Effective Date: March 2, 2025
FootballJournalists.com (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data when you visit our website or engage with our services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following personal data:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, postal address, phone number, or other similar information.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
- Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
2. How We Collect Your Data
We collect data using the following methods:
- Direct Interactions: You may provide personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
- Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
3. How We Use Your Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Improve Our Services: Processing your data helps us deliver the services you have requested and improve our offerings.
- To Manage Our Relationship with You: Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, and asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
- To Administer and Protect Our Business and Website: Troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data.
- To Deliver Relevant Content and Advertisements: Understanding the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
- Contract: The processing is necessary for a contract we have with you, or because you have asked us to take specific steps before entering into a contract.
- Legal Obligation: The processing is necessary for us to comply with the law.
- Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
5. Data Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
- Service Providers: Third parties who provide IT and system administration services.
- Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
- Regulatory Authorities: HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
6. International Transfers
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.
8. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data.
- Request correction of your personal data.
- Request erasure of your personal data.
- Object to processing of your personal data.
- Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Request transfer of your personal data.
- Right to withdraw consent.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
- Email: info@footballjournalists.com
- Postal Address: FootballJournalists.com, 123 Football Lane, London, UK
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Policy when we make any substantial updates.