Privacy Statement

The Premier League Stadium Fund (Company register no: 04007132U) (the “PLSF”, “we”, “us”) is committed to ensuring our site is absolutely secure for you to use and takes great care to protect your information.

This privacy statement (“Statement”) explains what personal information we collect about you, how we may use it, and the steps we take to ensure that it is kept secure. We also explain your rights and how to contact us.

Please read the Statement carefully to understand how we use your personal information.

Please note that, in some cases, if you don’t provide us with your personal information, your use of our services will be impaired. For example, you will be unable to apply for a grant if you don’t provide us with certain information that we need to review your application and/or administer the grant.

1. Grant Awards

If you apply for any of our grants, you will submit personal information through an online application form providing details of your proposal and contact details of individuals relating to the grant.  As part of the grant agreement, those who are awarded grants are required to provide progress reports and participate in surveys and meetings to ensure the aims and objectives of the grant are being met.  With our larger grants, the PLSF, and any person authorised by the PLSF, may make unannounced visits for the purposes of monitoring the project, the facilities and the grant agreement.  This is because there is a greater accountability requirement for the financial management of larger grants.

Any personal information that is provided during the application process, or at any time during the term of the grant to enable the PLSF to carry out its monitoring and evaluation, is used only for the purpose of reviewing the progress of the grant or project, and the ongoing administration and management of any grants that are awarded.

2. We collect personal information about you:

When you give it to us directly
  
This would include, for example, personal information that you submit through our website by applying for a grant, signing up for our email newsletter or personal information that you give us when you communicate with us by email, phone or letter. 
 
When we obtain it from a third-party source.

In some cases, we may obtain your personal information from another party (i.e. not from you directly). For example, your personal information may be shared with us by third parties, such as The FA, our funding partner (the Premier League), the relevant league your club plays in.

To the extent we have not done so already, we will notify you when we receive personal information about you from them and tell you how and why we intend to use that personal information.

When it is available publicly
  
Your information may be available to us from external publicly available sources, for example information about you published online in relation to a facility that your organisation develops with a PLSF grant and which we may need to consult ahead of a site visit. 
 
When you visit our website 

When you visit our website, we automatically collect the following types of personal information:

Technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions and operating systems and platforms.
Information about your visit to our website, including the uniform resource locator (URL) clickstream to, through and from the website (including date and time), services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, referral sources, page interaction information (such as scrolling or clicks) and methods used to browse away from the page.

We also collect and use your personal information by using cookies on our website – please see our Cookie Policy.

3. What personal information do we use?

We may collect, store and otherwise use the following kinds of personal information:

  • your name and contact details, including postal address, telephone number and email address; 
  • your or your organisation’s financial information and other payroll information, such as account holder name, sort code, account number, tax code and NI for the payment of grants and staff salaries paid as part of grants; 
  • your CV, details of your qualifications/experience and any other information you choose to provide as part of your application for a role with us; 
  • your position within an organisation, and details about what you do there; 
  • information about your computer/mobile device and your visits to, and use of, our website, including, for example, your IP address and geographical location; and/or 
  • any other personal information which you choose to share with us as per section 2 of this Statement. 

Do we process ‘special categories’ of personal information or criminal convictions data?

We do not typically collect or use special categories of personal information (which includes information that the law considers to be more ‘sensitive’ e.g. information relating to health, race, religion, sexual orientation and political affiliation, among other things). If we do intend to collect this information, we will only do so if we have a valid reason and where the UK GDPR allows us to (for instance, because we have obtained explicit consent from the relevant individuals, or we satisfy a ‘public interest’ condition for processing the data).  

  • In some (limited) cases, we may also collect and/or use information relating to alleged criminal offences, for example if we become aware of alleged instances of fraud or other criminal offences committed by our grantees.

4. How and why will we use your personal information? 
Your personal information, however we obtain it, will be used for the purposes specified in this Statement.
These purposes are:

  • to confirm identification when you contact us
  • to communicate with you about a grant application
  • to provide you with the services or information you have requested
  • to administer and provide a grant to your organisation (if your application is successful)
  • to monitor and assess that the aims and objectives of grant agreements are met
  • to invite you to participate in surveys relating to a grant
  • to provide further information about our work, services or activities, or the work, services or activities of our partners and organisations that we fund (where necessary, only where you have provided us with your consent to receive such information)
  • to obtain feedback about your use of our services and work (including services or projects that we have funded and/or whose use we require from our partners or other third parties that we work with) 
  • to further our company aims in general
  • to process your application for a job with us
  • to run/administer our website, keep it safe and secure and ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device
  • to update you on material changes to policies and practices
  • to publish information about our projects on our website and via social media channels
  • to analyse and improve our work, services or activities (including our website)
  • to audit and/or administer our accounts
  • to satisfy legal obligations which are binding on us, for example in relation to regulatory, government and/or law enforcement bodies with whom we may work (for example requirements relating to the payment of tax or anti-money laundering)
  • for the prevention of crime, fraud and misuse of services for the establishment, defence and/or enforcement of legal claims

