It is written to describe the site exactly as delivered: a static site with no server-side processing, no analytics and no advertising scripts installed. The moment you add an analytics tag, an ad network, a form handler or a comment system, you must update the relevant sections below and the cookie policy. You should also have this reviewed against the law that applies to you and your visitors before launch.
Who we are
Football Arcade ("we", "us") operates the website at footballarcade.xyz. For privacy questions, write to privacy@footballarcade.xyz.
The short version
- We do not ask you to create an account, and we have no user database.
- Your high scores and your light/dark theme choice are stored in your own browser, not on our servers.
- No analytics or advertising script is installed on the site at the time of this review.
- Our web host processes standard server logs in order to serve the site.
- Nothing you type into a form on this site is transmitted anywhere while the form remains unconnected.
What is stored on your device
These are the only items this site writes to your browser. They are stored in local storage, are readable only by this site, never leave your device, and are not sent to us.
| Key | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
fa-theme | Remembers whether you chose the light or dark theme. | Until you clear site data |
fa-best-<game> | Your personal best score for one game. | Until you clear site data |
fa-consent-v1 | Your cookie choices, so we do not ask again. | Until you clear site data |
You can delete all of it at any time by clearing site data for footballarcade.xyz in your browser settings. Doing so will reset your high scores, because we have no other copy of them.
Server logs
Like every website, this site is delivered by a web server that keeps standard access logs. These typically include your IP address, the time of the request, the page requested, the referring page and your browser's user-agent string. They exist so that the site can be served and so that faults and abuse can be diagnosed. We do not use them to build a profile of you, and we do not combine them with anything else.
Retention and handling of those logs is determined by our hosting provider. If you need the specifics for a formal request, contact us and we will tell you who hosts the site and point you at their terms.
Cookies
At the time of this review, the site sets no tracking cookies. The consent banner exists so that optional cookies can only ever be set after you allow them — the technical mechanism is already in place and no optional script is loaded until you accept the matching category. Full detail, including how to change your mind, is in our cookie policy.
Advertising
This site is designed to be funded by advertising, and the page layouts include reserved advertising slots. No advertising script is installed at the time of this review, so no advertising cookie is set and no ad identifier is collected.
When advertising is enabled, this section will name the provider and describe what it does. In general terms, an advertising network may use cookies or similar identifiers to measure how often an ad is shown, to limit repetition, to detect fraud, and — where you have consented — to personalise the ads you see. You will be able to withdraw that consent at any time through the cookie settings link in the footer of every page.
Analytics
No analytics package is installed at the time of this review. If one is added, it will be listed here, it will be loaded only after you consent to analytics cookies, and it will be configured to collect aggregate usage rather than personal profiles.
Forms
The contact form and the newsletter form on this site validate your input in your browser and then stop. Because this is a static site with no server-side code, nothing you type is transmitted or stored while those forms remain unconnected — which is why each one says so on the page rather than showing a success message.
If you email us instead, we hold your message and your address for as long as it takes to deal with your enquiry, and then no longer than is reasonable for our own records. We do not add you to a mailing list because you wrote to us.
What we never do
- Sell or rent personal information.
- Ask children to provide personal information. This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.
- Use dark patterns to obtain consent. "Reject optional" is as easy to click as "Accept all".
- Track you across other websites.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for access to the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict its processing, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. In practice, because we hold no user accounts and no profiles, the answer to an access request will usually be that we hold nothing beyond any email correspondence you started.
To exercise a right, write to privacy@footballarcade.xyz. You can also delete everything this site has stored on your device yourself, at any time, by clearing site data.
Third-party links
Some articles link to external documentation and reference sites. Those sites have their own privacy policies and we are not responsible for them.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes materially — for instance when analytics or advertising is switched on — we will update the "last reviewed" date at the top of the page and describe what changed. Continued use of the site after a change means you accept the current version.