BUSINESS AND WEBSITE PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY

We’ve created this policy, which covers how Influence Sports Ltd (“Influence Sports & Media”, or “we”, “us”)…
    ● Collect
    ● Use
    ● Disclose
    ● Transfer
    ● Store
…your data.

1. INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL TERMS
Influence Sports & Media is committed to protecting your personal information when you are using Influence Sports & Media services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our clients and contacts. This Privacy and Cookies Policy relates to our use of any personal information we collect from you via the following online services:
    ● any Influence Sports & Media website that links to this Privacy and Cookies Policy;
    ● social media or official Influence Sports & Media content on other websites.
It also relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us by phone, SMS, email, in letters and other correspondence, and in person.

In order to provide you with the full range of Influence Sports & Media services, we sometimes need to collect information about you.

 

This Privacy and Cookies Policy explains:
    ● what information Influence Sports & Media may collect about you;
    ● how Influence Sports & Media will use information we collect about you;
    ● when Influence Sports & Media may use your details to contact you;
    ● whether Influence Sports & Media will disclose your details to anyone else;
    ● your choices regarding the personal information you provide to us;
    ● the use of cookies on Influence Sports & Media websites and how you can reject cookies;
    ● your rights and where to find out more information about them;
    ● how you can change the way we hold and use your personal information.

 

Whenever you provide personal information, we are legally obliged to use it in line with all applicable laws concerning its protection, including the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (referred to collectively in this Privacy and Cookies Policy as the “data protection regulations”).

 

Influence Sports & Media websites contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies and are also likely to use cookies, so we urge you to review their policies separately. They will govern the use of personal information you submit when visiting those websites, which may also be collected by cookies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of those third-party websites, and your use of them is at your own risk.

2. WHO ARE WE?
Influence Sports & Media is a UK based marketing, sponsorship sales and communications agency offering a fully integrated service to our clients so they can deliver the most appropriate marketing information or other relevant communications to their end users.

 

We are a subsidiary of the listed UK company The Mission Group plc and we sometimes work with other companies in the group to help deliver services to clients.

3. WHAT INFORMATION WILL INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA COLLECT ABOUT ME?
When you participate in, access, or sign up to any of Influence Sports & Media’s services, activities or online content we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number, gender, or date of birth.

4. HOW WILL INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA USE THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS ABOUT ME?
Influence Sports & Media will use your personal information for a number of purposes, including:
    ● to provide our services, activities, or online content, to provide you with information about them and to deal with your requests and enquiries;
    ● to analyse the information you supply as well as your activity on our (and other) services so that we can offer a more relevant, tailored service where we provide personalised services;
    ● to use IP addresses and device identifiers so we can identify the location of users, block disruptive use, establish the number of visits from different countries and determine whether or not you are accessing the services from the UK;
    ● for analysis and research purposes so that we can improve the services offered by Influence Sports & Media. This can include using geo-demographic information from external sources where this helps us;
    ● we may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.

 

Where Influence Sports & Media proposes using your personal information for any other use we will ensure that we notify you first. Please see section 15 for details.

5. YOUR INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA CONTACT REQUEST
If you fill out one of our online contact forms your details will be added to our CRM system so we can effectively manage your enquiry. You will be contacted regarding your enquiry using the information you submit on the form.

 

If you so choose, you will be added as a subscriber to our newsletter emails. You can unsubscribe from these at any point using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of those emails.

6. WHEN WILL INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA CONTACT ME?
Influence Sports & Media may contact you:
    ● in relation to any correspondence we receive from you or any comment or complaint you make about Influence Sports & Media products or services;
    ● in relation to any services you are using;
    ● to update you on any material changes to Influence Sports & Media’s policies and practices; and
    ● for marketing purposes, as set out in section 7.

7. WILL I BE CONTACTED FOR MARKETING PURPOSES?
We offer occasional emails to let you know about Influence Sports & Media initiatives and services.

 

When we market our products and services to other businesses, we rely on our legitimate interests to send these communications.

 

Where relevant, you may also receive these communications where you have given consent for us to send them.

 

We may personalise the message content based on any information you have provided to us and on your use of Influence Sports & Media platforms.

 

We may also use information we hold about you to show you relevant advertising on third-party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Instagram, Snapchat, X, and LinkedIn).

8. WILL INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANYONE ELSE?
We will keep your information within Influence Sports & Media except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies, including for child protection reasons) or as described in this section and section 9.

 

We may share your information across Mission Group and, where this is necessary to provide you with a service you have requested, other Mission Group agencies.

 

We will use your information within Influence Sports & Media and will only share it outside the Mission Group where you have requested it or given your consent. However, we may share with third-party sites (e.g. Facebook, Google, Mailchimp, credit reference suppliers, Instagram, Snapchat and X) some data, with appropriate security measures, to show you relevant advertising on third-party sites, as set out in section 7.

 

Sometimes Influence Sports & Media uses third parties to process your information on our behalf, for example to provide services or analysis. Influence Sports & Media requires these third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and Influence Sports & Media requires that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes, unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in that way.

9. OFFENSIVE OR INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT ON INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA WEBSITES
If you post or send content which we consider offensive, inappropriate, or objectionable anywhere on or to Influence Sports & Media websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour, Influence Sports & Media may remove that content and/or block access.

