Privacy Policy

Last updated: 18 January 2023

This is the Privacy Policy for The Sport Review and for certain services provided through our website, thesportreview.com (the “Service” or the “Site”).

You can control the use of cookies on the Site via your Cookie Options. Further details about this can be found under Tracking and Cookies Data below.

Please read this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use carefully before using the Site as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law.

In this Privacy Policy, “we”, “us” and “our” means The Sport Review Ltd and “you” means the individual who is using the Site.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Definitions

• Company – The Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to The Sport Review Ltd, 16 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, London, E14 9XL, United Kingdom. For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.

• Cookie – A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device that allows us and our trusted partners to recognise and remember you. It is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive or tablet or mobile device.

• Data Controller – Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

• Data Processors (or Service Providers) – Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

• Data Subject (or User) – Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

• Personal Data – Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

• Service (or Site) – Service (or Site) is the thesportreview.com website, operated by The Sport Review Ltd.

• Usage Data – Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• You – You means the individual accessing or using the Service. Under GDPR, You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the Service.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Name
• Email address

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking and Cookies Data

Use of Data

The Sport Review Ltd uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain the Service
• To notify you about changes to our Service
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• To provide customer care and support
• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
• To monitor the usage of the Service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To send you promotional email newsletters about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address and name which you have provided.

Legal Basis For Processing Personal Data Under The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

• Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.

• Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

• Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

• Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.

• Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.

• Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us.

Retention of Data

The Sport Review Ltd will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Sport Review Ltd will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United Kingdom and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United Kingdom and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Sport Review Ltd will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Data

Business Transaction

If The Sport Review Ltd is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Disclosure for Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, The Sport Review Ltd may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Legal Requirements

The Sport Review Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To protect and defend the rights or property of The Sport Review Ltd
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• To protect against legal liability

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your Data Protection Rights Under The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. The Sport Review Ltd aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data by contacting us.

• If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.

• The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

• The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

• The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

• The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

• The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where The Sport Review Ltd relied on your consent to process your personal information.

• Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA).

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Cloudflare

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

CloudFlare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by CloudFlare Inc. The way CloudFlare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through this Website, i.e., communication between this Website and the User’s browser, while also allowing analytical data from this Website to be collected. The Personal Data collected is Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the Privacy Policy of the Service.

For more information on the privacy practices of Cloudflare, please visit the Cloudflare Privacy Policy web page: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Advertising

We may use Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.

Google AdSense and DoubleClick

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

Taboola

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Taboola is an advertising service provided by Taboola Europe Limited.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.taboola.com/policies/privacy-policy

Sovrn

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Sovrn is an advertising service provided by Sovrn Holdings, Inc.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.sovrn.com/privacy-policy/

Footballco Media

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Footballco is an advertising service provided by Footballco Media Limited.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.goal.com/en-gb/legal/privacy-policy

Teads

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Teads is an advertising service provided by Teads SA.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.teads.com/privacy-policy/

Genius Link

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Genius Link is an affiliate link management and tracking service provided by GeoRiot Networks, Inc.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://geniuslink.com/privacy

Email Marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you, only where you have explicitly opted-in via a subscription form on the Site.

You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Mailchimp

Personal Data collected: Name, Email Address and Usage Data.

Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.

For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Displaying Content From Other Websites

We may use this type of service to allow you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Site and interact with them.

This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Getty Images Widget

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

The Getty Images Widget is an image delivery service provided by Getty Images, Inc. that allows this Site to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/PrivacyPolicy.aspx

Google Fonts

Personal Data collected: Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Google Fonts is a typeface visualisation service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Site to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Instagram Widget

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

The Instagram Widget is an image visualisation service provided by Instagram, Inc. that allows this Site to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Twitter Social Widgets And Embeds

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

The Twitter Social Widgets and Embeds are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://twitter.com/en/privacy

YouTube Video Widget

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

The YouTube Video Widget is a video content visualisation service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Site to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/privacy

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a link to a third party site, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you.

We participate in various affiliate marketing programmes, which means we sometimes get paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites. We use these affiliate links in our guides and product recommendations. Our Service includes links that will direct you to vendor sites and other services not operated or controlled by us. These vendors use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your navigation from Our Service to the merchant you are visiting. If you buy a product after following a link to a link vendor’s site, we may earn a commission. You can find out more on our Affiliate Disclosure page.

We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, Privacy Policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

How “Do Not Track” Requests Are Handled

The Site does not support “Do Not Track” requests.

To determine whether any of the third-party services the Site uses honour “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. The date of the last update to the Privacy Policy will be clearly shown at the top of this page.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Legal Information and How to Contact Us

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) we have to say who the ‘data controller’ is for services provided through our sites.

The controller is the department responsible for protecting information and, in our case, is The Sport Review Ltd, 16 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, London, E14 9XL.

The Sport Review Ltd is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK (registration number ZB193203).

You can contact us via the following email address: contact[at]thesportreview.com

If you would like to exercise your data subject rights or have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please address your request to the ‘Data Protection Team’ at the address or email address shown above.

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