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.
