From you directly: nothing. Whistlewatch is a fully static site. We do not run our own analytics, we do not have a database of users because there are no user accounts and no login. There is no form on the site that collects information from you.
Google AdSense (advertising)
The site is part of the Google AdSense network. Once AdSense approves the account, ads may be served on the desktop view and (subject to your consent) on mobile. When that happens:
EU/UK/CH visitors see a consent banner on their first visit with three options: Consent, Do not consent, and Manage options. The banner is operated by Google's certified Consent Management Platform (CMP).
If you click Do not consent, Google serves only contextual (non-personalised) ads. No advertising cookies are set.
You can change your choice at any time by clearing the site cookies in your browser settings — the banner reappears on the next visit.
Google is the data controller for the data processed via the AdSense cookies; their privacy policy applies: policies.google.com/privacy .
Hosting (Cloudflare)
The site is served by Cloudflare Workers from edge nodes worldwide. Cloudflare processes the connection metadata (IP address, request headers) to deliver the response — this is standard CDN operation and Cloudflare acts as data controller for those logs under their own privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy .
Data we process about referees
Whistlewatch publishes match-officiating statistics about named, real referees. Their names together with the derived performance figures are personal data under the GDPR, and the referees — not our visitors — are the data subjects for that processing.
What we process: the referee's name and match-level facts already published in public football records (date, teams, score, cards, penalties awarded), plus the statistical Bias Index we compute from them. We do not process special-category data, contact details or any private information.
Source: public match data via FBref / soccerdata. See /methodology for how the figures are derived and their statistical limits.
Legal basis: legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in informing the public about the conduct of a public-facing professional role, balanced against the referee's interests. The Bias Index is a statistical leaning score, not an allegation of wrongdoing — see the disclaimer.
Your rights as a referee (or their representative): you may object to the processing (Art. 21), request access (Art. 15), correction of inaccurate figures (Art. 16), or erasure (Art. 17). Write to hello@whistlewatch.fans and we will remove or correct a profile without undue delay.
External links
The site links to FBref, soccerdata's GitHub repo, and GamCare. Clicking those links sends standard browser data to the destination site, which has its own privacy policy.
Your rights (GDPR)
Since we don't store any personal data about you, there is nothing for us to export, correct or delete. If you want Cloudflare's edge logs deleted, contact Cloudflare directly.