Privacy Policy

Global Games ("Global Games", "we", "us") runs youth sport festivals in New Zealand. This policy covers the website at www.globalgames.co.nz and the information we receive through it and through entering our events. It is written to meet the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

Questions about anything here can go to [email protected].

This website has no sign-in and no forms that send information to our own servers. Information reaches us in these ways:

• When you email us: your name, email address and whatever you include in the message. We use it to reply and to deal with your enquiry.
• When you register a team or express interest in an event: the entry forms linked from our event pages are hosted by Jotform. They collect details about the team, the team manager's contact details, and the player details needed to grade teams and run the festival safely, which can include information about children. We use it to grade, schedule and communicate with teams and to run the event. Jotform stores it for us under the Jotform privacy policy.
• Draws, results and the Global Games app: these are provided through Sporty, a New Zealand sports platform. Anything you do there is covered by the Sporty privacy policy.
• Merchandise: our store is run by Tsunami Sport on its own site. Orders and payments go to them, not to us, and we never see your payment details.
• How the site is used: we use Google Analytics to understand which pages people visit. See the next section for exactly what that involves.
• Technical data needed to show you the site: our hosting provider (DigitalOcean) and the content network in front of it (Cloudflare) process your IP address and request details for a short time to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse.

We use Google Analytics 4 to see how many people visit, which pages and event information they look at, roughly where in the world they are, and how they found us. We use this in aggregate only, for example to tell a host council how many people viewed an event page. We have not enabled Google's advertising features or cross-device profiling.

What Google Analytics records when you visit:

• Pages viewed, how far you scroll, links to other sites you click, files you download such as event handbooks, and whether you play an embedded video.
• Your approximate location (city or region) worked out from your IP address. Google does not store the IP address itself.
• Device, browser and screen size, and the site or search that brought you here.

It sets two cookies so it can tell repeat visits apart: _ga and a second cookie beginning with _ga_ followed by our stream ID. They contain a random identifier, not your name or email. User-level data is kept for 14 months and then only aggregated reports remain.

You can stop this at any time by blocking cookies in your browser, by installing the Google Analytics opt-out add-on, or by using a content blocker. The site works exactly the same without it. Google explains its side in How Google uses information from sites that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.

Beyond the two Google Analytics cookies above, this site uses:

• A single browser setting that remembers you have dismissed the event shortcut panel, so it does not keep reappearing. It holds no personal information and never leaves your browser.
• YouTube cookies, only if you play one of our embedded videos. We embed video in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, so nothing is set until you press play. The Google Privacy Policy applies to YouTube.

You can clear or block any of these in your browser's settings.

Our festivals are for young people, so entering an event involves information about children. That information comes to us from team managers, coaches, parents and guardians through the registration forms, and they are responsible for being entitled to provide it.

We use it only to run the festival: grading, scheduling, player safety, results and awards. We do not use children's information for marketing and we do not profile anyone with analytics. The website itself is written for adults organising and supporting teams, and we do not knowingly collect information directly from children through it.

Our festivals are photographed and filmed. Images and footage from past events appear on this site, in highlight reels and on our social channels to show what the festivals are like. If you or your child appear in one and you would like it taken down, email us and we will remove it from the channels we control.

We do not sell personal information. We share it only:

• With the service providers named above (Jotform, Sporty, Google, DigitalOcean, Cloudflare and our email provider), each of which processes it for us under its own terms and privacy policy.
• With event officials, referees and venue staff who need team and player details to run a festival safely.
• With host councils, partners and sponsors in aggregate only, such as visitor numbers and team counts, never as individual details.
• Where the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety.

Some of the providers above store and process information outside New Zealand, typically in Australia or the United States. We only use providers that commit to protecting personal information under their published privacy policies and contractual terms, in line with the Privacy Act's rules on sending information overseas.

• Enquiries: for as long as we need to deal with them and any follow-up.
• Event registrations: for the event and the follow-up it needs, such as results, awards and re-entry the next season, and then only as long as the law or our record-keeping obligations require.
• Analytics: user-level data for 14 months, after which only aggregated reports remain.

The site is served over HTTPS, we use established providers, and access to registration information is limited to the people running the event. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so we cannot promise absolute security. If a privacy breach happens that is likely to cause serious harm, we will notify the Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the people affected as the Privacy Act requires.

You can ask to see the personal information we hold about you or your child, and ask us to correct it. Email [email protected] and we will respond within 20 working days. If you are not happy with how we have handled your information, tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

If we change how we collect or use information, we will update this page and the date at the top. Material changes, such as adding a new tracking tool, will be made here before they go live.