Data We Collect
This section describes the categories of personal data le-hooligan.com collects when you visit or interact with the site.
We collect the following categories of information:
- Usage data: IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring URLs. This data is collected automatically via server logs and analytics tools.
- Device identifiers: browser fingerprint data and cookie identifiers used to distinguish returning visitors.
- Contact data: if you contact us directly (for example via an email enquiry), we store your name, email address, and the content of your message.
- Preference data: cookie consent choices and any display preferences you set on the site.
We do not collect payment card data, government identification numbers, or sensitive personal data as defined under GDPR Article 9. We do not knowingly collect data from persons under 18 years of age.
How We Use Your Data
This section explains why we process personal data and the legal basis for each purpose under GDPR Article 6.
Site operation and security
Usage data is processed to keep the site functional, diagnose technical errors, and detect fraudulent or abusive traffic. Legal basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)). Data is retained for up to 12 months, then deleted or anonymised.
Analytics and performance measurement
Aggregated and pseudonymised usage data helps us understand which content is useful to visitors and how to improve it. Legal basis: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), subject to your cookie consent choices. Retention: 26 months from collection, in line with standard analytics platform defaults.
Responding to enquiries
Contact data submitted by you is used solely to respond to your message. Legal basis: contract or pre-contractual steps (Article 6(1)(b)), or legitimate interests where no contract is involved. Retention: 24 months after the enquiry is resolved, unless a longer period is required by law.
Compliance and legal obligations
Where required by applicable law, we may retain or disclose data to regulators or law enforcement. Legal basis: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
We do not sell personal data to third parties. We do not use your data for automated individual decision-making or profiling as defined under GDPR Article 22.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
This section describes the cookies and similar tracking technologies active on le-hooligan.com and the controls available to you.
Types of cookies used
- Strictly necessary cookies: required for basic site functions such as session management and security. These cannot be disabled without breaking the site.
- Analytics cookies: collect pseudonymised data about page views, session duration, and traffic sources to help us measure site performance. Placement requires your consent.
- Preference cookies: store your cookie consent choice and any display settings you select. Retained for up to 12 months.
- Third-party tracking: analytics services (such as Google Analytics) may set their own cookies. Those providers operate under their own privacy policies, which we link to in our cookie notice.
Managing and withdrawing consent
You can review and change your cookie preferences at any time via the cookie settings panel accessible in the site footer. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings - refer to your browser's help documentation for instructions. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before withdrawal.
Your Rights
Under GDPR and equivalent data protection laws in other jurisdictions, you have the following rights in relation to personal data we hold about you.
- Right of access (Article 15): you may request a copy of the personal data we process about you.
- Right to rectification (Article 16): you may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to erasure (Article 17): you may request deletion of your personal data where we have no lawful basis to continue processing it.
- Right to restriction of processing (Article 18): you may ask us to limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability (Article 20): where processing is based on consent or contract and carried out by automated means, you may request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to object (Article 21): you may object to processing based on legitimate interests. We will stop unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests.
- Right to withdraw consent: where we rely on consent as the legal basis, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting prior processing.
Residents of jurisdictions outside the European Economic Area may have equivalent rights under local law (for example, CCPA rights for California residents, LGPD rights for Brazilian residents). We apply the same response process regardless of your location.
We aim to respond to all valid requests within 30 days. If a request is complex or numerous, we may extend this by a further two months and will notify you of the delay.
Contact and Complaints
This section explains how to contact us about a data protection matter and how to escalate a complaint to a supervisory authority.
To exercise any of your rights listed above, or to raise a concern about how we handle your data, contact us by email at: privacy@le-hooligan.com. Please include enough detail for us to identify you and locate the relevant data. We do not charge a fee for requests unless they are manifestly unfounded or excessive.
If you believe we have not handled your data lawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country of residence. For EEA residents, a list of national supervisory authorities is available on the European Data Protection Board website (edpb.europa.eu). UK residents may contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
This privacy policy was last updated in June 2026. We may revise it from time to time to reflect changes in law or our practices. Material changes will be notified via a notice on the site homepage. Continued use of le-hooligan.com after the effective date of any revision constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.