Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Athletic Football Club Southampton LTD (“AFC Southampton”), we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is AFC Southampton’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators,AFC Southampton collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. AFC Southampton’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how AFC Southampton’s visitors use its website. From time to time, AFC Southampton may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

AFC Southampton also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our website. AFC Southampton only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that website commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the website where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to AFC Southampton’s website choose to interact with AFC Southampton in ways that require AFC Southampton to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that AFC Southampton gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive AFC Southampton updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, AFC Southampton collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with AFC Southampton. AFC Southampton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

AFC Southampton may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. AFC Southampton may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, AFC Southampton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

AFC Southampton discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on AFC Southampton’s behalf or to provide services available at AFC Southampton’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using AFC Southampton’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. AFC Southampton will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, AFC Southampton discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when AFC Southampton believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of AFC Southampton, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an AFC Southampton website and have supplied your email address, AFC Southampton may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with AFC Southampton and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. AFC Southampton takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Business Transfers

If AFC Southampton, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that AFC Southampton goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of AFC Southampton may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by AFC Southampton and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, AFC Southampton may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in AFC Southampton’s sole discretion. AFC Southampton encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.