Privacy Policy: Where's the Footy

Last updated: 29 September 2026

Where's the Footy ("the app") shows which UK app or channel a football match is on and opens that app for you. This policy explains what data the app handles.

The short version

• No accounts. We never ask for your name, email or phone number.
• The app sends us anonymous usage data and crash reports, so we can fix problems and see which features get used. Nothing in it identifies you.
• You can turn this off at any time in Settings: "Share anonymous usage data".
• No advertising, no tracking across other apps or websites, and we don't sell or share data.

Anonymous usage data

When it's on, the app sends:

• How the app is used: when it's opened and for how long, and actions such as tapping a match (with its competition), searching (how many results, not what you typed), changing day, using the Live now filter, changing a setting (which one, and on or off), or adding or removing a favourite team (which team).
• Problems: when a match has no channel yet, a kick-off time isn't confirmed, the list fails to load, or a broadcaster app couldn't be opened.
• Crash reports: the error message, part of the technical error log, whether the app closed, and the app version.
• Device basics: the app version and your phone's operating system and version.
• A random ID the app creates when it's installed. It lets us count how many people use the app without knowing who they are. It isn't your Apple ID, advertising ID or phone number. Deleting the app deletes it.

We use this only to understand how the app is used and to fix problems. Every hour we add it up into daily totals (for example, how many people opened the app that day). The individual records, with the random ID, are deleted after 35 days. We keep the totals, which don't relate to any one person.

We don't store your IP address with this data. Our hosting provider may briefly log network details, such as IP addresses, to run and protect the service.

When you turn it off, the app stops sending usage data and crash reports straight away, and anything not yet sent is discarded. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and improving it.

Data that stays on your phone

Your list of favourite teams, the apps you have and your settings are saved on your phone. The usage data above only includes a team when you add or remove it, and a setting when you change it. Match reminders are scheduled on your phone by the app.

Fixtures and channels

The app downloads fixtures, results and UK broadcaster information from our backend. That data comes from third parties such as football-data.org and TheSportsDB and contains nothing about you.

If you contact us

If you email us (for example with "Report an issue"), we get your email address and your message, and use them only to reply and fix the problem.

Who handles the data

Our backend is hosted by Supabase, which stores the data in London (UK) on our behalf. We don't share it with anyone else.

Opening other apps

When you tap a match, the app asks your phone to open the broadcaster's app (e.g. BBC iPlayer, ITVX, Sky Sports, NOW, TNT Sports, Prime Video) or, if it isn't installed, the App Store or a web page. Once you leave for a broadcaster app, that app's own privacy policy applies. We are not affiliated with these broadcasters.

Your choices

You can turn off anonymous usage data in Settings at any time. Because the data isn't linked to you, we usually can't pick out your records, but you can email us with any question. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Children

The app is for a general audience and isn't aimed at children.

Changes

We'll update this page if anything changes, and change the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy: lukason7@hotmail.com.