Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 1st March 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to NUFC Pitch Notes ("we", "our", "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website at nufcpitchnotes.com or subscribe to our newsletter.

2. Who We Are

NUFC Pitch Notes is a blog and newsletter focused on Newcastle United Football Club news and insights.

Data Controller: NUFC Pitch Notes is the data controller and responsible for your personal data.

Contact Details:

3. The Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

  • Identity Data: Name, username
  • Contact Data: Email address
  • Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device information, time zone setting, location
  • Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services
  • Marketing Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us

4. How We Collect Your Data

We collect data through:

  • Direct interactions (when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us)
  • Automated technologies or interactions (cookies, server logs)
  • Third parties (analytics providers, advertising networks)

5. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

  • To manage your subscription to our newsletter
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements
  • To send you marketing communications
  • To administer and protect our website
  • To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, and user experience

6. Lawful Basis for Processing

We rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:

  • Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose
  • Legitimate Interest: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
  • Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you
  • Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider:

  • The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
  • The potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure
  • The purposes for which we process your personal data
  • Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means
  • The applicable legal requirements

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes.

Under data protection laws, you have rights including:

  • Right to be informed about how we use your personal data
  • Right of access to your personal data
  • Right to rectification if your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Right to erasure (to be forgotten) in certain circumstances
  • Right to restrict processing in certain circumstances
  • Right to data portability in certain circumstances
  • Right to object to processing based on legitimate interests, direct marketing, or for research/statistical purposes
  • Rights related to automated decision making and profiling

You can exercise these rights by contacting us at [email protected].

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of your other rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive.

9. Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve our site.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

11. International Transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the UK and European Economic Area (EEA).

12. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review. This version was last updated on the date indicated at the top of this privacy policy. Historic versions can be obtained by contacting us.

14. How to Complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us at [email protected].

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk) if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.