top of page

CLUB POLICIES

CODE OF CONDUCT

This Code of Conduct aims to set out the minimum standards for anyone involved in our club. It should apply when playing, training, or taking part in club-sanctioned activities. 

 

  • Act within the rules and spirit of the game. 

  • Promote fair play over winning at any cost. 

  • Encourage and support opportunities for people to learn appropriate behaviours and skills. 

  • Support opportunities for participation in all aspects of the game. 

  • Treat each person as an individual. 

  • Show respect and courtesy to all involved with the game. 

  • Respect the rights and worth of every person, regardless of their age, race, gender, ability, cultural background, sexuality, or religion. 

  • Respect the decisions of officials, coaches, and administrators. 

  • Wherever practical, avoid unaccompanied and unobserved one-on-one activity (when in a supervisory capacity or where a power imbalance exists) with people under the age of 18. 

  • Display appropriate and responsible behaviour in all interactions. 

  • Display responsible behaviour in relation to alcohol and other drugs. 

  • Act with integrity and objectivity and accept responsibility for your decisions and actions. 

  • Ensure your decisions and actions contribute to a safe environment. 

  • Ensure your decisions and actions contribute to a harassment-free environment. 

  • Do not tolerate abusive, bullying, or threatening behaviour. 

 

As a Player 

  • Always give your best. 

  • Participate for your own enjoyment and benefit. 

  • Play by the rules and show respect for other players, coaches, and officials. 

 

As a Coach 

  • Place the safety and welfare of the athletes above all else. 

  • Help each person (athlete, official, etc.) to reach their potential. Respect the talent, developmental stage and goals of each person and encourage them with positive and constructive feedback. 

  • Obtain appropriate qualifications and keep up to date with the latest coaching practices and the principles of growth and development of young players.

  • Ensure that any physical contact with another person is appropriate to the situation and necessary for the person's skill development.


As an Official

  • Place the safety and welfare of the athletes above all else.

  • Ensure all players are included and can participate, regardless of their race, gender, ability, cultural background, sexuality, or religion.

  • Be consistent, impartial, and objective when making decisions.

  • Address unsporting behaviour and promote respect for other players and officials.

 

As an Administrator

  • Ensure quality supervision and instruction for players.

  • Support coaches and officials to improve their skills and competencies.

  • Act honestly, in good faith and in the best interests of the sport.

  • Ensure that any information acquired, or advantage gained from the position is not used improperly and remains the property of NDCC.

  • Conduct club responsibilities with due care, competence, and diligence.

 

As a Parent

  • Encourage your child to participate, do their best and have fun.

  • Focus on your child's effort and performance, rather than winning or losing.

  • Never ridicule or yell at a child for making a mistake or losing a competition.

  • Look for ways to assist the coach or officials at training and games.

  • Model appropriate behaviour, including respect for other players and officials.

 

As a Spectator

  • Respect the effort and performances of players and officials.

  • Reject the use of harassment, bullying or violence in any form, whether by other spectators, coaches, officials, or athletes and report as necessary.

CHILD SAFETY

As part of our Club affiliation with SACA we agree to the child safety policies within Cricket Australia.

​

https://www.cricketaustralia.com.au/about/safeguarding/safeguarding-kids

 

Child Safety documents from the SACA

https://www.saca.com.au/about/saca/-/media/5B6A5637F05243F2A3C7EA309390BDDF.ashx

https://www.saca.com.au/about/saca/-/media/239E4E41015444D980C7797306F5C0B0.ashx

PRIVACY POLICY

NORTHERN DISTRICTS CRICKET CLUB INC – PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy sets out our commitment to protecting the privacy of personal information provided to us, or otherwise collected by us, offline or online, including through our northernjetscricket.com.au (Site). In this Privacy Policy we, us or our means Northern Districts Cricket Club Inc    ABN 70 595 159 665. 
Personal information


The types of personal information we may collect about you include:

  • your name;

  • images of you;

  • your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address and/or telephone number; 

  •  your demographic information, such as postcode;

  • information you provide to us through customer surveys;

We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties.

 

Collection and use of personal information
We may collect, hold, use and disclose personal information for the following purposes: 

  • to enable you to access and use our Site, associated applications and associated social media platforms;

  • to contact and communicate with you;

  • for internal record keeping and administrative purposes;

  • for analytics, market research and business development, including to operate and improve our Site, associated applications and associated social media platforms;

  • to run competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you; 

  • for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;

  • to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have; and

  • to consider your employment application.

 

Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We may disclose personal information to:  

  • our employees, contractors and/or related entities;

  • sponsors or promoters of any competition we run;

  • courts, tribunals and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;

  • courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; [and]

  • third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics and Wix. This may include parties that store data outside of Australia including Google and Wix.

We may store personal information overseas. Where we disclose your personal information to the third parties listed above, these third parties may also store, transfer or access personal information outside of Australia. Unless we seek and receive your consent to an overseas disclosure of your personal information, we will only disclose your personal information to countries with laws which protect your personal information in a way which is substantially similar to the Australian Privacy Principles and/or we will take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to require that overseas recipients protect your personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles.


How we treat personal information that is also sensitive information. Sensitive information is a subset of personal information that is given a higher level of protection under the Australian Privacy Principles. Sensitive information means information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, trade union or other professional associations or memberships, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation or practices, criminal records, health information or biometric information.  
We only collect, hold, use and disclose sensitive information for the following purposes:

  • any purposes you consent to;

  • the primary purpose for which it is collected;

  • secondary purposes that are directly related to the primary purpose for which it was collected, including disclosure to the above listed third parties as reasonably necessary to provide our services to you;

  • to contact emergency services, or to speak with your family, partner or support person where we reasonably believe there is a serious risk to the life, health or safety of you or another person and it is impracticable for us to obtain your consent; and

  • if otherwise required or authorised by law. 

 

Your rights and controlling your personal information
Choice and consent: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of this Site or the products and/or services offered on or through it.


Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us. 
Restrict: You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information.  If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.


Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you.  An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information.  In certain circumstances, as set out in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), we may refuse to provide you with personal information that we hold about you. 
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.


Complaints: If you believe that we have breached the Australian Privacy Principles and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint.


Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.


Storage and security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss and unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.
We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.


Cookies and web beacons
We may use cookies on our Site from time to time. Cookies are text files placed in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information. However, they do allow third parties, such as Google and Facebook, to cause our advertisements to appear on your social media and online media feeds as part of our retargeting campaigns. If and when you choose to provide our Site with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. We may use web beacons on our Site from time to time. Web beacons (also known as Clear GIFs) are small pieces of code placed on a web page to monitor the visitor’s behaviour and collect data about the visitor’s viewing of a web page. For example, web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page.


Links to other websites
Our Site may contain links to other websites. We do not have any control over those websites and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any personal information which you provide whilst visiting those websites. Those websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

 

Amendments
We may, at any time and at our discretion, vary this Privacy Policy by publishing the amended Privacy Policy on our Site. We recommend you check our Site regularly to ensure you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.


For any questions or notices, please contact us at:
Northern Districts Cricket Club Inc  ABN 70 595 159 665 
Email: ndjetssecretary@gmail.com 
Last update: 30/3/2023
Privacy Policy provided by LegalVision.com.au
 

bottom of page