Privacy Policy

About us

Everton Football Club is a group of companies which includes The Everton Football Club Company Limited and Everton Football in the Community and also operates the website evertonfc.com (together "Everton", "we" and "us").

Everton takes the privacy of all its fans, customers and website users very seriously and takes great care to protect your information.

This privacy policy explains what information we collect about you, how we may use it, and the steps we take to ensure that it is kept secure. We also explain your rights and how to contact us.

Please note, this website contains links to other websites which are provided for your convenience. We are only responsible for the privacy practices and security of this site. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other website that you visit.

By using this website and giving your information to us, you indicate your consent to us and our commercial partners collecting and using your personal information in accordance with the terms set out in this policy.

What information do we collect?

In order to provide you with services, we may collect personal information about you from our website, telephone conversations, emails and written and verbal communications. We may, for example, keep a record of your name, address, delivery address, email address, telephone number and credit card details. We may also record details of any disability or health needs you may have at the time of booking an event or service which will take place at the stadium or any of our other premises to help to ensure your safety.

We may supplement the information that you provide with other information that we obtain from our dealings with you or which we receive from other organisations, for example, our commercial partners.

Information about children

Everton is conscious that many of its fans, customers and website users are children and is especially mindful of the need to protect their privacy. We encourage parents and guardians to be involved in their children's online and fan experience. We include notices on our literature and website where we believe that children may provide information asking them to get parental permission before doing so.

How will we use your information?

All personal information that we obtain about you will be recorded, used, and protected by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this privacy policy. We will primarily use your personal information to provide our products and services to you and, for example:

To administer and provide products and services you request

To communicate with you in the event that any products or services you have requested are unavailable.

For record keeping purposes

To carry out market research so that we can improve the products and services we offer

To track activity on our website

To create an individual profile for you so that we can understand and respect your preferences and to calculate the level of any loyalty reward due to you

Disclosure of your information

In order to provide our products and services to you, we may need to appoint other organisations to carry out some of the processing activities on our behalf. These will include, for example, delivery organisations and mailing houses. In these circumstances, we will ensure that your information is properly protected and that it is only used in accordance with this policy.

Everton commercial partner programme

Everton teams up with a selection of carefully chosen commercial partners such as:

Our sponsors, for example Chang Beer

Our retail partner, currently JJB

Our Everton financial services partners, currently Britannia and Creation Financial Services

An up-to-date list of our commercial partners is available by clicking here or from the address below.

Offers and opportunities

Our commercial partner programme is designed to support the Club and also to bring customers, fans and website users a diverse range of Everton associated and Everton branded offers at competitive prices. Everton and/or these commercial partners would like to contact you to tell you more about the offers available to you and about a range of other Everton initiatives in a number of ways, including by post, telephone, text/picture/video message, digital television, fax or by email. If you express an interest in an offer from one of our commercial partners, that partner may let us know. This enables us to take your views and interests into account when choosing our commercial partners and developing the programme.

What to do if you do not want to receive details of offers?

Please be assured, you are under no obligation to buy anything or to participate in any Everton initiatives, however, if you prefer not to be contacted by us, you can opt out by clicking the relevant boxes on the screen upon which you provide information or by writing to us by mail or email (see the section "How to contact us" below). You can change your mind at any time.

Please note, if you do opt out of receiving information, we and/or our commercial partners will be unable to keep you informed of new services, products, events or special offers that may interest you and our ability to inform you of ticketing opportunities may be affected.

Use of your information outside the European Union

Some of the organisations to which we may disclose your personal information may be situated outside of the European Union. In order to provide you with the products and services you require, we may need to transfer your personal information to these countries some of which do not have laws that protect privacy rights as extensively as in the United Kingdom. If we do transfer your personal information to other territories, we will take proper steps to ensure that your information is protected in accordance with this privacy policy.

Cookies

In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and they are used to record how you navigate this website on each visit.

Our cookies are used to enable us to develop our website to reflect our fans and customers interests and by noting who has seen which pages and advertisements, how frequently particular pages are visited and determining the most popular areas of our website. We may use cookies to enrich your experience of using the website by allowing us to tailor what you see to what we have learned about your preferences during your visits to the site.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored. Please note, if you do turn cookies off this will limit the service that we are able to provide to you and may affect your visitor experience.

For further information on cookies and how to switch them off see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Security of information

We take the security of your personal information seriously. When you submit your credit card details to us, we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to guard your information. In addition, we have security procedures in place to protect our paper based systems and computerised databases from loss and misuse, and only allow access to them when it is absolutely necessary to do so, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within them.

Monitoring

We may monitor or record telephone calls for security purposes and to improve the quality of services that we provide to you.

Changes to this privacy policy

We aim to meet high standards and our policies and procedures are, therefore, constantly under review. From time to time we may change our security and privacy policies. Accordingly we recommend that you check this page periodically in order to review our current policies.

Updating and correcting information

You may correct your personal information by emailing us at privacy@evertonfc.com. Please include your name, address and/or email address when you contact us as this helps us to ensure that we accept amendments only from the correct person. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes.

Your rights to access your personal information

You have the right to receive a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any request you make. The current fee is £10.00.

How to contact us:

Tel: 0870 442 1878
Email: privacy@evertonfc.com
Mail:
Data Protection Officer
The Everton Football Club Company Limited
Goodison Park
Liverpool
L4 4EL
Fax: 0151 286 0100