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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 23rd, 2020

We at Passion4FM have created this privacy statement in order to show our commitment to our and your privacy. This page discloses how we collect information and practices for the website passion4fm.com.

Passion4FM takes your privacy seriously and understands the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of Your personal data and other information stored about You.

This privacy policy aims to help you understand our practices regarding collecting information about you, clarifying what information we gather through the use of Passion4FM.com, why information and data about you are collected and what we do with it. All in all, we aim to be more transparent regarding your privacy.

Please read the following privacy policy statement carefully to learn more about how Passion4FM process Personal Information when You visit the website.

Table of Content; Passion4FM’s Privacy Policy Statement

  1. Basic Information;
  2. Purposes of Collection Information About You
  3. Information We Collects
  4. Who We Share Your Data With & Where We Send Your Data
  5. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
  6. More About The Use of Third Parties
  7. Passion4FM Cookies Policy – PAGE 2
    • What are Cookies and How Do We Use These Cookies?

1. THE BASICS

A) Who We Are

Passion4FM is an independent fan site who brings their passion for the “Football Manager” series, a football management simulation game available on PC, MAC, Linux, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch developed by Sports Interactive, to a wider audience by offering articles about football and Football Manager voluntarily submitted by authors.

The Passion4FM website and its services are operated by Høgli Passion4FM Media, a company based in Østfold, Norway.

By continuing browsing the website you can discover useful guides concerning strategical and tactical game mechanics plus hints, tips and other useful content that enhance game-experience. Our services provide not only recommendations about clubs, players and staff, but gives you a closer look at the different aspects of football and football management, such as tactics and valuable assets to download – worthy knowledge and content that may come in handy in “Football Manager”.

Learn more about Passion for Football Manager and what it has to offer, or join the team by applying as an author.

Contact Information

Høgli Passion4FM Media ENK
Org. number: 920 296 238
Espen Høgli
Balaklava 17 A
1513 Moss, Norway
Attn: Legal

E-Mail: post[@]passion4fm.com

B) Scope of Privacy; Key Terms

This Privacy Policy applies to how we collect, use, and disclose information from the following individuals. Terms you may experience in this statement have the following meanings:

“Member” means any person or entity that is registered with us and has a user profile, such as moderators, guest writers and authors, who are able to publish content on the website.

“Customer” refers to any person that’s registered on the site or to our newsletters and email marketing, and have interacted with us in any ways which personal information are transmitted or stored on our servers or within our database.

“Subscriber” or any other participant means any registered user or website visitor who have subscribed to our email marketing campaigns. This means that at one point you have explicitly given consent to send newsletters and other marketing emails from Passion4FM. You may have subscribed to our newsletter or given consent to be sent important information from our Services via registering as an author, participate in giveaways or competitions or simply subscribe to our newsletter.

“Personal Information” means any information that identifies or can be used to identify a Member or a Visitor, directly or indirectly. Examples of Personal Information include, but are not limited to, first and last name, email address, website/occupation or other demographic information.

“Website” means the website we own (www.passion4fm.com), or any other Services we operate such as applications, widgets or social networks that post a link to this privacy policy.

“Visitor” means any person who visits the Website.

“You” and “Your” means, depending on the context, either a Member or a Visitor.

C) Our Privacy Principals

We truly respect Your privacy, and we will handle information about You accordingly. At Passion4FM we have a few fundamental principles concerning your privacy that we follow:

D) Changes to this Privacy Policy

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Passion4FM may change its Privacy Policy from time to time.

Passion4FM reserves the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy at any time necessary without prior notice to You. Such changes will become effective and binding after their posting on the Passion4FM.com website. Any changes or modifications will be posted at this specific page. Major changes that require a new consent from the user will be notified to you by having to re-consent to the Privacy Policy via our Cookie Consent banner.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the last updated date set below and is only applicable to our service and website.

If you have any questions about how we use your personal data or if you have a concern about how your personal data is used, please contact us at the contact address or email listed above.

Complaints will be dealt with and responded to within 30 days of inquiry.

This Privacy Policy was last modified on September 23rd, 2020.

If you have a question about anything else, please refer to our Contact us page.

By using our site, you consent to this Privacy Policy.

You agree to regularly review this Privacy Policy for revisions and updates and ensure that you are aware of any changes made. Your continued use of the Website signifies your acceptance of these changes.

Questions or comments about this Privacy Policy can be submitted by mail to the address under contact information or by contact us by submitting an inquiry by form or email.

2. THE PURPOSES

A) Why We Collect Information About You

Passion4FM wants to offer you a service which you want to use. We may use information about you to help customize the website and improve the general user-experience of the website. By collecting a small amount of information about your visits we can, generally speaking, provide better services for all of our users. It helps us to remember you, interact with you and improve the usefulness of the website for the future so you can read more valuable content that you are interested in. It also lets us personalize your experience, so we can better respond to your individual needs.

