Terms & Conditions & Privacy Statement

Terms & Conditions of Membership

We Aim To:

• Provide members with the opportunity to experience the excitement of racehorse ownership without the immense cost.

• Provide a fun and welcoming environment for all our Members on our App/social media and at racedays and other events.

  • Maintain a Club roster of quality horses which are capable of competing throughout the season.
  • Grow our membership so that we can lease a larger percentage of horses and acquire horses capable of competing at the highest level.

    • Membership Terms

    Michael O' Callaghan Racing Club ("the Club") confers on the Member (for the duration of their membership with the Club) certain benefits associated with the Club's lease of the horses currently in training.

    Benefits of membership include:

  • Minimum of 5 horses in the club at any one time
  • All members will receive an exclusive Michael O'Callaghan Racing badge which will allow them to be recognized as club members when at the races
  • Receive exclusive, regular updates via MOC Racing Club App, email or telephone
  • Receive privileged pre and post race owner report via email or App
  • When the club has a runner, you have the opportunity to be entered in a draw for tickets to the races, which may include parade ring passes and owners badges.
  • You will be invited to regular yard visits, which will be limited in places to allow for more intimate access to horses and the yard.
  • You will receive a professionally produced monthly newsletter, which includes news and features, on both horses and club members
  • Receive weekly tips from our exclusive club tipster
  • Members can purchase exclusive club merchandise, including jackets and hats
  • You will receive a copy of the annually published Michael O'Callaghan Review magazine
  • You will have the opportunity to socialise with other club members at regular race meetings and horse racing events in Ireland and UK

    • 1.Membership is effective for a full period of 12 months from whatever date the Member joins. There is a Membership fee of €199 if a one-off payment is made in advance. A Quarterly payment option of €50 is also available. Membership is for twelve months regardless of payment method.

    2.Upon completion of the first 12 months membership period, any Member who decides to renew, will be entitled to a loyalty discount from the full cost of membership.

    3.Prize money won by the horses during the period of membership is distributed amongst the Members at the end of the calendar year. There can never be any guarantee of any future level of prize money, given that this is dependent on how well the horses perform on the racecourse and the number of Members on the dates of each race in which prize money is won.

    The sum distributed to Members per specific race is determined by the relative net total paid to the Club by HRI (excluding VAT). The only additional deductions from the total Euro race prize fund are all entry/supplement fees and racehorse transport and where the race is outside of Ireland the deductions also extend to trainer/jockey/groom expenses. Any Plus 10, or similar, payments made to the Club, above prize money won, will be retained by the Club. In all circumstances, the 12 months membership fee is not subject to any additional requests for payment in relation to the keeping and training of the racehorses, no matter what costs the Club may incur.

    4.Membership is primarily an entertainment. It is not an investment opportunity.

    5.If the Member chooses not to renew at the end of the 12 months period, the membership shall expire. There is no commitment to remain a Member after the 12 months period has expired.

    6.The membership fee shall include the provision of a regular newsletter and upkeep of our exclusive App.

    7.In view of the unpredictable nature of the industry, no specific guarantees can be made in any respect. For example; whilst the intention is to maintain an average of 5 horses in the string and to provide 12 newsletters in a 12 months period, there are no specific guarantees.

    8. The buyer has the right to cancel a new contract they enter into with Michael O' Callaghan Racing Club within 14 days of the date it is concluded (agreed). A buyer can cancel their new Membership by communicating this in writing by emailing info@michaelocallaghan.ie or writing to

    Majella McParland

    Crotanstown Stud

    Lumville, The Curragh,

    Co. Kildare, Ireland. The Club will refund their payment in full.

    9. All decisions relating to the horses, trainers, administration, and general management, shall be vested in the managers. Where a Member regularly fails to abide by the relevant dress code or acts in a manner which could cause harassment, embarrassment, offence or distress to another person, or warned due to the abuse of alcohol, the offending Member may be instantly barred from attending any future events and may not be able to renew his/her Club Membership. If this is the case, computer software will automatically not permit further activity. The decision of the Managers in such circumstances shall be final and binding.

    10. Membership is for personal use only and cannot be utilised for any commercial purpose.

    11. Copyright of all published material is the property of the Club. Material submitted by Members (photographs etc) must be their own work and the full copyright shall pass to the Club.

