The Football Freak (aka TFF) cares for your personal information as much as you do; hence we take that matter seriously. Please take some time to read the privacy policy given below. By visiting and using thefootballfreak.com, you are accepting the practiced written in the following Policy.

The Privacy Policy explains what TFF does with the personal data it gets when you visit the website and use any service. This policy does not apply on the practices of third parties that TFF does not control/own or to the persons that are not managed by TFF.

Information Collected

The Football Freak only collects information that is pertinent to the purpose of our site. This information helps in providing you with better experience. TFF does not use any of the information in any other way that is against the above mentioned objective. TFF collects certain types of data and information that are given below:-

  • Info You Provide: TFF receives and stores any information that you may submit on the site or let us know in any other way. It is all up to you whether to provide us any information or not but then you might not be able to take full advantage of special aspects of the site.
  • Auto Info: There are certain types of traffic information that we and our agents automatically store on the server when you interact with us like your IP address, cookie information and the page you asked for. This information is utilized by TFF only to solve any problems with the server, analyze trends and manage the site.

The Football Freak may collect and, on any page, display the total counts that page has been viewed. Many companies offer programs that help you to visit websites anonymously. While TFF will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these programs are available.

E-mail Communications

The Football Freak is very concerned about your privacy and we will never provide your email address to a third party without your explicit permission, as detailed in the “Sharing Your Information” section below. TFF may send out e-mails with TFF related news, products, offers, surveys or promotions.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our website are visited and by how many people. TFF cookies do not collect personal information, and we do not combine information collected through cookies with other personal information to tell us who you are or what your screen name or e-mail address is.

The “help” portion of the toolbar on the majority of browsers will direct you on how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to command the browser to tell you when you receive a new cookie, or how to fully disable cookies. We recommend that you leave the cookies activated because cookies allow you to use some of TFF’s coolest features.

Cookies & 3rd Party Advertisements

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Sharing Your Information

Rest assured that we neither rent nor sell your personal information to anyone and that we will share your personal information only as described below.

The Football Freak Personnel: TFF personnel and authorized consultants and/or contractors may have access to user information if necessary in the normal course of business.

Business Transfers: In some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, user information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Moreover, if TFF, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred.

Protection of TFF and Others: We may release personal information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with a law; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other policies; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of TFF, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Syndication: TFF allows for the RSS syndication of all of its public content within the website.

With Your Consent: Except as noted above, we will contact you when your personal information is shared with third parties or used for a purpose incompatible with the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, and you will be able to opt out to prevent the sharing of this information.

Children Under 18 Years of Age

You must be 13 years and older to register to use the TFF website. As a result, TFF does not specifically collect information about children. If we learn that TFF has collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents’ permission before using TFF or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

TFF may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the TFF website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.

Conditions of Use

If you decide to visit TFF website, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of California state law.