Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

United Matchday is an independent football publication. The site is operated as a single-publisher project and is not affiliated with Manchester United Football Club or any other football club, league, or governing body.

2. What data we collect

We collect only the information necessary to run the service and to respond to you:

• Contact submissions: When you use the Contact Us form, we store your name, email address, subject and message so we can reply.
• Technical logs: Our hosting and database providers may automatically log standard request data such as IP address, browser type and pages visited for reliability and security purposes.
• Cookies and local storage: We use only essential cookies and similar technologies required for the site to function. We do not use tracking or advertising cookies.

3. How we use your data

We use the information we collect to:

• Operate, maintain and improve the website.
• Respond to contact-form enquiries.
• Diagnose technical problems and protect the security of the site.

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data. We do not use your data to train AI models.

4. Third-party services

We use football-data.org for fixture, result and competition data. Their use of your data is governed by their own privacy policy. We do not embed social-media trackers or advertising networks on the site.

5. Data retention

Contact-form submissions are kept for as long as necessary to respond to and resolve your enquiry, then deleted within a reasonable period unless we are required by law to keep them longer.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data. To exercise these rights, contact us using the Contact Us page.

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on this page with the updated date.