 

Where Influence Sports & Media considers that you may be in breach of any applicable laws, for example on hate speech, Influence Sports & Media may disclose your personal information to relevant third parties, including to law enforcement agencies or your internet provider. Influence Sports & Media would only do so in circumstances where such disclosure is permitted under applicable laws, including data protection regulations.

10. WHAT IF I AM A USER AGED UNDER 18?
If you are aged 18 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission before you provide any personal information to Influence Sports & Media.

11. HOW LONG WILL INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA KEEP MY INFORMATION?
We will hold your personal information for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with Influence Sports & Media.

12. WHAT ARE MY LEGAL RIGHTS?
You have legal rights relating to your personal data. We’ve summarised them here but a full summary of your legal rights over your data can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) website here https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

Where applicable, your rights are as follows:
   • The right to request access to your personal data
   • The right to request correction of your personal data
   • The right to request erasure of your personal data
   • The right to object to processing of your personal data or to withdraw consent
   • The right to request restriction of processing your personal data.
   • The right to request a transfer of your personal data to another service provider

 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please use the contact information supplied at the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy. If we feel we need to establish your identity, we may ask for proof of such before providing any personal data.

 

We will use reasonable efforts consistent with our legal duty to supply, correct or delete personal information about you in our files.
Please note, we reserve the right to charge an administrative fee if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

13. WEB BROWSER COOKIES
a) What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier, that is sent to your computer, tablet, or mobile phone (all referred to here as a “device”) web browser from a website’s computer and is stored on your device’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your web browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows. Similar technologies are also often used within emails to understand whether the email has been read or if any links have been clicked. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Influence Sports & Media websites. However, you can change your cookie settings at any time.
On Influence Sports & Media websites, cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor our websites to your interests.
During the course of any visit to a Influence Sports & Media website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking for and using the cookie left there on the last visit.

 

b) How does Influence Sports & Media use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to understand the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. Influence Sports & Media uses this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. Certain areas of Influence Sports & Media websites may use cookies for a specific reason.

 

c) Third-party cookies in embedded content on Influence Sports & Media pages.
Please note that during your visits to Influence Sports & Media websites you may notice some cookies that are not related to Influence Sports & Media or Influence Sports & Media’s contractors. We sometimes embed content from social media and other third-party websites. These may include YouTube, Vimeo, Google Maps, X, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. As a result, when you visit a page containing such content you may be presented with cookies from these websites and these third-party cookies may track your use of the Influence Sports & Media website. Influence Sports & Media does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party’s website for more information. If you continue without changing your settings, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies on the Influence Sports & Media website. However, you can find out about changing your cookie settings here.

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Where Influence Sports & Media embeds content from social media and other third-party websites, some websites may use Google Analytics to collect data about user behaviour for their own purposes. Influence Sports & Media does not control this. For more information, see the Google webpage “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”.

 

d) Influence Sports & Media cookies and how to reject cookies.
Below are details of cookies set by services we use to better understand the use of Influence Sports & Media’s owned websites. We use this data to continuously improve the service we offer. The cookies referenced are essential for the proper functioning and security of our websites.

 

Cookie: bSession

   • Purpose: Typically used for maintaining the browser session across requests, helping the website recognize the user during their visit.

Cookie: hs

   • Purpose: A session cookie generally used for security purposes, helping to ensure the integrity of user sessions.

Cookie: server-session-bind

   • Purpose: Ensures requests are routed consistently to the correct server instance for load balancing and stable performance.

Cookie: svSession

   • Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks sessions on the site, usually for analytics and functional site operations.

 

Cookie: XSRF-TOKEN

   • Purpose: Security cookie used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks by ensuring that requests made to the website come from authenticated users.

We do not currently use analytics or advertising cookies (such as Google Analytics or Meta Pixel) on our websites. If this changes in the future, this Cookie Policy will be updated to reflect the details of any additional cookies in use.

It is important to note that if you change your settings and block certain cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of some features of Influence Sports & Media services, and we might not be able to provide some features you have previously chosen to receive.

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e) Other information collected from web browsers.
Your web browser may also provide Influence Sports & Media with information about your device such as an IP address and details about the browser that you are using. When requesting specific services, it may be possible for you to choose to provide Influence Sports & Media with access to your device’s location through the web browser. We use information provided by your browser or by the link that you have clicked to understand the webpage that directed you to Influence Sports & Media, and this may be captured by performance cookies.

If you have any concerns about the way that we use cookies or respect your settings, then please contact us at the email address at the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy.

14. DO NOT TRACK (DNT) BROWSER SETTING
DNT is a feature offered by some browsers which, when enabled, sends a signal to websites to request that your browsing is not tracked, such as by third-party ad networks, social networks, and analytics companies. This website does not currently respond to DNT requests.

15. CHANGES TO INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA’S PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY
This Privacy and Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time, so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to Influence Sports & Media. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use Influence Sports & Media websites to submit personal information to Influence Sports & Media. If material changes are made to the Privacy and Cookies Policy, for instance affecting how we would like to use your personal information, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy and Cookies Policy changes).

16. CONTACTING INFLUENCE SPORTS & MEDIA ABOUT THIS PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY
If you are within the UK, if you have requests and questions about this Privacy and Cookies Policy, or to exercise any of your rights - please address them to the Data Privacy Team, FAO: Privacy Compliance Officer, Influence Sports & Media, 80 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DB, United Kingdom.
 
 
LAST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2025