Last Updated: October 17, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how FootballerRank collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you visit our website, read our football rankings and statistical guides, contact us, or interact with advertisements and external links.
1. Your Privacy Matters
FootballerRank respects the privacy of its readers and website visitors. We aim to collect only the information necessary to operate the website, respond to reader inquiries or statistical correction requests, measure site performance, improve our football coverage, and support compliant advertising.
2. Information We May Collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with FootballerRank:
- Voluntary Contact Information: Your name, email address, subject line, and message details if you contact us via email or our Contact Us form (for example, to submit a statistical correction, editorial question, or partnership inquiry).
- Log Files and Technical Data: Like most standard websites, FootballerRank uses log files. This information may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), device type, referring/exit pages, operating system, and date/time stamps.
- Usage and Analytics Data: Information about which player comparisons, rankings, and historical records pages you visit and how you navigate the website.
- Cookie and Advertising Data: Identifiers stored by cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies used for website functionality, analytics, and advertising.
We do not require visitors to register an account or submit sensitive personal data to read content on FootballerRank.
3. Cookies and Web Beacons
FootballerRank uses cookies and similar technologies to store visitor preferences, analyze traffic patterns, customize page content based on browser type, and support advertising. Cookies are small text files placed on your device by your web browser.
We may use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: Required for basic site operation, security, and navigation.
- Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how readers find and interact with our football statistics and articles.
- Advertising Cookies: Used by Google and third-party ad partners to deliver, measure, and personalize advertisements.
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. Where required by applicable law, FootballerRank may also display a consent management banner allowing you to manage non-essential cookie preferences.
4. Google AdSense & DoubleClick DART Cookie Disclosure
FootballerRank may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display advertisements to visitors on our website.
- Third-Party Vendors and Cookies: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to FootballerRank or other websites on the internet.
- Google Advertising Cookies (DART Cookie): Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick DART cookie) enables Google and its partners to serve personalized advertisements to our visitors based on their visit to FootballerRank and/or other sites on the internet.
- Data Collection for Ad Serving: Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons in their respective advertisements and links that appear on FootballerRank. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns, prevent fraud, limit ad frequency, and personalize the advertising content that you see.
- How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie and personalized advertising at any time by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices or Your Online Choices.
- How Google Uses Data: You can learn more about how Google collects and processes data when you visit partner websites at Google’s Privacy & Terms for Partner Sites.
FootballerRank has no access to or control over the cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices and instructions on how to opt out of certain options.
5. Analytics and Website Performance
FootballerRank may use analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to understand how visitors engage with our content. Analytics tools collect aggregated information such as page views, approximate geographic region, device categories, referral sources, and time spent on pages. We use this data strictly to improve site speed, navigation, and editorial quality.
6. External Links and Affiliate Disclosure
FootballerRank articles may link to external websites for statistical verification, official football governing bodies, news sources, or third-party merchants. Once you click an external link and leave FootballerRank, we have no control over—and are not responsible for—the privacy practices or content of those external websites.
If FootballerRank includes affiliate links to third-party retailers, clicking those links may use tracking cookies or parameters to attribute a qualifying purchase.
7. How We Use and Share Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and secure FootballerRank.
- Respond to emails, feedback, and statistical correction requests.
- Analyze readership trends to improve our football rankings and data breakdowns.
- Serve contextual or personalized advertisements in compliance with applicable law.
- Protect the website against spam, unauthorized access, or security threats.
FootballerRank does not sell your personal contact information directly to third parties. Information may be processed by trusted service providers that help run the website (such as web hosting, security firewalls, analytics providers, and advertising networks) or disclosed if required by law.
8. Data Retention and Security
We retain contact messages and editorial inquiries only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to your message or maintain accurate editorial records. Technical and analytics data is retained according to the standard retention settings of our hosting and analytics providers. While we take reasonable technical measures to protect information handled through FootballerRank, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
9. Your Privacy Rights (GDPR / CCPA / Global Privacy)
Depending on your location, including residents of the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, and California, you may have specific legal rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include:
- The right to request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- The right to request correction or deletion of your personal data.
- The right to object to or restrict certain types of data processing.
- The right to withdraw consent for personalized advertising or non-essential cookies at any time.
To exercise any of these privacy rights, please contact us using the email address listed below.
10. Children’s Information
FootballerRank is intended for a general football audience and does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child has provided personal information on our website through a contact form or email, please contact us immediately and we will promptly remove such information from our records.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
FootballerRank may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website operations, advertising partners, or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted directly on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date at the top.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your privacy rights, please contact us via our Contact Us page or by email at:
Email: contact@footballerrank.com