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1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines how our football club (“we”, “our”, or “us”) collects, uses, and protects any personal information you provide when using this website. We operate in the United Kingdom and act as the data controller for the information collected on this site under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Data Collected

We only collect personal data through our website when you explicitly choose to provide it such as:

  • contact/enquiry forms;
  • order forms;
  • online shop orders;
  • event registration forms;
  • and any other form you willingly complete.
Comments

When you leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

WEBSITE FormS

Information submitted through forms on our website is sent securely to the Club Secretary. These submissions are only kept for the necessary purposes of the form and are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. No personal data is stored. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics monitoring on our website please visit Google Analytics Opt-out.

Cases for Using the Personal Data

We use your personal information in the following cases:

  • To respond to enquiries sent to us via contact or enquiry forms.
  • To facilitate orders, purchases or event registrations.
  • Verification/identification of the user during website usage;
  • Providing technical assistance;
  • Sending updates to our users with important information to inform about news/changes;
  • Checking the accounts’ activity in order to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security over our customers’ personal information;
  • Customise the website to make your experience more personal;
  • Guarantee overall performance and administrative functions run smoothly.

3. Embedded Content

Pages on this site may include embedded content such as YouTube videos. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Youtube

We may use YouTube videos embedded on our site. YouTube has its own cookie and privacy policies over which we have no control. There is no installation of cookies from YouTube and your IP is not sent to a YouTube server until you consent to it. See their privacy policy here: YouTube Privacy Policy.

4. Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.

Necessary Cookies (all site visitors)
  • cfduid: Is used by CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
  • PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
Necessary Cookies (Additional for Logged in Customers)
  • wp-auth: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_logged_in_{hash}: Used by WordPress to authenticate logged-in visitors, password authentication and user verification.
  • wordpress_test_cookie Used by WordPress to ensure cookies are working correctly.
  • wp-settings-[UID]: WordPress sets a few wp-settings-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.
  • wp-settings-[UID]:WordPress also sets a few wp-settings-{time}-[UID] cookies. The number on the end is your individual user ID from the users database table. This is used to customize your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface.

5. Who Has Access To Your Data

If you do not have a user account on our site, then there is no identifiable personal information we can retain or view regarding yourself.

If you do have a user account, your personal information can only be accessed by website administrators.

6. Third Party Access to Your Data

We don’t share your data with third-parties in a way as to reveal any of your personal information like email, name, etc. The only exceptions to that rule are for partners we have to share data with in order to provide the services you expect from us, such as online payment processors.

7. How Long We Retain Your Data For

We retain information submitted through forms on this website for as long as is necessary to resolve your enquiry, or as required by law.

We may use data so that we can recognise you and approve your comments automatically instead of holding them for moderation.

If you register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. Security Measures

We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties.

In case of a data breach, website administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity and will contact affected users.

9. Your Data Rights

General Rights

If you have a registered account on this website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we retain, including any additional data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any of the personal data we have stored. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In short, we cannot erase data that is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).
If you wish that all of your data is erased, we will no longer be able to offer any support or other product-related services to you.

GDPR Rights

Your privacy is critically important to us and we aim to support the GDPR standard. We permit residents of the European Union to use our Service. Therefore, it is our intent to comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.

10. Third Party Websites

We may post links to third party websites on this website. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security compliance by us, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.

All social media sharing links, either displayed as text links or social media icons do not connect you to any of the associated third parties unless you explicitly click on them.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. We bear no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

11. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes

At times it may become necessary or desirable to release your information when required by law, or upon request of a government agency or a private litigant.

You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter.

We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from police or crime agencies or private litigants.

Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the country.