Privacy Policy

When you use our services, you trust us with your information. We understand how important your privacy is and work hard to protect your information.

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, with whom we share it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

Policy Statement Overview

This document describes the Policy of the New York/New Jersey 2026 World Cup Host Committee, Inc., its partners and affiliates (hereafter referred to as “Host Committee”, “we”, “our”) regarding the collection, processing, and security of personal information related to nynjfwc26.com as well as other digital services and offerings and websites we provide. This Policy applies solely to our online activities and are not necessarily applicable to practices we may engage in outside of our digital services and offerings. Use of this website (the “Website”), any other interactive app, feature, service or website that provides an authorized link or URL to this Policy (the “Services”) signifies your acceptance of the terms of this document. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy, please do not access or otherwise use this Website or our Services.

The information the Host Committee collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our Services and how you manage your privacy controls. We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our Services. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs.

The Host Committee is the data controller for all information collected through online digital channels and can be contacted here:

New York/New Jersey 2026 World Cup Host Committee, Inc.

100 Mulberry Street

Four Gateway Center, Suite 300

Newark, NJ 07102

I. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Types Of Information Collected

We collect the following types of information:

Personal Information. Personal contact and demographic information that you willingly provide, such as name, address, zip code and email address. We do not collect or store sensitive data such as race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union memberships, genetic or biometric data, health or mortality, sex life or sexual orientation.
De-Identified Information. Information about you but that does not individually identify you, such as behavorial data based on user preferences.
Website & Mobile Information. Information about your visit to this Website, including browsing information, usage details, IP addresses, date and time of visit, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. If you are using a mobile device, we may also collect device type, carrier name, crash reports, and which apps you’ve installed.

We may combine automatically collected usage information with your personal information. In those cases, we will apply this Policy to the combined information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information we collect about you or that you provide us to:

Identify you when you visit our websites.
Sign you up for our Newsletter.
Allow you to participate in any featured/sponsored contests and sweepstakes or other interactive features in our Services.
Provide and improve our Services and users’ digital experiences.
Send you administrative, marketing, and promotional materials.
Conduct analytics to understand how our Services are used and determine the effectiveness of the content, programs and advertisements offered through our Website.
Detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content.
Manage our relationships and internal administrative processes.

II. COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels, ad tags and device identifiers) to recognize you and/or your computer, your mobile phone, or other device used to access the Internet (each, a “Device”), on, off and across different Services and devices, and to collect usage information to deliver or support personalized advertising on third-party websites and online services.

Cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to access the Website or Service. Cookies may be used for many purposes including, without limitation, tracking user preferences and web pages visited while using the Website or Service. You may disable cookies using your Device’s preferences, but some features may not function properly if you disable cookies.

Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included on certain webpages and e-mail messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any image or other web programming code inserted into a web page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Website, to monitor how users navigate the Website, to count how many e-mails sent were actually opened or to count how many particular videos or links were actually viewed.

Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Website, such as which links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Website, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

Tracking and Ad Tags. Google Analytics Advertising features have been enabled on the Website: Interest-based Advertising, including Remarketing; DoubleClick Platform integration; Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. These features enable Google Analytics to collect data about our Website traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation.

We and our third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Website. These cookies are also used by the Host Committee and our third-party vendors to inform, optimize, and serve ads across the Internet based on someone’s past visits to our Website.

We will not facilitate the merging of personal information with non-personal information collected through any Google advertising product or feature unless we have notice of and the user’s prior affirmative (i.e.: opt-in) consent to that merger.

Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web can be found here. You may also download the DoubleClick advertising cookie opt-out plugin here. Please note that this Policy does not cover the practices of third-party vendors outside of our Services and we do not control such vendors’ technologies.

III. SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share non-public personal information with companies that work for us for the sole purpose of providing you with valuable services you’ve requested or already have. These companies may assist us in fulfilling your requests or processing your transactions.

We will only share information with companies that work for us to provide marketing and other services and with non-affiliated persons and entities with whom we have entered into a joint marketing agreement, where we together market either our products or those of our marketing partner if you expressly authorize us to share this information. These companies are contractually forbidden from disclosing or using our customer information other than to carry out the purposes for which the information was disclosed. These companies are in no way authorized to sell, rent or trade your personal information. While there are such contractual obligations in place, we cannot and do not guarantee that a third party could not breach its obligation and use your non-public personal information in a way contrary to our Policy.

We may also disclose information, including non-public personal information, in special cases when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

(a) conform to legal requirements or comply with the legal process such as, but not limited to situations when we are required to do so by federal, state or local laws and regulations or when we receive a subpoena or are ordered by a court to do so;

(b) protect and defend our rights; or

(c) act to protect the interests of our users or others. Additionally, we may provide aggregate statistics about visitors, such as volume, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personal information.

IV. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We exercise reasonable care to protect your personal information. This includes storing the personal information on our servers behind a secured firewall.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. So while we strive to protect your non-public personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us. This is especially true for information you transmit to us via email. We have no way of protecting that information until it reaches us. Once we receive your transmission, we maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information.

We limit access to personal information to those limited individuals who need the information on a need-to-know basis to provide products and services to you or maintain or service those products or services. These individuals are committed to our privacy and security policies. We also review our security arrangements from time to time as appropriate.

V. EMAIL COMMUNICATION FROM THE HOST COMMITTEE

If you have signed up to receive emails on our Website or through one of our Services, we use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. These emails may let you know about optional opt-in promotional information such as special offers or visitor information. If you are currently on our list and do not wish to receive further information from us, please contact us to opt out. (See Your Privacy Rights and Controls below.)

VI. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CONTROLS

You may have certain rights pertaining to your personal information, subject to applicable law. In particular, you may (1) request access to the personal information we have about you; (2) request that we update, correct or delete your personal information; or (3) opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for purposes such as targeted advertising. In addition, subject to applicable law, you may also request a portable copy of certain of your personal information that you have provided to us.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may contact us by email at info@nynjfwc26.com. You may choose to remove yourself from our mailing list by following the “Unsubscribe” instructions stated on our emails. Please note that we reserve the right to take steps to verify your identity in connection with any requests regarding personal information.

If you are a U.S. resident, please see Appendix I for more information about privacy rights under applicable U.S. state data privacy laws.

If you are a California consumer, please see Appendix II for more information about your privacy rights under California law.

If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, please see Appendix III for more information about your privacy rights under the EU and UK GDPR.

VII. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Our Website and Services contains links to other sites, including those of affiliates or third parties. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by other sites and those other sites have not agreed to our privacy policy. Visit those sites for information regarding their privacy policy prior to providing personal information.

VIII. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Host Committee will retain your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in this Policy, unless a longer retention period is permissible or required under applicable law.

IX. MINORS’ PRIVACY

Our Website and Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from, children under age 18. If we become aware that we have collected or received personal information from a minor without parental consent, we will take prompt steps to remove such personal information. If you become aware that we have collected or received such data, we may also notify use at info@nynjfwc26.com.

X. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The Host Committee reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of this policy, in whole or in part, at any time. If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes here before they take effect. If we make material changes to the way we use personal information, we will notify affected users by email or through the Services.

XI. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions, please contact us at: