Privacy policy
Scope
This policy covers the Skora website at skora-app.live. It is written to describe what the site actually does, not what a site of this kind usually does.
You do not need an account to read any page here, and we never ask for your name, your email address or any other personal detail in order to show you a score.
What is collected automatically
Like any web server, ours receives the following with each request:
- Your IP address.
- Your browser and operating system, as your browser reports them (the user-agent).
- The pages you opened and when you opened them.
- The site that linked you to us, if any — internal navigation within Skora is not treated as a referrer.
- The display language you chose, and the search terms you typed into the site's own search box.
How that is used
Two things are kept, and they are deliberately different from each other.
Aggregate counts: how many visits each page received on a given day, and how many distinct visitors there were. A visitor is counted through a one-way fingerprint — a SHA-256 hash of your address, your user-agent and a salt that changes every day — which cannot be reversed back into an address and cannot be matched across days. These counts are numbers, not records of people.
A short-term detail log: the visits themselves, used to operate the site, understand how it is used and investigate abuse. This is the part that holds your address in a readable form, and it is deleted automatically after 30 days.
Automated crawlers, such as search-engine bots, are counted but are not written to the detail log at all.
Approximate country
We show which country a visit came from. That country is worked out inside our own server, from a table of address ranges published by the regional internet registries and built into the software.
Your address is never sent to a third-party geolocation service. The result is the country an address range was allocated to, which is not the same thing as where you are: for a home or mobile connection the two usually agree, but for a corporate network, a CDN or a VPN they often do not.
Cookies and local storage
- skora_locale — remembers whether you are reading in Arabic or English. Set only when you choose a language, kept for a year, and readable by the server only.
- Your light/dark theme choice is stored in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie. It never leaves your browser and is never sent to us.
- A session cookie exists for site administrators on the /admin pages. It is never set for ordinary visitors.
- Advertising cookies set by third parties — see the next section.
Advertising
This site shows advertising supplied by Google, including Google AdSense, and by networks partnered with it.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info.
If you are visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you are shown a consent message before personalised advertising cookies are used, and you can change or withdraw that choice at any time from the link in the message.
We do not give advertisers your IP address, your email address or anything else from our own records.
No third-party analytics
Skora does not use Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics service. Every figure described above is counted inside our own server and stays there.
Who it is shared with
We do not sell your data and we do not trade it. Nothing from our own records is shared except with the advertising providers described above, on the terms described there, or where we are required to by a binding legal request.
How long it is kept
- Aggregate daily counts: kept indefinitely, because they identify nobody.
- The detail log, including IP addresses: at most 30 days, then deleted automatically.
- Cookies: as described in the cookies section above. You can delete them from your browser at any time.
Your rights
You can ask what the site holds about your visits, ask for it to be deleted, or object to it being kept. Write to us at the address above.
Because nothing we store is attached to a name or an account, we may need your IP address and roughly when you visited in order to find the right records — and after 30 days there will be nothing left to find.
Depending on where you live you may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
Children
Skora is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.
External links and sources
Match data comes from third-party football data providers. The site also links to other sites, including from advertising. We do not control how those sites handle your data, and this policy does not cover them.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy. The date at the top of the page is when it last changed.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or a privacy request: write to the address above.