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Deadline FC — Terms & Privacy

Last updated: 15 August 2026 · Pocket Forge Studios · PocketForgeStudios@proton.me

Terms of Service

1. What Deadline FC is

Deadline FC is a companion tool for Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers, made by Pocket Forge Studios in the United Kingdom. It shows statistics, projections, transfer and captaincy suggestions, and an optional AI assistant ("Ask the Gaffer"), built on data from the publicly available FPL API.

Deadline FC is unofficial. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Premier League, Fantasy Premier League, or any football club. Player names, team names and fixtures come from the public FPL API and belong to their respective owners.

2. Advice is informational

Projections and suggestions are estimates generated from public statistics. Football is gloriously unpredictable: nothing in this app is a guarantee of points, rank, or outcome, and you use any suggestion at your own judgement. Deadline FC provides no gambling services and its content is not betting advice.

3. Accounts

You need an account (Google sign-in or email/password) to use the app. Keep your login to yourself; you're responsible for activity on your account. You can ask us to delete your account and its data at any time by emailing the address above. We may suspend accounts that abuse the service (see fair use below).

4. Pro passes and payments

  • Deadline FC Pro is sold as one-off passes: a 30-day pass and a season pass (valid to the end of the 2026/27 FPL season, 30 June 2027). Nothing auto-renews and no card details are stored by us.
  • Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see your card number.
  • The pass unlocks digital content supplied immediately. By purchasing, you agree the service starts straight away and acknowledge that, under UK consumer rules for digital content, this affects the usual 14-day cancellation right. If something is broken or not as described, email us — we'll put it right or refund you, as UK consumer law requires.
  • Promotional and tester codes are discretionary and may be changed or withdrawn.
  • Prices are shown in the app before you pay and may change; a pass you've already bought is never affected by a later price change.

5. Fair use of Ask the Gaffer

The AI assistant has monthly usage allowances per account to keep the service affordable. Automated scraping, reselling access, or attempting to misuse the assistant for non-football purposes may result in suspension without refund of any unused allowance (a refund of the pass itself will be considered under clause 4).

6. Service availability

Deadline FC depends on third-party services (the FPL API, hosting providers, the AI provider). We aim to keep it running smoothly but can't promise uninterrupted availability, and features may change as the app evolves.

7. Liability

To the extent permitted by law, Deadline FC is provided "as is" and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the previous 12 months. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

8. Changes and law

We may update these terms; material changes will be flagged in the app. These terms are governed by the laws of the United Kingdom, and disputes belong to the courts of the part of the UK where you live.

9. The Daily Card (betting picks) — 18+

  • The Daily Card and everything around it (picks, slips, the record) is 18+ content. If you're under 18 it isn't for you, and you shouldn't buy the pass or act on any pick.
  • We are not a bookmaker and not a gambling operator: we take no bets, hold no stakes, pay no winnings and carry no affiliate links to anyone who does. The Daily Card is commentary and opinion — what our own committee would (and does) back — published for entertainment and information.
  • Nothing in the Daily Card is financial advice, and no pick is a promise of profit. The public record is genuine, logged before kick-off, and shows losses as prominently as wins — and past results don't guarantee future ones.
  • If you choose to bet, that's your decision with a licensed bookmaker, on their terms — only ever stake money you can afford to lose, and never chase losses. Free, confidential help is at begambleaware.org and the National Gambling Helpline, 0808 8020 133 (24/7).

Privacy Policy

What we store

  • Account: your email address and a Firebase user ID (Google Firebase, stored in the EU — London region).
  • Your FPL setup: your FPL team ID, your saved squad, and your Pro status.
  • Ask the Gaffer: your questions and recent chat context are sent to Anthropic's API to generate answers, along with your squad data so answers are relevant. We don't use your questions to train AI models. Chat history is kept on your device, not on our servers.
  • Payments: handled by Stripe. Stripe shares with us only what's needed to grant your pass (an order reference, the pass type, your account ID). See Stripe's privacy policy.
  • Feedback reports: if you send feedback, we store your note with basic app context so we can fix things.

Analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to see aggregate page-view counts. It's cookieless, doesn't use a persistent identifier, and can't track you across other sites — it just tells us roughly how many people visited which pages. No advertising and no ad trackers of any kind.

For signed-in accounts, we also count squad saves and Pro views once per account per day, plus checkout sessions and confirmed purchases. A hashed daily reference prevents duplicate activity counts; these analytics do not contain your squad, chat text or email address. Private payment and usage records are kept separately to deliver purchases and enforce chat allowances.

What we don't do

  • No advertising, no ad trackers.
  • We never sell your data, full stop.

Cookies & local storage

We use browser local storage and Firebase's sign-in cookies to keep you logged in and remember your settings. No third-party marketing cookies.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask for a copy of your data or ask us to delete it — email PocketForgeStudios@proton.me from your account email and we'll sort it within a month (usually much faster). Deleting your account removes your profile data; payment records are kept as long as tax law requires.

Children

Deadline FC isn't directed at children under 13, and Pro purchases require the ability to enter a contract — if you're under 18, get a parent or guardian's permission before buying.

Questions about any of this? Email PocketForgeStudios@proton.me — a human (and his AI gaffer) will reply.