Privacy Policy — teams.ie

1. Who we are

teams.ie is an Irish sports news aggregator that collects and indexes sports articles from publicly available RSS feeds, and provides fixtures, results and league table data from licensed third-party data providers. We are based in Ireland and operate under Irish and EU law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

For any privacy-related queries, contact us at: hello@teams.ie

2. What data we collect

When you create an account, we collect:

Email address — used to create and identify your account
Preferences — your selected sports, teams, countries and notification settings
Country — used to personalise TV listings (Ireland or UK)

We do not collect your name, address, payment details, or any other personal information.

3. Why we collect it (legal basis)

Contract performance — your email and preferences are needed to provide the service you signed up for
Legitimate interests — we may use anonymised usage data to improve the site

4. How we use your data

To authenticate you and maintain your session
To personalise your news feed based on your preferences
To show relevant TV listings for your country
To send you sports news digests (only if you opt in)

We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it for profiling.

5. Third-party services

We use the following third-party services which may process your data:

Supabase — our database and authentication provider. Your email and preferences are stored securely on Supabase infrastructure hosted in the EU. See Supabase Privacy Policy.

6. Cookies

We use the following types of cookies:

Essential cookies — required to keep you signed in and remember your session. These cannot be declined.
Analytics cookies — used to understand how visitors use the site. These are only set if you accept cookies.

You can manage your cookie preference at any time by clearing your browser cookies and refreshing the page.

7. Article content

All news articles displayed on teams.ie remain the copyright of their original publishers. We display only the article title, a short excerpt and a thumbnail image as provided in the publisher's RSS feed. Each article links directly to the original source. If you are a publisher and wish to opt out, please contact us.

8. Data retention

Your account data is retained for as long as your account is active
If you delete your account, all personal data is permanently removed within 30 days
Anonymised usage statistics may be retained indefinitely

9. Your rights under GDPR

You have the right to:

Access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
Rectification — ask us to correct inaccurate data
Erasure — ask us to delete your account and all associated data
Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format
Restriction — ask us to limit how we use your data
Objection — object to processing based on legitimate interests

To exercise any of these rights, email hello@teams.ie. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission of Ireland.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be notified by email or by a notice on the site. Continued use of teams.ie after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.