Last updated: October 20, 2026
Beyond the Score (“we,” “us,” or “our”) is an independent sports information and analysis website available at https://beyondthescore.fun.
We respect your privacy and aim to be transparent about how personal information is collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit our website or contact us.
This Privacy Policy explains our data practices, including our use of website hosting, analytics, cookies, and advertising services.
Website: https://beyondthescore.fun
Website name: Beyond the Score
Country of operation: South Korea
Privacy contact: contact@beyondthescore.fun
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide Voluntarily
When you contact Beyond the Score by email, we may collect:
- Your name, if provided.
- Your email address.
- The content of your message.
- Any additional information you choose to share.
We use this information to respond to inquiries, process feedback and correction requests, and communicate with you about your message.
Our website does not currently offer public commenting on articles.
If we introduce additional interactive services in the future, this Privacy Policy may be updated to describe the personal information they collect.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Beyond the Score, our hosting infrastructure and enabled third-party services may process technical and usage information, including:
- IP address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device type and operating system.
- Browser language and preferences.
- Referring websites and URLs.
- Pages visited and interactions with our content.
- Date and time of visits.
- Approximate geographic location derived from technical information.
- Cookies and similar identifiers, where applicable.
This information may be used to operate the website, maintain security, monitor performance, and understand how visitors use our content.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers that websites and third-party services may store or access through your browser.
Depending on which services are enabled, Beyond the Score may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes.
Essential functionality: Supporting website operation, security, and technical performance.
Analytics: Understanding website traffic, visitor interactions, and content performance.
Advertising: Delivering advertisements, measuring advertising performance, and supporting personalized or non-personalized advertising when advertising services are enabled.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some website features or third-party services.
Where required by applicable law, we will request consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
Browser-level cookie controls do not necessarily prevent every form of data processing by third-party services.
3. Analytics
Beyond the Score may use Google Analytics through Site Kit by Google to understand website traffic and visitor behavior.
When Google Analytics is enabled, it may process information such as:
- Page views and website interactions.
- Browser and device characteristics.
- Approximate geographic location.
- Referral sources.
- Technical identifiers and related usage data, depending on configuration and consent settings.
We use analytics information to evaluate website performance, understand which articles readers find useful, and improve the visitor experience.
Google processes information in accordance with its applicable terms and privacy practices.
For more information, visit:
- Google Analytics Privacy Information
- How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services
4. Advertising and Google AdSense
Beyond the Score is preparing to use Google AdSense to support the operation of the website.
Advertisements may appear after the website has been approved and advertising services have been activated.
When Google AdSense or other third-party advertising services are enabled, the following practices may apply:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s advertising cookies may enable Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this website and other sites on the internet, where permitted.
- Third-party advertisers and advertising technology providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to deliver advertisements and measure their performance.
- Advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized depending on applicable law, user preferences, consent, and website settings.
Visitors can manage Google’s personalized advertising settings at:
Visitors can also learn about opting out of certain third-party interest-based advertising through:
For more information about Google’s data practices, see:
How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services
Additional advertising partners and relevant privacy disclosures may be added when advertising services are activated.
5. How We Use Information
We may use personal information and website usage data to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve Beyond the Score.
- Deliver sports articles and related website content.
- Monitor technical performance and website security.
- Understand visitor interests and website usage.
- Respond to inquiries, feedback, and correction requests.
- Detect spam, abuse, fraud, and security threats.
- Support advertising and measure advertising performance when enabled.
- Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations.
We do not sell personal information directly for monetary payment.
However, certain advertising-related data disclosures may be classified as “sharing” or “selling” under applicable privacy laws, depending on the services used and the circumstances.
6. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), UK GDPR, or similar laws apply, we process personal information only where an appropriate legal basis is available.
Depending on the specific processing activity, these bases may include:
Consent: For certain analytics, advertising, or non-essential cookies where consent is required.
Legitimate interests: For activities such as maintaining website security, responding to inquiries, and operating or improving the website, where those interests are not overridden by applicable individual rights.
Legal obligations: When processing is necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements.
Contractual necessity: Where processing is required to provide a service or fulfill a request under an applicable agreement.
Where processing relies on consent, visitors may withdraw that consent through an available consent mechanism or by contacting us, subject to applicable law.
7. How We Share Information
We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients when necessary.
Website Hosting and Technical Service Providers
Our website uses WordPress-based software and Hostinger hosting services.
These services may process technical information necessary for website delivery, performance, security, and maintenance.
Analytics Providers
Where enabled, Google Analytics may process website usage information to help us understand site performance and visitor interactions.
Advertising Partners
When advertising is activated, Google AdSense and other disclosed advertising technology providers may process information related to ad delivery, measurement, and personalization where permitted.
Legal and Security Purposes
We may disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect the website, our users, or the rights and security of others.
Third-party providers may act as processors on our behalf or as independent controllers, depending on the service and applicable arrangements.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
Email correspondence may be retained for the time needed to respond to requests, resolve issues, maintain necessary records, or meet legal obligations.
Website server logs and technical records may be retained according to the applicable hosting and security settings.
Analytics and advertising data may be retained according to the settings and policies of the relevant service providers.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the data and the purpose of processing.
9. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of eligible personal information.
- Request restrictions on certain processing activities.
- Object to certain processing activities.
- Request data portability where applicable.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request information about relevant data disclosures.
European Economic Area and United Kingdom
Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, visitors may exercise applicable data protection rights and may have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
California and Other U.S. States
Depending on applicable state privacy laws, eligible visitors may have rights to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information and to opt out of certain forms of data sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling.
Some advertising-related disclosures may be considered “sharing” under California privacy law even when no money changes hands.
Where required, we will provide appropriate mechanisms to exercise applicable opt-out rights.
South Korea
Where South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) applies, individuals may exercise applicable rights relating to access, correction, deletion, suspension of processing, and other protections provided under the law.
Submitting a Privacy Request
To submit a privacy-related request, contact:
Please describe your request and the information to which it relates.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
We will respond in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
10. Children’s Privacy
Beyond the Score is a general-audience sports information website and is not specifically directed at children.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children in violation of applicable age-based privacy requirements.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us.
We will review the request and take appropriate action, including deleting eligible information where required.
11. External Links
Our website includes links to third-party websites, such as sports leagues, teams, tournament organizers, statistics providers, and news sources.
These third-party websites operate independently and may have their own privacy policies and data practices.
Beyond the Score is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they access.
12. International Data Transfers
Beyond the Score is available to an international audience.
Our hosting, analytics, advertising, and other service providers may process personal information in countries outside the visitor’s country of residence.
Where international data transfers are subject to legal requirements, appropriate safeguards will be used or relied upon as applicable.
These safeguards may include contractual protections or other lawful transfer mechanisms provided by relevant service providers.
13. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss.
These measures may include secure website connections, access controls, software maintenance, and security features provided by our hosting and technology partners.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
We cannot guarantee absolute security.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website operations, analytics tools, advertising services, legal obligations, or data practices change.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact:
Beyond the Score
Country of operation: South Korea
Website: https://beyondthescore.fun
Email: contact@beyondthescore.fun
You may also contact us through the Contact page when available.