Privacy and safety

What is stored, and where

The board keeps your team name, fixture, players' names, shirt numbers, positions, injuries, saved line-ups and substitutions. All of it is saved in this browser on this device.

The messages to the parents and the line-up picture are made on your device too. They only go where you send them.

Send the squad, under Customise your club, makes a link with the board inside it so you can open it on your phone. The squad sits in the part of the link after the #, which browsers never send to a website, so it goes only where you send the link.

What we do not collect

You do not need an account. No email address, unless you choose to sign in, join the club waitlist or become a founding coach. No advertising and no trackers that follow you to other sites. The only cookie is the one that keeps you signed in, and only if you sign in. The fonts are served from gafferboard.com, so the page does not call out to anyone else.

Like any website, our host, Vercel, sees what every browser sends when a page loads, such as your IP address, and keeps it briefly in its logs for security. What is on your board is never part of that.

What we count

We count visits, so we know how many coaches use Gafferboard. Vercel Web Analytics records which page was opened, the site you came from, your country and the kind of device and browser. It sets no cookie and does not know who you are: a visitor is a code that resets every day.

Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast each page loads on your device, such as how long the main picture takes to appear and whether anything jumps as it loads. With it go the page, your country and the kind of device and browser. It sets no cookie either.

On the board we also count a few moments: a board started or opened again, the first use of the board each week, the match clock started, half time and full time, a call-up, result or picture sent, and the founding coach card shown, joined or closed. With them go the age group, how it went out (WhatsApp, a copy or shared) and roughly how long since the last visit, such as "7 to 13 days" or "1 week". To tell that gap, the time and week of your last visit are kept in this browser and never leave it. No names, no team details and nothing else from your board are sent.

Nothing on your board is part of it. Not the team, not a player, not the message you send.

Signing in

Signing in is optional. You give your email address and we email you a link through Brevo, the service we send email with. The link works for 15 minutes.

Tap it, press Sign in, and this browser keeps one cookie that says which email address is signed in, for up to six months. It is needed to keep you signed in, so it needs no banner. It holds nothing else, and it is signed so it cannot be changed.

We keep no account database. So that each link works only once, and signing out really signs you out, we keep two small notes with Upstash, the service we store them with: that a link was used, for 15 minutes, and when you last signed out, for six months. Neither holds your email address, only a scrambled code made from it.

Your squad is not sent anywhere when you sign in: it stays on this device. Sign out on the account page and the cookie is deleted, and you are signed out on every device that used your address.

The club waitlist

If you leave your email address for the club waitlist, in the footer or under Customise your club on the board, we keep that address and when you left it. It is stored with Brevo, the service we send email with, and only we can see it.

We use it for one thing: to tell you when Gafferboard for clubs is ready. It is never shared or sold. To be taken off the list, get in touch and we delete it.

Founding coaches

Coaches who used Gafferboard in its first weeks see a thank-you card on their board, once. If you leave your email address there, we keep that address and when you left it, with Brevo, on a separate list only we can see.

We use it to offer you a founding price when the season pass comes and to show you new things first. It is never shared or sold. Every email has a link to leave the list, or get in touch and we delete it.

Most squads are children

Treat the board like any team list. Use first names or initials where you can. The Shape panel can show players by initials, and the line-up picture follows it.

Send the call-up and the result only to people who should see them, such as the team's parents group. The line-up picture is for the coaches.

Keep your device safe

Anyone who can open this browser on your device can see the board. Lock your phone with a passcode. On a shared or club computer, use Start again under Customise your club when you have finished.

A squad file holds every name on the board. Keep it somewhere private, and do not post it in a group chat.

Who looks after your data

Gafferboard is made and run by Davide Domenghini, who decides what is kept and why. That makes Davide Domenghini responsible for the email addresses held for sign-in, the club waitlist and founding coaches.

Nothing on your board is held by us, so there is nothing of it to hand over or delete on our side.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email davide@gafferboard.com and we answer within a month.

If you are not happy with the answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Deleting your data

Delete a player and they are gone from the board. Start again, under Customise your club, clears the whole board. Clearing this site's data in your browser settings does the same.

Squad files you exported are yours to delete. We never had a copy.