Privacy Policy for FM Blog
Last updated: 18 August 2026
FM Blog ("we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored and shared when you visit footballmanagerblog.org, use FM Blog services, sign in to FM Blog Community, subscribe to communications or otherwise interact with our content.
By using FM Blog, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
FM Blog Community and Google Sign-In
FM Blog offers optional account and community features that allow users to sign in using their Google account.
When you choose to sign in with Google, FM Blog may receive basic account information made available through the authentication process, including:
- Your Google account display name
- Your email address
- Your Google profile picture
- A unique Firebase user identifier
FM Blog does not receive or store your Google password.
We use Google Sign-In information only to provide and improve user-facing FM Blog account and community functionality.
This includes authentication, comments, replies, likes, saved content, followed discussions, on-site notifications, account preferences, community moderation and abuse prevention.
Your display name and profile picture may be displayed publicly alongside comments and replies that you choose to publish.
Your email address is not displayed publicly as part of normal FM Blog Community activity.
Google User Data
Information received through Google Sign-In is used only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and to provide the FM Blog features requested by the user.
FM Blog does not sell Google user data.
We do not use Google Sign-In account information for personalised advertising and do not provide Google Sign-In account information to advertising partners for the purpose of targeting advertisements.
Google user data may be processed by service providers that are necessary to operate FM Blog account functionality, including Google Firebase services used for authentication and data storage.
FM Blog's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including applicable Limited Use requirements.
Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore
FM Blog uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore, services provided by Google, to operate FM Blog Community and account features.
Firebase Authentication is used to identify signed-in users.
Cloud Firestore is used to store information required to provide account and community functionality, such as user profiles, comments, replies, likes, saved content, followed discussions, notifications and moderation information.
Access to this information is restricted using authentication and database security rules designed to limit access according to the user's identity and permissions.
You can learn more about Google's privacy practices at Google's Privacy Policy and about Firebase privacy and security at Firebase Privacy and Security.
FM Blog Community Activity
When you use FM Blog Community, we may store information associated with your account, including:
- Comments and replies that you publish
- Likes and interactions with comments
- Articles, tactics, guides or other content that you save
- Discussions that you follow
- On-site notifications associated with your account
- Mentions and replies involving your account
- Reports submitted through community moderation tools
- Your account creation date
- Your approximate last-active time
- Community moderation status, such as trusted, restricted or banned status
This information is used to provide FM Blog Community features, maintain discussion history, prevent abuse, moderate the community and improve the user experience.
Community Moderation
Authorised FM Blog administrators and moderators may access account information and community activity where reasonably necessary to operate and moderate FM Blog Community.
This may include reviewing comments, replies, reports, account status and community activity in order to investigate abuse, spam or violations of our Terms of Service.
FM Blog may restrict, suspend or ban accounts that violate our Terms of Service or create a security, spam or abuse risk.
Public Community Information
Information that you choose to publish through FM Blog Community may be visible to other visitors.
This may include:
- Your display name
- Your profile picture
- Your comments and replies
- Information showing that a comment has received likes
Your email address is not normally displayed publicly through FM Blog Community.
Information We Collect
Depending on how you use FM Blog, we may collect or process the following categories of information:
- Account Information: Information associated with FM Blog Community accounts, including your display name, email address, profile image and account identifier.
- Community Content: Comments, replies, likes, reports, saved items, followed discussions and other actions you choose to perform while signed in.
- Contact Information: Information such as your name and email address when you contact us, subscribe to communications or otherwise provide those details directly.
- Usage Data: Information about how visitors interact with FM Blog, such as pages viewed, links clicked, referral information, approximate timestamps, browser information and device information.
- Advertising and Cookie Data: Information collected through cookies, tags and similar technologies used for advertising, analytics and website functionality.
How We Use Information
We may use information for the following purposes:
- To provide, operate and maintain FM Blog
- To authenticate FM Blog Community users
- To provide comments, replies, likes, saved content, following and notifications
- To personalise account functionality and remember user preferences
- To prevent spam, fraud, abuse and unauthorised access
- To investigate reports and moderate FM Blog Community
- To respond to enquiries, requests and support messages
- To understand how FM Blog is used and improve our website and content
- To operate advertising and analytics services
- To comply with applicable legal obligations
- To send marketing communications where you have subscribed or otherwise provided valid permission to receive them
Legal Bases for Processing
Where applicable data protection law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we may rely on one or more of the following bases depending on the circumstances:
- Providing a requested service: Processing necessary to provide account, community or other functionality that you request.
