Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Goalsverse (goalsverse.com) is a fan-made community site for the video game GOALS. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the developers of GOALS.

2. What data we collect

When you sign in with Discord, we receive and store the following from Discord's OAuth2 API:

• Your Discord username and display name
• Your Discord profile picture URL
• A unique Discord user ID (used to identify your account)

We also store any content you create on the site, such as your club profile settings and uploaded clips.

If you upload a clip, we store the clip title, file duration, and file size in our database, and the video file itself is transmitted to and stored by Bunny.net (our video hosting provider) for streaming and delivery. Viewers' IP addresses may be logged by Bunny's CDN infrastructure when a video is played.

3. How we use your data

• To authenticate you and keep you signed in
• To display your username and avatar on content you create
• To process and stream video clips you upload via Bunny.net

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data for advertising or profiling purposes. Video content you upload is transmitted to Bunny.net solely to provide the Clips feature — see section 4 for details.

4. Third-party services

We use Bunny.net as a sub-processor for video storage and streaming. When you upload a clip, your video file is sent directly to Bunny's infrastructure. Bunny operates its own CDN and may log technical data such as IP addresses and request metadata when videos are played, in accordance with their own privacy policy.

You can review Bunny.net's privacy policy at bunny.net/privacy.

Some pages feature YouTube videos from creators in the community. These embeds are loaded in a privacy-friendly way: we show only a static thumbnail until you click play, so nothing is requested from YouTube and no YouTube cookies are set unless you choose to watch a video. If you do play a video, it is streamed from YouTube's privacy-enhanced domain (youtube-nocookie.com) and YouTube may then set cookies and receive technical data such as your IP address, in accordance with Google's privacy policy.

Outside of the services described above, we do not use any third-party analytics, advertising networks, or tracking services.

5. Cookies

We use a single session cookie to keep you signed in. This cookie is strictly necessary for the site to function and does not track you across other sites. We do not set any third-party tracking or advertising cookies ourselves. The only exception is if you choose to play an embedded YouTube video, in which case YouTube may set its own cookies — nothing is set until you actively click play (see section 4).

6. Fair use & abuse prevention

Some features are resource-intensive to run. To keep them available and affordable for everyone, and to prevent automated abuse, we apply fair-use limits. In particular, the MIG Card generator is limited to 5 cards per IP address per day (a rolling 24-hour window). If you reach the limit you can generate more later.

To enforce these limits we store a salted, one-way hash of your IP address alongside each generated card — never the IP address itself. The hash cannot be reversed back into your IP; it exists only to count requests from the same source and deter abuse. We rely on this on the basis of our legitimate interest in keeping the service running fairly and securely.

7. Data retention

Your account and associated data are retained for as long as your account is active. Clip records are removed from our database when your account is deleted; video files stored on Bunny.net are also deleted, though this may take a short additional period to propagate. You may request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time by contacting us.

8. Your rights

If you are located in the EU/EEA, you have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. To exercise any of these rights, contact us via our Discord server.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy occasionally. Any significant changes will be announced in our Discord server. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact

For any privacy-related questions, reach out via our Discord server.