Welcome to Nigfooty.com, the online sports news platform operated by Nigeria Football and Others Media (Nigfooty Sports).
Nigfooty.com is committed to respecting your privacy and protecting the personal information of visitors, readers, contributors and other users of our website.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we use and protect that information, the technologies and third parties that may process information when you use our website, and the rights available to you.
By accessing or using Nigfooty.com, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
1. About Nigfooty.com
Nigfooty.com is a sports news and media website covering Nigerian football, African football, international football and other sports.
Our coverage includes areas such as:
• Nigeria Football
• Super Eagles
• Super Falcons
• Nigerian domestic football
• African Football
• African Leagues
• European Football
• Premier League
• UEFA competitions
• Women's Football
• Athletics
• Basketball
• Tennis
• Boxing
• Cricket
• Wrestling
• Golf
• Other sports
• Results and fixtures
• Transfers and football news
• Nigfooty Sports TV and related media content
Nigfooty.com may also provide links to third-party websites, social-media platforms, videos, advertisements and other external services.
2. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with Nigfooty.com, we may collect or receive different categories of information.
Information you voluntarily provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
• Contact us through our website.
• Submit an enquiry, suggestion, correction or complaint.
• Submit information for publication.
• Participate in a feature, survey, promotion or other activity.
• Communicate with Nigfooty through email or social-media platforms.
• Otherwise communicate with us.
This information may include your name, email address, contact details and the contents of your message.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is reasonably necessary for your communication with us.
Information collected automatically
When you visit Nigfooty.com, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising partners or other technologies.
This may include:
• IP address.
• Browser type and version.
• Device type.
• Operating system.
• Approximate location derived from technical information.
• Pages visited.
• Articles viewed.
• Referring website or search query.
• Date and time of visits.
• Time spent on pages.
• Links or advertisements interacted with.
• General website usage information.
• Other technical information required to operate, secure and improve the website.
This information may be collected in an aggregated or pseudonymous form and may not, by itself, directly identify you.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Nigfooty.com may use cookies, pixels, local storage and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website traffic, improve functionality, measure performance and support advertising.
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website.
We may use:
Essential cookies
These may be necessary for certain website functions, security, performance and technical operation.
Preference cookies
These may help remember choices and preferences made while using the website.
Analytics cookies
These may help us understand how visitors use Nigfooty.com, including which pages are visited and how users interact with the website.
Advertising cookies
Nigfooty.com may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to help serve and measure advertisements.
You may be able to manage or disable cookies through your browser settings and, where applicable, through the privacy or consent controls provided on Nigfooty.com.
Disabling certain cookies may affect some website functionality.
4. Google AdSense and Advertising
Nigfooty.com may use Google AdSense or other advertising services to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's previous visits to Nigfooty.com or other websites.
Google's advertising cookies may enable Google and its partners to serve advertisements that may be relevant to users based on their browsing activity.
Google also uses cookies and other technologies for advertising measurement, reporting, frequency management and related purposes.
Nigfooty.com does not control the information practices of Google or other independent advertising providers.
Users may manage certain advertising preferences through Google's available advertising settings and controls.
5. Analytics and Website Performance
Nigfooty.com may use analytics and measurement services to understand website traffic and improve our content, website structure, performance and user experience.
Analytics information may include:
• Number of visitors.
• Traffic sources.
• Popular articles and pages.
• General geographic information.
• Device and browser information.
• User interaction with pages.
• Website performance information.
Where third-party analytics services are used, those providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
6. How We Use Information
Information collected through Nigfooty.com may be used to:
• Operate and maintain the website.
• Publish and manage sports news and other content.
• Respond to enquiries and communications.
• Investigate complaints, corrections or reports.
• Improve website design, navigation and functionality.
• Understand how readers use our website.
• Monitor and improve website security.
• Detect, prevent and investigate abuse, fraud, spam or other unlawful activity.
• Measure advertising and website performance.
• Deliver advertisements.
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.
• Protect the rights, property and safety of Nigfooty, our users and other persons.
We will seek to process personal information in a manner that is fair, lawful, transparent and appropriate to the purpose for which it was collected.
7. News, Journalism and User-Submitted Information
Nigfooty.com is a sports news and media platform.
If you voluntarily submit information, photographs, comments, documents, tips, interviews or other material to Nigfooty, we may process the information for legitimate editorial, journalistic, communication or publishing purposes.
Where information is submitted for publication, you should understand that material intended for publication may become publicly available.
You should therefore avoid submitting personal information that you do not want published.
Where appropriate, Nigfooty may contact contributors to verify information, seek clarification or confirm permission before publication.
