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Website Privacy Information

 

In line with our Member Protection Policy, Villa FC recognises that individuals with whom we interact value their privacy. However, in order to conduct club activities in this increasingly electronic world, the collection of personal information is often necessary and desirable. It is the goal of Villa FC to balance the benefits of electronic communication with the right of individuals to prevent the misuse of their personal information.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and personalised experience while interacting with the club. This allows us to provide services and features that hopefully meet your needs, and to customise our systems to make your experience easier and quicker.

 

 

The Collection of Personal Information

In some circumstances, Villa FC may request personal information from you, such as your name, e-mail address and telephone number. Your response to these inquiries is strictly voluntary. Villa FC uses this information to customise your experience on our website. In addition, Villa FC may use this information for other purposes, such as alerting you about club activities. In general, you can visit our site without divulging any personal information. However, there are some areas of this site that require your information to complete the customisation functions, and may not be available to those who elect not to reveal the information requested.

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Collecting Domain Information

Villa FC also collects domain information as part of its analysis of the use of this site. This data enables us to become more familiar with which people visit our site, how often they visit, and what parts of the site they visit most often. Villa FC uses this information to improve its web-based offerings. This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.

Using the Site’s web server log files, we may use IP addresses to analyse trends, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser and operating system you are using, your IP address etc.

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Our Disclosure of Your Information

Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot guarantee that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this information.

By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. We may disclose any information about you to law enforcement or any other official government body as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.

As a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party.

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Advertisers

We do not aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in aggregate to advertisers or for other marketing and promotional purposes.

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Legal Requests

We cooperate with law enforcement inquiries and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual property and other rights. Local and international law enforcement agents can request and may receive your personally identifiable information.

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Suppliers and Other Service Providers

From time to time, we use third party Suppliers and Service Providers to facilitate our services. Where any Service Provider collects information directly from you (such as the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey for us) you will be notified of the involvement of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures you make will be strictly optional.

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Our Use of Your Information

We may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our promotional efforts, to statistically analyse site usage, to improve our content and to customise our site’s content, layout, and services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to meet our users’ needs.

We will use your e-mail address to send you newsletters or other communications that you have requested from the Site. However, out of respect for our users, we give you the opportunity to opt-out at any time.

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Use of Cookies

Some pages on this site use “cookies,” which are small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files are used for site registration and customisation the next time you visit us. You should note that cookies cannot read data off your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this site.

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Security

We endeavour to do our best to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information but we do not use encryption (such as SSL) or firewalls to further protect the information as it travels across the Internet. This is because we do not believe that the personal information we currently collect warrants such measures and the accompanying loss of speed experienced. You should be aware that “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet.

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Villa FC reserves the right to change, modify or update this statement at any time without notice.

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