Article 14 - Public disclosure and confidentiality

14.1 Neither the ICC nor any National Cricket Federation, National Anti-Doping Organisation or WADA shall publicly identify Players whose Samples have resulted in Adverse Analytical Findings, or Players or other Persons who have been alleged to have violated other Articles of the ICC Code, and whether they have been subject to a Provisional Suspension, until the Player or other Person has been sent a Notification in accordance with Article 7.

14.2 No later than twenty (20) days after it has been determined in an appellate decision under Article 13, or an appeal has been waived, or a hearing in accordance with Article 8 has been waived, or the assertion of an anti-doping rule violation has not otherwise been timely challenged, or the matter has been resolved under Article 10.8, or a new period of Ineligibility, or reprimand, has been imposed under Article 10.14.3, the ICC must Publicly Disclose the disposition of the anti-doping rule violation, the name of the Player or other Person committing the violation, the Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method involved (if any) and the Consequences imposed. The ICC must Publicly Disclose within twenty (20) days the results of appellate decisions concerning anti-doping rule violations, including the information described above, subject at all times to the extent permitted by applicable law. Publication shall be accomplished at a minimum by placing the required information on the ICC’s website and leaving the information up for the longer of one month or the duration of any period of Ineligibility.

14.3 After an anti-doping rule violation has been determined to have been committed in an appellate decision under Article 13.2.1 or such appeal has been waived, or in a hearing in accordance with Article 8 or where such hearing has been waived, or the assertion of an anti-doping rule violation has not otherwise been timely challenged, or the matter has been resolved under Article 10.8, the ICC may make public such determination or decision and may comment publicly on the matter.

14.4 In circumstances where the Player or other Person found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation is a Minor, a Protected Person, or a Recreational Athlete, Public Disclosure of the decision will be optional and shall be proportionate to the facts and circumstances of the case.

14.5 In any case under the ICC Code where it is determined, after a hearing or appeal, that the Player or other Person did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the fact that the decision has been appealed may be Publicly Disclosed. However, the decision itself and the underlying facts may not be Publicly Disclosed except with the consent of the Player or other Person who is the subject of the decision. The ICC shall use reasonable efforts to obtain such consent, and if consent is obtained, shall publicly disclose the decision in its entirety or in such redacted form as the Player or other Person may approve.

14.6 The ICC shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that persons under its control do not publicly identify Players whose Samples have resulted in Adverse Analytical Findings or Atypical Findings or Adverse Passport Findings, or Players or other Persons who have a Provisional Suspension imposed on them, or are alleged to have committed an anti-doping rule violation under the ICC Code, unless and until the Player or other Person has been sent a Notification in accordance with Article 7. However, the ICC in its discretion may at any time disclose to other organisations such information as the ICC may consider necessary or appropriate to facilitate administration or enforcement of the ICC Code, provided that each organisation provides assurance satisfactory to the ICC that the organisation will maintain all such information in confidence. The ICC, nor any ICC official, will not comment publicly on the specific facts of a pending case (as opposed to general description of process and science) except in response to public comments attributed to the Player or other Person involved in the case or his/her representatives.

14.7 Where WADA, a Player or other Person’s NADO or National Cricket Federation receives information in respect of any proceedings conducted pursuant to Article 7, 8 or 13, they shall not disclose such information beyond those Persons with a need to know until the ICC has made Public Disclosure or has failed to make Public Disclosure in accordance with Article 14.1 above.

14.8 All communications with a laboratory in relation to Testing carried out under the ICC Code must be conducted in such a way that the laboratory is not advised of the identity of the Player(s) involved, save where required as part of the investigation of a potential case and/or the presentation of evidence to an Anti-Doping Tribunal.

14.9 Details of all Testing carried out under the ICC Code, i.e. date of test, name of Player tested, and whether the test was In-Competition or Out-of-Competition¸ shall, wherever possible, be entered onto the WADA Database as soon as possible after such tests have been conducted, and made available via that database to the Player, WADA and other Anti-Doping Organisations that have authority to test Players, so that duplication of anti-doping efforts may be avoided.

14.10 Whereabouts information provided to the ICC by a Player pursuant to Article 5.3.2 shall be entered into ADAMS on the basis that it shall be maintained in the strictest confidence at all times, it shall be used by WADA and other Anti-Doping Organisations only for Doping Control purposes, and it shall be destroyed when no longer relevant for such purposes.

14.11 All Players and other Persons shall be deemed to have agreed, for purposes of applicable data protection and other laws and for all other purposes, to have consented to the collection, processing, disclosure and use of information relating to them, including personal information relating to them, in accordance with the provisions of the International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and otherwise as required to implement the ICC Code.