GoalTips is an informational sports analytics app developed and published by Gafat Software Solutions (“we”, “us”). This Privacy Policy explains what the app stores, what leaves your device, and why. It applies to the GoalTips Android app (package com.gafat.goaltips.app). Last updated: October 10, 2026.
GoalTips has no accounts, no sign-up and no access to your device location. It downloads the day’s predictions from our server, shows advertising, measures anonymous usage and, only if you choose, sends you announcements as push notifications. GoalTips is an informational sports analytics app for entertainment purposes only. It is NOT a betting app and does not facilitate real-money gambling.
Your theme and language choice, the predictions you last downloaded (so you can read them offline), the time your 24-hour VIP access ends, your choice about notifications, and small counters that keep ad frequency reasonable. None of this is sent to us.
Predictions. To show tips, the app requests them from gafatsoftware.com. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and the request time to the server, where they may appear in routine server logs. We do not use them to identify you and the request carries no account or personal data.
Ad configuration and fraud prevention. At launch the app asks a Gafat Software server whether ads should be shown. The request carries the app’s package name and a hashed identifier: a one-way SHA-256 hash of your device’s Android ID. We use it only to prevent ad fraud, click spam and invalid traffic, never for advertising targeting.
GoalTips shows ads through Google AdMob (banner, native, interstitial, app-open and rewarded video formats). Google’s Mobile Ads SDK may collect and use your advertising ID, approximate location (derived from IP address), IP address, device and app information, and ad interactions to serve and measure ads, as described in Google’s own privacy policy. Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA and UK), we ask for it with Google’s User Messaging Platform before any ad is requested, and you can change your choice at any time under Settings, Ad privacy options. You can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your Android settings.
A rewarded video is only ever played after you tap “Watch Video to Unlock”. One video reveals one VIP prediction; watching three in a row opens every VIP prediction for 12 hours. The free predictions never require watching anything.
GoalTips uses Google Analytics for Firebase to see how the app is used, so the parts people rely on get the attention. It records a small set of pseudonymous events: the app being opened, which screen (tab) is shown, the first-run disclaimer being accepted, a prediction being saved or un-saved (only its category, never the match or the pick), your saved collection being shared (as text or image, and how many tips), a VIP unlock finishing, and the Match Predictor sliders being used. Events never carry team names, picks, odds or anything you type, and nothing that identifies you. Google also collects standard technical data with them, such as app version, device model, OS version, country and an app-instance identifier, as described in Google’s privacy policy. Google’s SDKs may also collect crash logs and diagnostic information (such as app crashes and performance data) to keep the app and ads working.
Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA and UK), analytics stays off until you answer Google’s consent form, and you can change your answer at any time under Settings, Ad privacy options.
When you share a prediction, GoalTips draws an image on your device and hands it to the Android share sheet. It goes only where you choose to send it.
We share your advertising ID, approximate location and device identifiers with Google (AdMob and Firebase) so ads can be served and usage measured, as described above. The hashed identifier used for fraud prevention goes to a Gafat Software server, not to advertisers. If you turn on push notifications, your device’s registration token is also shared with Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging) so announcements can be delivered.
GoalTips can show announcements from us (for example that new tips are published) as push notifications. They are optional and off by default: only if you turn them on under Settings, Push notifications (and, on Android 13 or later, allow the system notification permission) does the app register with Firebase Cloud Messaging (a Google service), which creates a registration token and uses it to deliver announcements through Google. The token is not linked to your name or any account, we do not know who a token belongs to, and everyone who turned notifications on receives the same announcement. Turning the setting off unsubscribes the app and deletes the token. Notifications are announcements only: they never contain advertising and never ask you to place a bet.
GoalTips asks for network access (to download predictions, load ads and send analytics), declares Google’s advertising ID permission and, only if you turn on push notifications, asks for the notification permission. It does not request location, contacts, camera, microphone or storage permissions.
GoalTips is intended for adults aged 18 and over and is not directed at children. If you believe a child has used the app, contact us.
Because the app has no accounts, uninstalling it removes everything stored on your device. You can stop notifications at any time under Settings, Push notifications, or in your phone’s notification settings for GoalTips. To ask about fraud-prevention records tied to the hashed device identifier, or about analytics data tied to your app-instance identifier, e-mail developer.gafatsoftware@gmail.com with “GoalTips data deletion” as the subject, with roughly when you used the app and your phone model.
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at https://gafatsoftware.com/apps/GoalTips/privacy_policy.html with a new “last updated” date.
Questions about this policy: developer.gafatsoftware@gmail.com.