    12.Members must be aged 18 or over.

    13. It is understood by the Member;

    Full legal and equitable title to the Club horses and all such other horses acquired by the Club from time to time remains at all times with the Club

    at no time does the Member have a legal or equitable interest in any one or more of the horses referred to above (or any share thereof); and

    all rights conferred to the Member by the Club are personal to the Member alone and may not under any circumstances whatsoever be gifted, bequeathed, sold, assigned, leased, form part of a loan, offered or granted as security to any third parties.

    14.Any person who is banned from entering a racecourse and/or 'warned off' by the BHA/HRI, cannot be a member of the Club.

    STABLE VISIT TERMS:

    Flash photography is not permitted at the yard.

    Refreshments are occasionally available at some visits, but any food or drink must not be consumed within the proximity of horses. Smoking and/or the consumption of alcohol is strictly prohibited at all times at stable visits.

    Please note the Club horse, trainer may not be in attendance at a stable visit if there is a racing engagement, or any other reason beyond our control, without prior notice.

    No children under the age of 14 are permitted to attend a stable visit.

    Terms and Conditions of Sale of Merchandise

    • 1.Our Returns Policy states that merchandise purchased through the Michael O'Callaghan Shop, whether online or over the telephone, can be returned within 14 days for a refund. The goods must be in a re-sellable condition with no marks, damage or odours and they must be in original condition with the labels still attached.
    • 2.The customer will bear the cost of returning merchandise if they are returning it by post.
    • 3.The office address of the Michael O'Callaghan Racing Club is

    Crotanstown Stud,

    • Lumville,
    • The Curragh,
    • Co. Kildare, Ireland.

    Merchandise is to be returned to this address.

    • 4.Refunds can only be given using the original method of payment and to the card on which the purchase was made, if applicable.

    The Michael O'Callaghan Racing Club will endeavour to dispatch items to the consumer within 30 days of the order being received. However, no specific guarantees can be made in this respect.

    Should the club be disbanded, all fees owing to Horse Racing Ireland will be paid off as a priority.

    I undertake to supply the Registry Office with a list of all new members after registration.

    The date of foundation of club is the 5th of July 2017.

    Michael O' Callaghan Racing Club reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. Terms last updated 03/10/2017.

    Privacy Statement

    Michael O'Callaghan Racing Club and Michael O'Callaghan Racing Ltd. are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

    This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

    For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1988, the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003 and the ePrivacy Regulations Act 2011, the data controller is Michael O'Callaghan Racing Ltd.

    Information we may collect from you

    We may collect and process the following data about you:

    Information that you volunteer to provide by filling in forms on our site www. https://mocracingclub.teamapp.com/ (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by Michael O'Callaghan Racing Club, and when you report a problem with our site.

    If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

    Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.

    Details of your visits to our site [including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise] and the resources that you access.

    We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

    IP addresses & cookies

    We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

    For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.

    They enable us:

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  • To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your interests.
  • To speed up your searches.
  • To recognise you when you return to our site.

    • You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. [Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.]

    By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. [All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology].] Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

    Uses made of the information

    We use information held about you in the following ways:

    To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

    To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

    To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

    To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

    To notify you about changes to our service.

    Disclosure of your information

    We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

    In order to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

    If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Michael O'Callaghan Racing Ltd., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

    Your rights

    You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at majella@michaelocallaghan.ie or writing to

    Majella McParland

    Crotanstown Stud,

    Lumville, The Curragh,

    Co. Kildare, Ireland.

    Should you leave the Club, the data we hold on you will be deleted from our systems within 40 calendar days.

    Accurate Information

    You have the right to have your personal data corrected, if inaccurate, or erased, if it is no longer necessary for us to hold this. This can be done by emailing majella@michaelocallaghan.ie or telephoning +353 (0)45 456502.

    We need to hold only accurate, complete and up-to-date data. If your details change, you can update these by visiting the User Details section of the MOC Racing Club TeamApp or the website version of this App (https://mocracingclub.teamapp.com/), by using the Contact Us form on the App/website version of the App or by emailing majella@michaelocallaghan.ie.

    Access to information

    The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.