Privacy Policy

Effective 4 November 2026 (previously 2 November 2026)

YT Lab ("the developer") makes the mobile game Football Career Sim: Be a Pro ("the app"). The app works without sign-up; you can link an Apple or Google account if you choose to. What leaves your device is advertising, the career record and owner nickname you put on the global ranking, usage analytics if you allow them, and account-link details if you link an account - all set out below.

1. What is processed

There is no sign-up. The app does not collect your name, email, phone number, contacts or precise location (linking an account does not store your email or name either). Only the following is processed.

Data	Processed by	Purpose
Advertising identifier (IDFA / AAID)	Google AdMob (mediation: Unity Ads, Mintegral)	Serving and measuring the bottom banner, the native ad in the season result, the interstitial every sixth season, and the rewarded ads you choose to watch
Purchase receipts	Apple App Store / Google Play	Confirming and restoring in-app purchases
Gold purchase and spending records (store transaction id, product, time, anonymous id), the gold balance and club facilities	This app's server (Cloudflare)	Crediting the gold bought, preventing double credit, keeping the balance and facilities, and moving them to another device with a restore code
Game progress (your shelf of retired players, settings, what you own, game funds, club edits and any image used in them)	Your device	Picking up where you left off
Automatic backup (game progress: careers in progress, the shelf of retired players, titles, game funds and so on, with the anonymous id; images used in club edits are not included)	This app's server (Cloudflare)	Picking up where you left off after deleting and reinstalling the app - only the latest one per account is kept
Account link (optional) - a one-way hash (SHA-256) of the account identifier received from Sign in with Apple or Google Sign-In, which service it is, when it was linked, and the anonymous id. No email or name is stored	This app's server (Cloudflare), Apple (Sign in with Apple), Google (Google Sign-In)	Signing in on a new or replacement device to get the automatic backup, gold and purchase records back - only if you link an account in Settings
Anonymous id and access token	Your device's secure storage (iOS Keychain, Android Block Store - encrypted in your Google backup when Google backup is on)	Coming back as the same owner after a reinstall
Player name, career record, anonymous id	This app's ranking server (Cloudflare)	The global ranking - sent by default, and switchable off on the Rankings screen. See section 7
Owner nickname and the cosmetics shown on the ranking	This app's ranking server (Cloudflare)	Shown on the ranking with your careers - only while you take part. See section 7
Usage analytics (events such as app open, career created, season completed, retirement; screens viewed and the screen the app was left on; whether reminders are allowed and opened; on Android, whether the install came from an ad or not - never the ad click id itself; time, session duration, app version, platform, device model, OS version, language, country/region derived from IP, anonymous id, app instance ID)	This app's server (Cloudflare), Google Analytics for Firebase (Google LLC)	Improving the game - sent only if you choose Allow, and switchable off in Settings at any time. See section 8

Careers and the shelf are stored on your device, and backed up automatically to this app's server (the latest one per account) so you can pick up again after a reinstall. When a career ends, what section 7 lists is sent to the ranking server; turn off "Take part in rankings" at the foot of the Rankings screen and nothing further is sent. There is no crash reporting. Usage analytics go to our own server and to Google Analytics for Firebase only if you allow them, and never include names, free text, the advertising identifier (IDFA / AAID) or the IDFV. Images used in club editing never leave the device.

2. Storage

Everything is kept in on-device storage (shared_preferences) and is removed when you delete the app, except the server's automatic backup (the latest one per account) and the anonymous id in the device's secure storage, which stay so a reinstall can pick up again. The backup is kept until you ask us to delete it; each new backup replaces the previous one. Account-link details are kept until you unlink the account or delete it.
With the ranking and usage analytics both switched off, nothing reaches a server of ours. Section 7 covers how long an entered career is kept and how to have it deleted. Usage analytics records on our own server are likewise kept until a deletion request is made; Google Analytics event data is deleted automatically after at most 14 months.

3. Advertising

Ads are a bottom banner, a native ad inside the season result, and, from your second career on, one interstitial when every sixth season's result closes. Rewarded ads play only when you choose one: extra stat rolls when creating a player, healing an injury, or an extra Daily Challenge attempt. Nothing on top of a screen where you are choosing.
Google AdMob may process the advertising identifier and related data to serve and measure ads. See the Google Privacy Policy.
Through AdMob mediation, Unity Ads and Mintegral also bid for ads and may process the advertising identifier and related data to serve and measure them. See the Unity Privacy Policy and the Mintegral Privacy Policy.
On iOS, personalised or non-personalised ads follow your App Tracking Transparency choice. In Europe a consent form is shown first.
Buying "Remove ads" stops the banner, the native ad and the interstitials.

