Privacy Policy
Fulham Football Club ("FFC") is committed to maintaining your privacy in accordance
with the Data Protection Act 1998. Our Privacy Policy explains our commitment to
data protection and the use of your information in providing you with the services
and information you require.
What information do we collect? How do we use it?
At times we may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information.
Generally this information is requested when you register to use our website, purchase
tickets and enter any promotions or competitions. We may gather and use information
about you in the following ways:
- If you choose to register to use our website we may ask for information such as
your name, date of birth, email address and contact details. We will use this information
to administer your user account with us and so that we can tailor and improve the
services we offer to you.
- If you choose to give us personal information via the internet (for example, in
the course of purchasing tickets or merchandising from us), it will be clear how
we will use such information. If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information
used as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your wishes.
- Where you have consented to us sending you information, we may also use your data
for marketing purposes. Further details on this can be found below in the section
headed "How do we use your information for marketing?"
- Where you have consented to us passing your data to our official partners, sponsors
and/or selected third parties to enable them to send you information, we may pass
your data to such partners, sponsors and third parties to enable them to send you
such information. Further details on this can be found below in the section headed
"How do we use your information for marketing?"
- We intend to continue improving the content and function of the Fulham Football
Club website. For this reason, we may monitor customer traffic patterns and site
usage to help us improve the design and layout of our site and provide content of
interest to you.
- If you apply for a job we will use your information for the purposes of recruitment
and selection, corresponding with you and equal opportunities monitoring and may
hold your information for up to six months in case other suitable opportunities
arise.
More generally, we will use your personal details and information we obtain from
other sources to provide you with our goods and services, for administration and
customer services, for marketing, to analyse your purchasing preferences and to
ensure that the content, services and advertising that we offer are tailored to
your needs and interests. We may need to share your information with our service
providers and agents for these purposes. We may disclose personal data in order
to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
By providing us with your personal information you consent to our processing your
personal data for the above purposes. You also consent to our transferring your
information to countries or jurisdictions outside of the EEA which may not provide
the same level of data protection as the UK, if necessary, for the above purposes.
How do we use your information for marketing?
We may:
- contact you with information that we think may be of interest to you;
- contact you with information about other organizations goods and services that we
think may be of interest to you;
- share your information with our official business partners, sponsors and/or selected
third parties so that they can contact you with information.
We, our official business partners and sponsors and selected third parties may contact
you by various means, including but not limited to mail, telephone, fax, email or
other electronic messaging services (including mobile phone messaging) with offers
of goods, services, promotions or information that may be of interest to you. By
providing us with your postal address, telephone or fax numbers or email address
you consent to being contacted by these methods for these purposes. If you do not
wish to receive marketing information from us or our business partners please indicate
this where requested on the registration form. You can change your preferences at
any time by updating your personal profile online or by contacting us at Dataprotection@Fulhamfc.com.
How do we protect your information?
We take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept
secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the
purposes for which it is used.
Use of cookies
We may use information obtained about you from cookies (files which are sent by
us to your computer or other access device). On this website we use Sitestat, a
product of Nedstat, to measure and analyse information with respect to visits to
our website. To that effect we use your IP-address to collect, among other things,
internet traffic data and data regarding your browser type and computer. Cookies
merely contain a unique number and therefore no personal data. The cookie cannot
be used to identify you on websites of third parties, including Nedstat. We will
not use the IP-addresses or cookies to identify you personally.
We use the services of Nedstat in order to increase the efficiency of our websites.
If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer
to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking "Help" in your browser menu.
Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not
be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
Disclaimer
We link to a wide variety of other sites and we may display advertisements from
third parties on our site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies
of these sites and third party advertisers, nor for the way in which information
about their users is treated. In particular, unless expressly stated, we are not
agents for these sites or advertisers nor are we authorised to make representations
on their behalf.
We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site and to read
the privacy statements applicable on those sites.
Other Information
You should note that if our business (or any part of it) is sold or transferred
at any time, the information we hold may form part of the assets transferred although
will still only be used in accordance with this policy.
You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which
we may charge a small fee up to £10) and to have any inaccuracies in your
information corrected. Any such requests must be made in writing to:
The Marketing Department, Fulham Football Club, Motspur Park Training Ground, New
Malden, Surrey. KT3 6PT.
For quality control and training purposes, we may monitor or record your communications
with us.
When and how to contact us
You can change your marketing preferences online at any time by updating your personal
profiles or by contacting us at Dataprotection@Fulhamfc.com
Changes to this policy
This policy was last updated on 1st April 2009
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and you should review it regularly.
Any changes will take effect once the revised policy is published on our website.
We will of course notify you of any changes where we are required to do so. Please
refer to this policy each time you submit your personal information.