What we collect, and what we don’t

Sideline asks you to sign in with Google. From that we receive your email address and the account identifier Google issues for you. We never receive your Google password, and we never post anything to your account. There is no advertising anywhere in Sideline. It does send us anonymous usage statistics, described in full below.

On the free plan nothing that identifies you is stored on our servers. Signing in is used only to ask whether your account has a subscription; that question is answered and no record of you is kept.

If you subscribe, we store your Google account identifier alongside your subscription status, so your Supporter extras work on every device you sign in to.

What is stored, and where

The competition, club and players you pick are saved by your own browser, so your watchlist is there next time you open the panel. That list never reaches us, and uninstalling Sideline removes it.

Your Fantasy Premier League team is imported using your public team ID. We never ask for, receive or store your FPL password.

Network requests

To show live scores, statistics, club badges and player photographs, Sideline requests publicly available football data and images from public sports sources. These requests contain no personal information about you — they are ordinary requests for public sports content, identical to loading a public sports web page. We add no identifiers, and the responses travel directly to your browser; we never receive them.

Usage statistics

So we can see how Sideline is used and decide what to improve, the extension sends our server anonymous usage statistics as you use it. They contain:

• a random identifier created when Sideline is installed, used for nothing else. It is not linked to your Google account, your email address or your subscription;
• the Sideline version, your operating system, browser version and interface language;
• which Sideline features were used and when: for example installing or updating, opening the panel, viewing a screen, importing a squad (how many players, not which ones), or starting checkout; and whether the toolbar icon is pinned.

Our server works out your country from the request and passes on the country, not your IP address. It also notes whether the request came from a data centre rather than a home or mobile network, so automated installs can be told apart from people; only that label is kept, not the network or the address. When you uninstall Sideline, Chrome opens a page on this site that records the uninstall and lets you tell us why, if you want to.

These statistics never include the pages you browse, your watchlist or your FPL team. They go through our server, hosted by Cloudflare, to PostHog, the analytics service we use to read them. Your browser never contacts PostHog directly. They are never sold, shared with anyone else or used for advertising. Uninstalling Sideline stops them.

Support messages

If you contact us through the support page, the email address, title and description you enter, plus your browser and Sideline version, are delivered to our inbox by Web3Forms. We use them only to answer you.

What Sideline does not do

• It does not read, access or modify the pages you browse.
• It has no content script; it runs only inside its own side panel.
• It uses no cookies or advertising identifiers, and loads no third-party tracking scripts.
• It never receives your Google password, or your Fantasy Premier League password.
• It does not sell or share your data.

Permissions, and why

Chrome shows you this list when you install. Every entry below is used for the one thing described beside it, and for nothing else.

• Sign in with Google — identifies your account, so a subscription follows you to any machine you sign in on.
• Storage — saves your watchlist and caches match data in your own browser.
• Side panel — Sideline’s entire interface is Chrome’s side panel; it has no other surface.
• Alarms — wakes Sideline on a timer to refresh cached data and to check whether anything alert-worthy has happened.
• Notifications — shows desktop alerts for goals, assists, cards, injuries and transfer news about the players you track. Alerts only arrive while Chrome is running, and are never used for marketing.

Payments

Sideline Supporter is sold at $3.99 per month or $29.99 per year. Payments are processed by Paddle acting as merchant of record. Paddle collects an email address and billing details at checkout and processes them under its own privacy policy. Sideline never sees or stores card details, and no payment information passes through the extension.

When you subscribe, we record your Google account identifier, your subscription status and the identifier Paddle issues for the subscription. That is the whole record. Cancelling is handled by Paddle, and the record is what tells Sideline to stop treating your account as a Supporter.

Children

Sideline is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version is published on this page and the date above changes.

Contact

Questions about this policy: moeezramay1@gmail.com