Privacy Policy
Hometown FC (“the game”, “we”) is a single-player football management game for iOS and Android, published by Hometown FC. This policy explains what data the game handles and what leaves your device.
The short version
Your game lives on your device, we don't know who you are, and nothing you do in the game is sold or shared. There are no accounts, no registration, and no server of ours holds your game data. The one exception is optional: if you join our launch email list on this website, we keep just your email address to tell you when the game is out — see Launch email list below.
Anonymous gameplay analytics (optional)
We use PostHog (hosted in the European Union) to count anonymous events such as “a session started”, “a new career was created”, or “a season was completed”. This tells us which parts of the game are used and helps us improve it.
- These events contain no name, email, account, or device contacts — we cannot identify you from them.
- Club names, player names, owner names, and town names from your save are not included in analytics events.
- You can turn analytics off at any time in Menu → Settings → Privacy → “Anonymous analytics”. The game works identically with it off, and disabling it stops all future events.
Crash diagnostics (on-device only)
If the game crashes, a sanitized technical report (error message and stack trace, no personal data) is stored locally on your device to help diagnose the problem. At most 20 reports are kept. They are not uploaded anywhere automatically.
Your save data (on-device only)
Careers are saved on your device. If you use Export save, the game creates a file that you control — sharing it (for example to cloud storage or email) is your action, through your device's standard share sheet. We never upload your saves.
Launch email list (optional)
On this website you can choose to give us your email address to be notified when Hometown FC launches. This is entirely optional, you are never asked for it inside the game, and it is the only personal data we ever hold.
- Your email is stored on our own infrastructure (a Cloudflare service on this domain) and used only to email you about the Hometown FC launch. It is not handed to any third-party marketing platform.
- We never sell or share it, and we don't use it to profile or track you.
- You can ask to be removed at any time by emailing support@hometownfc.app, and every launch email we send will include an unsubscribe link.
- The form posts to our own server, not a third party — this website still sets no cookies and loads no third-party resources.
What we do NOT collect
- No accounts or registration, and no names or personal data from inside the game. (If you opt into the launch email list on this website, we hold just that email — see above.)
- No location data.
- No contacts, photos, or files beyond the save file you explicitly pick when importing.
- No tracking of you across other apps or websites for our own purposes. (In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, ads are non-personalised — see “Advertising” below.)
Advertising
The game shows ads supplied by Google AdMob (for example, an optional rewarded ad you choose to watch, plus occasional banner and interstitial ads).
- Google may process your device's advertising identifier and IP address to serve and measure ads, under Google's privacy policy.
- In the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland we serve only non-personalised (contextual) ads — they are not based on profiling you or tracking you across other apps. Before any ads load there, you are shown a consent message through Google's certified consent platform, and you can decline.
- On iOS, the system App Tracking Transparency prompt asks for your permission before any cross-app advertising identifier is used; if you decline, ads are non-personalised.
- If you buy Remove Ads, no ads (and no ad SDK requests) run on your device.
In-app purchases
The game offers optional purchases (convenience cash packs, a one-time “Remove Ads”, and optional head-start packs). They are never required to progress, and there is no pay-to-win. Payments are processed entirely by the App Store or Google Play — we never see your payment details. Purchase entitlements are stored on your device and with the store, not on any server of ours.
Children
The game contains no chat, no user-generated content sharing, and no data collection beyond the anonymous analytics described above. Where minors may play, ads in the EEA, UK and Switzerland are non-personalised. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Your rights & how to exercise them
Because the game keeps your data on your own device and analytics is anonymous, most rights are satisfied directly:
- Access / portability — your saves are on your device; Export save produces a copy you control.
- Erasure — deleting the app (or deleting saves from the in-game menu) removes your local data. Disabling the analytics toggle stops all future events; past events are anonymous and aggregated and cannot be traced back to you to delete individually.
- For ad-related data held by Google, see Google's privacy controls; for anything else, email us and we will respond.
Data retention
- Analytics events are anonymous and aggregated.
- Save data and crash reports live only on your device.
This website
This website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first, cookieless measurement tool, to count page views and visits and gauge performance. It uses no cookies, does not track you across sites, and collects no personal information (no cross-site identifiers, no fingerprinting). Apart from that lightweight analytics beacon, the site loads no third-party resources — fonts and images are served from this site itself. If you submit the optional launch-email form, your email is sent to our own server (a Cloudflare Worker on this domain) and stored there; it is not handed to any third-party platform. Our hosting provider (Cloudflare) may keep standard, short-lived server logs (such as IP addresses) to operate and secure the service.
Changes to this policy
Material changes will be published at this URL before they take effect, with the “last updated” date above revised.
Contact
Questions about this policy: support@hometownfc.app