Cookies and storage

What SetMatcher keeps in your browser, why, and for how long.

In short

No cookies. SetMatcher does not set a single one.
Nothing from another company except Google’s advertisements: no analytics, and no fonts or scripts from anybody else’s servers. The advertisements are personalised only if you agree to it in Google’s own question, and SetMatcher Plus removes them.
One question: whether we may remember your choices on this device. Everything else listed here is needed for the service you use, so it is kept without asking.

Needed

Without these, the service you use does not work.

Always on

Keeps you signed in. Stored as auth_token · Until you sign out, or until you close the tab if you chose not to stay signed in
Your answer to the question on this page, and when you gave it. Stored as setmatcher_consent · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
The language you picked. Stored as setmatcher_lang · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
Whether you switched on quiet hours for notifications. Stored as setmatcher_quiet_hours · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
Whether you switched on the weekly digest. Stored as setmatcher_weekly_digest · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
That you objected to error reports. Only there if you did. Stored as setmatcher_error_reports · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
A problem report you are still writing while signed in, so a reload does not lose it. Stored as setmatcher_bug_report_draft · Until the report is sent or discarded, or you sign out
What you entered while there was no connection (a score, or a press at the tournament desk), so it is sent once there is one, and the server’s answer if it was not accepted. Stored as setmatcher_outbox · Until it has been sent, or its answer read, and always until you sign out
For administrators only: whose view of the app is being seen, and the way back. Stored as setmatcher_impersonation · Until the view ends
That you said no to notifications on this device, so you are not asked again. Only there if you did. Stored as setmatcher_push_ask · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
That you closed the card offering to install the app, so it does not come back. Only there if you did. Stored as setmatcher_install_card · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
Your answer to the Google Ads question, so it is asked once rather than on every visit. Stored as setmatcher_ads_consent · Until you change it or clear your browser's data
The welcome question you answered and the suggestions you closed, so they are not shown to you again. Stored as setmatcher_dismissed · Until you change it or clear your browser's data

Your choices

Kept on this device only if you choose Accept. Otherwise they last until you close the tab.

Only if you agree

The sport you were last looking at. Stored as setmatcher_sport · Until you change it or choose Decline
The filters and order you left the ranking board in. Stored as setmatcher_rankings · Until you change it or choose Decline
The sport you last looked at in each group that plays more than one. Stored as setmatcher_group_sport · Until you change it or choose Decline

Error reports

When a page breaks, this browser sends a technical report to our own server so we can fix it: the error, the page's address without anything after the question mark, your browser's name and version, and your last steps as page addresses and the kind of button pressed. Never what you typed or read, and not who you are. Reports are kept in our server's logs for 14 days.

Nothing is stored in your browser for this. It rests on our legitimate interest in a service that works (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), so you can object here. A report you send yourself with Report a problem is separate: it carries what you choose to include.

Send error reports from this browser On: a page that breaks tells us so.

Advertising

Some pages carry an advertisement from Google, unless you have SetMatcher Plus, which removes them everywhere. On those pages Google’s advertising script runs, and Google asks you in its own window whether the advertisements may be personalised. SetMatcher never hands an advertiser your name, your email address or anything from your account, and there is never an advertisement while you score a match, pay, or change your settings.