Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 

FIFA-Strasse 20
8044 Zurich
Switzerland

Please read the following to learn more about the ways FIFA uses your personal data before you proceed with the use of any of FIFA’s Anti-Doping e-learning Platform.

This Data Protection Policy has been drafted in English and has been translated into other languages. In the event of discrepancies between the English and the translated texts, the English text shall prevail and be used to solve doubts of interpretation.

Date of issue of this Data Protection Policy: September 2022

International Transfer

YOUR INFORMATION IS PROCESSED IN SWITZERLAND AND IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (“EEA”), AND MAY BE PROCESSED ELSEWHERE DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF AFFILIATES, BUSINESS PARTNERS, AND OTHER ENTITIES WHO ARE PERMITTED TO ACCESS SUCH INFORMATION UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS DATA PROTECTION POLICY (LOCATIONS OUTSIDE THE EEA MAY INCLUDE COUNTRIES WHICH MAY NOT ASSURE AN ADEQUATE LEVEL OF DATA PROTECTION ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE LAWS IN THE EEA AND SWITZERLAND). IF FIFA PROCESSES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EEA, ALL REASONABLE STEPS WILL BE TAKEN TO ENSURE THAT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS TREATED AS SAFELY AND SECURELY AS IT WOULD BE WITHIN THE EEA AND SWITZERLAND AND UNDER THE SWISS DATA PROTECTION ACT (“DPA”) AND THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (“GDPR”).

The collection of personal data and how FIFA uses it

The processing, collection and use of your personal data will always have a lawful basis. This lawful basis can be FIFA’s performance of a contract with you, your freely given consent, compliance with a legal obligation or FIFA’s legitimate interest. 

Specifically, FIFA may use your personal data for the following purposes: 

• to provide and improve the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform;
• to send any information, communication or new content related to the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform;
• to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform
• to ensure appropriate customer care;
• to implement relevant safety and security measures in connection with FIFA competitions;
• to inform you about FIFA products and FIFA events as well as products and services of FIFA’s commercial affiliates and other third parties if you have consented for FIFA to do so
• to manage your account, including processing bills; 
• to communicate with you in general; 
• to respond to your questions and comments; 
• to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; 
• to customise the advertising offered to you;
• to enforce our terms located at www.fifa.com/legal/terms-of-service; and 
• as otherwise described to you at the point of collection of the personal data.

The personal data FIFA collects from you

The personal data FIFA collects form you when you use FIFA’s websites may include but is not limited to the following categories of personal data: 

a.     For the use of FIFA’s Anti-Doping e-learning Platform: email address, last name, first name, country of residence, date of birth, gender, screen name/ user name, password, IP address, 

b.     Name of the team of the player

Cookies

FIFA uses “cookies” when you visit the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform. Please read and understand our Cookie Policy.

When you visit the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform, FIFA will use “cookies” to collect certain information about you. Cookies are small data files which are transferred to your computer’s hard disk in order to memorize information like registration IDs and passwords. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie and various values.

• FIFA utilizes the following two cookies when you visit the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform:
• FIFA utilizes one essential cookie which is a session cookie, usually called “TotaraSession”. You must allow this cookie into your browser to provide continuity and maintain your login from page to page. When you log out or close the browser this cookie is destroyed (in your browser and on the server). 

The other cookie is a functional cookie which we place for your convenience, usually called something like ”TOTARAID”. It just remembers your username within the browser. This means when you return to this site the username field on the login page will be already filled out for you. It is safe to refuse this cookie  you will just have to retype your username every time you log in. 

Please note that you can always choose to block cookies by updating your Web browser privacy settings.

To do so, you will have to access the “Help” menu in your browser’s menu bar and search for the term “cookies”. 

Information Sharing and Disclosure

FIFA may send personal data about you to third parties when:

a) You specifically acknowledge and agree that FIFA may disclose your personal data to Learning Pool Ltd contributing to the delivery of services requested by yourself: 

b) FIFA needs to share your personal data to provide a product or service you have requested; or

c) FIFA provides personal data to companies who work on behalf of FIFA under data processing agreements providing for the required safeguards for your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws; 

d) FIFA needs to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal processes;

e) FIFA believes it is necessary, at its sole discretion, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, emergency situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Our Terms located at www.fifa.com/legal/terms-of-service, or as otherwise required by law;

f) You have freely consented to your personal data being shared with FIFA’s commercial affiliates and/or contractual partners to be informed about their products and services. 

