Privacy policy

Who we are

Match Predictions is run by Skaap Limited, Co. Waterford, Ireland, which is the data controller for the information described here. For anything to do with your data — questions, corrections or deletion — email info@skaap.ie.

What we collect

• Your account — email address, a display name, and a password. Passwords are stored only as a secure one-way hash; we never see or store the password itself.
• Your profile picture, if you choose to upload one. It's resized and stored on our server.
• Your predictions and the scores, error margins and statistics worked out from them.
• Push notification subscriptions, if you turn match alerts on. This is a token issued by your browser, not by us, and only lets us send notifications to that browser.
• Technical data — our web server keeps standard access logs (including IP address) for security and troubleshooting, and we keep error logs when something goes wrong.

Why we use it, and on what basis

We use your data only to run the prediction game: to sign you in, record your picks, work out the leaderboard, and show your results and performance to you and the other players.

The legal basis is performance of a contract (providing the service you signed up for) for your account and predictions, our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure for technical logs, and your consent for push notifications — which you can withdraw at any time in your browser or device settings.

Who can see it

Your display name, profile picture, predictions and scores are visible to other players — that's the point of a shared leaderboard. Your email address is never shown to other players. We do not sell your data, and we don't use advertising or analytics trackers.

Cookies

• A session cookie, which keeps you signed in while you use the app.
• A “remember me” cookie (about 90 days) if you ask to stay signed in.

Both are strictly necessary to run the service. We set no advertising or analytics cookies. Signing out removes them.

Third-party services

Some of the app's styling, fonts and charting code is loaded from public content delivery networks (jsDelivr, the jQuery CDN and the Highcharts CDN). As a technical necessity of downloading those files, your browser reveals its IP address to those providers. They receive no account information, predictions or other data from us.

Where your data is kept, and for how long

Your data is stored on servers in Ireland. We keep your account data for as long as your account exists.

If you delete your account, we remove your email address, password, profile picture and name. Your past predictions are kept but permanently anonymised — they appear only as “Deleted player”, with nothing linking them to you. We do this because the scoring system awards points based on how many players took part in each match, so deleting those entries outright would retroactively change other players' historical scores.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account yourself at any time: go to Profile → Delete account, confirm with your password, and it's done immediately. You can also email info@skaap.ie and we'll do it for you.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive a copy in a portable format. Email info@skaap.ie and we'll help.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, you can complain to the Irish Data Protection Commission.

Children

This app isn't intended for children under 16, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Credits

Ireland’s four-provinces flag is by Henrik Hansen, used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Other team flags come from flag-icons (MIT). Icons are Font Awesome.

Match-day forecasts come from Open-Meteo, used under CC BY 4.0. We send them only a stadium's coordinates — never anything about you.

Stadium photographs:

• Accor Stadium — Storm machine , CC BY-SA 4.0
• Allianz Stadium, Turin — forzaq8 , CC BY 2.0
• Allianz Stadium, Twickenham — VDAnton , CC BY-SA 4.0
• Aviva Stadium — wynnert from Dublin, Ireland , CC BY-SA 2.0
• Bluenergy Stadium — Holapaco77 , CC BY 4.0
• DHL Stadium — Deklerk Basson dkbasson , CC0
• Eden Park — Bjankuloski06 , CC BY 4.0
• Ellis Park Stadium — Leglo09 , CC BY-SA 2.0
• Estadio José Amalfitani — Veronica Johansen , CC BY-SA 3.0
• Groupama Stadium — JME91800 , CC BY-SA 4.0
• HFC Bank Stadium — Stemoc , CC BY-SA 3.0
• Japan National Stadium — Syced , CC0
• Loftus Versfeld Stadium — Marcello Casal Jr/ABr , CC BY 3.0 br
• Murrayfield Stadium — Daniel from Glasgow, United Kingdom , CC BY 2.0
• Optus Stadium — Evad37 , CC0
• Principality Stadium — Colin Smith , CC BY-SA 2.0
• Sky Stadium — NZ Footballs Conscience , CC BY-SA 4.0
• Stade de France — Rmpbedford , CC BY-SA 4.0
• Stadio Luigi Ferraris — Stefano Delfrate , CC BY-SA 2.0
• Stadio Olimpico — filip bossuyt , CC BY 2.0
• Suncorp Stadium — MarioBayo , CC BY-SA 4.0