Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 5 May, 2010

Your privacy is important to Football Geek. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Football Geek collects, and the ways in which Football Geek uses that personal information.

Personal information collection

Football Geek may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

-information about your use of this website;
-information that you provide used for the purpose of registering with the website (including name & email address);
-information that you provide for the purpose of subscribing to the website services (including name & email address).
-information about your computer when you visit the Website, including without limitation the type of browser software you use, the operating system you are running, the website that referred you, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Your IP address is usually associated with the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company or your university.

Using personal information

Football Geek may use your personal information to:
- administer this website;
- enable your access to and use of the website services;
- publish information about you on the website.
- marketing purposes. An example of how this data could be used for marketing purposes would be to tell potential advertisers how many visitors we get to the website, where our visitors come from, and how they arrive at our website. This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as names and email address.

Where Football Geek discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, Football Geek may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Children
Children under the age of 13 are not eligible to become registered users of FootballGeek.com.au.

Securing your data

Football Geek will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Football Geek will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that Football Geek collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Football Geek operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement

Football Geek may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

This website contains links to other websites.

Football Geek is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

About cookies

Cookies are information packets sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables web servers to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on our website

Football Geek uses cookies on this website, for the following purposes:

- to allow us to recognise if you are a registered user. However users still must log in with their password to access their account and use some parts of the website.

Refusing cookies

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies.

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.

In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

Contact Football Geek

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or Football Geek's treatment of your personal information, please write to:

by email to privacy@footballgeek.com.au.

This privacy statement

This privacy statement is based on a precedent created by employmentlawcontracts.co.uk and published by freenetlaw.com.