Security

FIFA wants you to feel confident about using the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform. For this reason, FIFA has implemented adequate technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, FIFA cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties might maliciously access your personal data.  

Identity theft and the practice currently known as “phishing” are of great concern to FIFA. 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.

FIFA has implemented procedures to react in case of unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure of personal data. If you suspect such an incident has occurred, please get in touch with FIFA via dataprotection@fifa.org.

If you communicate with FIFA by email, please note that the secrecy of internet email is uncertain. By sending sensitive or confidential email messages or information which are not encrypted, you are accepting the risk of a possible lack of confidentiality over the internet.

Your rights

You have the following rights under the DPA and GDPR:

a) the right to be informed about FIFA’s collection and use of personal data;

b) the right of access to the personal data FIFA holds about you;

c) the right to rectification if any personal data FIFA holds about you is inaccurate or incomplete;

d) the right to deletion – i.e. the right to ask FIFA to delete any personal data we hold about you;

e) the right to restrict the processing of your personal data;

f) the right to data portability – i.e. obtaining a copy of your personal data to re-use with another service or organisation;

g) the right to object to FIFA using your personal for particular purposes; and

h) the right to revoke a given consent at any time; and

h) further rights with respect to the objection to automated decision-making and profiling.

If you have any cause for complaint about FIFA’s use of your personal data, please contact FIFA’s dedicated team under dataprotection@fifa.org. We may require you to provide verification of your identity. In case you are not satisfied with our response, you always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”) or the competent data protection authority within the EEA. Please note that in certain circumstances FIFA may withhold access to your personal data where FIFA has the right to do so under applicable data protection legislation.

Updating/deleting Your information

You may review, correct, update, change or request that FIFA deletes your personal data at any time by accessing your account on the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform. FIFA will ensure the deletion in case there are no legal reasons obliging FIFA to keep your personal data.

Links to Other Sites

If any part of the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform links to other websites external to FIFA, those websites do not operate under this Data Protection 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. FIFA does not exercise control over third-party websites and therefore recommends you to read and understand the data protection policies posted on these other websites to understand their procedures for processing, collecting, using and disclosing of personal data.

Our policy towards children

FIFA does not on purpose process personal data from children under 16. Where children under 16 use FIFA’s Anti-Doping e-learning Platform, we advise that they obtain the permission of a parent or legal guardian, and FIFA recommends that parents or legal guardians clear their browser cache of cookies and take all other steps highlighted in this data protection policy to minimise the personal data collected. When FIFA becomes aware that a child under 16 has provided FIFA with personal data without such permission, FIFA will delete such personal data.

Changes to this Data Protection Policy

This Data Protection Policy may be amended from time to time. If FIFA amends this Data Protection Policy, any changes will be immediately posted on the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Data Protection Policy on your first use of the FIFA Anti-Doping e-learning Platform following the alterations.  

Contact

If you have any questions about this Data Protection Policy, please contact FIFA’s Data Protection Officer by email at dataprotection@fifa.org or by post to Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), FIFA-Strasse 20, 8044 Zurich, Switzerland. FIFA has a data protection representative within the EU, who may be contacted as follows: VGS Datenschutzpartner UG, Am Kaiserkai 69, 20457 Hamburg, Germany.

Precedence

In the event that the provisions of this Data Protection Policy conflict with the provisions of a third-party Data Protection Policy, the provisions of this Data Protection Policy shall prevail.

Jurisdiction and applicable law

This Data Protection Policy and all matters arising out of or related to this Data Protection Policy shall be governed by the substantive laws of Switzerland, without regard to conflicts of laws and principles thereof.

Any controversy, claim or dispute between you and FIFA arising out of or relating to this Data Protection Policy shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Courts of the City of Zurich 1, and each party hereby irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction and venue of such Court.