Effective date: 23rd April 2008

About wild4football.com

Wild4football.com is an online service dedicated to the world’s number one sport of football. It allows our members to set up personal homepages, interact with other members and create an online network of football friends and foes. Wild4football offers many ways to interact with other members meaning personal information is displayed and this is used to enhance our members experience and to help identify each other.

Wild4football members have control over the information displayed and are provided with the tools to manage the information displayed. Members can also control how other members and wild4football communicate with them.

Wild4football.com cares about your online privacy. We ask for less personal information than our competitors require to protect you from identity fraud. Please email us at privacy@wild4football.com if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy.

Use and storage of your personal information

Wild4football.com collects user submitted information such as name and email address to uniquely authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the wild4football.com website. Wild4football.com also collects other personal data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, year of birth, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and communicating with each other.

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to wild4football.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on wild4fotball.com, we can use whatever information that is available about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

Wild4football.com also logs non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

Users personal homepage information including member pictures and names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in the wild4footbal.com social networking community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of uniquely identifying members, inviting new friends to join wild4football.com, adding users to members' friends' networks and to send notifications related to the service. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a user's email address is not shared or displayed to people within a user's personal network Users within a personal network communicate on wild4football.com with each other through the wild4football.com service, without disclosing their email address. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the service, wild4football.com allows users to search for other members using first and last name, email address, and schools, teams and/or companies where users may have attended, played for or worked.

We may also use a user's email address to send updates, a newsletter or news regarding the wild4football.com website. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their notification settings in the users Account Settings area.

We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

From time to time, wild4football.com or a partner, may sponsor a promotion, sweepstake or contest on wild4football.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

Invitations and other communications to non-members

Wild4football members can invite friends to join by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Wild4football.com stores the email addresses that members provide so that the recipients may be added to the friend's list of the member sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. Wild4football.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from wild4football.com may contact wild4football.com to request the removal of their information from our database.

You may prevent wild4football.com email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject BLOCK, to privacy@wild4football.com Please note that the email must come from the email account you wish to block.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Wild4football.com use session cookies as opposed to permanent or stored cookies. Session cookies are not stored on your computer and therefore do not remain on your computer once you leave the wild4football.com website.

Session cookies are stored in the computer's memory only during a user's browsing session and are automatically deleted from the user's computer when the browser is closed. These cookies usually store a session ID that is not personally identifiable to users, allowing the user to move from page to page without having to log-in repeatedly.

Session cookies are never written on the hard drive and they do not collect any information from the user's computer. Session cookies expire at the end of the user's browser session and can also become no longer accessible after the session has been inactive for a specified length of time, usually 20 minutes.

For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org

Use of cookies

Wild4football.com uses cookies to store visitors preferences and to record session information, for purposes including, to customize newsletter, advertising, and web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set -- each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences -- however, you must enable cookies from wild4football.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that wild4football allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the wild4football privacy policy.

Links

Wild4football.com contains links to sites. Wild4football.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on external sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on wild4football.com.

Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission before you complete registration with wild4football.com. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Public forums

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to users personal homepages, groups, forums or any other public forums that that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Correcting, updating or removing information

Wild4football.com users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as edit profile and account settings.

Email settings

Members who no longer wish to receive notifications or newsletters may choose not to by going to account settings and changing the notifications setting. All notification emails and newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications.

Third party advertising

Adverts appearing on this website may be delivered to users by wild4football.com or one of our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by wild4football.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Security

Wild4football.com member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. Wild4football.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on wild4football.com, please contact us at privacy@wild4football.com

Sharing and disclosure of information collected by wild4football.com

Except as otherwise described in this privacy policy, wild4football will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a, search warrant or other legal process received by wild4football.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the wild4football.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Wild4football reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of wild4football or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest.

Changes in our privacy policy

From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes we will notify users of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. Users are bound by any minor changes to the policy when they use the site after those changes have been announced. If however we are going to use users personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on our website for 30 days.

Contacting wild4football.com

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at privacy@wild4football.com