Privacy Policy — Football Globe
What this app is (and is not)
Football Globe is an independent football (soccer) news reader and live-score viewer. It pulls publicly available RSS feeds from leading football outlets (BBC Sport, Sky Sports, The Guardian, ESPN, and Google News football searches) so you can browse world football news by topic — transfers, the Champions League, the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, internationals, women’s football and more — alongside a dedicated FIFA World Cup hub. Live scores and fixtures for the world’s top leagues come from the free public TheSportsDB API. An Explore hub links out to the world’s most-visited football sites (FIFA, UEFA, Premier League, ESPN, Sky Sports, Goal, Marca, AS, Transfermarkt and others), which open in Android’s Chrome Custom Tabs. Football Globe is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by FIFA, UEFA, any league, club, or any of the outlets it links to. All names, logos, and trademarks belong to their respective owners.
What this app collects
Football Globe does not collect any personal information from you. There are no user accounts, no sign-in, and no server we control that stores your activity.
| Data | Collected? | Stored where |
|---|---|---|
| Name, email, account info | No | — |
| Device location | No | — |
| Contacts, camera, microphone, storage | No — the app does not request these permissions | — |
| News topic / league you last viewed | Held in memory while the app runs so a screen reloads where you left off | Device memory only; not persisted to any server |
| Text you type into the optional AI Match Insight | A short football prompt you choose is sent to the Pollinations.ai text endpoint (a third-party AI service) to generate a friendly preview/prediction | Pollinations.ai processes the request and returns a response; please review their terms before using this optional feature |
| Crash logs / analytics | No | — |
How news and scores work
Headlines, sources, dates, snippets and article links come from the public RSS / Atom feeds the outlets themselves publish (and from Google News football searches). Football Globe fetches those feeds directly (e.g. feeds.bbci.co.uk), parses the XML on your device, and lists the items. Live scores and fixtures are read from TheSportsDB’s public JSON API. Tapping an article or an Explore tile opens it in Chrome Custom Tabs, which loads the site’s own page from the site’s own server — the same content you would get by typing the URL into Chrome. Football Globe does not inject scripts into those pages and does not read your cookies, login credentials, or session tokens. Outside the app, the site’s and Chrome’s own privacy policies apply.
The optional AI feature
“AI Match Insight” sends a short, football-only prompt you select (for example “Who are the favourites for World Cup 2026?”) to the public Pollinations.ai text endpoint to generate a brief, family-friendly take. No identifier of yours is attached. The prompt that Football Globe sends instructs the AI to discuss only football and to refuse anything unsafe, hateful, explicit, or that targets a real private individual. Generated text is clearly labelled as AI-generated and carries a Report control. Each user gets a couple of free uses; further uses require watching an optional rewarded ad. If you never tap “Generate insight”, nothing is ever sent.
Permissions the app requests
- Internet / network state — required to fetch news feeds and live scores, open pages in Chrome Custom Tabs, request ads, and run the optional AI feature. The app shows a “You’re offline” screen when there is no connection.
The app does not request contacts, location, microphone, camera, storage, exact-alarms, foreground-services, or any other sensitive permission.
Advertising
Football Globe shows ads provided by Google AdMob in four formats: banner (a small strip pinned to the bottom), interstitial (an occasional full-screen ad after several link opens, paced gently), app-open (a full-screen ad when you bring the app back to the foreground — never on the first launch, per Play policy), and rewarded (an optional full-screen ad you choose to watch to unlock additional uses of AI Match Insight). Google’s advertising SDK collects and processes limited data — for example, your device’s advertising identifier and approximate IP-based location — to serve and measure ads. This is governed by Google’s policies:
If you live in a region where consent is required (the EEA, UK, Switzerland, or a US state with applicable privacy law), the app uses Google’s User Messaging Platform (UMP) and you can re-open the consent form from the in-app menu → Privacy options.
Content disclaimer
Headlines, article excerpts, scores and fixtures are produced by the third-party outlets and data providers Football Globe links to. Their accuracy, framing, and editorial decisions are entirely those providers’ responsibility — Football Globe does not edit them beyond grouping by topic, league, or competition. Live scores and fixtures are best-effort and may be delayed or incomplete; always check the official competition site for authoritative results. AI-generated insight is best-effort and may contain errors.
Children
Football Globe is intended for a general football-fan audience. The AdMob ad content is mixed-audience and news content is chosen by third-party outlets, so the app is not designed specifically for children.
Trademark notice
FIFA, UEFA, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1, MLS, Eredivisie, Primeira Liga, Brasileirão, BBC Sport, Sky Sports, The Guardian, ESPN, Goal, The Athletic, Marca, AS, L’Équipe, Transfermarkt, OneFootball, 90min, Football365, FotMob, WhoScored, Reddit and all other named brands are trademarks of their respective owners. Their inclusion is nominative — Football Globe helps you reach those public feeds and sites and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.
Contact
If you have questions about this policy, contact the developer through the Google Play listing.