Privacy Policy for Football Nonsense

Effective Date: June 6th 2025  |  Last Updated: March 2026

Welcome to Football Nonsense, accessible at https://footballnonsense.co.uk. Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and your rights in relation to it.

By using this website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Information

When you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, or interact with our content, we may ask you for certain personal information, including, but not limited to:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Any other information you provide voluntarily

Non-Personal Information

We may also collect non-personal information automatically when you visit our site. This includes:

  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages visited and time spent on each page
  • IP address (anonymised where possible)

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our website
  • To notify you about changes to our website or services
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis and improve our website
  • To monitor the usage of our website
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To send you newsletters and promotional materials (only if you have opted in)
  • To serve relevant advertisements via Google AdSense (see Section 4)

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device by websites you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.

How We Use Cookies

Football Nonsense uses cookies for the following purposes:

  • Essential cookies: Required for the website to function correctly.
  • Analytics cookies: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. This helps us improve our content and user experience. Google Analytics collects information such as pages visited, time spent on the site, and the source of traffic. This data is aggregated and anonymous.
  • Advertising cookies: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites across the internet. These are described in more detail in Section 4 below.

Managing Cookies

You can control and manage cookies in your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of this website. You can also manage your advertising cookie preferences via the tools described in Section 4.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

4. Advertising — Google AdSense

Football Nonsense uses Google AdSense to display advertisements on this website. Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google LLC.

Google AdSense uses cookies, including the DoubleClick cookie, to serve ads that are relevant to you based on your prior visits to this website and other websites on the internet. Interest-based advertising allows Google and its partners to show you ads based on your browsing history and interests.

What This Means for You

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and others.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the internet.
  • We do not have access to or control over cookies used by Google or other third-party advertisers.

Opting Out of Personalised Advertising

You may opt out of personalised advertising at any time using one of the following methods:

Opting out of personalised ads does not mean you will stop seeing adverts — it means the ads shown to you will not be tailored to your interests.

For more information on how Google uses data when you use our website, please visit: How Google uses data from sites that use our services.

5. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to analyse how visitors use this website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit this site, which pages they visit, and which other sites they visited before coming to this site.

We use the information from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information.

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognising you on return visits by disabling cookies in your browser. You can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

For more information on Google Analytics, please visit Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

6. Third-Party Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites and services that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Football Nonsense of the linked site.

Third-party services we may use include:

7. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law.

  • Newsletter subscribers: Data is retained for as long as you remain subscribed. You may unsubscribe at any time.
  • Analytics data: Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months by default.
  • Comments: If you leave a comment on this site, your comment and associated metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognise and approve any follow-up comments, rather than holding them in a moderation queue.

8. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us. We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

9. Your Rights Under UK GDPR

If you are located in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you have the following rights regarding your personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR):

  • The right to access — You have the right to request copies of your personal information.
  • The right to rectification — You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to erasure — You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing — You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability — You have the right to request that we transfer your data to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object — You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, including for direct marketing purposes.
  • Rights relating to automated decision-making — You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing where it produces a legal or significant effect on you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details in Section 11. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection supervisory authority. You can do so at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by calling 0303 123 1113.

10. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take the necessary action.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Continued use of the website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise any of your rights, or have any concerns about how we handle your data, please contact us:

Thank you for visiting Football Nonsense.