This statement discloses the terms and conditions for the Official Web Site of the 2008 Championships at Wimbledon.

The All England Lawn Tennis Club is the organisation responsible for planning and staging the Wimbledon Championships. IBM, as Official Internet Technology Sponsor of the Championships, provides the equipment and services to build and host the Wimbledon Online Shop. IBM are committed to making the Web safe for e-business.

The All England Lawn and Tennis Club, Inc. (AELTC) intends to give you as much control as possible over your personal information. In general, you can view this site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. There are times, however, when we may need information from you, such as your name and address. It is our intent to let you know before we collect personal information from you on the Internet.

If you choose to give us personal information for example to correspond with you, process an order or provide you with a subscription then this will be held by The All England Lawn Tennis Club and/or organisations who will process it on the Club's behalf. For the purposes of administering your order, it may be necessary for your information to be passed by the Club or an organisation as mentioned above. Also the Club may use your personal information to supply you with information about the Club and its related organisations, as well as their respective activities and ranges of goods, services and opportunities, and/or for general statistical purposes.

We do keep track of the domains from which users visit us. We analyse this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard it.

Use of Cookies

Other information may be sent to your computer in the form of an Internet "cookie " to allow our Web server to better serve files to you. The cookie is stored on your hard drive, along with others sent from other Web sites. Our server may request that your computer return a cookie to it, so that it "remembers" you as a user, and can better serve you. These return cookies, which may contain information supplied by you, are never stored on our server. Your Web browser can be set to allow you to refuse cookies. This will not lessen your ability to enjoy this Web site in any way, though it may slow performance in some cases.

Business relationships

If you are a subscriber to Wimbledon Live you will be asked at the point of registration to provide personal information to both the AELTC and Mediazone. Please visit the privacy policy of Mediazone to make sure you understand how they use the personal information you provide to them. Personal information you provide when you register for Wimbledon Live will be provided to Mediazone. If you do not wish for such a transfer to take place, you should not register for the applicable service.

The AELTC does not sell, rent, or share your personal information to a third party unless you specifically consent to provide such information to a third party partner or content service.

If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used as a basis for further contact with you, or if you tell us that you do not wish to have this information distributed to others, or even if you tell us that you do not wish to receive additional information from us or our partners, then we will also respect your wishes.

The Official Site of the 2008 Championships at Wimbledon contains links to other Web sites. AELTC is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web Sites.

Email Lists

The AELTC, the Lawn Tennis Association and our technology partners maintain email lists of visitors who have registered to receive emails from The All England Lawn Tennis Club and the LTA to inform them of new information about this Web site, The Championships and British tennis. We do not sell, reuse, rent, lease, loan, trade or otherwise divulge the addresses on our lists to anyone unless you specifically consent to provide such information to a third party partner.

If you would prefer not to receive additional information from us on any matter relating to this Web site and The Championships, please indicate this by ticking the relevant box when you fill in your email address.

Online Survey

All information you provide in any survey on this Web Site will be stored securely by SurveyGizmo (a Widgex Software company) in the USA on behalf of AELTC. SurveyGizmo will not pass any of your personal information to any third party, and it will be used only to collate anonymous demographic data reports for AELTC.

Fanlog & User Commenting of Web Site Content

By viewing or posting any message on the FanLog section of this Website, and any other section where users can post comments for publication on the Website (collectively the “Messageboards”) you are agreeing to be bound by these terms and conditions (the “Terms”) and in particular the terms set out in this section below. In return for being granted access to the Messageboards, you agree as follows:

We may update these Terms from time to time, so please check back here regularly, as you will be bound by the updated Terms each time you visit a Messageboard.

You acknowledge that we are not under any obligation to monitor or review any postings on any Messageboard and you agree that you are entirely and solely responsible for all content that you make available on a Messageboard. To the extent that we are notified of or become aware that you have posted content that is in breach of these Terms we may delete or amend it and we reserve the right at any time and for any reason to remove you and/or any content posted by you from any Messageboard without notification, temporarily or permanently, and to take any other action we consider appropriate, including legal action.

