Privacy notice
The developer of Bootroom ("we", "us") is responsible for the personal information described in this notice.
Contact: privacy@bootroomscout.com
The short version
Bootroom runs on your Mac. Your saves, notes, shortlists and settings stay there. The app has no analytics, tracking, advertising or crash reporting, and it never sends us your save files. The only things that reach us are:
- the once-a-day new-version check, which you can turn off; and
- anything you choose to send through the feedback form on our website.
1. The Bootroom app
1.1 What stays on your Mac
- Football Manager saves. Bootroom reads the saves you load. It never changes them and never uploads them.
- Bootroom's own data. The data Bootroom reads from your saves, and your notes, shortlists and settings, are stored on your Mac in ~/Library/Application Support/app.bootroom.scout. Deleting that folder removes them. Save data can include things you made in the game, such as your manager's name; it stays on your Mac too.
- Shortlists exported to Football Manager. When you use Export to FM, Bootroom writes a new shortlist file into Football Manager's own shortlists folder (~/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/ Football Manager 27/cloud/shortlists). Football Manager or Steam may sync that folder to their cloud services under their own terms. Bootroom itself does not.
1.2 The new-version check
When "Check for new versions once a day" is on (Settings > On launch; it is on unless you turn it off), Bootroom asks our website once a day for the number of the latest Bootroom version. "Check now" sends the same request when you click it.
The request contains nothing about you, your Mac or your saves. Like any web request, it shows our website host your IP address, the time, and a standard software name (macOS's built-in curl tool). The host may keep these in its server logs for as long as its own privacy policy allows. We don't use them to identify you or to track how you use Bootroom. We do count how many update checks reach us each day, as a daily total only; the count records nothing that identifies you or your Mac.
We do this because it's in our legitimate interests, and yours, to let you know when a new version is available, for example one that supports a Football Manager update. Turn the switch off and Bootroom sends nothing.
If a new version is available and you click Download, your web browser opens our download page, and the website section below applies.
2. The website
2.1 Visiting and downloading
Our website is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., which also serves the app downloads. Like any web server, they record technical details of each visit, such as your IP address, browser type, the pages and files you request and the time. The site sets no cookies, has no trackers, and loads nothing from other websites. We count how many times the app is downloaded each day, and how many visits the home page gets each day along with the website that linked to it (just its name, such as reddit.com), as daily totals only, with nothing that identifies anyone.
2.2 The feedback form
If you send feedback, we receive the type of message, your message, and, only if you give them, your email address and Bootroom version. The form is processed by Cloudflare, Inc., which may also record technical details of the submission such as your IP address, and it emails the submission to us. We use it to read and act on your feedback and, if you gave your email address, to reply. We keep it for up to two years, or until you ask us to delete it. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in improving Bootroom and answering you.
2.3 Support payments
If you choose to support Bootroom, the "Buy us a cuppa" link takes you to Ko-fi (ko-fi.com), and the payment is processed by Stripe. Ko-fi and Stripe handle the payment under their own privacy notices. We never see your card details. We receive only what they share with creators: the name you give, any message you write, the amount, and the email address you pay with.
3. Sharing and transfers
We don't sell your personal information or share it for advertising. We share it only with the service providers named above, who process it for us, or when the law requires us to.
Cloudflare may process this information in the United States and other countries. Where the law needs a safeguard for that transfer, Cloudflare relies on its certification under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension and the Swiss–US Data Privacy Framework, and on standard contractual clauses.
4. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for a copy of your personal information, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to receive it in a portable form. To ask, contact privacy@bootroomscout.com. Because the app keeps your data on your Mac, most of it is under your control already, and we hold none of it.
You can also complain to the data protection authority where you live, such as the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK. We'd appreciate the chance to help first.
5. Children
Bootroom and its website are not aimed at children under 13. The app collects nothing about anyone. If you believe a child has sent us personal information through the website, contact us and we will delete it.
6. Changes
If this notice changes, we'll update the effective date above. If a change affects what the app sends, we'll say so on the website and in the release notes before or when that version is released.