5. Lawful bases

The UK GDPR requires us to rely on one or more lawful bases (i.e. reasons under the law) to use your personal information. We consider the bases listed below to be relevant:

  • Where you have provided your consent for us to use your personal information in a certain way (for example, we may ask for your consent to use your personal information to send you promotional material by email) 
  • Where necessary so that we can comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, where we are obliged to share your personal information with regulatory bodies which govern our work and services). 
  • Where necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract (for example, if you apply to work with us). 
  • Where there is a legitimate interest in us doing so.

The UK GDPR allows us to collect and process your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to achieve our or others’ legitimate interests (as long as that use is fair, balanced and does not unduly impact your rights).

In broad terms, our “legitimate interests” means the interests of running the PLSF as a company limited by guarantee and pursuing our principal activity to act as an agent for the Premier League in passing on funding in the form of grants for activities related to the safety and comfort of spectators at, and the redevelopment of, football stadia.

When we process your personal information to achieve such legitimate interests, we consider and balance any potential impact on you, both positive and negative, and your rights under data protection laws. We will not use your personal information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you, for example where use would be excessively intrusive (unless, for instance, we are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

To the extent that we capture and/or otherwise process criminal convictions data, we do this for the purposes of preventing or detecting crime (i.e. fraud).

6. Communications for marketing purposes
We may use your contact details to provide you with information about our work and/or services (or those of our funding partners) which we consider may be of interest to you. For example, we offer regular emails and newsletters to let you know about the work of the Football Foundation and PLSF, or from time to time we may want to contact you about your project or facility to help with our promotional activity. 
 

We will usually only contact you for marketing purposes, whether via email, SMS or telephone with your prior consent (unless the law allows us to do this without consent – for example, we are not required to obtain consent before conducting telephone marketing if you haven’t registered with the TPS).
 

Where you have provided us with your consent previously but no longer wish to be contacted by us about our projects and/or services, please let us know by email at enquiries@football.foundation.org.uk. Or you can opt out of receiving emails by following the instructions at the bottom of our emails.

7. How long do we keep your personal information?
In general, unless still required in connection with the purpose(s) for which it was collected and/or used, (for example to enable the PLSF to carry out its own monitoring and evaluation of grants), we remove your personal information from our records six years after our arrangement with you comes to an end. However, if before that date (i) your personal information is no longer required in connection with such purpose(s), (ii) we are no longer lawfully entitled to use it or (iii) you validly exercise your right of erasure (please see section 11 below), we will remove it from our records at the relevant time.
Please note that we also may need to keep your personal information for longer than six years in some cases, for example where we have an ongoing relationship with you and need your information to continue to fulfil a contract with you (or otherwise provide services to you), or where we need the information to protect our or a third party’s rights. 


If you request to receive no further contact from us, we will keep some basic information about you on our suppression list in order to comply with your request and avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future.


In relation to job applications, if you are successful in your application, the information you provide during the application process will be retained by us as part of your employee file for the duration of your employment, plus 6 years following the end of your employment. 
If you are unsuccessful at any stage of the process, the information you have provided until that point will be retained for 6 months from your being notified that your application has been unsuccessful.

8. Will we share your personal information?
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes. However, in general, we may disclose your personal information to selected third parties in order to achieve the purposes set out in this Statement.
Those parties may include:

  • the Football Foundation, to the extent necessary to enable us to work with the Football Foundation to provide grants and otherwise carry out our work; 
  • suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them, for example IT service providers such as mailing houses or cloud storage providers; 
  • our funding partner and members of the PLSF (the Premier League and The FA) in connection with grants that have been awarded;
  • the relevant league your club plays in, for example leagues within the National League System and Women’s Football Pyramid or English Football League (EFL);
  • County FA’s who help support the implementation and performance of some of our grants;
  • insurers; 
  • professional service providers such as accountants, auditors and lawyers; 
  • parties assisting us with research to monitor the impact/effectiveness of our services; and 
  • regulatory authorities (such as tax authorities) and law enforcement authorities. 

