Footy for Climate: Privacy Policy
Footy for Climate Ltd (ABN 61 648 674 499)
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights to control our use of it, and your rights to contact us and your privacy regulator.
It applies not just to use of this website, but also to personal information collected through other online and offline interactions with you in the course of our charitable work. This includes donors and supporters, potential and existing partners, people interested in working for or with us, our suppliers, and people who want to learn more about our work and mission.
Who are we?
This privacy policy is for Footy for Climate Ltd (ABN 61 648 674 499). References to Footy for Climate, we, us, and our are references to this entity or another entity responsible for dealing with your personal information on our behalf.
Where we collect or use personal information, we are regulated under applicable data protection laws including the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This privacy policy sets out information we are required to provide under applicable data protection laws.
Why and how we collect personal information
We collect and use personal information from different categories of people for different purposes. This may be:
with your consent
to perform a contract with you or a relevant party
legitimate interests in operating our charity, which includes recruitment as an employee or contractor, engaging with or supporting your organisation, inviting you to events, processing donations, and conducting research and analysis in furtherance of our charitable purposes, or
to comply with our legal obligations.
Below are the main categories of people covered by this privacy policy and the types of personal information we collect and the purposes we will use it for.
If you make a donation or sign up as a supporter: we will hold your name, contact details and payment information for the purposes of processing your donation, issuing a tax-deductible receipt, and keeping you updated on our work. We do not store your payment card details - these are processed securely through our payment platform. If you have chosen to have your name listed on our website or in our annual impact report as part of a giving tier, we will use your name for that purpose with your consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us.
If you fill in a form on our website to contact us: we will store the information you enter or submit (e.g. name, contact details, comment and any other information you choose to submit) for the purposes of responding to your enquiry and keeping you updated on our work.
If you sign up to receive email newsletters or other campaign materials, or we invite you to events: we will hold your name, country, organisation and email address for the purpose of sending you updates and news that we think you will find interesting, sending you information about our work, and occasionally inviting you to events. You can unsubscribe from these at any time by using the unsubscribe links at the bottom of each email.
If you work for one of our partner organisations or if you are an industry or movement contact: we may hold your name, organisation, job title and contact details and in certain situations, we may hold your identity and background information for the purposes of know-your-partner checks or your feedback or opinion. We will have been provided with this information either by you or your employer or in some cases we may have sourced it from publicly available sources. We need this information in order to interact with you or your employer for the purposes of running our charity properly and communicating with relevant people.
If you submit an application to work with us, whether as an employee or contractor: we will hold any personal information you provide to us or sent to us by a third-party recruitment agency or website. This is likely to be your name, contact details and personal information contained in your CV. We will use this information for the purpose of communicating with you and evaluating your application.
If you are a supplier or work for a supplier: we may hold your name and contact details in order to interact with you or your employer to procure and pay for goods and services.
Please note that providing personal information to us is voluntary on your part. If you choose not to provide us with certain information, we may not be able to support or work with you or your organisation, consider your application, or provide you with information.
If you provide us with personal information about someone else, you must ensure that you are entitled to disclose that personal information to us, that we may collect, use and disclose that personal information in accordance with this privacy policy without taking any further steps, and that you make such person aware of the contents of this privacy policy.
We may also collect information such as your internet protocol (IP) address for monitoring and improving the effectiveness of our website services as well as its security.
How we use cookies and similar technologies
We may store information relating to you using cookies or similar technologies when you visit our website. Cookies help us maintain the continuity of your browsing session and improve your experience. You may delete and block cookies through your web browser settings, but please be aware that doing so may impact the functionality of parts of our website.
Retention of personal information
We retain personal information consistent with the purposes for which it was collected, taking into account applicable data protection laws, retention periods under applicable laws, and our organisational needs. Donation records are retained for a minimum of seven years in accordance with our financial record-keeping obligations.
Personal information sharing
We may share your personal information with the following parties, in certain circumstances:
IT service providers acting as data processors who provide services or cloud-based software to enable us to operate our charity
Professional advisors such as lawyers, accountants or auditors
Third parties engaged or involved in the course of the work we do, such as experts and consultants
Third party event hosts, speakers and attendees if appropriate
Law enforcement or regulatory authorities if required by law
Our IT service providers only process information on our behalf. They will not use your personal information for their own purposes and we only permit them to use it in accordance with our instructions, our contract with them and the law.
Keeping personal information secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those employees, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Transfers of personal information
We may transfer the personal information we collect to, and store such information in, other countries which may have different data protection laws than the country in which the information was provided. If we do so, we will always take measures to comply with legal requirements under applicable data protection laws and to protect that information. Many of our service providers operate cloud-based systems, which means information may be held in data centres in different locations.
Your personal information rights
The personal information we hold about you is your information, and you have certain rights over it under applicable data protection laws. You have the right to request a copy of all personal information we hold relating to you, and to require us to correct any mistakes. Under some applicable data protection laws, you may also have the following rights:
Where we are processing your information based on your consent, you may be able to withdraw that consent
Where we process your information based on a legitimate interest, you may have the right to object if you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms
You may have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes — the easiest way to do this is to use the unsubscribe links at the bottom of our emails
In certain situations, you may have the right to require us to erase personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it
You may have the right to request the transfer of your personal information to you or a third party in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format
Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy was last updated May 2026. We recommend that you check back regularly for any updates.
How to find out more or make a complaint
If you have any questions, concerns, or want more information about our privacy management, please contact:
Alexi Lynch, CEO
Footy for Climate Ltd
At all times, you have the right to report a concern or a complaint with any relevant regulator, including the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au .