Privacy

This page explains what Soccer Venues does with personal information. The short version: very little.

What we collect

The site does not use analytics, advertising trackers, tracking pixels or ad networks.

The contact form asks for a name, an email address, a topic and a message. These are used only to reply, are emailed to the site team and kept no longer than needed to deal with the message.

To stop spam, the sender's IP address is turned into a one-way code and kept for about an hour to limit how many messages can be sent; the IP address itself is not stored.

Messages are passed to an automated service (Grok, run by xAI) to help separate genuine messages from spam.

If someone leaves a comment, WordPress keeps the name, email address, IP address and comment, and may show a Gravatar picture (Gravatar is run by Automattic). A commenter can choose to have their name and email remembered in a cookie.

Other websites

Some pages show pictures and posts from X (Twitter), and may include content from Facebook, Bluesky or YouTube; those services can see the visitor's IP address and may set their own cookies under their own privacy policies.

New articles are shared to the site's own social media pages; no visitor data is passed to them.

Cookies

The site itself only sets cookies for people who leave a comment or log in to manage the site.

Your rights

Visitors in the UK and EU can ask what personal data is held about them, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, using the contact page. They can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Questions

For anything about your personal information, use our contact page.

Last updated 22 October 2026.