The Local Organizing Committee (hereinafter “LOC”) for Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 (hereinafter “SOAD2019”) understands the importance of protecting your personal information. Therefore, the LOC has set forth and disclosed its Policy on Handling Personal information as follows to protect the personal information and information providers. This Privacy Policy describes:

  • The personal information we collect and how we use it,
  • With whom we share your information,
  • The measures we take to protect the security of your personal information, and
  • How you can communicate with us about your rights and choices.
  • By accessing and/or using our Site, you accept our Privacy Policy and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal information in accordance with this Policy.

INFORMATION SPECIAL OLYMPICS COLLECTS AND HOW WE USE IT

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that help us run SOAD2019 activities, promote inclusion, raise awareness, and support for our mission. Here are the categories of information we collect and how we use it:

  • Your Contact Information is used to provide information to you regarding SOAD2019 activities and our mission, and to offer you opportunities to contribute/participate to SOAD2019. Contact Information includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and your parent or guardian’s information if you are a minor or an adult with a legal guardian.
  • Online Message Boards and similar online tools maintained by LOC allow you to disclose information about yourself publicly. Because of the public nature of these tools, other online users can access information you provide.
  • Log Data: Like many website operators, we also collect technical information that your browser sends whenever you visit out website. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, your geographic location; domain name of your internet, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
  • Communications: We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that fulfill your requests in response to your inquiries.

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive. Like many sites, cookies are used to collect non-identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific website.

The Site may use both persistent and session cookies; persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your session and until you delete them, while session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your computer until you remove them. Persistent cookies are used to provide website analytics. You can manually delete all cookies, including persistent ones, within your browser privacy settings menu.

This website is enabled with one or more add-on Google service, such as Google Analytics or another Google service. As such, this website will collect information consistent with the terms of Google's Privacy Policy which could include but is not limited to the collection of device-specific information, log information, location information and cookie-related information as described in the Google Privacy Policy. Because this Site is enabled with one or more add-on Google services, Google will have access to and may use Google Services Collected Information that is collected by this website and may use such information to improve Google's services. Special Olympics will use such information, to the extent available such as by way of Google Analytics, to better understand use of the website and topics of interest to Special Olympics’ supporters and may adjust their marketing practices to better target information based on such information and usage.

WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT INFORMATION FROM CHILDREN

Our website is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without the consent by the holder of parental responsibility. If you are under 13, you are prohibited from providing information to Special Olympics through this website without verifiable parental consent. In the event we learn that we collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13, we will delete that information and only recollect the information after receiving parental consent. If you believe that we might have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact information below.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE SHARE

We do not disclose your personal information except as described in this Privacy Policy or as we disclose to you at the time the data is collected. As relevant to your involvement, we will share your information among Special Olympics International, applicable national and state Special Olympics Accredited Programs, and applicable Special Olympics Games/Local Organizing Committees so that we can communicate more effectively with you and support your participation in Special Olympics activities.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

You have rights regarding the personal information we maintain about you. We also offer you choices about what personal information we collect from you, how we use that information, and how we communicate with you.

You have the right to:

  • Limit the sharing of your information with third parties for direct marketing purposes;
  • mation with third parties for direct marketing purposes;
  • Request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you;
  • Receive copies of the personal information we maintain about you;
  • Update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information;
  • Have the processing of your personal information restricted or object to the processing of your personal information; and
  • Have the information blocked or deleted, as appropriate.

To exercise these rights, please contact us as set forth below. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us. We will apply your choices going forward.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Special Olympics is a global organization. We may transfer your personal information to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information was originally collected, in particular to the United States of America, where Special Olympics International is headquartered. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time the data is collected.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring the privacy of your personal information and have established safeguards to help protect such information. For example, to protect your privacy, SOAD2019 uses passwords to help verify authorized user identity before granting access anywhere your personal information is stored. All online monetary transactions are done on a secure server. This means that information entered on the transaction page is encrypted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) before transmission. On secure pages, a “closed” lock symbol is displayed in the bottom part of your browser screen and the website address in the address bar at the top of the browser screen starts with an “https” instead of an “http.” Though we strive to ensure the security of your information on our systems, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and data transmission over the internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

WEBSITE LINKS

In order to provide certain services and goods at our website, we contract with other companies and individuals. These additional services and goods may include links to other websites from our website. SOAD2019 privacy practices may not be applicable at any third-party sites. When you leave the SOAD2019 website, we have no control regarding what information may be collected about you, nor do we control what third parties might do with the information. It is important that you review any privacy policies on third-party sites carefully before you use any services or programs offered.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, LOC may revise its Privacy Policy to address changing technology, security measures and website functionality. We will post a prominent notice on relevant websites to notify you of any significant changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate when it was updated.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like us to update information or preferences you provided to us, please contact us:

Local Organizing Committee – Abu Dhabi, UAE
Attention: Legal Department
Email: info@abudhabi2019.org