B) How We Use Your Information

Information collected both automatically and/or with Your consent and intention, have significant purposes. Passion4FM uses the information it collects about you in the following ways:

Everything is merely done for research and development to achieve and maintain a high service level and for customer information and administration of the website.

3. INFORMATION WE COLLECTS & WHY WE COLLECT IT

We collect personal information about you and the devices you use to access and interact with us and our website. Information Passion4FM collects are distinguished between Automatic Information Collected and Personal identifiable information. Automatic information is non-sensitive information normally gathered through Log files and aggregated statistics when browsing the website, and are considered as anonymous pieces of information that we can not link to your person. Personal identifiable information is information you provide us voluntarily or with consent, for example by using fill-in forms.

In short, Passion4FM collects information via;

A) Information Automatically Logged

Website Visitors & Analytics

This website uses various web analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) and other measurement tools (like Log Files) to help analyze how users use the site. These tools use ‘cookies’, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form, regardless of whether You have registered for an account or not. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transmitted to Google and sometimes other vendors. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for passion4fm.com.

Collecting this type of non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available is generally limited to the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

We receive such non-personal identifiable information as soon as you enter the website, unless you have not specifically opted out of setting cookies.

The purpose of collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Our visitors use the website.

We will never (and will not allow any third party) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Log files are essential as they provide us with statistics about website performance and general user habits which will help us to develop the website meanwhile maintaining website security (protect personal identifiable information for the future). It lets us examine how you enjoy our content and take necessary efforts to both improve the website and serve more content you enjoy.

Log files will only be used for internal research and studies; such as for internal marketing studies to improve our services, in combination with data collection by third-party cookies to help us aggregate behaviour patterns of registered and unregistered users, and to examine behaviour patterns that provides us possibilities for improving the website and its content.

In short, when you visit our website, the information gathered within the log files may contain basic information about your behaviour on the site and your technology. More specifically, cookies enable Passion4FM to track the following information about its visitors;

We have taken the necessary efforts to anonymize IP addresses, hide User-ID’s and turn off demographics and Interest reports provided by third-party analytics. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the Web Analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

B) Advertisement Cookies

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. We use cookies across our sites to help identify and track visitors, their usage of our services, and their website access preferences. We describe the specific cookies used in the sections below.

Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

You can read more about how the website uses cookies and which cookies that’s set by Google and other third party applications which we work with in our Cookie Policy.

Advertisements & Third Party Ads Services

This website contains advertisements from external advertisement services and affiliates unless you have indicated otherwise by managing the settings of the Cookie Notice banner when visiting this website.

We use Google Adsense on our site to deliver non-personalized advertises. That means you will experience advertising that is not targeted at you relating to your previous browsing history.

Third party vendors, including Google Adsense, uses cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website.

If you are interested to learn how Google uses cookies and gather information about you, please check out this article.

Doubleclick Cookies

Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you, based on your previous browsing history, and target ads which are of your personal interest, by placing a cookie on your computer. This cookie will not track personal information about You (your name, email address, street address, phone number, passwords or credit card number.

You can read more about the DoubleClick cookie used by Google Adsense program here.

How to Disable Ads-serving cookies

You may opt-out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt-out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.) Deleting the DoubleClick cookie does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program as a new cookie will be added. You can however disallow cookies by settings, the next time you visit a site running the ads.

Disabling And/Or Enabling Cookies

Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their preferred web browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies. This can easily be done by modifying the web browser settings.

If you do not want to see ads, you can turn this off via the following external websites: YourAdchoices and/or YourOnlinechoices.

You can also use the Google Ad-settings which are available in your Google account to switch off ads.

C. Registered Users; Your Account

Currently, registered users are typically persons who have applied and become approved as an author or guest writer and received the necessary information to be able to create a user account, or who have given Passion4FM written and explicit consent to register an account in their name to publish third-party content, mainly our partners.

We also require visitors who wants to leave comments to register on the website and create a user profile which the comment will be attached to. Your account will be treated as a ‘Subscriber’ with no privileges to publish content or upload files and media. Subscribers will not be contacted by e-mail unless they have signed up for our newsletter.

NB! Approved authors, registered users (moderators and others) and guest writers gives us automatically approval to be contacted by e-mail. We may send registered users an email to tell you about new features, keep you up-to-date with what’s going on with Passion4FM or to interact with a specific user in the process of submitting new content or moderating existing pages. We primarily use newsletters to communicate information about new features and important website updates, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

Email Address

By interacting with the website, we sometimes require that you verify yourself with an email address. Your email address will not be displayed publicly. Email Address is required to subscribe to our newsletter or feeds and to post a comment on the website. We recommend you to use a private email address rather than a personal one. Also never mention your email address in any comment, if you do so, that comment may not be approved.