You agree not to do or participate in any of the following on any Messageboard:

• Swear or use language which is obscene, threatening, sexual, sexist, libellous, defamatory, or invasive of another person's privacy;
• Use asterisks or any other symbols to hide or imply any swear word
• Post your own contact details, phone number or email address, or that of anyone else
• Use any language other than English, or use any form of abbreviated text;
• Post any link to any other messageboard, or to any website containing adult rated material or swearing, or content that would be contrary to these Terms if posted directly on any Messageboard;
• Infringe the intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights of any third party;
• Make any expressions of hatred towards any racial, ethnic, national, religious or other group including but not limited to those pertaining to sexual orientation;
• encourage, promote or provide information about illegal, criminal or otherwise inappropriate activities (including pornography, explosives, weapons, drugs, programming viruses, computer hacking and copyright infringement);
• Harass other users, either privately or in a public forum;
• Impersonate our staff or any celebrities or characters;
• Actions that would disrupt or impair the functioning, stability or security of any Messageboard;
• Advertise any service or product or make use of any Messageboard for any commercial purposes; or
• Promote particular stocks or shares, financial services or pyramid schemes.

If you see or receive any communication on any Messageboard that does not comply with these Terms or that you consider is inappropriate, please report this immediately by emailing us at website@aeltc.com.

You expressly understand and agree that your use of any Messageboard (including downloading of content) is at your sole risk and that by using a Messageboard you may be exposed to content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. We make no warranties in respect of, nor do we guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any content posted on any Messageboard, nor do we make any warranty that any Messageboard is secure or virus free. We expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied.

You acknowledge that the views expressed on the Messageboards are not necessarily those of AELTC, IBM or any of our respective employees or representatives.

You expressly agree that you grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty free licence to use, for any purposes we consider appropriate, any material of any nature that you contribute to any Messageboard.

You expressly agree that neither we nor the makers of the Messageboard software shall be liable under any circumstances to you whatsoever for any loss or damage of whatever nature suffered by you in connection with your use of the Messageboard, provided that none of those parties excludes or limits its liability for death or personal injury resulting from its negligence or any other liability which we are not permitted by law to exclude or limit.

The Messageboard may contain links to third party sites. These third party sites are beyond our control and we accept no responsibility for their content or for any transactions between you and such sites. Your use of these third party sites, and any resultant transactions, may be subject to separate terms and conditions.

By viewing or posting content on any Messageboard you are consenting to the collection of data in accordance with the AELTC Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
You agree to indemnify and hold AELTC, IBM and the makers of the Messageboard area software, and their respective employees, agents and contractors, harmless against all losses, claims, demands and expenses (including the cost of defending or settling any claim or demand), whether foreseeable or unforeseeable, suffered or incurred by them arising directly or indirectly out of your use of the Messageboard and/or any breach of these Terms.

The Wimbledon Shop

When you make an online purchase with The Wimbledon Shop, your personal information such as your name, address or credit card number is kept safe and secure. It is only used by Wimbledon and its merchandise fulfilment and technology partners to complete your online purchase although your email address may be stored in order to advise you of new information concerning this Web site and The Championships.

Some information about your IP address, Web browser, and computer operating system are automatically transmitted to our Web servers as an integral part of the operation of the Internet. Some of this information is used for demographic purposes as a technical resource to help us better serve our Web site visitors. We analyse this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard it. Our Web site logs are not personally identifiable and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.

We and our merchandise fulfilment and technology partners maintain email lists of purchasers, to inform them of new information about this Web site and The Championships. We do not sell, reuse, rent, lease, loan, trade or otherwise divulge the addresses on our lists to anyone.

If you would prefer not to receive additional information from us on any matter relating to this Web site and The Championships, please indicate this by ticking the relevant box when you fill in your email address.