Who we are
KickOffMail is a daily soccer newsletter operated by Albert Balcells and SevenJ. It sends fixtures, and results if you want them, for the competitions and teams you choose, including La Liga, the Premier League, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1.
It is a personal project, not a commercial data business. There is no advertising, no sponsor tracking, and nothing here is built to profile you.
A general policy covering our other sites and apps lives at sevenj.com/privacy-policy-sevenj.html. This page is the one that governs KickOffMail.
What we collect
Only what the newsletter needs to work:
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your email address | To send you the newsletter. It is the only thing we ask for at sign-up. |
| The teams and competitions you follow | So the email contains your matches rather than every match. |
| Whether you want the results email | Fixtures and results are separate choices; you can have one without the other. |
| Your time zone | So kick-off times appear in your local time instead of ours. |
| Subscription status and dates | Whether your address is pending, confirmed or unsubscribed, and when each happened, so we can prove you opted in and honour it when you leave. |
| Single-use links | Confirming your address, editing your preferences and unsubscribing each use a one-time link that expires. We store the link’s token, when it was issued, when it expires and when it was used. |
| Confirmation attempts | We count how often confirmation emails are requested for an address, to stop the form being used to spam somebody else’s inbox. |
We do not ask for your name, your location, your phone number, or a password. There are no accounts to log into.
Website log data and analytics
Like nearly every website, kickoffmail.com records standard server log data when you visit: IP address, browser type and version, pages viewed and timestamps. The site also uses Google Analytics and cookies to understand which pages get used, and loads typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google’s servers receive your IP address in order to deliver the font files. You can set your browser to refuse cookies.
Confirming your address
KickOffMail uses double opt-in. When you sign up, your address is stored as pending and we send one email asking you to confirm. Nothing else is sent until you click that link, and the link expires after a set period. If you never confirm, no newsletter is ever sent to that address.
This exists so that somebody cannot sign up your address without your knowledge. For the same reason, we limit how often a confirmation email can be re-sent to the same address.
We also reject disposable and temporary email addresses at sign-up, checked against a list of known throwaway domains. That check happens on the domain part of the address and is used only to decide whether to accept the sign-up.
How we use it
- To send the daily fixtures email, and the results email if you asked for it.
- To include the right matches, in your time zone.
- To confirm your address, let you edit your teams, and process your unsubscribe.
- To stop abuse of the sign-up form.
- To see which pages of the website get used, via analytics.
We do not use your address for anything else, and we do not email you about other products.
Who else is involved
- SendGrid (Twilio) delivers the email. Your address is processed by SendGrid in order to send you the newsletter, under its own privacy policy.
- Google Analytics for website usage statistics.
- Google Fonts to serve typefaces on the site.
Fixture and result data comes from public football data sources. That is match information. No personal data of yours is sent to obtain it, and those sources never receive your address.
What we don’t do
- We do not sell, rent or trade your email address, to anyone, ever.
- We do not show advertising and we take no sponsorship that depends on your data.
- We do not share your address with other newsletters or partners.
- We do not track you across other websites.
- We do not build a profile of you beyond the teams you told us you follow.
- We do not email an address that has not confirmed itself.
Where data lives and how long we keep it
Subscriber records are held in a database on servers we operate in the United States. If you subscribe from outside the United States, your address is stored and processed there.
We keep your address while you are subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we keep a record that the address unsubscribed and when. That is how we make sure you do not get re-added by accident or start receiving mail again. If you would rather be erased entirely, ask us and we will delete the record outright. Expired single-use links are of no further use once they lapse.
We take reasonable commercial measures to protect what we hold, but no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your choices
- Unsubscribe. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link. There is also an opt-out page on this site.
- Change your teams. Use the preferences link in your newsletter to add or remove teams and competitions, or to turn the results email on or off.
- Full deletion. Write to [email protected] and ask us to delete your record entirely rather than mark it unsubscribed.
- See what we hold. Ask and we will tell you what is stored against your address.
- Cookies. Refuse or delete them in your browser settings.
Children
KickOffMail is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has subscribed, write to us and we will delete the record.
Changes to this policy
This version takes effect on September 2, 2026. If we make material changes we will post the updated policy here and change the date at the top. Continuing to use the site or the newsletter after a change means you accept the revised policy.
Contact us
Questions about this policy, or a request about your data, go to [email protected].