D) Publishing Content (Comments, Posts/Pages)

i. Published Posts/Pages

ii. Comments

By submitting a comment, you are required to sign-up and login on our server. The system collects specific personal information upon consent, such as your username, first and/or last name and other contact data, such as your email.

Personal information will be anonymized for us, but cookies will be set and stored on your computer in order to be notified of replies to your submitted comments.

By submitting a comment on Passion4FM, you agree to and understand that we may take these measures;

Comments Policy

To submit a comment(s) we hope you’ll follow our comments guidelines. Comments that violate one or several of these ‘rules’ may not be approved and be deleted.

iii. Media

If you upload media (e.g. images to the website (in posts or comments), 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.

Visitors using the website’s REST API interface can correlate uploaded media to a particular user. This may allow such visitors to map a user to a particular time and location if EXIF GPS location data was included in the uploaded media.

Embedded content from other websites

Embedded content is pieces of an existing article from another third party website, not associated with Passion4FM. Embedded content may be used from time to time to provide additional useful information to the existing article, or simply act as a resource to enhance the existing article. We may include embedded content such as 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 and services may collect data about you, such as record your IP address and/or User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, 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. Google Analytics may receive user location and other data.

Links to the privacy policies of the most common services have been included below.

E) Newsletters & Email / Contact Forms

Information Submitted by Email / Contact Forms

Visitors that email us, or use any of the contact forms on our websites, will have their email address, IP address, and any data provided in the contact form or body of the email stored on our server. We will keep the email communication records for as long as the case is opened, or for a maximum of 3 months from the email were delivered. Once the case is considered closed from the moderator or website owners part, the email communication will be deleted, along with any personal information that we may have about you.

Individuals can request copies of any previous correspondence with us at any time and will be provided as long as a transcript of the email correspondence exists.

We use the third party contact forms provider, WPForms to handle all your inquires and requests. The WPForms privacy policy is available here

Newsletters and Marketing Communications – How to Opt-Out

We use email marketing to communicate with ‘customers’ and potential customers from time to time. All email lists and campaigns are “opt-in” meaning we will not send you these sorts of emails unless you indicated that you wish to receive them during signup or other interactions on our website. Newsletters let us interact with you by providing you information about the latest content on the website, promoted articles or any useful information we think that’s worthy to you. It may contain information about changes to the website, such as new services we offer and other promotions you may find interesting, including offers and promotions from any of our affiliates.

F) Plugins

Litespeed Cache

This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.

4. WHO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH & WHERE WE SEND YOUR DATA

We use third-party services (data processors) across our sites. The extent to which your data is shared with these providers depends on your use of our services, and we list the specific third-parties in use (with links to their privacy policies) in the sections below.

Each third-party provider has been thoroughly examined by the admins of Passion4FM to ensure that privacy policies and practices meet or exceed the same levels of compliance and standards that we follow. Where appropriate and available, we hold additional signed Data Privacy Agreements with these companies as an additional layer of accountability in order to help ensure your data is safe and secure.

We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to our admins, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services, and (ii) that have agreed, in writing, not to disclose it to others. Some of those admins, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our websites and services, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.

We may be required to disclose an individual’s personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

If we ever were to engage in any onward transfers of your data with third parties for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized, we would provide you with an opt-out choice to limit the use and disclosure of your personal data.

Advertising
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this website and/or other sites on the Internet.
Based on the cookies and other tracking devices, we may work with advertising companies to display ads that may be of interest to you. The Google Adsense cookies will only display non-personalized ads.

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

More About The Disclosure of Personal Information to third parties

Passion4FM do not share, sell or transfer any user information to third party companies or services which you haven’t agreed upon. All personal information collected is treated as strictly confidential, but We may disclose User’s personal information if required by law, including but not limited to, disclosure to law enforcement or other government officials in connection with an intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose you or us to legal liability.

5. WHAT RIGHTS YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA

If you have, in any way interacted with Passion4FM in the past, we are happy at your request to send You 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.

If you’d like to cancel Your subscription to our email newsletter or un-register as an author, contributor or guest writer, you can easily do so online, either via one of the email newsletters send to you, or by contacting us via email.

An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data, should direct his/her inquiry to admin[@]passion4fm.com. We will respond within a reasonable time frame.

If you remain unhappy with a response you receive, you can also refer the matter to your data protection supervisory authority (see http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm)

A.1 Security and data retention

Passion4FM puts great importance to protect your information from unauthorized access and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage, by taking the necessary organizational, physical and technical measures to enhance website security. It involves ensuring all web traffic is encrypted (by using HTTPS and installing ) and our Services by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and make it only to be accessible by those who are authorized to access such systems and who are required to keep the information confidential.

We do our best to keep your data safe, accurate and up to date, to the extent that you provide us with the information we need to do so. If your data changes (for example, if you have a new email address), then you are responsible for notifying us of those changes.

