The Football Fans Census: Understanding the hopes and fears of football fans

Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

• The Football Fans Census would like all visitors to our web site to know that we are concerned as you are about the privacy of any personal information that you may provide to us through this web site. Your privacy is important to us.

• The Football Fans Census takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable precaution to safeguard the personal information you supply to us. The Football Fans Census is a trading name of Football Fans Central Limited (FFC), Company Number 04226093, whose registered office is The Media Centre, 19 Bolsover Street, London W1W 5NA, United Kingdom. FFC is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. 

• We are committed to protect that privacy whenever personal information is requested from you. Please read this policy to understand how we collect and use information and the rights you have to protect your privacy.


• You are not required to provide any personal information through this web site unless you choose to do so. We ask for certain information from you so that we can provide the best content and services we can. We cannot guarantee confidentiality of e-mail. We therefore recommend that you do not send confidential information via e-mail. 

Information Collection and Use

• From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or competitions. Participation in these surveys or competitions is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of market research or monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.


• We gather information through surveys in order to encourage involvement and understanding. The personal information you give us will enable us to produce survey reports, detailed analysis of issues, monitor changes in opinions, and invite you to take part in commercial polls.


• Your survey responses are used by decision-makers to help in the development of policy, services, and products.  Your personal information may be used to assist Earth Census and third parties in sending you by, email, sms, voice, post or other appropriate means, communications about news, products and services.


• Information is collected from our users at different points on our web site.  From time to time we may invite you to answer specific questions asked by Earth Census' sponsors.

Provision of your details to third parties

• Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-in' to have their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, one of our surveys may have an 'opt-in' mechanism so users can receive relevant information or marketing materials from our partners.


• Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

• We comply with the UK Data Protection Acts of 1984 and 1998. We reserve the right to access and disclose your personal data to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly or to protect our users. We also reserve the right to disclose individually identifiable information to third parties where a complaint arises concerning your use on our website(s) and that use is deemed inconsistent with our terms and conditions. We apply this Privacy Policy to this Web site and the products and services affiliated with it. We do not have control over the policies of other companies, individuals or organisations to which we may provide hypertext links. Information Protection; We aim to protect personal information by establishing appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect from you and thus to prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy and ensure that the personal information is used correctly.


• By providing your name and address and any additional information you freely consent to The Football Fans Census, holding, using and processing your personal data (including sensitive personal data such as race religion or political beliefs) for the purposes set out by the nature of our business and on this web site and where necessary, the transfer from time to time of your personal data for these purposes to companies, or bodies, within The Football Fans Census wherever they may be located.


• Any personal information you provide to The Football Fans Census via this web site in relation to any request for, or download of information or other services provided by The Football Fans Census may be retained and used by The Football Fans Census. It may be used by The Football Fans Census for the purposes of administering that request and may also be used for the purposes of evaluating your potential needs, for marketing research and for marketing to you of products and services provided by The Football Fans Census or carefully selected partners of The Football Fans Census.


• Should the purposes for which The Football Fans Census holds, uses or processes your personal information change in any way, you will be notified of such changes by way of a notice posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. At that time you will be given the opportunity to decline to have your personal data held, used or processed for such changed purposes. You agree to accept notification in this manner if you register with this web site.


• If for any reason you are concerned that the personal information maintained at The Football Fans Census is not correct or have any questions about privacy policies, or if you have a complaint about how we are using your data then please send an email to contact@footballfanscensus.com.


• If you wish to be deleted from our database entirely please send an email to contact@footballfanscensus.com stating just that.


• Advertising; we may use your personal data in order to serve relevant advertising to you. We may send you information, special offers and advertising by email, through SMS, within our regular newsletters or through one-off promotional offers.


• We may receive information about you from reliable third parties and add it to our database. We shall ensure that such third parties operate a similar ethical policy to us in relation to your privacy. When we receive such information, we shall use it to improve the personalisation of our service.


• Cookies; a cookie is a piece of information that is deposited by our computer server when you visit our web site which is stored on your computer's hard drive by your web browser. On revisiting the web site, our computer server will recognise the cookies, giving us information about your last visit. Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to prevent automatic acceptance. If you choose not to receive cookies, you may still use many of the features of our web site.


• Aggregated Data; We may disclose anonymised data (which will obviously involve us processing your data to anonymise it) to trustworthy third parties.

Notice: The Football Fans Census Privacy Policy was last updated on 2nd August 2005.

* IP addresses; every time you connect to our web site, we store web server logs which show your IP address (the unique number which your machine uses when it is connected to the Internet); what you looked at; whether the page request was successful or not, and which browser you used to view the pages. The use of this data is for statistical purposes and personalisation purposes. This helps us understand which areas of the site are of particular interest and also which pages are not being requested. It also tells us how many hits and page requests we get.