This Cookie Policy explains how Bizexpanders LLC ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies, software development kits (SDKs), pixels, and similar tracking technologies when you use the Tuga Futebol website and mobile applications. This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies and Tracking Technologies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. SDKs are blocks of code embedded directly into our mobile applications. Pixels (or web beacons) are tiny, invisible images embedded in web pages or emails that track user interaction.
We use these technologies to keep your account secure, remember your preferences, measure platform performance, enforce fair-use limits, and (for free users) deliver personalised advertising.
2. Categories of Technologies We Use
A. Strictly Necessary (Essential) Technologies
These technologies are necessary to provide the Services requested by you, maintain security, remember your privacy choices, authenticate account access, process a payment you initiate, prevent fraud, and apply reasonable fair-use controls.
We may use strictly necessary technologies to:
- Maintain login sessions and protect accounts.
- Remember cookie and privacy choices.
- Support payment transactions initiated by you through Stripe, Apple, or Google Play.
- Detect fraud, abuse, security incidents, and repeated failed age-gate or sign-in attempts.
- Run Google reCAPTCHA bot checks on sign-up and age-verification pages, which may set Google cookies.
- Apply guest-access limits, such as counting article views, where this is necessary to provide and protect the free service.
B. Functional Technologies
These technologies remember choices that improve your experience, such as language, region, or display preferences. Where a functional technology is not strictly necessary, we ask for consent where required by law.
If you are signed in, information such as your followed clubs or competitions may be stored as part of your account data so that we can provide personalised Newsfeed; this is not necessarily stored in a cookie.
C. Analytics and Performance Technologies
With your consent, we use tools like Google Analytics to understand how fans use Tuga Futebol. These technologies track which articles are most popular, measure app crash rates (via Sentry), and help us improve the overall user experience and AI chatbot performance.
D. Advertising and Marketing Technologies
With your explicit consent, we allow third-party advertising partners to place pixels, SDKs, and cookies on your device to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant personalised advertisements. Our partners include:
- Google: AdSense (website) and AdMob (mobile app).
- Social Media Pixels: Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads), TikTok, Reddit, and X (formerly Twitter).
3. Advertising Choices and Subscription Tiers
Tuga Futebol offers free and paid subscription tiers. Our use of advertising and marketing technologies depends on your choices and account tier.
- Free Tier Users: Where required by law, we ask for your consent before using non-essential analytics, advertising, or marketing technologies. If you consent, we may show personalised advertising. If you decline, you may continue to use the free tier with non-personalised or contextual advertising, subject to the features and reasonable fair-use limits applicable to free users.
- Ad-Free, Premium, and Pro Subscribers: We disable advertising and marketing cookies, pixels, and SDKs used for advertising purposes while you hold an active paid subscription. We do not use paid-subscriber data for personalised advertising. Essential technologies needed for security, account access, payments, subscriptions, and service delivery continue to operate. Analytics technologies operate only where permitted by law and, where required, with your consent.
You can upgrade, downgrade, or manage your subscription in accordance with our Subscription Terms and the terms of the relevant payment provider or app store.
4. Consent Management and IAB TCF
By default, we block non-essential cookies, pixels, SDKs, and similar technologies until we have obtained consent where consent is required.
For users in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, where we serve personalised advertising through Google publisher products, we use a Google-certified consent management platform configured to integrate with the IAB Europe Transparency and Consent Framework, including the version supported by our CMP and advertising partners.
Our CMP provides information about the relevant purposes, vendors, and choices, records consent or objection signals, and lets you withdraw or modify your choices at any time. Google requires a certified CMP integrated with the IAB TCF for personalised ads through AdSense, Ad Manager, or AdMob in the EEA, UK, and Switzerland.
5. Key Technologies and Providers
The technologies we use may change as we improve the Services or change our service providers. This Cookie Policy identifies the main categories of technologies and principal providers we use. You can manage your choices for non-essential Functional, Analytics, and Marketing technologies through Cookie Preferences, available from the website footer and the app settings menu.
Provider / technology | Platform | Purpose | Category | Consent status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Tuga Futebol session and security technologies | Website and app | Login, security, consent preferences, fair-use limits | Strictly necessary | No consent required where strictly necessary |
Stripe | Website | Payment processing and fraud prevention for a payment initiated by you | Strictly necessary / payment | As required by applicable law |
Apple In-App Purchases / Google Play Billing | Mobile app | Subscription and in-app payment processing | Strictly necessary / payment | As required by applicable law |
Google Analytics | Website and app | Audience measurement and service performance | Analytics | Consent where required |
Sentry | Website and app | Error monitoring, crash reporting, security, and diagnostics | Essential security or analytics, depending on configuration | Consent where required |
Google AdSense | Website | Advertising, including personalised advertising where enabled | Advertising | Consent where required |
Google AdMob | Mobile app | Advertising, including personalised advertising where enabled | Advertising | Consent where required |
Meta, TikTok, Reddit, X | Website and app where enabled | Marketing measurement, audience building, and advertising | Marketing / advertising | Consent where required |
Resend email technologies | Email delivery and, where enabled, measurement of marketing-email engagement | Service / marketing | Marketing preferences and consent where required |
6. Managing Your Choices
You have the right to change your mind and manage your tracking preferences at any time:
- Cookie Preferences: You can manage your choices through Cookie Preferences, available from the website footer and the app settings menu. Cookie Preferences lets you enable or disable non-essential Functional, Analytics, and Marketing technologies. Necessary technologies cannot be disabled because they are required for the Services to function securely and properly.
- Apple App Tracking Transparency (ATT): On iOS, where we or our partners engage in tracking as defined by Apple, we request your permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt before accessing the advertising identifier or undertaking that tracking. You may change this permission in iOS Settings.
- Global Privacy Control (GPC): Where required by applicable U.S. state privacy law, we recognise Global Privacy Control signals as a request to opt out of the sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising processing covered by that law. A GPC signal does not necessarily withdraw consent previously given for every non-essential technology in jurisdictions where GPC is not legally recognised; you can manage all choices through Cookie Preferences.
- Email Technologies: We use Resend to deliver service and marketing emails. Service emails, such as password resets, receipts, security notices, and subscription confirmations, are necessary to provide the Services and cannot be opted out of while you maintain an account. You can opt out of marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link. Where marketing emails use open or click measurement, we provide any notice and choice required by applicable law..
7. Contact Us
If you have any questions about how we use cookies or how to manage your privacy settings, please contact our compliance team at:
Email: [email protected]