8. Comments and Public Contributions
If Nigfooty.com provides commenting, discussion or other public contribution features, information you voluntarily post may be visible to other users and members of the public.
You should exercise caution before publishing personal information in a public area of the website.
Nigfooty may moderate, remove or restrict content that violates our rules, applicable law or the rights of others.
9. Sharing of Information
Nigfooty.com does not sell your personal information simply because you visit or read our website.
However, information may be processed or shared where reasonably necessary with:
• Website hosting and technical service providers.
• Analytics providers.
• Advertising and advertising-measurement providers.
• Security and anti-spam providers.
• Email or communication service providers.
• Professional advisers or service providers.
• Law-enforcement or regulatory authorities where legally required.
• Courts or other competent authorities.
• Other third parties where necessary to provide a service you have requested or where otherwise permitted or required by law.
Third-party service providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.
10. Third-Party Websites and Links
Nigfooty.com contains links to third-party websites, including sports organisations, football clubs, leagues, governing bodies, social-media platforms, video platforms, advertisers and other websites.
A link to another website does not mean that Nigfooty controls or endorses that website's privacy practices.
Once you leave Nigfooty.com, the privacy policy and terms of the third-party website will apply.
We encourage users to review the privacy policies of third-party websites before submitting personal information to them.
11. Social Media and Embedded Content
Nigfooty.com may display or embed content from third-party platforms, including social-media posts, videos, images or other digital content.
These third-party platforms may collect information about your interaction with their content, particularly if you are logged into their services.
Such platforms operate independently of Nigfooty.com and are governed by their own privacy policies.
12. Data Security
Nigfooty.com takes reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should therefore understand that transmission of information over the internet always carries some level of risk.
13. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to provide relevant services, maintain appropriate records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements or protect our legitimate interests.
Where personal information is no longer reasonably required and there is no lawful reason to retain it, we may delete, anonymise or otherwise securely dispose of it.
14. Your Privacy Rights
Subject to applicable law and any relevant limitations, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include:
• The right to be informed about how your personal data is processed.
• The right to request access to personal data we hold about you.
• The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• The right to request deletion or erasure where applicable.
• The right to restrict certain processing.
• The right to object to certain processing.
• The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• The right to data portability where applicable.
• Rights concerning automated decision-making and profiling where applicable.
• The right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate supervisory authority.
These rights may be subject to legal requirements, exemptions or other applicable limitations.
15. How to Exercise Your Rights
If you wish to:
• Request access to your personal information.
• Correct inaccurate information.
• Request deletion.
• Withdraw consent.
• Object to processing.
• Raise a privacy concern.
• Make another data-protection request.
Please contact Nigfooty through the Contact Us facility available on Nigfooty.com.
We may need to request reasonable information to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
16. Children's Privacy
Nigfooty.com is a general sports-news website and is not specifically directed at children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children for the purpose of creating user profiles or targeted advertising.
If a parent or guardian believes that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been provided, please contact us through our Contact Us page so that the matter can be reviewed.
Where Google advertising services are used, Nigfooty.com will comply with applicable Google policies concerning child-directed content and personalised advertising.
17. International Data Transfers
Some of our third-party service providers, advertising partners, analytics providers, hosting providers or other technology providers may process information in countries outside Nigeria.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will seek to do so in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements and appropriate safeguards.
18. Legal and Regulatory Compliance
Nigfooty.com operates in accordance with applicable laws and regulations governing its activities, including applicable Nigerian data-protection requirements.
The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 establishes the framework for regulating the processing of personal data in Nigeria and protecting the rights and freedoms of data subjects.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy limits any rights that cannot lawfully be excluded under applicable law.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
• Changes to Nigfooty's website or services.
• Changes in technology.
• Changes to our advertising or analytics providers.
• Changes in applicable laws or regulations.
• Improvements to our privacy practices.
When we make material changes, we may update the effective date displayed at the beginning of this policy and, where appropriate, provide additional notice.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
20. Contact Us
If you have questions, concerns, complaints or requests relating to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal information, please contact Nigfooty.com through our Contact Us page.
Website: Nigfooty.com
Contact: Use the Contact Us facility available on Nigfooty.com.
21. Supervisory Authority
If you believe that your privacy rights have not been adequately addressed, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC), subject to applicable law and its complaint procedures.
22. Acceptance of This Privacy Policy
By using Nigfooty.com, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
Where applicable law requires consent for a particular type of data processing, consent will be requested through an appropriate mechanism.
Your continued use of the website does not override any mandatory consent requirement imposed by applicable law.
Last Updated: 3 October 2026
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