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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 July 2025

Disclaimer: This is a template privacy policy and does not constitute legal advice. You must consult with a qualified legal professional to ensure this policy is appropriate for your specific circumstances and compliant with all applicable laws, including UK GDPR.

1. Introduction

Welcome to Match Centre UK. This privacy policy explains how we, Match Centre UK Ltd. ("we", "us", "our"), collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our application and services.

2. Data We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Account Information: When you register, we collect your name, email address, password, and associated club.
  • User-Generated Content: We collect data you provide, such as player details, club information, match results, and management staff details.
  • Social Media Connections: If you connect social media accounts (e.g., X, Facebook), we store authentication tokens and profile information necessary to provide the service, as authorised by you through the respective platform's consent screen.
  • Technical Data: We may collect data about your device and browser, IP address, and how you use our service, for analytics and security purposes.

3. How We Use Your Data

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our services.
  • Authenticate you and manage your account.
  • Allow you to post content to your connected social media accounts.
  • Communicate with you, including sending service-related updates.
  • Improve and personalize our services and to understand how users interact with them.
  • Ensure the security of our application and prevent fraud.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (UK GDPR)

We process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., connecting a social media account).
  • Contract: Where processing is necessary for a contract we have with you (e.g., to provide you with the services you signed up for).
  • Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (e.g., for fraud prevention, network security, or service improvement), provided these interests are not overridden by your rights.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with:

  • Service Providers: Third parties who provide services on our behalf, such as cloud hosting (e.g., Google Cloud for Firebase).
  • Social Media Platforms: When you use our service to post content, we share that content with the platforms you have connected.
  • Legal Requirements: If required by law, we may disclose your information to law enforcement or other public authorities.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate.
  • Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to processing if we are doing it for our legitimate interests.
  • Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [Your Contact Email].

7. Data Security

We use technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential.

8. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Match Centre UK Ltd.
[Your Company Address]
Email: [Your Contact Email]