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Privacy policy
Last updated: 10 November 2026
Who is responsible
Touchline World is a free online football manager run by Mihai Popovici, a private individual. For anything about your data, write to privacy@touchlineworld.com.
What we store
- Your account: your email address and your password. The password is stored only as a secure scrambled version (a hash) by our login provider. We never see it.
- Your profile: your manager name, club name and the country you chose.
- Game data: your club, players, tactics, training, transfers, finances, results and in-game notifications.
- Activity: when you last opened the game, and which emails we sent you, so we don't send the same email twice and don't email you while you're active.
- Technical data: our hosting and login providers keep short-term technical logs (such as IP address and browser type) to keep the service running and secure.
We don't use advertising, tracking or analytics cookies, and we don't sell or share your data with anyone for marketing.
Why we use it
- To run the game for you: your account, your club and the shared league (this is needed to provide the game you signed up for).
- To keep the game secure and working, and to fix problems.
- To send a few game emails: a match reminder while you're away, and account emails such as password resets. You can switch match reminders off on the Notifications page or with the link in every email. Account emails are part of the service.
Cookies
We only use the two cookies needed to keep you signed in. They contain no tracking and expire after 30 days without a visit. Because they are strictly necessary, there is no cookie banner.
Who helps us run the game
| Supabase | Database and logins |
|---|---|
| Render | Runs the game's website and game clock |
| Resend | Sends the game's emails (EU region) |
| Porkbun | The touchlineworld.com domain and forwarding of emails sent to us |
They only process data to provide these services to us. Some are US companies, so data may be processed outside the EU; where that happens they rely on the safeguards the GDPR requires (such as the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses) under their own data-processing terms.
How long we keep it
- Your account and profile stay until you delete your account.
- When you delete your account, your email, profile, notifications and email history are deleted straight away, and your login is removed. Your club stays in the league as a computer-run club with a new name, so other players' leagues and results keep working; it is no longer linked to you.
- Daily backups of the game world are kept for 14 days, so deleted data disappears from backups within 14 days.
Your rights
You can ask to see the data we have about you, correct it, receive a copy, object to how we use it, or have it deleted. You can delete your account yourself at any time on the Account page. For anything else, email privacy@touchlineworld.com; we answer within one month. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
Age
Touchline World is for people aged 16 and over.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date above and tell players in the game.