1. Controller and contact details
Tuga Futebol is operated by BizExpanders LLC, a Delaware limited liability company with file number 10483314. Our registered office is 1111B S Governors Ave STE 49349, Dover, DE 19904, United States. For privacy questions or requests, contact [email protected].
Our EU representative is Hendrik Ferreira, Tower Business Centre, 2nd Floor, Tower Street, Swatar, BKR4013, Malta. The representative can also be contacted through [email protected].
2. Data we may collect
- Technical and usage data: IP address, browser, device, timestamps, requested pages, referring URLs, security events, and diagnostic logs.
- Account and profile data: name, email address, authentication details, preferences, followed teams or competitions, and profile settings when accounts become available.
- Community data: posts, comments, reactions, reports, and moderation history when community functionality is enabled.
- Communications: information you provide when contacting support, submitting a request, or reporting a correction.
- Transaction data: subscription, billing, and payment status. Full payment-card details are processed by Stripe and are not stored by us.
- Consent and advertising data: consent choices, campaign attribution, ad interactions, and identifiers collected only where the required consent or other lawful basis exists.
3. How and why we use data
- Provide, secure, maintain, and personalise the website and future account features.
- Deliver football news, match information, followed-team updates, and community functionality.
- Process payments, prevent fraud, provide support, and enforce our terms.
- Measure reliability and understand aggregated product usage.
- Comply with legal obligations and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
- Measure and personalise advertising only after valid consent where consent is required.
4. GDPR legal bases
Where GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on performance of a contract for requested services and paid features; legitimate interests for security, fraud prevention, support, and proportionate product improvement; legal obligations for accounting and regulatory requirements; and consent for non-essential cookies, personalised advertising, and related tracking. You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing performed before withdrawal.
5. AI-generated content and human oversight
Tuga Futebol uses proprietary AI technology operated by BizExpanders LLC to generate content through research, organisation, summarisation, and production workflows. Human oversight forms part of our editorial process, but AI-generated material can still contain errors. We do not use the public website to make legal or similarly significant decisions about individuals solely through automated processing.
6. Cookies, advertising, and analytics
We may use Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google AdSense, Meta Pixel, or related tools. Where consent is legally required, these technologies must remain disabled until you make a consent choice. Advertising partners may process cookie identifiers, IP addresses, device information, page visits, and ad interactions for measurement, fraud prevention, and ads personalisation.
Google and we may act as independent controllers for certain advertising processing. Learn how Google uses business data at Google's Business Data Responsibility site. You can manage Google ad personalisation through Google Ads Settings. Information about Meta's processing is available in the Meta Privacy Policy.
If AdSense is enabled for users in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we will use a Google-certified Consent Management Platform integrated with the applicable IAB Transparency and Consent Framework before requesting advertising consent. See our Cookie Policy for more details.
7. Service providers and disclosures
We do not sell personal data for money. We may disclose data to providers necessary to operate Tuga Futebol, including:
- DigitalOcean for hosting and network delivery.
- MongoDB and Redis for application data and operational infrastructure.
- Stripe for payment processing.
- Sentry for error monitoring and diagnostics.
- Sportmonks and future sports-data providers for sports information.
- Google and Meta when analytics or advertising tools are enabled with the required permissions.
- Professional advisers, regulators, courts, or law enforcement where legally required.
8. International transfers
BizExpanders LLC is established in the United States and operates with an EU presence. Data may be processed outside your country. Where required, we use recognised safeguards such as adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, contractual controls, encryption, access restrictions, and transfer-risk assessments.
9. Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as needed for the purpose collected, account operation, security, dispute resolution, and legal obligations. Transaction and accounting records may be retained for up to seven years. Security logs are retained for limited periods unless needed to investigate abuse or establish legal claims. Anonymised information that can no longer identify a person may be retained for statistical purposes.
10. Your rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to:
- Access, correct, delete, or receive a portable copy of personal data.
- Restrict or object to processing, including direct marketing.
- Withdraw consent and change non-essential cookie choices.
- Opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising where applicable.
- Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
Submit a request to [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
11. California privacy information
California residents may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information under the CCPA/CPRA. We do not sell personal information for money. Some advertising disclosures may constitute “sharing” when enabled. You may opt out through the applicable consent controls or by contacting us. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.
12. Children
Tuga Futebol is not intended to knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. Where local law requires parental permission for a child's account or consent, those features must not be used without the required permission. We do not knowingly use personalised advertising to target users known to be children.
13. Security
We use access controls, encryption in transit, encrypted secrets, monitoring, backups where appropriate, and service-provider security controls. No Internet service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
14. Updates
We may update this policy when the product, providers, or legal requirements change. Material changes will be identified by a revised effective date and, where appropriate, an additional notice.