Privacy Notice

1. Controller and contact

Early Shout is operated by Nicholas Neyt, at Durmen 273, 9240 Zele, Belgium. This operator is the controller for account and gameplay information used by the service. Privacy questions and rights requests can be sent to earlyshout@gmail.com.

2. Information we process

• Account information: email address, user ID, authentication records and username.
• Gameplay information: answers, scores, XP, streaks, predictions, market holdings, transactions, watchlists, gameweek results and league membership.
• Technical information: security, diagnostic and request data produced when the service is used.
• Device storage: essential authentication storage and local or session storage used to save anonymous progress, preferences and import state.
• Usage analytics: Vercel provides limited, cookie-free aggregate measurements such as pages, referrers, approximate country, browser and device category. We also record game and sign-up steps on our own server without analytics cookies. The server briefly uses the connection address and browser information to create a pseudonymous hash that changes each UTC day; the raw address and browser information are not saved in these event records. The records contain only approved event values and page categories, with no email, name, account ID, answers or free text, and are deleted after 90 days. If you accept optional analytics, Google Analytics also measures page visits, interactions, referral information and broad device or location information and may place analytics cookies. If you are signed in and have accepted analytics, Google Analytics also receives a pseudonymous account identifier (never your email address or username) so that visits from the same account, including on another device, are counted as one returning user.

3. Purposes and legal bases

• Provide accounts and gameplay, preserve progress and perform requested transactions: performance of our agreement with you.
• Protect accounts, prevent abuse, diagnose faults and keep an audit trail: our legitimate interests in operating a secure and fair service.
• Use Vercel's limited aggregate traffic measurement and our own daily funnel counts to understand service demand and reliability: our legitimate interests in improving the service with minimal impact on visitors.
• Use optional Google Analytics to understand longer-term traffic sources, page use and game interactions: your consent. Google Analytics remains off until you accept it, and you may change that choice through the Analytics choices control in the footer.
• Comply with valid legal obligations: compliance with law.

4. Public information

Your chosen username and game statistics may appear on public profiles and leaderboards. Your email address is not intended to be public. Do not choose a username containing private information.

5. Service providers and international processing

Early Shout uses Supabase for authentication and database services, Vercel for hosting and privacy-focused aggregate web analytics, Google Analytics for optional consent-based usage measurement, and Sportmonks as a football-data source. Sportmonks supplies football information rather than Early Shout account data. Providers may process service or diagnostic information outside your country. Early Shout must maintain appropriate contractual and transfer safeguards where legally required; contact us if you want information about the safeguards relevant to your data.

6. Retention

Account and gameplay information is kept while your account is active. After a verified deletion request, live account data will be deleted or anonymised unless a limited record must be retained for security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution or legal compliance. Provider backups and logs may persist for their normal limited backup or security cycles before deletion. Anonymous browser data remains until it expires or you clear it. Beta-participation records may be retained while needed to honour the promised founder benefit or resolve related disputes.

7. Your rights and analytics choice

Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability or object to certain processing. You may withdraw Google Analytics consent at any time using the Analytics choices control in the footer; withdrawing consent disables further Google collection in that browser and removes accessible Google Analytics cookies. You may also complain to the Belgian Data Protection Authority or your local supervisory authority. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

8. Children

Early Shout does not permit account creation by children under 13 and is not currently marketed to children under 16. Users below the age required by local law must have valid parental or guardian permission. Contact us if you believe a child’s information has been provided improperly.

9. Advertising and sponsorship

Direct sponsor messages are contextual and clearly labelled. Aggregate placement views and outbound clicks may be counted. Early Shout does not currently use behavioural advertising or provide account and gameplay information to sponsors. If personalised advertising, advertising cookies or a third-party advertising network is introduced later, this notice will be updated and the required consent choices will be shown before those technologies are activated.

10. Security and changes

We use access controls, row-level database security and restricted server credentials, but no online service can guarantee absolute security. We will update this notice when processing materially changes and identify the effective date above.