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Privacy Policy
Your privacy matters to us. This page explains, in plain language, how information may be processed when you browse Goat Arena, participate in the live community vote, take quizzes, read articles or interact with other features of the site.
Last updated: August 24, 2026
About This Privacy Policy
Goat Arena is a football comparison and community website focused on player statistics, records, honours, quizzes, articles and fan discussions. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be processed when you visit or interact with goatarena.org.
We aim to collect only the information reasonably necessary to operate the website, understand how visitors use it, provide advertising where applicable, and maintain interactive features such as the live community vote.
Community Voting
Goat Arena includes a live Messi vs Ronaldo community voting feature. When you cast a vote, the selected player is recorded so that the website can calculate aggregate results and display the current community standings.
The public voting result is presented as an aggregate count or percentage. Goat Arena does not publicly display a voter's identity alongside a vote.
The voting system may rely on technical safeguards and information provided by the underlying hosting or database infrastructure to protect the service from abuse, duplicate submissions, automated requests or other misuse. The exact information processed for these purposes depends on the configuration of those services.
Database & Technical Services
Goat Arena uses third-party infrastructure to operate parts of the website. For example, community voting data may be stored using Supabase.
Like most websites, technical requests may involve information such as an IP address, browser type, device information, approximate location, referring page, timestamps and other technical request information. Some of this information may be processed automatically by hosting, database, security, analytics or other infrastructure providers.
Goat Arena does not use the voting feature to create a public profile of individual voters.
Analytics & Website Measurement
Goat Arena may use analytics or measurement tools to understand how visitors interact with the website. This can include information such as pages viewed, approximate geographic region, device type, browser, referral source, time spent on pages and general traffic patterns.
Analytics information is used to understand which parts of Goat Arena are useful, identify technical problems, improve navigation and evaluate overall website performance.
Advertising
Goat Arena may display advertisements provided by third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense where enabled.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising performance and, depending on applicable settings and consent requirements, personalize advertisements based on a visitor's interests or previous activity.
You can learn more about Google's advertising controls and manage certain advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
Because advertising services are operated by third parties, their own privacy policies and terms may also apply.
Football Statistics & External Sources
Goat Arena publishes football statistics, records, honours and historical information gathered from public football data sources and statistical databases.
Statistics can change as competitions progress, databases are updated, historical records are corrected, or different providers apply different statistical definitions. We therefore aim to identify important sources and update information periodically.
Where Goat Arena links to an external website, that website operates independently and is governed by its own privacy policy and terms.
Data Security & Retention
We take reasonable steps to protect information used to operate Goat Arena. However, no website, database or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it is processed, including operating the site's features, maintaining security, complying with legal obligations and resolving disputes where applicable.
Retention periods may differ between Goat Arena and the third-party services that help operate the website.
Your Choices
Depending on where you live and the services active on the website, you may have rights concerning information processed about you. These can include rights to request information about processing, object to certain processing, withdraw applicable consent, or request deletion where legally available.
You can also control browser cookies through your browser settings and manage certain Google advertising preferences through Google Ads Settings.
Children's Privacy
Goat Arena is a general-audience football website and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to the website in a way that should not have occurred, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
Changes to This Policy
Goat Arena may update this Privacy Policy when the website's features, advertising partners, analytics tools, infrastructure or legal requirements change.
When changes are made, the updated version will be published on this page together with a revised "Last updated" date.
Contact Goat Arena
If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, want to report a privacy concern, or need clarification about information processed by the website, contact us at hello@goatarena.org.
For corrections to football statistics, record information, website bugs or general feedback, you can also use our Contact Us page.