PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy explains how GoalHeiBhai ("we", "us") collects, uses and shares information when you visit goalheibhai.com (the "Site"). By using the Site you agree to the practices described here.

1. Information we collect

• Account data — email address (or third-party auth provider ID), display name, avatar URL if provided.
• Product data — favorite leagues, match predictions, trivia and Bingo attempts, and total points earned.
• Device & log data — IP address, browser type, pages visited, referring URLs and timestamps, used to protect the Site and improve performance.
• Cookies & local storage — see Section 4.

2. How we use information

• Operate accounts, predictions, challenges and leaderboards.
• Personalise your home feed based on favorite leagues.
• Detect abuse and enforce our Terms.
• Serve and measure advertising via Google AdSense (see Section 5).

3. Third-party services

We share data only with providers required to run the Site:

• Authentication & database — Lovable Cloud (Supabase).
• Sports data — football-data.org, API-Football.
• News & highlights — NewsAPI, YouTube (embedded search links).
• Advertising — Google AdSense.

4. Cookies & local storage

We use browser storage for authentication sessions, caching API responses (to reduce load and speed up the Site) and remembering preferences. Third parties, including Google, may set their own cookies for advertising — see our Cookies Policy.

5. Google AdSense

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other sites on the internet. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites.

You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. For more information about how Google uses data when you use its partners' sites or apps, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

6. Data retention

Account data is retained until you delete your account. Predictions and challenge history are retained to support leaderboards and audits. Server logs are rotated within 90 days.

7. Your rights

You can access, correct or delete your account data at any time from your profile page, or by emailing privacy@goalheibhai.com. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under GDPR, CCPA or similar laws.

8. Children

The Site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has provided us data, email us and we will delete it.

9. Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced on the Site. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

10. Contact

Questions? privacy@goalheibhai.com