Effective date: 11 July 2026
Last updated: 11 July 2026
Total Sports respects the privacy of its visitors. This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit totalsports.co.zw, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We May Collect
Information provided voluntarily
We may receive information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- Submit a contact form
- Request a correction
- Send a copyright complaint
- Contact us regarding advertising or partnerships
- Participate in website features that request information
This information may include your name, email address, organisation, message and any supporting material you provide.
Please do not submit passwords, payment-card information, identity documents or other unnecessary sensitive information.
Information collected automatically
When you access Total Sports, our website platform, hosting infrastructure and service providers may automatically process technical information such as:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring page
- Pages visited
- Approximate location derived from an IP address
- Date and time of access
- Interaction and performance information
- Cookie or similar technology identifiers
This information may be used for security, analytics, advertising, troubleshooting and website improvement.
2. How We Use Information
Information may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Display football news, match previews and related content
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Improve website performance and usability
- Detect fraud, abuse and security threats
- Respond to enquiries and correction requests
- Investigate copyright complaints
- Measure content and advertising performance
- Display contextual or personalised advertising where permitted
- Comply with applicable legal obligations
- Protect our rights, users and services
We do not sell contact-form messages or personal correspondence to advertisers.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small data files stored on a visitor’s device. Total Sports and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, tags, pixels and similar technologies.
Cookies may include the following categories.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies support functions such as:
- Website security
- Network management
- Remembering privacy choices
- Preventing abuse
- Maintaining basic website functionality
These technologies may be required for the website to operate correctly.
Analytics cookies
Analytics technologies help us understand:
- Which pages are visited
- How visitors reach the website
- Which content performs well
- Whether visitors experience technical errors
- General website traffic and engagement
Analytics information is generally reviewed in aggregated form.
Advertising cookies
When advertising is enabled, advertising partners may use cookies or similar technologies to:
- Deliver advertisements
- Limit how often an advertisement appears
- Measure advertising performance
- Detect invalid traffic and fraud
- Select contextual advertisements
- Personalise advertisements where the visitor has consented and applicable law permits it
Functionality cookies
Functionality technologies may remember settings or provide enhanced features, including embedded media and third-party content.
4. Google Services and Advertising
Total Sports may use Google services such as Blogger, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google Ad Manager, Search Console or other Google products.
Google and its advertising partners may process information about visits to this and other websites to provide, measure and protect advertising services.
Where legally required, consent will be requested before optional advertising or analytics storage is enabled. Visitors may be offered contextual, non-personalised, personalised or limited advertisements depending on their location, choices and the advertising systems being used.
Google’s own use of information is governed by its policies and contractual terms.
5. Other Third-Party Services
The website may use external services for:
- Hosting
- Analytics
- Advertising
- Security
- Content delivery
- Images and media
- Social sharing
- Embedded videos
- Football data
- Contact forms
These providers may process technical information under their own privacy policies. Total Sports does not control cookies or data practices implemented directly by independent third parties.
6. Consent and Cookie Choices
Where a cookie consent form is displayed, visitors may be able to:
- Accept optional cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Select individual categories
- Reopen the privacy settings and change their choice
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.
Blocking cookies through a browser may affect certain website features.
7. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow users to:
- View stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored
- Clear local website data
Browser controls differ between devices and browsers. Disabling all storage may prevent privacy choices or website preferences from being remembered.
8. External Links
Articles may link to football organisations, clubs, broadcasters, news publications, social networks and other external websites.
Total Sports is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, accuracy or availability of external websites. Visitors should review the policies of any external service they use.
9. Data Retention
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including security, correspondence, record-keeping, dispute resolution and legal compliance.
Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and the service provider involved.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect the website and information submitted to us.
However, no website, internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors submit information at their own reasonable discretion.
11. Privacy Rights
Depending on a visitor’s country or region, they may have rights relating to personal information, including the right to:
- Request access
- Request correction
- Request deletion
- Object to certain processing
- Restrict certain processing
- Withdraw consent
- Request information about data use
These rights may be subject to legal limitations and identity verification.
Requests can be submitted through our Contact Us page. Please identify the nature of the request and the information or interaction concerned.
12. Children’s Privacy
Total Sports provides general football information and is not intentionally directed at young children.
We do not knowingly request that children provide unnecessary personal information. A parent or guardian who believes that a child has submitted personal information may contact us to request review or deletion.
13. International Processing
Because Total Sports uses internet services and service providers that may operate in different countries, information may be processed outside the visitor’s country.
Where required, providers may use contractual, organisational or legal safeguards for international data processing.
14. Changes to This Policy
This policy may be updated when the website, technology, advertising arrangements or legal requirements change.
The updated version will be published on this page with a revised effective date. Continued use of the website after an update constitutes acknowledgement of the revised policy.
15. Contact
Questions, privacy requests and concerns regarding this policy may be submitted through the official Contact Us page on totalsports.co.zw.
Please include enough information for us to understand and investigate the request.