner that is consistent with how your Personal Data will be protected by us in Switzerland. This can be done in several ways, for instance:
The country that we send the data to might be approved by European Commission and the Federal Council as offering a sufficient level of data protection;
The recipient signed up to a contract based on the “Standard Contractual Clauses” drafted by the European Commission and recognized by the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and adjusted to the Swiss data protection regulation, if needed;
Alternatively, where none of the above conditions apply, we may transfer your Personal Data with your explicit consent. Before giving your consent, you will be informed about the possible risks of such transfers for you due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards. Your consent must be given freely, specific to the particular data transfer or set of transfers, and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
In other circumstances the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your Personal Data outside Switzerland, the EU or EEA. In all cases, however, we will ensure that any transfer of your Personal Data is compliant with applicable data protection laws and regulations. Questions regarding such data transfers and about which guarantees apply in individual cases can be directed at the contact details mentioned above.
Protecting your Personal Data
How do we store and protect your personal data?
BCL has taken technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of your Personal Data and to protect it from unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, alteration, disclosure, or access. These measures are based on international standards and are regularly reviewed and adjusted if necessary.
If you communicate with BCL by e-mail, through our social media platform, or through other communication internet channels, you should note that the secrecy of internet is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential messages or information which are not encrypted you accept the risk of such uncertainty and possible lack of confidentiality over the Internet. In certain areas, BCL uses industry standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions.
Your rights
If and insofar as this is provided for under applicable data protection law, you have the following privacy rights. You may contact us at privacy@fiba.basketball to exercise your rights to:
Request access to your Personal Data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you, find out how we are using it, who we are sharing it with, and where we got your data from. Request corrections of the Personal Data that we hold about you (right to rectification). This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of any new data you provide to us;
Request erasure of your Personal Data (right to erasure). This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data where there is no good reason for us to continue to process it.. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons of which we will notify you, if applicable, at the time of your request;
Object to processing of your Personal Data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party), and you object to this processing as you feel it impacts your fundamental rights and freedoms (right to objection). You may also object to our processing your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may deny your objection if we can demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms;
Request restriction of processing of your Personal Data (right to restriction) in certain circumstances. Request the transfer of your Personal Data to you or to a third party (right to data portability). Upon request, we will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information that you initially consented for us to use, or that we used in performing our obligations under a contract with you;
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data. This withdrawal will not, however, affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent;
Should BCL make an automated individual decision which may have a legal effect for you, you may have the right to speak with a representative of FIBA and to request a reconsideration of that decision;
Make a complaint to a regulator. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to your local supervisory authority about data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach any supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.
Other Data Protection information
The policy towards children
We do not knowingly collect any information from any minors, and we comply with all applicable privacy laws and regulations for collecting Personal Data from minors. If you have concerns about this Website or its Services, believe that your child under 13 has gained access to our Website without your permission, or wish to remove your child’s Personal Data from our servers, please contact us at privacy@fiba.basketball.
Our Website will not knowingly accept Personal Data from anyone under 13 years old without consent of a parent or guardian. In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to us, we will make efforts to delete the child’s information.
Cookies
Not just a delicious end-of-game snack, cookies are also small pieces of information stored on your browser when you use our website. You’ll find more information about our use of Cookies in our Cookie Policy.
Links to other sites
If you can access other websites through links provided, those websites do not operate under this Privacy Policy. If you choose to visit an advertiser or click on another third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. We do not exercise control over third-party websites and therefore recommend you examine the privacy statements posted on these other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using and disclosing personal information.
Phishing
Identity theft and the practice currently known as “phishing” are of great concern to BCL. Safeguarding information to help protect you from identity theft is a top priority. We do not and will not, at any time, request your credit card information, your account ID, login password or national identification numbers in a non-secure or unsolicited email or telephone communication.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to adapt, supplement or otherwise change this Privacy Policy at any time and without giving reasons. The up-to-date Privacy Policy is available on our website.