Privacy policy
What we collect, why we collect it, and the large amount we do not.
The short version
There are no accounts on this site. The only personal information we ever hold is an email address, and only if you choose to give us one by signing up to our email. We do not sell or share data with advertisers.
If you sign up to the email
- Signing up takes two steps. You give us an address, we email it a confirmation link, and you join the list only when you open that link. Until then nothing is sent to you, and an address that is never confirmed never becomes a subscriber.
- We store your email address, when you asked and when you confirmed. Nothing else — no name, no IP address, no tracking of what you open or click.
- We use it for one thing: sending the weekly matchday email. We do not use it for anything else and we do not pass it to anyone.
- You can leave whenever you like. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, or you can ask us and we will remove you.
- We keep the address until you unsubscribe, and delete it when you do.
What reaches our servers
- Request logs. Like any web server, ours records the address a request came from, the page asked for, the time and the browser’s user-agent string. These are used to keep the site working and to investigate abuse, and are kept for a short period.
- Our network provider. Traffic reaches us through Cloudflare, which sits in front of the site to serve it quickly and to filter attacks. Cloudflare processes connection data on our behalf.
What we store in your browser
- Your theme choice, if you pick light or dark rather than leaving it to your device. This stays in your browser, is not sent to us and is not shared.
- A voting marker, once fan voting is switched on, so a poll can tell that a device has already voted. It records that a vote was cast, not who cast it.
The one third party
Where a match has highlights, we embed the video the club published on its own YouTube channel. Playing it connects your browser to YouTube, which therefore sees your IP address and applies its own terms and storage to that playback. We use the youtube-nocookie.com player, together with YouTube’s player script, which lets us replace the video with a plain link when a rights holder has blocked it here. Nothing is set for advertising until you press play, and we receive nothing back from it. Where a club has not allowed its video to play outside YouTube, we show its cover image — also served by YouTube — and a link instead. No other part of this site loads anything from a third party.
What we do not do
- No advertising and no advertising trackers. We earn nothing from the highlights player and show no adverts of our own.
- No third-party analytics that profile you across sites.
- No selling or sharing of personal data.
- No accounts, so no password to lose.
- No tracking of whether you opened an email or what you clicked in it.
Who to contact about your data
Rabona Kick is responsible for the email addresses given to it through this site. Write to [email protected] about anything on this page: what is held, having it removed, or a question about how it is used.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, and complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. In practice the only thing we are likely to hold is an email address you gave us, and you can have it removed at any time. Contact us.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the bottom of the page changes with it.