Privacy Policy
This policy explains what information Footbauction handles when you play, why it is handled, where it is processed, how long it is kept, and how to ask for it.
- Responsible for your data
- Francisco Jeivan Ricardo Coutinho Filho, individual
- Established in
- British Columbia, Canada
- Contact
- contact@footbauction.com
The short version
No account, no sign up, no tracking scripts.
Footbauction has no user accounts and asks for no personal details. To play you type a manager name, which can be any nickname you like. The site keeps a small amount of technical information to run and troubleshoot the service, and diagnostic logs are retained for three days. That three-day limit applies to those logs only: the state of a lobby can stay stored after the match is over. There are no analytics or tracking scripts on the site, and it sets no cookies of its own. Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared for anyone else's marketing.
The rest of this page is the detail behind that paragraph. It is written plainly on purpose — if something here is unclear, ask.
What is handled
Four kinds of information, and that is all.
What you type
To create or join a lobby you enter a manager name, and to join you enter the lobby code the host shared with you. The manager name is shown to everyone else in that lobby. You are free to use a nickname, and we suggest you do — the game does not need your real name.
A nickname, an IP address or a session identifier can still count as personal information about you, depending on the circumstances and on the law that applies. This policy treats them that way.
What your browser stores
Footbauction stores a small amount of information on your own device, not as cookies. It stays in your browser, is not sent to advertisers, and you can clear it at any time through your browser settings.
footbauction-language-v1- Local storage. Remembers whether you chose English, Portuguese or Spanish.
footbauction-session-v1- Local storage. Holds a session identifier so you can be reconnected to the lobby you were already in — for example after a refresh or a dropped connection. It is sent to the server for that purpose.
footbauction-return-home- Session storage. A temporary marker used when you leave a match. It disappears when you close the tab.
Technical information
We process limited technical request information to operate, secure and troubleshoot the service. This may include IP address, request metadata, timestamps and diagnostic logs. A session identifier may appear in those diagnostic logs.
Game activity
While a game is running — and after it ends — the lobby holds what the game itself is made of: the lobby code and the settings chosen for it, which manager is the host, the names and team colours of the managers and of anyone watching as a spectator, the identifiers that let a person be reconnected to the lobby they joined, the time they joined, who has marked themselves ready, the credits each manager has left, the bids that were placed, the squads that were won, the lineups and the match results.
Where it is processed
On Cloudflare's network, which spans many countries.
Footbauction runs on Cloudflare Workers, and each lobby is held in a Cloudflare Durable Object. Cloudflare provides the hosting and network infrastructure, and processes this information on our behalf as a service provider.
Cloudflare operates a global network, so your requests may be handled by servers outside Canada, including in countries whose privacy laws differ from those where you live. Where that happens, the information may be subject to access by authorities in those countries under their local law.
Beyond that hosting, information is not sold, rented or shared for anyone else's marketing. It may be disclosed if required by law, or where necessary to investigate abuse or protect the service and the people using it.
How long it is kept
Logs for three days. Lobby data has no set limit yet.
Diagnostic logs. Cloudflare Workers Logs are enabled and retained for three days on the plan this site uses, after which they age out. There is no Logpush and no other external log destination configured, so those logs are not exported to any third-party storage or analytics service.
Lobby data. The state of a lobby is kept in Durable Object storage so that a game can continue and disconnected players can rejoin. It is not automatically erased at the moment a match ends. Requests about the data in a lobby can be sent to contact@footbauction.com; how such a request is assessed, and what can limit it, is set out under your rights.
What your browser holds stays on your device until you clear it, or until the browser clears it.
Children
Not built for young children.
Footbauction is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has provided information through the site, write to the contact address. Requests about a child's information are treated as a priority, and are handled the way described under your rights.
Your rights
Ask, and you get an answer.
The operator is established in British Columbia, Canada, and follows the principles of Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), where those laws apply.
You can ask to access the information held about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted. Send the request to contact@footbauction.com. Requests are assessed and answered in accordance with the law that applies to them.
Acting on a request needs enough information to locate the data and to check that the request is legitimate. There are no user accounts here and no index of people, so the only practical anchor is the lobby itself: which lobby it was, the manager name you used in it, and roughly when you played. If the lobby cannot be identified, it may not be possible to locate any data at all — not as a refusal, but because there is nothing to search by.
Do not put session identifiers, tokens or access keys in your message, and do not send them by email to anyone who asks for them, including anyone claiming to be us. They are credentials, not reference numbers, and a legitimate request never needs one.
Deletion is not guaranteed in every case. A lobby is shared — it holds the game other people played as well. Where erasing it would affect the rights, the security or the data of the other participants, or where the information has to be kept for legal reasons, the answer will explain that instead.
Depending on where you live, you may have additional or different rights under your local law; those requests go to the same address. If you are not satisfied with the response, and one of those laws applies, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.
Changes and contact
Dated at the top, so you can tell.
This policy may change — most obviously when advertising is switched on. The date at the top of this page is the date of the current version, and material changes will be reflected there.
Questions, requests and complaints all go to contact@footbauction.com.
Who runs Footbauction, and where the player data came from, is set out on the about page. The rules for using the site are in the terms of service.
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