Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 29, 2025
Last Updated: August 18, 2026
Applies to: All users worldwide
At Futbol Update, we believe that access to football coverage and respect for your privacy should go hand in hand.
This Privacy Policy explains how Futbol Update collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you visit our website, interact with our content, contact us, or use services available through our website.
By using Futbol Update, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you have questions about this policy or how your information is handled, you can contact us using the information provided at the end of this page.
Welcome to Futbol Update
Futbol Update is a football website providing football news, match results, transfer coverage, live football updates, tournament information, statistics, guides, and other football-related content.
As part of operating and improving the website, certain information may be collected automatically when visitors access our pages. We may also receive information that visitors voluntarily provide through forms, comments, email communications, newsletters, or other features that we make available.
We aim to collect and use information responsibly and only for legitimate purposes connected with operating, improving, securing, and monetizing the website.
Information We Collect
This Privacy Policy applies to users of Futbol Update and the services available through the website.
We may collect information in the following ways.
Information You Provide Directly
When you voluntarily interact with Futbol Update, you may provide information such as:
- Your name and email address when you contact us or voluntarily subscribe to a newsletter or other communication service.
- The contents of messages, inquiries, feedback, or other communications you send to us.
- Information you voluntarily submit through forms or other interactive features on the website.
- Any other information you choose to provide directly to us.
You are not required to provide personal information simply to browse most of the publicly available content on Futbol Update.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Futbol Update, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically through cookies, advertising technologies, analytics services, server logs, and similar technologies.
Depending on the services operating on the website, this information may include:
- IP address and approximate geographic location.
- Browser type and version.
- Operating system and device information.
- Pages viewed and the time spent on pages.
- Referring URLs and information about how you reached our website.
- Website interaction information, such as clicks and engagement with content.
- Technical information necessary to provide, secure, and improve the website.
- Information associated with cookies and similar technologies.
The exact information collected may vary depending on the services and technologies active on the website at a particular time.
Information from Third Parties
We may receive aggregated, statistical, or other information from third-party services that help us operate, analyze, secure, advertise, or improve Futbol Update.
These services may include analytics providers, advertising partners, content delivery services, security providers, email service providers, and social media or sharing services.
Third-party providers may collect information independently according to their own privacy policies and terms.
We do not intentionally purchase personal information about our readers from data brokers.
How We Use Your Information
We may use information collected through Futbol Update for legitimate purposes connected with operating and improving the website.
These purposes may include:
- Providing content: To deliver football news, match information, statistics, tournament coverage, transfer information, guides, and other website content.
- Website operations: To operate, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the functionality and performance of Futbol Update.
- Analytics: To understand how visitors use the website, measure content performance, identify technical issues, and improve the reader experience.
- Communications: To respond to messages, questions, feedback, and other communications sent to us.
- Newsletter communications: Where a visitor has voluntarily subscribed, to send newsletters, football updates, editorial information, or other communications described at the time of subscription.
- Advertising: To support Futbol Update through display advertising and other legitimate monetization methods.
- Security: To detect, investigate, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, malicious activity, security incidents, and other threats.
- Legal compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and legitimate governmental requests.
- Protection of rights: To protect the rights, property, safety, and security of Futbol Update, our users, and others.
We do not intentionally sell your personal information as a standalone database or mailing list.
However, third-party advertising and technology providers may independently process or share information in connection with advertising, analytics, measurement, fraud prevention, and other services, as described in the applicable sections of this Privacy Policy.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting.
Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising.
Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache.
The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache.
For more information about cookies and how to disable them, please consult the information provided by All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements.
Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps.
This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website.
Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit the National Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
You may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website and the Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more about interest-based advertising.
You may download the AppChoices app from the Digital Advertising Alliance to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects, and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine’s Ad Partners information.
Advertising
Futbol Update may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising companies and advertising technology partners.
Advertising allows us to support the operation of the website and continue providing football content to readers.
Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, tags, identifiers, and similar technologies to deliver, measure, personalize, or optimize advertisements.
Depending on the visitor’s location, applicable privacy laws, consent choices, and the advertising technology being used, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Futbol Update does not determine which individual advertisement is shown to each visitor. Advertising delivery may be managed through automated systems operated by advertising partners.
Advertising Choices
Visitors may be able to manage advertising and privacy preferences through available consent-management tools, browser settings, device settings, or the opt-out resources provided by applicable advertising organizations.
Rejecting or disabling certain cookies does not necessarily mean that advertisements will disappear. Visitors may continue to receive contextual or non-personalized advertisements.
Third-Party Services
Futbol Update may use third-party services to operate, analyze, secure, monetize, and improve the website.
These services may change over time as our website and technology requirements evolve.
Services We May Use
Analytics services:
Analytics services may help us understand how visitors discover and use Futbol Update, including information about page views, traffic sources, engagement, and website performance.
Advertising services:
Advertising providers, including Mediavine and its advertising partners, may provide advertisements and associated measurement, targeting, optimization, and fraud-prevention services.
Email services:
If Futbol Update operates a newsletter or email subscription service, a third-party email provider may process subscriber information for the purpose of delivering those communications.
Content delivery and security services:
Content delivery networks, hosting providers, security services, caching systems, and related technologies may process technical information necessary to deliver and protect the website.
