Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how Wolves Fancast uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

Wolves Fancast is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Wolves Fancast may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 21/05/2018.

This policy was last updated December 2018.

Who we are

Wolves Fancast are a digital fanzine which provides a free audio podcast for fans of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.

We are also a registered Partnership (2912168376) for the sale of our merchandise via the third party website ‘Redbubble’.

The registered address for the partnership:

Wolves Fancast

8 Grenville Court

Shifnal

Shropshire

TF11 8UD

What information we collect from you

We collect certain personal information from yourself, such as your name, email address and IP address. We also collected non-personal information what web pages you have accessed and when, age and gender through our website analytics provided by Google Analytics.

How we collect this information

We obtain this information from you when you visit our website when clicking on our webpages. This is collected through our analytics provider, Google Analytics.

We also obtain information when you submit a query to us through the ‘Contact Us’ form on our website. This may be your name and email address.

We also collect your name and email address when you register an account for our website. This could be as a contributor to our articles. This account may have also been set up for you on your behalf when you have submitted articles to us via our email address (podcast@wolvesfancast.com) for us to publish which is credited to you.

What we do with the information we gather

We collect information in particular for the following reasons:

• We may use the information to improve our products and services
• Deal with the query you have submitted to us

We require information when visiting our website which is collected through our Google Analytics to understand your needs and to provide you with a better service online, which is necessary for our legitimate interests.

We use the information such as your name and email address collected from you when you contact us via email or our contact us page in to respond to your query. This has been collected in order to perform a contract with you to help manage and action your query.

When creating an account to enable you to post articles or for us to do this on your behalf, the data such as your name and email address has been collected for the need to perform a contract with you.

Users who have an account and have been provided log in details in order to upload their own articles can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If you do not have log in details to your account (this may be have been created for you on your behalf to enable us to upload your articles to the website for the purpose to give you credit for said article), you can request these at any time by contacting us on podcast@wolvesfancast.com.

For information collected via Google Analytics, you can choose for this information to not be collected by not accepting Cookies on our website or changing the settings in your browser to turn off Cookies.

Further details on how to do this is noted in our Cookie policy below.

How long we keep your information

Through our website analytics, Google Analytics, we will hold your data for 14 months before this is automatically deleted by Google.

When you submit an email query to us, this will be removed after 12 months.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

This includes two factor identification procedures for accessing our sensitive accounts.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a potential or real threat to a data breach of our systems, we have procedures in place to evaluate, minimise and prevent any harm with your data. This includes working with third party providers such as Google to assess the risk and carry out processes to remove this risk. In the event a real threat has exposed your data, we will contact you for further instructions.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Third parties we work with

Merchandise which promotes who we are and what we do is provided by a third party, Redbubble.

Access to this merchandise is available through the link on our home page, ‘Shop’. Once you click on this link you will exit our website and we do not have control over that other website.

We do not have access to or hold personal information on you from this provider. For example, your details when you register with their website or carry out a transaction.

This provider will have their own privacy policy which we would recommend you read when using their website.

Information collected through ‘Comments’ and your data

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.

All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Cookie Policy

You can view our cookie policy here.

Controlling your personal information

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.

Accessing your data and complaints

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. Please contact us to make this request.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Our contact information

If you wish to contact us for a query or concern regarding your data or the details mentioned above, visit our Contact Us page or email: podcast@wolvesfancast.com