Privacy notice

1. Who controls your information

William Wootton trading as Football 501 is the controller for product-support and licence information.

Email: football501pro@gmail.com

2. Information we handle

• Purchase and licence information: checkout email address, Stripe session and customer references, licence status and creation dates.
• Device activation information: a random device identifier created by the app and stored on your device. The server stores only a cryptographic hash of that identifier, activation dates and last-use dates.
• Support information: messages and player-data reports you choose to send us, and the information needed to answer them.
• Local game information: saved matches, preferences, unsent missing-player reports and basic on-device game counts stay in browser storage unless you choose to share or export them.
• Anonymous website analytics: Cloudflare Web Analytics provides aggregated visits, page views, referral source, country, device and browser categories, and page-performance measurements. It does not use cookies, local storage or individual-user profiles.
• Technical information: hosting and security providers can process IP addresses, request times, browser details and security logs when you access the service.

We do not receive or store your full card number. Stripe and Link process payment details under their own privacy terms.

3. Why we use it

• To take steps at your request and perform the purchase contract, including issuing and recovering access.
• For our legitimate interests in understanding aggregate website use, improving performance and purchase journeys, protecting licences, preventing misuse, securing the service and answering support requests.
• To meet legal, accounting and consumer-protection obligations.

4. Providers

We use Stripe and Link for Managed Payments; Cloudflare for website hosting, security, licence storage and privacy-first Web Analytics; and Resend to deliver activation and purchase-recovery emails. The website currently requests font files from Google Fonts. These providers may process limited personal or technical information on our behalf or as independent controllers, and may process it outside the UK using appropriate safeguards.

5. Storage on your device

The app uses browser local storage and offline caching for essential functions such as installation, saved games, preferences, activation and device identification. These are not advertising cookies. Cloudflare Web Analytics does not place cookies or use local storage to identify visitors. You can remove local app information through your browser’s site-data controls, but doing so may remove saved games or require reactivation.

6. Retention

We retain purchase and licence records while access remains active and for up to six years afterwards where needed for tax, accounting, fraud prevention or legal claims. Support correspondence is normally retained for up to two years. We can delete or anonymise information earlier where it is no longer needed and no legal obligation requires retention.

7. Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection or transfer of your personal information. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk. Email us to exercise a right. We may need to verify your identity.

8. Children

Purchases are intended to be made by adults. Children can take part in local gameplay with appropriate supervision, but Football 501 does not knowingly create child accounts or collect children’s personal information.

9. Changes

We will update this notice when our data handling changes. The effective date above shows the latest version.