Privacy policy
FootyAlert for Chrome and Android · Effective 6 November 2026
- No ads, no analytics, no tracking. We never sell or share your data.
- To send you alerts, our server keeps your device's push address and the teams and matches you follow.
- Signing in with Google is optional. If you do, we keep your email address, name and profile picture so your teams sync between Chrome and your phone.
- We never see the web pages you visit.
Who we are
FootyAlert is a Chrome extension and an Android app that show live football scores and alert you about matches you follow. It is run by Vihang. Questions about this policy: vihang7660+footyalert@gmail.com.
What we collect
Everyone
- A push address for your device. Your browser's push service (Google's, for Chrome) or Firebase Cloud Messaging (on Android) gives each device an address that lets our server send it alerts, plus keys to encrypt them. It only works for sending alerts to that device and doesn't tell us who you are.
- What you follow. Your favourite teams, and the matches you star or mute, so we know which alerts to send you.
- On Android, also your alert choices: which events you want alerts for (goals, cards and so on), spoiler mode, quiet hours, your time zone (for quiet hours), and matches pinned to your notifications. The server uses these to decide which alerts to send to your phone. The Chrome extension keeps these choices on your computer.
Only if you sign in with Google
- From Google: your email address, your name and a link to your profile picture (the "openid", "email" and "profile" permissions). We don't get your password, and we can't see your Gmail, contacts, files or anything else in your Google account.
- Your account: the teams you follow, starred and muted matches, folded sections of the scores screen, and your alert choices, so they're the same on every device you sign in on. We also note which of your devices are signed in, so a change on one reaches the others.
- A sign-in token that keeps you signed in. We store only a scrambled (hashed) copy of it.
Kept only on your device
Your settings, recent alerts, a copy of your matches' latest scores, pinned matches, and a short diagnostic log of the last 20 alerts (including which website an alert was shown on). This stays in Chrome's storage or the app's storage on your phone and isn't sent to us. If you turn on Chrome sync, Chrome may copy your extension settings between your own computers through your Google account. That is Google's Chrome sync, not our server.
What we don't collect
- Your browsing. If you allow the extension to show alerts on web pages, it uses that access only to draw the alert and scoreboard on the page you're looking at. It doesn't read the page's content. It checks the page's address on your computer to see whether an alert can be shown there, and that address never leaves your computer.
- Request logs. Our server doesn't log your requests or your IP address. To stop abuse, it counts a few kinds of request (such as sign-ins and new devices) per IP address, in memory only, for up to a day.
- Your location, contacts, photos, or any payment details.
How we use it
Only to run FootyAlert: to show scores, send you the alerts you asked for, and keep your devices in sync. We don't use it for advertising, profiling or analytics. We don't sell it, rent it, or share it with anyone, except Google, which handles sign-in and delivers alerts to your devices, and the company that hosts our server.
How long we keep it
- Your device's push address and follows: deleted when the push service tells us the device is gone (for example after you uninstall), and in any case 7 days after your device last checked in. Apps check in at least once a day while installed.
- Starred and muted matches: forgotten 36 hours after kick-off.
- Sign-in: ends when you sign out, or after 180 days without use.
- Your account (only if you signed in): kept until you ask us to delete it.
Your choices and rights
- Use it without an account. Everything except syncing between devices works without signing in.
- Sign out in the extension's settings or the app's settings. That device is unlinked from your account at once.
- Uninstall. Your device's registration is removed within 7 days.
- See, correct or delete your data. Email vihang7660+footyalert@gmail.com from the address you signed in with. We'll delete your account and everything linked to it within 30 days and confirm when it's done.
You can also remove FootyAlert's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/connections.
Security
All traffic to our server uses HTTPS. Alerts to Chrome are encrypted so that only your browser can read them. Sign-in tokens are stored only in hashed form, and access to the server is restricted to its operator.
Google user data
FootyAlert's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The Chrome extension also follows the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy.
Children
FootyAlert is not aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has signed in, contact us and we'll delete the account.
Where your data is stored
Our server is in India. If you use FootyAlert from another country, your data is sent to and stored in India.
Changes to this policy
If we change what we collect or how we use it, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.