Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 November 2025

This Privacy Policy explains how wallforball.com (“the Website”) collects, uses, and protects your personal data.

wallforball.com is the official personal website of professional volleyball player Tatiana Kulikova. Its purpose is to present her career, statistics, media content and to allow potential clubs, sponsors or partners to contact her.

🔎 What Information Do We Collect?

We only collect the minimum data necessary to operate the Website and respond to requests.

1. Personal Data (you provide it)

When you contact us (for example via a form or email), we may collect:

Name
Email address
Organisation / club / agency (if you provide it)
Message content and context (e.g. team offer, sponsorship, media request)
Technical metadata linked to your submission: IP address, browser / user-agent, referrer or source of the visit, and selected language / locale at the time you send the form

We do not create user accounts or public profiles for visitors.

2. Usage & Technical Data (when you browse)

When you browse the Website, our servers and analytics tools may collect:

IP address and approximate region
Browser type, device, operating system (user-agent)
Referrer URL or source (which page or site you came from)
Pages visited, time spent, clicks and navigation paths
Language preference / locale (e.g. EN / FR / DE / IT)

This data is mainly aggregated and used for statistics and security.

3. Cookies & Similar Technologies

We may use cookies or similar technologies to:

Remember your language preferences
Maintain basic session and navigation stability
Measure website audience and performance (analytics)

You can manage cookies via your browser and (where available) our cookie banner. For more details, see our Cookie Policy.

🎯 How Do We Use Your Information?

We use your data for the following purposes:

Respond to your requests (team offers, sponsorship, media / interview, collaboration)
Maintain and secure the Website (logs, security monitoring, error debugging, preventing abuse and spam)
Analyse traffic and improve content (which pages are consulted, which languages are used, which sources bring visitors)
Comply with legal obligations under EU and French law

We do not:

Run user accounts or social network features on the Website
Sell your personal data to third parties
Use your data for intrusive behavioural advertising

⚖️ Legal Bases for Processing

Under the GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases:

Legal basis	Example usage
Consent	Non-essential cookies, optional analytics
Legitimate interest	Security, traffic statistics, website improvement
Legal obligation	Compliance with EU / French regulations

No formal service contract is created between wallforball.com and visitors.

✉️ Messages & Communications

If you contact us:

We use your email, message content and the technical data linked to your message (IP, user-agent, referrer, locale) strictly to reply or follow up on your request and to keep security and anti-abuse records.
Your message may be stored in our email system and internal tools (for example to track offers, sponsorship enquiries, media requests).

We do not send newsletters or mass marketing emails via this Website.

📊 Analytics & Tools We Use

To understand how the Website is used and to improve it, we may use Umami Analytics, a privacy-friendly, typically self-hosted analytics tool.

Umami is designed to minimise tracking and protect visitors’ privacy:

It does not use third-party cookies.
It does not create cross-site tracking profiles.
Data is aggregated and focused on trends (for example page views, referrers, devices, languages), not on identifying you individually.

Depending on configuration and local legal requirements, analytics data may:

Be collected only with your consent via the cookie banner, or
Be collected in an anonymised, privacy-friendly way (for example IP truncation, short retention periods, no precise geolocation).

For more technical details about cookies or storage used for analytics, see the Cookie Policy.

We do not use social media tracking pixels on the Website (for example, no Facebook / Meta Pixel for visitor targeting).

We may share limited data with:

Hosting and infrastructure providers (server hosting, security, backups)
Analytics tools (such as our Umami instance or an equivalent privacy-friendly tool)
Legal authorities, where required by applicable law

We do not sell your personal data.

🌐 Links to Third-Party Websites

The Website may contain links to external sites (clubs, federations, leagues, media, social networks, video platforms).

We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these third parties. Their own privacy policies apply when you visit them.

📁 Data Retention

We keep your data only as long as necessary for the purposes described:

Contact messages and related technical metadata (IP, user-agent, referrer, locale): kept as long as needed to manage communication, possible collaboration, security and anti-abuse checks, or proof of exchanges, then archived or deleted.
Server logs: kept for a limited period for security and maintenance, then deleted or anonymised.
Analytics data: kept only as long as needed for aggregated traffic analysis and improvement.

🔒 Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including:

HTTPS encryption
Restricted access to server and analytics tools
Regular system updates

However, no system can be guaranteed 100% secure.

👶 Minors

The Website is publicly accessible and may be visited by minors. We do not intentionally collect personal data from children under 16 except if they or their legal representative voluntarily contact us.

If you believe we have collected data from a child without appropriate consent, please contact us so we can remove it.

As a data subject under the GDPR, you can:

Access your personal data
Rectify inaccurate or incomplete data
Request deletion of your data where legally possible
Object to or restrict certain processing
Withdraw consent (for cookies / analytics where consent is the basis)
Request a copy (portability) of data you provided in a structured, commonly used format

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, such as the CNIL (France).

🍪 Cookies & Tracking

Cookies and similar technologies on the Website may be used for:

Essential purposes: language choice, basic navigation, security
Analytics: aggregated statistics about visits and navigation paths using privacy-friendly tools like Umami

You can:

Configure your browser to block or delete cookies.
Use any cookie settings or banner we provide (if implemented).

Blocking certain cookies may affect some website features. For full details, please see our Cookie Policy.