Fair Game Privacy Policy
If you have any queries or requests, please contact us by emailing contact@fairgameuk.org
Cookies and using this website
By using this website, you agree to us maintaining access logs. We use this information, along with our website hosting provider, Squarespace, to ensure that our site functions correctly and to do basic traffic analysis. This data is retained for up to seven days. The data collected includes:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Your IP address
Page requested and the time at which it was requested
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Where you have provided your consent for analytics cookies, this website places cookies and collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information is:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting contact@fairgameuk.org
We have a legitimate interest.
We have a legal obligation.
Petition and email subscribers
To build support for our Principles and our Campaign to implement them, Fair Game asks fans to sign our petition. Fair Game believes that demonstrating support from fans is a key part of encouraging clubs to embrace change.
Fair Game also offers fans the option to receive ongoing email updates about our work, and to hear about how they can volunteer to get involved.
We currently collect and process the following information:
Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details, and which football club you support)
We may also collect information about how people engage with our emails, including clicks, scrolling and opening rates. Engagement data may also include:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Your IP address
This personal data is provided to us directly and indirectly by those who sign up to our petition and subscribe to our emails.
We use this information to maintain and promote our petition, to provide updates on the work of Fair Game, to market and encourage people to support Fair Game’s fundraising activities, and to encourage people to support our campaigns, including any campaigns related to their club.
Personal data, including contact details, are restricted a select group of people at Fair Game. Data may also be shared with our email distribution processors, who send emails to you on our instructions and may use engagement data to improve their services, or other service providers. This is used to maintain our petition, send emails and to help us to target and refine our work and campaigns.
Fair Game may collate and publish statistics on a fully anonymised basis, such as the number of fans of each club who have signed the petition.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting contact@fairgameuk.org
We have a legitimate interest.
We have a legal obligation.
Volunteers
Fair Game's work is dependent on volunteers sharing their skills, knowledge and experience.
We currently collect and process the following information:
Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details)
Photographs of our key advisers and operational team
This personal data is provided to us directly by volunteers who wish to support our work, primarily through our volunteer form.
We use this information in order to provide updates to volunteers on the work of Fair Game, to enable volunteers to engage with our work, and to coordinate our activities. We may also use this information for other essential purposes, such as fulfilling legal obligations.
We may share this information with other volunteers and people who engage with Fair Game in their professional capacity, depending on the role the volunteer chooses to play in supporting Fair Game.
We may share this information with service providers to support our processing for the purposes set out above.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting contact@fairgameuk.org
We have a legal obligation.
We have a legitimate interest.
Data storage and retention
Data is stored securely in the cloud, with access restricted to the small group of people who need to use it.
We retain website analytics data for up to two years from the point at which you last visited the website.
We ordinarily retain contact details for 12-18 months from the point at which the volunteer, petition signatory or email subscriber was last in contact with us.
Where volunteers explicitly agree to take on formal responsibilities within Fair Game, we may retain information for up to twelve years after their responsibilities ceased, or longer if legally required to do so.
Complaints
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at contact@fairgameuk.org
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk