Privacy Notice

Who we are

VARdict (vardict.co.uk) is the reliability record for football transfer journalism, operated from the United Kingdom. For anything in this notice, contact us via @VARdictApp on X.

What we collect and why

Account details. Signing up requires an email address, handled by our authentication provider, Clerk. It identifies your account and nothing else; we do not send marketing email.

Notification subscriptions. If you enable notifications, your browser gives us a push subscription token so we can deliver alerts about the journalists, players and clubs you follow. Turning notifications off, or removing the app, invalidates the token and we delete it.

Usage analytics. We use Vercel Analytics, which is aggregate and cookieless. We see page-level statistics, not profiles of individual visitors.

We do not run advertising, we do not sell or share personal data for marketing, and we do not use tracking cookies.

Cookies

The only cookies set are those strictly necessary for signing in and keeping your session secure, set by Clerk. There is no advertising or cross-site tracking, which is why there is no cookie banner.

Journalists' public posts

VARdict records and assesses public posts made by professional journalists and public reporting accounts, in the public interest of accountability in football journalism. Every assessment follows our published methodology, is checked against verified outcomes, and is reviewed by a person before it affects a published record. A journalist who believes a record is wrong can contact @VARdictApp and we will review it.

Who processes data for us

Clerk (authentication), Vercel (hosting and aggregate analytics) and Turso (database hosting) process data on our behalf under their own security and data-processing terms. We do not pass personal data to anyone else.

Retention and your rights

Account data is kept while your account exists and deleted when you ask us to close it. Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of your data, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, object to or restrict processing, and complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk). Contact @VARdictApp to exercise any of these.

Changes

If this notice changes materially, the date above changes with it and significant changes will be announced on our X account.