- Consent: Where you have provided consent, including certain marketing communications or cookie-related processing where required.
- Legitimate interests: Where reasonably necessary to operate and improve FM Blog, prevent abuse, secure our services, understand website usage and moderate the community, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
- Legal obligations: Where processing is necessary to comply with applicable law or valid legal requests.
Email Marketing
If you choose to subscribe to the FM Blog newsletter or otherwise provide valid permission to receive marketing communications, we may use your email address to send Football Manager news, guides, updates and offers.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
Signing in to FM Blog Community does not automatically subscribe you to FM Blog marketing emails.
Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not delete your FM Blog Community account or prevent essential account functionality from working.
Cookies and Browser Storage
FM Blog and third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, analyse usage, support authentication and provide advertising.
FM Blog account functionality may also use browser storage technologies to maintain sign-in state and provide account-related features.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through consent and advertising preference controls provided on the website.
Blocking certain cookies or browser storage may affect some FM Blog functionality.
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, you can consult the information at 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 National Advertising Initiative opt out page.
You may also visit the Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising.
You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance's AppChoices app 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 Partners.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information
FM Blog does not sell personal information provided through FM Blog Community or Google Sign-In.
We may share or process information with service providers where necessary to operate FM Blog and provide requested functionality.
These providers may include:
- Authentication and cloud database providers
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers
- Analytics providers
- Email service providers
- Payment processors
- Advertising providers
- Security and anti-abuse providers
Service providers are permitted to process information only as necessary for the services they provide and according to their own applicable contractual and legal obligations.
We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal requests, protect the rights or safety of FM Blog or others, investigate fraud or abuse, or enforce our Terms of Service.
Google Sign-In account information is not intentionally provided to Mediavine or other advertising partners for personalised advertising.
Third-Party Websites, Downloads and Services
FM Blog contains links to third-party websites, downloads, services, products and payment providers.
Those third parties operate independently and may have their own privacy policies and terms.
FM Blog is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites or services.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing personal information to them.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide FM Blog services, maintain account and community functionality, protect the website and community, meet legal obligations and resolve disputes.
Account information may generally be retained while an FM Blog Community account remains active or while it is reasonably necessary to provide account-related functionality.
Community content such as comments and replies may remain available as part of discussion history unless deleted or removed.
Where a user deletes a comment, the comment may be removed from public display while limited technical records may remain where reasonably necessary for moderation, security, abuse prevention, legal compliance or maintaining discussion integrity.
When personal information is no longer reasonably required for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, we may delete, anonymise or otherwise remove it, subject to legal and technical requirements.
Deleting Your FM Blog Community Data
Where available, users can delete individual comments and manage certain account-related information directly through FM Blog Community.
You may also request deletion of your FM Blog Community account and associated personal information.
To request account or personal data deletion, contact us at admin@footballmanagerblog.org or through our Contact Page.
We may ask you to verify your identity before processing a deletion or privacy request.
Some information may be retained where required or permitted by law, or where reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, legal claims or technical integrity.
Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
Access to administrative community tools and non-public account information is restricted to authorised users.
Authentication and database permissions are used to restrict access to FM Blog Community data according to account identity and permissions.
However, no method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
International Processing
FM Blog uses service providers that may process or store information in countries other than the country in which you live.
This may include Google and other international technology providers used to operate website, authentication, analytics, advertising, payment or communication services.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards are used for international transfers of personal information.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the privacy laws that apply to you, you may have rights relating to your personal information.
These rights may include:
- The right to request access to personal information we hold about you
- The right to request correction of inaccurate information
- The right to request deletion of certain personal information
- The right to request restriction of certain processing
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to data portability where applicable
- The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- The right to complain to an applicable data protection authority
These rights are subject to applicable legal requirements and exceptions.
To exercise a privacy right, please contact us at admin@footballmanagerblog.org or through our Contact Page.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Children's Privacy
FM Blog is not specifically designed to collect personal information from children.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to FM Blog in a manner that is not permitted under applicable law, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when FM Blog, our services or applicable legal requirements change.
When material changes are made, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
We encourage users to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Terms of Service
Your use of FM Blog and FM Blog Community is also governed by our Terms of Service.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, FM Blog Community or how we handle personal information, contact us:
FM Blog
Email: admin@footballmanagerblog.org
Website: https://www.footballmanagerblog.org/
Contact page: https://www.footballmanagerblog.org/p/contact-us.html