Social media services:
If social sharing buttons, embedded content, or other social media features are available on Futbol Update, the relevant social media provider may collect information according to its own privacy policy.
Third-party providers operate independently and may have their own privacy policies, terms, cookies, and data practices.
Data Protection & Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information handled through Futbol Update.
Our website uses HTTPS to encrypt information transmitted between a visitor’s browser and our servers where supported by the connection.
We may use technical and organizational safeguards intended to help protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
Access to information we maintain may be limited to people or service providers who need access for legitimate website, business, technical, security, or legal purposes.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted over the internet.
If you believe you have identified a security issue involving Futbol Update or your personal information, please contact us promptly at privacy@futbolupdate.com.
Cookies & Tracking Technologies
Futbol Update uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, analyze traffic, provide advertising, measure performance, and improve the reader experience.
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your browser or device when you visit a website.
Types of Cookies We May Use
Essential cookies:
These cookies may be necessary for the website to operate correctly, maintain security, or provide requested functionality.
Analytics cookies:
These cookies may be used by analytics services to understand how visitors interact with the website, including page views, traffic sources, sessions, and engagement.
Advertising cookies:
Advertising providers and their partners may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver, measure, personalize, or optimize advertising, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.
Preference cookies:
These cookies may remember settings or preferences to improve the visitor experience.
The cookies and technologies actually used on the website may change as services are added, removed, updated, or replaced.
Managing Cookie Preferences
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser or device settings.
Some browsers allow you to block certain types of cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive notifications before cookies are stored.
Please be aware that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality or the way advertisements and other services are displayed.
Where applicable, Futbol Update and its advertising partners may also provide consent-management or privacy-preference tools that allow you to make choices regarding advertising and other data processing.
Your Rights & Choices
Futbol Update respects applicable privacy rights and aims to comply with applicable data-protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), applicable U.S. state privacy laws, and other privacy regulations that may apply depending on where you live and how our services operate.
Privacy rights vary by jurisdiction. Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have some or all of the rights described below.
What You Can Request
Access:
You may request information about personal data we hold about you and, where required by law, receive a copy of that information.
Correction:
You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
Deletion:
You may request deletion of personal information where applicable law provides that right, subject to legal or legitimate reasons for retaining certain information.
Restriction:
You may have the right to request that certain processing of your personal information be restricted.
Portability:
Where applicable, you may request that certain personal information be provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Objection:
Where applicable, you may object to certain processing, including processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
Withdraw consent:
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
Advertising choices:
Depending on your location, you may have additional rights to opt out of targeted or interest-based advertising or the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
How to Exercise Your Rights
To make a privacy request, contact us at:
Please provide enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests in order to protect personal information from unauthorized disclosure.
We aim to respond to valid privacy requests within the period required by applicable law.
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to contact or lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection or privacy authority in your jurisdiction.
Newsletter Unsubscribe
If Futbol Update offers a newsletter or email subscription service, subscribers can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the relevant email.
You may also contact us at privacy@futbolupdate.com regarding newsletter-related privacy requests.
We will process valid unsubscribe requests within a reasonable period and as required by applicable law.
Children’s Privacy
Futbol Update is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically at children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children under 13.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to Futbol Update without appropriate consent, please contact us at privacy@futbolupdate.com.
If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child in circumstances where applicable law requires its deletion, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
External Links
Futbol Update may link to external websites, including football clubs, leagues, governing organizations, broadcasters, statistics providers, news organizations, social media platforms, and other third-party websites.
When you click an external link and leave Futbol Update, the external website’s privacy policy and terms will apply.
We do not control the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of external websites.
The inclusion of an external link does not necessarily constitute an endorsement of that website or its privacy practices.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of third-party websites before providing personal information.
This Privacy Policy applies only to Futbol Update and does not apply to third-party websites.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.
The appropriate retention period may depend on the type of information, the reason it was collected, legal obligations, security requirements, dispute resolution, and legitimate business needs.
When personal information is no longer required, we may delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it where reasonably practicable.
International Data Transfers
Futbol Update may use service providers located in countries other than the country in which you live.
As a result, information may be processed or stored internationally.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers of personal information, we will seek to use appropriate safeguards or lawful transfer mechanisms.
Third-party service providers may also have their own international data-transfer practices described in their privacy policies.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, advertising partners, analytics tools, legal requirements, or data practices.
When we make material changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
For significant changes that materially affect how we handle personal information or your privacy rights, we may also provide additional notice where appropriate.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Your continued use of Futbol Update after changes are posted means that you acknowledge the updated policy, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a privacy right, or have a concern about how Futbol Update handles information, please contact us.
Get in Touch
Privacy & Data Requests:
privacy@futbolupdate.com
Editorial & General Enquiries:
editorial@futbolupdate.com
We aim to respond to privacy-related inquiries within the period required by applicable law.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated and you are not satisfied with our response, you may have the right to contact your local data protection or privacy authority.
Important Implementation Note
The Mediavine Programmatic Advertising section above must remain identifiable as:
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
Mediavine’s current Privacy Policy Language page states that its Privacy Policy Health Check checks for the required language and the version number.
Before applying, also make sure the Privacy Policy is directly linked from the Futbol Update homepage, preferably in the footer. Mediavine explicitly requires the policy to be accessible from the homepage.
