Privacy Policy

DRAFT FOR REVIEW — this notice currently covers job applicants only. The sections describing how we handle players' and parents' information are still being written. If you have a question in the meantime, email matt@starsocceracademy.co.uk.

Job applicants

This section explains what happens to the information you send us when you apply for a coaching role. Star Soccer Academy is the data controller for it.

What we collect

• Your name, email address and phone number
• The town or postcode you travel from
• Your coaching qualifications, your availability, and what you tell us about your experience
• Your CV, if you attach one
• Which role you applied for, and when

Why we collect it

To consider you for the role you applied for, to contact you about your application, and to satisfy ourselves that anyone coaching children for us holds a current DBS check, safeguarding certification and first aid qualification. We do not use your details for marketing and we will not add you to a mailing list.

Where it is kept, and who sees it

Your application is stored in our own database, and your CV in private storage that is not readable by the public and not linked from anywhere on this website. Only Matt Finnigan and, where a role is at a franchise centre, that centre's owner can see it. We do not share applications with other clubs, recruiters or anybody else, and we do not sell them.

How long we keep it

If your application is unsuccessful we delete it six months after you apply. Your CV is deleted outright and your contact details and everything you wrote are erased from our records. We keep only the role, the centre and the dates, with nothing that identifies you, so that we can count how many people applied for a job — that record cannot be traced back to you.

If we offer you a role and you join us, your details move into your employment file, which is kept separately and for as long as employment law requires.

Deleting your application sooner

You can ask us to delete your application at any time, and you do not have to give a reason. Email matt@starsocceracademy.co.uk from the address you applied with, or tell us which role you applied for, and we will delete it and your CV and confirm when it is done. You can also ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to correct it.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Franchise enquiries

This section explains what happens to the information you send us when you register your interest in running a Star Soccer Academy centre. Star Soccer Academy is the data controller for it.

What we collect

• Your name, email address and phone number
• The territory you are interested in and the town or postcode you are based in
• Your coaching qualifications, what you tell us about your experience, when you are looking to start, and anything else you add

Why we collect it

To discuss a franchise with you: to come back to you about your enquiry, to judge whether a territory and a coach are the right fit, and to satisfy ourselves that anyone running a centre for us holds the coaching qualifications, DBS check, safeguarding certification and first aid qualification we require. We do not use your details for marketing and we will not add you to a mailing list.

Where it is kept, and who sees it

Your enquiry is sent to us by email and is held in our email account. Only Matt Finnigan sees it. We do not share enquiries with other clubs, franchise brokers or anybody else, and we do not sell them.

How long we keep it

If your enquiry does not go ahead we delete it twelve months after you send it. If you go on to sign a franchise agreement with us, your details move into the records for that agreement, which are kept separately and for as long as the agreement and the law require.

Deleting your enquiry sooner

You can ask us to delete your enquiry at any time, and you do not have to give a reason. Email matt@starsocceracademy.co.uk from the address you enquired with and we will delete it and confirm when it is done. You can also ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to correct it. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Player reviews

Squad players receive a written review during the season to help their development. Reviews are written and approved by our coaches. To prepare them, we use trusted service providers, including software that helps with the wording; some of these providers process information outside the UK under the safeguards UK data protection law requires.

We only share what's needed: your child's first name, squad and the coaches' notes about their football — never health, family or contact details. You can ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, or object to how we use it by emailing matt@starsocceracademy.co.uk.