Cookie policy
We use as little as the site can function with.
What we use today
- Theme preference. If you choose light or dark instead of following your device, that choice is kept in your browser’s local storage. It never leaves your browser.
That is the whole list for the site itself. There are no advertising cookies and no analytics cookies anywhere on Rabona Kick.
The one third party
Match highlights are videos the clubs publish on their own YouTube channels, played here in YouTube’s own player. We load it from youtube-nocookie.com, along with YouTube’s player script, which does not set advertising or measurement cookies until you press play. Once you do, YouTube is serving you the video and its own terms apply to that playback.
That player appears only on the highlights page and on a match page that has a highlight. Where a club has not allowed its video to play outside YouTube, we show a cover image from YouTube and a link to it instead. Everything else on this site is served by us.
What will be added when voting opens
- A vote marker. A signed cookie so a poll can tell that this device has already voted. It records that a vote happened — not who you are.
- Bot protection. A challenge from our network provider may set a short-lived cookie to tell a person from an automated script. Without it, fan votes could be flooded by software and the results would be worthless.
Both are strictly necessary for the feature to work. This page will be updated on the day they are switched on.
Managing them
You can clear or block storage for this site in your browser’s settings. Doing so means the site forgets your theme choice, and a poll may let you vote again — which is why results only count once enough votes have been cast.
More detail on what reaches our servers is in the privacy policy.