Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Tennis For Education Foundation website is owned by Tennis For Education Foundation, which is a data controller of your personal data.

We have adopted this Privacy Policy, which determines how we are processing the information collected by Tennis For Education Foundation, which also provides the reasons why we must collect certain personal data about you. Therefore, you must read this Privacy Policy before using Tennis For Education Foundation website.

We take care of your personal data and undertake to guarantee its confidentiality and security.

Personal information we collect:

When you visit the Tennis For Education Foundation, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the installed cookies on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.” Moreover, we might collect the personal data you provide to us (including but not limited to Name, Surname, Address, payment information, etc.) during registration to be able to fulfill the agreement.

Why do we process your data?

Our top priority is customer data security, and, as such, we may process only minimal user data, only as much as it is absolutely necessary to maintain the website. Information collected automatically is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding website usage. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that it would identify any particular user of the system.

You can visit the website without telling us who you are or revealing any information, by which someone could identify you as a specific, identifiable individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the website’s features, or you wish to receive our newsletter or provide other details by filling a form, you may provide personal data to us, such as your email, first name, last name, city of residence, organization, telephone number. You can choose not to provide us with your personal data, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the website’s features. For example, you won’t be able to receive our Newsletter or contact us directly from the website. Users who are uncertain about what information is mandatory are welcome to contact us via info@tennisforeducation.org.

Your rights:

If you are a European resident, you have the following rights related to your personal data:

  • The right to be informed.
  • The right of access.
  • The right to rectification.
  • The right to erasure.
  • The right to restrict processing.
  • The right to data portability.
  • The right to object.
  • Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.

If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident, we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example, if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information might be transferred outside of Europe, including Canada and the United States.

Links to other websites:

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for such other websites or third parties’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our website and read the privacy statements of each website that may collect personal information.

Information security:

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We keep reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and personal data disclosure in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed.

Legal disclosure:

We will disclose any information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

Contact information:

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal Information, you may send an email to info@tennisforeducation.org

Tennis forged my lifelong friendships! I traveled the world thanks to tennis! Tennis allowed me to learn invaluable lessons! I am who I am because of tennis!

To say that tennis has defined me would be a vast understatement. Tennis was a part of my life before I was even born; my mother hid her tennis racquet in her violin case, sneaking out of the house to play tennis. Later, she competed while pregnant with me and then divorced my father, not less because of tennis. First, custody was given to my dad. My grandparents raised me, and even with my mom ‘absent,’ tennis was to be part of my life, a different part, but essential and forming nonetheless. My grandparents talked plenty about tennis, just not favorably. I grew up in communism, and having a professional sports career was pretty much impossible, so my grandparents didn’t miss the chance to remind me of that fact at least once daily.

When I was 6, the courts granted my mom full custody, and I moved cities. Tennis was to be an even more significant part of my life now, yet I started to play tennis when I was about 12. Soccer was my first love and six years of grandparental convincing that tennis was a waste of time did it. However, I did spend almost every day in the club. My mom was acting as the women’s national team coach at the time, so I would spend most of my after-school hours at the facilities watching her and other coaches coach. Later in life, I realized that this must have been when I had “decided’ to become a coach.

My playing tennis career is nothing to brag about: a few tournament wins and a few national doubles titles, yet nothing indicating a run at the world top 100. Accordingly, I was planning to take in the footsteps of my dad and study law, and that resulted in me more or less abandoning competitive tennis in my high school senior year. My father’s professional climb to the post of deputy AG assured me of a promising professional career in the field for me as well, barring no major mistakes on my end. Then the Berlin wall happened! Everything I, and everyone else of my generation, knew about life was flipped upside down. In this new reality of uncertainty, my mom decided to jump on the first possibility of working aboard, and we moved to Austria.

We both started teaching tennis in a sports hotel in a village of 1500. My prior teaching experience was, well, nonexistent, yet I was earning about 15 dollars an hour. My father, the deputy AG, was bringing home the equivalent of about 100 dollars a month. Farewell to law school! Tennis coaching, here I come! The year was 1990, and I couldn’t have imagined the life journey tennis coaching would take me on- from the sometimes depressing reality of working seven days a week under the gloomy mountain skies of the Austrian village to warming up a player of mine on Arthur Ashe stadium for the US Open night session.

Tennis took me, literally, from the city of Ruse, where I was born, all the way to Houston, Texas, where I have been residing since 1997. Throughout my professional journey, I did help beginners learn the difference between a forehand and a backhand. I was also blessed to coach four professional women to victories into the 3rd rounds of Grand Slams in singles and a quarterfinal in doubles. However, the greatest joy in my professional life was the product of my work as a coach/mentor to junior tennis players in Houston.

I had the pleasure of seeing quite a few of my pupils grow through the sport of tennis. I was also fortunate enough to be in a position to help them capitalize on their passion and talent through subsidizing tennis lessons and junior academy scholarships. However, more than such assistance is needed to bridge the current generation’s significant gap with their European peers. The idea of TFEF was born out of discussions with former students, among whom Cassandra and Jose, about how to fill that void. I look forward to TFEF providing the necessary help. Given my life journey, I can help TFEF succeed.

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