We might also need to disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal information to the (prospective) seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • if substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, personal information held by us may be one of the transferred assets;
  • if we are under any legal or regulatory duty to do so (for example following a court order, subpoena or other legal process); 
  • if necessary to prevent or detect crime (including fraud); and/or
  • to protect the rights, property or safety of the PLSF, its personnel, users, visitors or others.

9. Security/storage of and access to your personal information
The PLSF is committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure and we have appropriate and proportionate security policies and organisational and technical measures in place to help protect your personal information.
Your personal information is only accessible by appropriately trained staff, volunteers and contractors, and stored on secure servers which have features to prevent unauthorised access.
While we seek to use appropriate organisational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organisation, unfortunately no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us using the details in section 14 below.

10. International transfers of your personal information
Given that we are a UK-based organisation and our grants are provided to UK organisations, we will normally only transfer your personal information within the UK or European Economic Area (“EEA”), where all countries have the same level of data protection law as under the UK GDPR.

However, because we use some third parties to process personal information on our behalf, it is possible that personal information we collect from you will be transferred to and stored in a location outside the UK or EEA.

Please note that some countries outside the UK or EEA have a lower standard of protection for personal information, including lower security requirements and fewer rights for individuals. Where your personal information is transferred, stored and/or otherwise processed outside the UK or EEA in a country that does not offer an equivalent standard of protection to the UK or EEA, we will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that the recipient implements appropriate safeguards (such as by entering into standard contractual clauses approved by the UK Government) designed to protect your personal information and to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Statement. If you have any questions about the transfer of your personal information, please contact us using the details in section 14 below.


11. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
Under the UK GDPR, you have certain rights relating to your personal information. This section sets out those rights, and how you can exercise them.

Where we rely on your consent to use your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This includes the right to ask us to stop using your personal information for marketing or fundraising purposes or to unsubscribe from our email list at any time. You also have the following rights:

Right of access – you can write to us to ask for confirmation of what personal information we hold on you and to request a copy of that personal information. Provided we are satisfied that you are entitled to see the personal information requested and we have successfully confirmed your identity, we will provide you with your personal information subject to any exemptions that apply. 
Right of erasure – at your request we will delete your personal information from our records as far as we are required to do so.   
Right of rectification – if you believe our records of your personal information are inaccurate, you have the right to ask for those records to be updated. You can also ask us to check the personal information we hold about you if you are unsure whether it is accurate/up to date. 
Right to restrict processing – you have the right to ask for processing of your personal information to be restricted if there is disagreement about its accuracy or legitimate usage. 
Right to object – you have the right to object to processing where we are (i) processing your personal information on the basis of the legitimate interests basis (see section 4), or (ii) using your personal information for direct marketing. If you object to direct marketing, we will retain certain limited personal information about you to ensure that we do not contact you again.  
Right to data portability – to the extent required by the UK GDPR, where we are processing your personal information (that you have provided to us) either (i) by relying on your consent or (ii) because such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contact, and in either case we are processing using automated means (i.e. with no human involvement), you may ask us to provide the personal information to you – or another organisation – in a machine-readable format.  
Rights related to automated decision-making – you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal information which produces legal effects or similarly significant affects you, unless such a decision (i) is necessary to enter into/perform a contract between you and us/another organisation; (ii) is authorised by EU or UK law (as long as that law offers you sufficient protection); or (iii) is based on your explicit consent.

Please note that some of these rights only apply in limited circumstances. 
For more information, we suggest that you contact us using the details in section 14 below. Please be aware that we may be unable to provide these rights to you under certain circumstances, for example if we are legally prevented from doing so or can rely on exemptions.
We encourage you to raise any concerns or complaints you have about our handling of your personal information by contacting us using the details provided in section 14 below.  
You are further entitled to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office – www.ico.org.uk. For further information on how to exercise this right, please contact us using the details in section 14 below.

12. Changes to this Statement
We may update this Statement from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by contacting you directly where reasonably possible for us to do so and by placing an update notice on our website. This Statement was last updated on 31 July 2025.

13. Links and third parties

We link our website directly to other sites. This Statement does not cover external websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies (or equivalent) of any external websites you visit via links on our website.

14. How to contact us

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about this Statement or about the way in which the PLSF uses your personal information by contacting us using the channels below. Please ask for/mark messages for the attention of Director of Business Services.


Email: data.enquiries@footballfoundation.org.uk
Telephone: 0345 345 4555
Post: The Premier League Stadium Fund, Wembley Stadium, Wembley, London, England, HA9 0WS