4. Payments

In-app purchases are handled by the App Store and Google Play. The developer never receives card or other financial details.
The products sold are remove ads, the position pack, Start at 15 and the Supporter Shelf (one-off, non-consumable purchases), and gold (a consumable currency). Gold is spent on club facilities, cosmetics and reroll tickets or exchanged for game funds, and is also earned by playing and daily check-ins. Game funds themselves are never sold.
The gold balance and purchase records are kept on this app's server under the anonymous id. A restore code in the app moves them to a new device, or, with a linked account, signing in on the new device gets them back.
Purchases can be recovered with "Restore purchases" in the app.

5. Sharing

The developer does not sell user data and shares nothing beyond the processing described above (AdMob and its mediation networks Unity Ads and Mintegral, app-store billing, and the Cloudflare processing the ranking and usage analytics use, Google Analytics for Firebase for usage analytics, and Apple and Google sign-in for account links), except where required by law.

6. Your choices

Deleting the app deletes what is stored on the device. The server's automatic backup and the anonymous id in the device's secure storage stay so a reinstall can pick up again; you can ask for them to be deleted as described in section 7.
Deleting your account in the app - Settings > Link account > Delete account deletes it straight away. Your owner profile, gold balance, club facilities, automatic backup, submitted careers and ranking records, and account links are deleted at once and cannot be restored. Where your club appears in other players' league and cup match records, it stays there with its names removed; store transaction ids are kept, linked to no one, so a purchase cannot be credited twice. If you linked Apple, the Sign in with Apple authorisation is revoked too. If you can no longer open the app, email the address in section 7.
Anything you entered into the ranking, and your usage analytics records, can be deleted on request - see section 7. Usage analytics can be switched off in Settings, which also clears anything not yet sent.
The advertising identifier can be reset or limited in your device settings (iOS: Settings > Privacy > Tracking; Android: Settings > Ads).

7. Global ranking

The app offers a global ranking. When a career ends, the following is sent to our ranking server. You can switch this off at any time with the "Take part in rankings" switch at the foot of the Rankings screen; once off, nothing further is sent.

The player's name (up to 16 characters). The game generates one to suit the chosen nationality, and you can type your own. A name you type is shown on the rankings and in the club league as well, and inappropriate words are filtered on the server
Your career's play record (position, club, per-season appearances, goals, assists, and rating, national-team caps, retirement age, peak rating, earnings, and similar in-game stats)
Your owner nickname (up to 16 characters) and the cosmetics shown on the ranking - the nickname you chose on first launch appears beside your careers. Inappropriate words are filtered out on the server, and nothing is sent while you do not take part
An anonymous id (uid) issued by our service - not a device or advertising identifier; it is also kept in the device's secure storage so a reinstall comes back as the same owner

Device identifiers, advertising identifiers, location, contacts, and email addresses are not sent by this feature.

Retention - the information above is kept indefinitely, until a deletion request is made.
Deletion requests - delete the account in the app (section 6), or send the id shown at the foot of the Settings screen to the contact address below, and we will delete every record that id created on our server: its submitted careers, the reports it filed, the reports filed against its own careers, any player it blocked, its usage analytics records and its automatic backup. The one thing this does not delete: if another player blocked this id, that block is their own setting, not this id's data, and it stays in place.
Where this is processed - the information above is processed and stored on Cloudflare (Workers and D1), and is not shared with any other third party for this purpose.

8. Usage analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase)

To see, in aggregate, where players stop and how often they come back, the app uses Google Analytics for Firebase (Google LLC). It collects data only if you choose Allow on the usage-analytics prompt, and you can switch it off in Settings at any time; once off, nothing further is collected.

What is collected - app usage events (screens viewed, progress such as a career starting and ending), the app instance ID (a random identifier generated by the SDK), device model, OS version, app version, language, approximate location (country/region derived from the IP address - the IP address itself is not stored by Google Analytics), and session duration
What is not collected - collection of the advertising identifier (IDFA / AAID) and the IDFV is disabled. No names, contacts or free text are sent.
Purpose - aggregate statistics such as retention and drop-off points, used only to improve the app. It is not used to identify individuals and is never sold.
Retention - per the Google Analytics retention settings, event data is kept for up to 14 months and then deleted.
See the Google Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

9. Children

The app is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them.

10. About the names in the game

Every league, club, player and manager name in the app is invented and is not connected to any real organisation or person.

11. Contact

Developer: YT Lab
Email: contact@ytlab.site

12. Changes

Any change to this policy will be published on this page.