Personal information about registered users (subscribers, authors and guest writers) they provide in their user profile will be stored in our database indefinitely, and retained for as long as the account is active. Information provided via fill-in forms, typically from providing us feedback or sending us an inquiry is retained as long as needed to provide You with our Services. Once the case is considered closed by the admins of Passion4FM, user data will be safely deleted. We may also retain and use your information in order to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or prevent abuse.

We will take appropriate steps to seek to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information at the point this information is no longer needed to bring you the services required.

Where you have chosen a password which allows you to access the Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We advise you not to share your password with anyone or use your personal or private email address as the desired username. We will not be liable for any unauthorized transactions entered into using your username, personal information and/or password.

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.

Non-sensitive information, such as aggregated statistics will be stored for no longer than 26 months. Log files within the server will be kept for 12 months.

A.2 Data Portability

You have the right to data portability. This means that you can take with you your personal data in a machine-readable format.

B. How Does Passion4FM Use / Store The Information About You?

Information that we collect for a particular purpose is used for that purpose only. Personally identifiable information will only be used to give you a response to your inquiry. Information gathered from those who register on our website(s) as authors or guest writers is used to provide them with the benefits that come along with registration, such as informational e-mails, author resources and guidelines – where the sole purpose is to provide valuable information or communicate with our authors.

Your personal information will not be distributed to any third-party associations for any purpose.

The non-personally identifiable information we collect is gathered solely in the purpose to get records of Your visit and be able to improve the Website with more articles You and other Visitors favour. We do not store any information about your visit other than to analyze and optimize the website content and further improve the reading experience through the use of cookies. These cookies and log files are only stored while browsing the website and session will end when leaving the site.

In addition, non-sensitive information collected through one of the activities set above may be used for our internal marketing studies, so we can constantly improve the services we provide and better meet your standard and needs.

No matter what method we use to collect information and no matter how we use that information, we will only collect the information deemed reasonably necessary to fulfil your requests and our legitimate objectives.

6. THIRD PARTY USE

Third Party Tracking & Advertisement Services

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.

This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Passion4FM (if any) and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

These third-party providers also use cookies. We do not control information collected by third parties and are not responsible for their use of that information.

This site contains (affiliate) links to some other sites. Passion4fm.com and its authors are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites which we may link to within our articles.

This Privacy Policy applies to www.passion4fm.com only, and not to other companies, advertising and/or affiliate partners or websites to which we link. If You choose to visit an advertiser or click on another third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s website. We do not exercise control over third party websites and therefore recommend You to examine the privacy statements posted on these other websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using and disclosing personal information.

When you click on links to these websites or to any other sites from Passion4FM.com, this Privacy Policy will no longer apply. These third-party companies may have their own data collection, practices and policies, which we are not responsible for. We recommend You to read the privacy policy of the external website(s) before you submit any personal information to them.

The Site may contain links to third-party websites (“Linked Sites”), including social media features such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or LinkedIn buttons. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of any Linked Sites and Linked Sites may collect personally identifiable information from you that is not subject to our control. The data collection practices of Linked Sites will be governed by that site’s privacy policy.

Social Media Interaction

Passion4FM gives you the option to interact with us through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube or Twitch, or through third-party social networking sites, applications or plugins.

When you engage with our content on or through third-party social networking sites, plug-ins and applications, you may allow us to have access to certain information from your social media profile (e.g., Username, photo, gender, location, your list of friends, people you follow and/or who follow you, the posts or the ‘likes’ you make) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the application.

When you provide information from your social media account, it can help enable Us to contact You through social networking sites. By doing so, you consent to the use of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. When you provide personal information to Passion4FM through Our website(s) or on social networking sites, it may be publicly viewed by other members of these sites and we cannot prevent further use of the information by third parties.

Through some social networking sites’ privacy settings, you can control what data you share. For more information about how social networking sites handle your personal information, please refer to their privacy policies and terms of use.

7. California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act otherwise known as CCPA. We will not under any circumstances distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

8. What Data Breach Procedures We Have In Place

Should any event occur where ‘customer’ data has been lost, stolen, or potentially compromised, our policy is to alert our customers via email no later than 48 hours of our team becoming aware of the event. We will also report such incident to any required data protection authority. We will work closely with any customers affected to determine next steps such as any end-user notifications, needed patches, and how to avoid any similar event in the future.

9. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly or intentionally collect personal information such as name and email address from children under 13. Everything published on the website(s) allows all users (including children under 13) to disclose a limited amount of personal information without first telling us their age or parental permission. Such portions of our sites operate activities or provide services in a way that does not require prior parental consent. We recognize the importance of safeguarding the privacy of children and encourage parents to check and monitor their children’s use of online activities regularly.

10. Passion4FM Cookie Policy

LAST UPDATED 23. SEPTEMBER 2020


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