Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-29 · English

This Privacy Policy explains how The Flywheel Corporation (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects and uses personal data when you use Tipmaster — the Tipmaster football prediction game at tipmaster.net (the “Service”). It should be read together with our Terms & Conditions.

1. Data we collect

• Account data: your email address and the display name you choose (shown on leaderboards).
• Authentication data: a securely hashed password, passkey credentials, or — if you sign in with a social login provider (Google, Apple, Microsoft, or Amazon) — your provider account identifier, email address, and basic profile name, used only to create and access your account.
• Gameplay data: the predictions you make, the leagues and tournaments you join, results, and related activity.
• Connected AI assistant data (optional): if you choose to connect your Tipmaster account via OAuth to an AI assistant using TipMaster Coach (such as Anthropic Claude or OpenAI ChatGPT / Codex), we record your authorization grant and transmit your game overview, competitions, open fixtures, results, standings, and the score predictions you confirm through that assistant.
• Technical data: standard log and device data (e.g. IP-derived country, browser type) and analytics/cookie data (see §5).

2. How we use your data

• To create and run your account, leagues, and the game.
• To send you account and game emails (e.g. account activation and invitations) via our email provider.
• To let you view your competitions and submit confirmed match predictions through a connected AI assistant when you explicitly authorize TipMaster Coach via OAuth. You can disconnect an assistant at any time in your account settings.
• To secure the Service and prevent abuse.
• For analytics, research, product development and the training of models that support the Service, as described in §5 of the Terms, on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating and improving the Service. We use this data in anonymized form (stripped of data that directly identifies you) or pseudonymized form (linked to pseudonymous identifiers and broad attributes rather than your real-world identity). You may object to the use of your pseudonymized data for model training and research at any time in your account settings or by contacting us. We do not sell data that directly identifies you; only aggregated, anonymized insights may be shared with partners.
• To publish crowd consensus statistics: the combined predictions of all players for a match (for example, the share expecting a home win, a draw or an away win, and the most common exact scores), including before kick-off, only for all players of a match combined and never for fewer than 20 players, as described in §5 of the Terms. These statistics are anonymous. We make them available to the public, to partners, and to third-party software including AI systems, free of charge or for a fee. Objecting in your account settings excludes your future predictions from these statistics.

3. Legal basis

Where the law requires a legal basis, we rely on the performance of our contract with you (running the Service, including optional connected-assistant features you authorize) and our legitimate interests (security, improvement and development of the Service, including the data uses in §5 of the Terms, which you may object to). Where a use needs your consent, we ask for it separately; accepting the Terms is not a consent.

4. Service providers we share data with

• Amazon Web Services (Amazon SES) — sending transactional and invitation emails.
• Cloudflare — content delivery, DNS, and security for the Service.
• Google Analytics — aggregate usage measurement (see §5 on cookies).
• Single Sign-On providers (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon) — only if you choose to sign in with that provider, to authenticate you.
• User-authorized AI assistants (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT / Codex) — only if you explicitly connect your account to TipMaster Coach via OAuth. The connected assistant receives your trainer display name, team/club, competitions, standings, open fixtures, and predictions, and submits predictions you confirm. We never share your personal gameplay data with an AI assistant unless you connect your account, and you can revoke access at any time in your account settings.
• Recipients of crowd consensus statistics — the public, paying partners, and AI platforms that list or consume our public feed (for example the MCP Registry, Anthropic, OpenAI). Through the public predictions feed they receive anonymous aggregated statistics only (minimum 20 players per match), never personal data.

These providers process data on our behalf or as independent controllers for the limited purposes above.

5. Cookies & analytics

We use strictly necessary cookies to keep you signed in, and analytics cookies (Google Analytics) to understand how the Service is used. You can control cookies through your browser settings; disabling some cookies may affect functionality.

6. Data retention

We keep account and gameplay data for as long as your account is active and as needed to run the game. Anonymized and aggregated data derived from your activity may be retained indefinitely. You can request deletion of your account at any time (see §7).

7. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, and you may object to or restrict certain processing. To exercise these rights, contact us at [email protected].

8. Children

The Service is not directed to children under the age required by your local law to consent to data processing, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

9. Changes

We may update this Policy; material changes will be notified in-app or by email. The “last updated” date above reflects the latest version.

10. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact The Flywheel Corporation at [email protected].