Who we are

Our website address is: https://members.skydive.co.za.  We are the Western Province Sports Parachute Club (WSPSC), operating as Skydive Robertson.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Profile Information

At this time, the contents of this website are not public.  The only persons able to view the information are you, the user, and appointed members of the WPSPC, who will not make your details public.  This website’s purpose is to collect information pertinent to participants in the pursuit of sports parachuting, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.  The information collected is the same as the existing club membership form.  Should you prefer to provide the required information in paper for, please download and complete the WPSPC Membership Form.

Comments

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish content, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use analytics tools to monitor website usage.  These tools do not identify you individually, they track how you use the website and how long you stay on the pages of the website.

Who we share your data with

We keep your data private and only appointed members of the WPSPC have access to your data. We do however share your data with the Parachute Association of South Africa (PASA), who in turn share selected information to the Aero Club of South Africa and South African Sports Confederation & Olympic Committee (SASCOC) for demographic reporting and statistical purposes.  Here are links to the Aero Club of South Africa Privacy Policy and South African Sports Confederation & Olympic Committee (SASCOC) Privacy Policy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators and appointed members of the WPSPC can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

All of your contact information remains private and only available to appointed members of the WPSPC.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Your information is stored in a database to which no public access is available unless the access is through the web front end, which is protected by both hardware and software firewalls.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Any breaches will be investigated by the committee of the WPSPC. As previously mentioned, should you wish to delete all of your data heled on this website, options are available to you once you’ve logged in. If you have forgotten your password you can reset it to access your account or ask an appointed members of the WPSPC to delete your information. The website also allows you to to download all of your personal information for review.