Privacy Policy

We collect minimal personal information necessary to operate and improve The Football Cafe:

Automatically Collected Data: When you visit our site, our servers and third-party analytics tools may collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, and general geographic location (country/region level).

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies to remember your preferences (such as timezone and theme settings), enable advertising through Google AdSense, and gather usage analytics through Google Analytics. See our Cookie Policy for full details.

User-Provided Data: If you contact us via our contact page, we collect the information you voluntarily provide, such as your name and email address, solely to respond to your inquiry.

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate, maintain, and improve The Football Cafe

• To display match schedules in your local timezone

• To remember your site preferences (theme, timezone)

• To serve relevant advertisements through Google AdSense

• To understand how visitors use our site through Google Analytics

• To respond to your inquiries when you contact us

• To detect and prevent technical issues or abuse

We use the following third-party services that may collect data:

Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads based on your prior visits to our site or other websites. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings (https://adssettings.google.com).

Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager): We use Google Analytics to understand site usage patterns. This service collects anonymized data about how visitors interact with our pages. We have enabled IP anonymization in our Google Analytics configuration.

Firebase Hosting: Our site is hosted on Google Firebase. Firebase may collect limited technical data for performance monitoring and security purposes.

These third-party services have their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review them.

We use cookies to improve your experience on The Football Cafe. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help us remember your preferences and understand how you use our site.

For detailed information about the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy at /cookies/.

You can control cookie preferences through the consent banner displayed when you first visit the site, or by adjusting your browser settings.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties.

We may share anonymized, aggregated data with our advertising and analytics partners (Google AdSense, Google Analytics) as described above. This data cannot be used to identify you personally.

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights, or ensure the safety of our users.

We retain automatically collected analytics data for up to 14 months, in line with Google Analytics default retention settings.

Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry, after which they are deleted.

Cookie consent preferences are stored locally on your device and are not transmitted to our servers.

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Under GDPR (European Economic Area): You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, data portability, and object to processing of your personal data. You can exercise these rights by contacting us.

Under CCPA (California): You have the right to know what personal information is collected, request deletion of your personal information, and opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our contact page at /contact/.

The Football Cafe is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.

We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our site is served over HTTPS, and we follow industry-standard security practices.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:

• Visit our Contact page: /contact/

• Website: thefootball.cafe