Last updated: May 2020
We at Fnatic Limited (“we” or “our” or “us”) want to make sure all the personal information we have collected about you is safe and secure whether we collect it through our website at www.fnatic.com (“Site”) or from you via other electronic means (such as email or social media platforms) or in-person at our events. This notice sets out our commitments to you, in compliance with and beyond the General Data Protection Regulation (commonly known as the GDPR) and explains how we collect, store and use your personal information.
Most of our pages on our Site can be accessed without giving us your personal information. If, however, you:
We also record your activity and preferences when visiting our Site through the use of cookies (see the Cookies section below).
If at an organised event, you sign up to receive our newsletter, we’ll ask for you for your name and email address (also a “Subscriber”).
If you engage with us to provide a temporary service (i.e. you are a contractor, a freelancer, an influencer but you are not an employee or a consultant), we might ask you for your name, nickname, social handle(s), gaming tags, occupation, email address, home address, bank details, your dietary requirements or other health matters (a “Freelancer”).
If you are an individual that works at one of our sponsors or another organisation that we deal with, we’ll ask you for your name, email address and telephone number (“Others”).
| What do we use your information for? | What type of information do we use? | What reason do we have to use it (this is the boring legal bit…) |
|---|---|---|
| Subscriber | ||
| To send you information which you have asked us to send to you. | Name and email address |
Only where you have told us you want to receive this type of
information. If you are under the age of 13 your parent or guardian must have given their consent to allow us to send you marketing messages. |
| To send you other information which we think you might like such as details about product sales, competitions and events we are running, offers and discounts and any updates on esports. | Name and email address | We need this information to make sure we do a good job in managing your relationship with us and to comply with any request made by you. |
| Giveaway Entrant | ||
| To send you the prize if you win the competition | All the personal information we collect. | We need all this information to make sure you get the prize you have won. |
| Customers | ||
| To provide you with merchandise or other services/ products you have ordered from us. |
All contact details. If applicable your parent/guardian’s payment information. Personal identification documentation, such as a passport or driving licence copy, for the purchaser. |
We need all this information to make sure you get the merchandise or
products you ordered.
Our payment and fraud prevention system may flag inconsistencies in the information provided by customers. If this happens, your order cannot be completed unless you provide personal identification information which allows us to confirm that your transaction is legitimate. |
| To help you if you have a question or you are not happy with something we have done. | Contact details and any chats we have had. | To make sure we deal with any issues you have quickly. |
| Freelancers | ||
| To enter into and perform contracts, where we may be supplying products/services to you and/or you may be supplying products/services to us or we may be involved in similar arrangements with third parties | All the personal information we collect | To enter into and perform contracts with either yourself or the organisation that you represent. |
| To make sure we are keeping up with health and safety. | Your dietary requirements or other health matters |
It is in our interests to make sure we provide you and others like
you with a safe place/environment to work. Sometimes we may have to keep your details because the law tells us we have to. |
| To arrange for any trip or transportation to and from an event. | Any ID cards or passport information you give us, details of family members and emergency contacts, your parent/guardian’s payment information and details about your health. | We need all this information to make sure we can make arrangements for any trip you go on. |
| To promote esports, our events or our sponsors | Any photos or videos of you | Only where you have told us you are happy to use your image. |
| To comply with our legal obligations | All the personal information we collect | To comply with any legal obligation or requirement |
| Other | ||
| To enter into and perform contracts, where we may be supplying products/services to you and/or you may be supplying products/services to us or we may be involved in similar arrangements with third parties | All the personal information we collect |
To enter into and perform contracts with either yourself or the
organisation that you represent. We have a legitimate to properly perform contracts with third parties |
If you have told us we can use your information in a certain way, you can tell us to stop using it at any time (see Contact section below). Also look out for the link at the bottom of any messages we send you which will also put a stop to any messages.
We may send your details to others to help us run our organisation. These are:
We may share your personal information with third parties where required by law, where it is necessary for our working relationship or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
Those third parties may be located in third countries outside of the EU (see section below). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this notice.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
By using our third party providers (Mailchimp, Dropbox, Google, Slack, Sideqik, Close and Shopify) we may transfer the personal information we collect about you to the USA, if this is necessary, in order to perform our contract with you, or in accordance with any legitimate interests of Fnatic. Our third party providers including Mailchimp, Dropbox, Google, Slack, Sideqik and Shopify are registered with the US Privacy Shield. This means that those organisations within the USA have been deemed by the European Commission to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information.
We collect personal details from you for different reasons and so we might keep it for different lengths of time. For:
You’re entitled to know what personal information we hold about you and how that information is processed, which means you can ask us to do any of the following things:
Just let us know (see Contact section below) if you’d like to exercise any of your rights.
If you’re unhappy with how any access request has been dealt with, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner by calling their helpline: 0303 123 1113 or starting a live chat at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.
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Our site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site and to distinguish which webpages are being used. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. We only use information collected from cookies for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us to provide you with a better site by enabling us to monitor which webpages you find useful and which you do not. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also allows us to improve our site.
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General queries regarding Fnatic’s products and services should be directed to: [email protected]
We welcome any queries or enquiries or requests in respect of this notice, you can contact us by sending us an email on: [email protected]
Our company registration details are as follows:
Fnatic Limited (company registration number 07805670)