Last updated: 13 November 2026
This privacy policy explains how Hit Sport News (hitsportnews.com) collects, uses and looks after your personal information. The site is run by Dr Husham Memar in London, United Kingdom. If you have any questions, email [email protected].
Who we are
Hit Sport News is a sports news and TV guide website. For UK data protection law, including the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller is Dr Husham Memar. We do not sell your personal information.
What we collect
We may collect:
- Information you send us on purpose, such as your name, email address and message if you use the contact form or email us.
- Account details if you create a shop or site account, including your name, email, billing and delivery addresses, and order history. Payment card details are handled by the payment provider, not stored in full on this site.
- Technical data that is created when you visit, such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, referring URL, and the date and time of the visit. This comes from server logs, security tools and, where you have agreed, analytics and advertising cookies.
- Cookie and similar identifiers, as described below, including those set by Google and other advertising or analytics partners after you make a choice in the consent banner.
We do not ask children under 13 to provide personal information, and this site is not aimed at children.
How we use your information
We use personal information to:
- publish and improve the site, including sports news and TV guide pages;
- reply to messages and provide customer support;
- process any orders if merch or other products are offered;
- keep the site secure and deal with misuse, fraud or legal claims;
- understand how the site is used, in a privacy-friendly way where possible;
- show advertising, including Google AdSense, in line with your cookie and consent choices;
- meet our legal duties.
Our legal bases under UK GDPR are: your consent (for non-essential cookies, optional analytics and personalised advertising); performance of a contract (for example, fulfilling an order or an account you asked us to create); legitimate interests (running, securing and improving a news site, answering ordinary enquiries, and showing non-personalised ads where that is allowed); and legal obligation (for example, tax and consumer law records).
Cookies, the consent banner and similar technologies
A cookie is a small file stored on your device. Essential cookies are needed for the site to work, for example to keep a login session or remember that you have made a cookie choice. We only set or allow non-essential cookies, including advertising and analytics cookies, after you have made a choice in our consent banner, except where the law allows a strictly necessary cookie to be used without consent.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by using the cookie or consent controls on the site, and you can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block all cookies, some features may not work.
Google AdSense and other advertising partners
This site uses Google AdSense to show advertisements. Google is a third-party vendor. It uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings at https://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can also find information about how Google uses data from partners’ sites and apps at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and about ads cookies at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect information and to serve ads. Some vendors are members of industry opt-out programmes. You can learn more, and opt out of some interest-based advertising, through the Network Advertising Initiative at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and, in Europe, Your Online Choices at https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.
We use a consent banner so that, for visitors in the UK and the European Economic Area, personalised ads and non-essential advertising cookies are not used until you agree. If you refuse personalised ads, you may still see non-personalised ads where that is allowed. Advertisements are not shown on empty or transactional pages such as the cart, checkout, account, wishlist, search results or error pages, as far as our ad settings allow.
A list of Google’s advertising partners and how they use cookies is maintained by Google. We do not control every cookie that a third-party vendor may set after you consent. Please read the vendor’s own privacy policy as well as this one.
Affiliate links
Some pages contain affiliate links, including Amazon Associates links and links to virtual private network services. If you follow a link and later buy something, we may earn a commission. This does not change the price you pay. Affiliate partners may set their own cookies or record that you came from this site, in line with their privacy policies and, where required, your consent. A separate affiliate disclosure appears in the site footer and on our Affiliate Disclosure page. We do not sell your personal information to those partners as a dataset.
Who we share information with
We share personal information only when we have a reason to do so, for example with:
- hosting, security, content delivery, email and website software providers who process data for us (including our web host and, where used, Cloudflare, WordPress and related plugins);
- Google, if you consent to AdSense or analytics cookies, or when a strictly necessary service is involved;
- payment and delivery partners if you place an order;
- professional advisers or law enforcement if the law requires it, or to protect our rights, users or the public.
Some of those organisations may process data outside the United Kingdom. Where that happens, we look for a lawful transfer mechanism, such as the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, adequacy regulations, or appropriate contractual clauses.
How long we keep information
We keep personal information only for as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it, including legal, tax, accounting and security needs. Contact messages are usually kept only for as long as needed to reply and follow up. Server logs are kept for a limited period for security and diagnostics. Order records, if any, are kept for as long as tax and consumer law require. You can ask us to delete information where the law allows it.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can, in most cases, ask us to: access the personal information we hold about you; correct it; erase it; restrict or object to certain processing; and receive a copy in a portable format. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time, without affecting processing that already took place. To use these rights, email [email protected]. We may need to confirm your identity first.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator, at https://ico.org.uk/ or on 0303 123 1113. We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concern first.
Security and changes
We take reasonable technical and organisational steps to protect personal information, but no website can be guaranteed completely secure. We may update this policy from time to time. The new version will be posted on this page with an updated date. If you have questions, email [email protected].