PRIVACY POLICY

sportingsnews.com and the Sporting News mobile application(s) (the “Website”) is operated by Perform Sporting News Limited ("Perform") together with other companies within the Perform Group (which means the entities controlled by, controlling, or under common control with, Perform) (the "Perform Group").

Unless separately defined herein, the defined terms in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as in the Terms and Conditions which can be found here.

By your use of the Website you consent to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates will be posted here and we may also provide additional notice to you via the Website or email for certain changes.

Additionally, the Website contains links to websites that are not operated by Perform Group. These third parties may collect data from you and share some of that data with us. Perform Group is careful when choosing its partners, sponsors, and affiliates, but Perform Group is not responsible for any misuse of personal information by such third parties. We recommend that you view the Privacy Policy posted on each Website that you use to confirm that the companies' policies are acceptable to you.

1. PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION AND HOW IT IS USED

When using the Services, we may ask you to provide all or some of the following information: your name, your address, your email address, banking details, credit card information, your telephone number, and your age ("Personal Information"). We may also ask you to provide your thoughts or answer some questions about your favorite events, personalities, and other subjects of interest to sports fans.

In order to purchase any live events viewable on this Website, participate in any contest or message feature, download any content, take part in any other interactive feature of the Websites, or receive information from Perform Group, such as newsletters or email regarding upcoming the Services you must register and provide accurate information about yourself to the Websites, as the Services may not work properly without such information.

We may use the Personal Information you provide to us to do some or all of the following:

Perform Group will not, however, sell or lease your Personal Information to third parties. If you do not wish to receive marketing and promotional communications from us or our partners, sponsors, and affiliates, you can choose to opt-out when providing your Personal Information to Perform Group. You can also opt-out by updating your user profile on the Website.

Please note: If you do decide to opt-out of receiving information, Perform Group will be unable to keep you informed of any new products, services, or special offers that may interest you and will have an impact on our ability to inform you of any live events or important information as part of any subscription service you may have.

2. SHARING INFROMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES.

To evaluate the Websites and ensure that we are providing Content and Services of interest to you, we may collect and store statistical information regarding how you use the Websites, the name of your internet service provider, any websites that referred you to the Websites, and the time and date you view the Websites. We may also use Personal Information to develop demographic information regarding Website users. Such aggregated information will not identify you personally. We may share this aggregated, statistical information with our partners, sponsors, affiliates, and other third parties.

We may on occasion combine information we receive online with other records to enhance our ability to notify you of our products and services that we think will be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive these notifications please send an e-mail to [email protected] letting us know.

Additionally, we may share your Personal Information with third party agents we use to provide certain services and functionality to the Website. Examples include fulfilling orders, providing the subscription video products, sending email, website analysis, processing credit card payments and providing customer service. In cases where we do share Personal Information, the parties with whom we share such information may not use or disclose your Personal Information for other purposes.

3. SECURITY

We understand that the security of your Personal Information is important to you. When handling Personal Information, security is paramount and we have in place a security policy which ensures that Personal Information is adequately protected. Your Personal Information is password protected, and any Personal Information you provide to Perform Group is protected from unauthorised disclosure by reasonable technological measures. Personal Information provided to Perform Group is not, however, transmitted via SSL encryption technology. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone.

4. COOKIES

We use cookies in order to ensure the website functions properly and to improve your user experience. Cookies are usually a string of numbers and/or letters that a website transfers to your hard drive. Similar technologies include pixel tags and web storage and other technologies, and we refer to all these things as “cookies” in this section. The cookies enable the website to "remember" you, either for the duration of your visit (session cookies) or for repeat visits (persistent cookies). We recommend that you visit the websites www.allaboutcookies.org,www.youronlinechoices.eu (Europe) or www.aboutads.info/choices/ (United States). if you would like in-depth information about cookies.

On this website, we use the following types of cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies - These cookies are essential to enable you to navigate around the site securely and to provide you with services you have specifically requested. For instance, they help ensure that payments are processed securely.

Functionality cookies - These cookies enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences. For instance, they can remember your name and location, if you provide this information.

Performance cookies - These cookies improve the performance of the website. For instance, they help pages load quicker.

Targeting/advertising – These cookies assist in serving of relevant advertisements and implement frequency capping procedures.

These types of cookies may also be placed on the website by our business partners or service providers. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. You are not obliged to accept cookies and you can adjust your browser's setting to prevent it from accepting cookies on your computer - go to www.allaboutcookies.org,www.youronlinechoices.eu (Europe) or www.aboutads.info/choices/ (United States) for instructions on how to disable cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our site or use certain functions if you disable cookies.

If you register with us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies.

5. DISCLOSURE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES

Perform Group reserves the right to access and disclose Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate their systems properly, or to protect themselves or others. Perform Group may attempt to obtain the prior consent of the individual before disclosing the Personal Information, but they have no obligation to do so.

6. PARENTS & GUARDIANS

This Website is a general audience Website. We do not knowingly collect and/or share Personal Information from children under the age of thirteen on the Website. However, your child cannot use some of the interactive features of the Website without providing Personal Information. We therefore recommend using the Website with your child if he or she is interested in participating in an interactive feature of the Website.

If, in the future, Perform Group actively collects Personal Information from children, it will do so in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998

7. ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION

Data Protection law gives you various rights including the right to access the Personal Information that is held about you.

We will also provide you with copies of all the Personal Information we hold about you. If you wish to access the Personal Information held by us, you should contact us at [email protected].

You can also request at any time that the Personal Information we hold about you is updated, corrected, or deleted.

8. TRANSFER TO OTHER COUNTRIES

Perform Group processes information about users on servers located in a number of countries. We may also subcontract processing or share your information to a third parties located in countries, other than your home country. Information collected within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and Switzerland may, for example, be transferred to, and processed in, a country outside of the EEA and Switzerland. You expressly consent to this.

9. YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS

If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, the changes will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will not use or disclose Personal Information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without informing you and providing you with an opportunity to opt-out of these unrelated uses.

10. CHOICE OF LAW

If any disputes arise between us regarding your use of this Website, such disputes shall be resolved according to the laws of the England and Wales, without regard to its choice-of-law provisions and the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all claims.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

Registered Office:

Perform Sporting News Limited
Sussex House
Plane Tree Crescent
Feltham TW13 7HE

Tel: (0)20 3372 0600

Registered No: 08426667

This privacy policy was last updated 1 May 2015