Privacy Policy

When you contact us through our website, we may collect information you voluntarily provide, including your name, company name, email address, country or region, inquiry details, and other information included in your message. Please do not submit highly sensitive information unless necessary.

We use information submitted through our website to respond to inquiries, provide support, communicate about requested services, review business opportunities, maintain business records, improve website functionality and security, and comply with applicable legal obligations.

Our website uses Formspree to process contact form submissions. Information submitted through the form may be transmitted to and processed by Formspree and other service providers necessary for form delivery, email notification, and communication. These providers may process information under their applicable terms and privacy policies.

Our website may process limited technical information, including browser type, device information, IP address, and usage information, for website operation, performance, and security. Cookies or similar technologies may be used where necessary for website functionality or other disclosed purposes.

Kickoff Booster: Soccer is an Android pre-game preparation and guidance application for mobile soccer game users. It does not modify other games, automate gameplay, provide cheats, or guarantee improvements to network speed. The app does not require an IT-cares user account and does not use Firebase Authentication.

5.1 App preferences stored locally
The app may store language, selected game, preparation and display settings, Pro entitlement and purchase-related local state, referral-entry state, and other settings on the user’s device as necessary for app functionality.

5.2 Referral code information
If a user chooses to enter a creator referral code, the app sends it to our protected backend for validation. A validated referral may generate a signed referral ticket used to establish eligibility and purchase pricing. The ticket may be held locally as needed for the referral and purchase flow. Signed referral tickets have a maximum validity period of 30 days and are removed when they expire, are replaced or cleared, or after final successful backend purchase registration. Referral attribution may also be recorded in backend purchase and creator reward records.

5.3 Google Play purchase and transaction information
When a user chooses to buy or restore Pro through Google Play Billing, the app and backend may process Google Play purchase tokens, product and purchase identifiers, purchase and acknowledgement states, purchase timing, purchase option and offer information, pricing path, purchase market or country metadata where available, test-purchase status, referral attribution where applicable, and verification, cancellation, refund, and reconciliation records. This information is used to verify and administer purchases, restore Pro access, prevent duplicate or fraudulent processing, and administer eligible creator rewards. Purchase tokens transmitted to our backend are protected against plaintext database storage through encryption or derived representations where appropriate. Google Play processes payment credentials under its own terms; the app does not receive or store credit-card numbers, bank account numbers, or other payment credentials entered directly into Google Play.

5.4 Security and technical information
The app uses Firebase Cloud Functions, Firebase App Check, and Google Play Integrity to protect backend operations. These services may process Firebase SDK and app metadata, app or device integrity information, integrity and App Check tokens, function-request metadata, IP addresses, app-instance or messaging tokens used by Firebase infrastructure, and derived short-lived rate-limiting identifiers. Raw App Check tokens are not intentionally stored in Firestore business records.

5.5 Features not currently used
The production app does not currently use Firebase Analytics, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Authentication, Firebase Performance Monitoring, advertising networks, or advertising identifiers for advertising. Firebase Cloud Messaging is not used as an app messaging feature. Purchase and referral information is not used to create advertising or behavioral marketing profiles.

Information processed through Kickoff Booster: Soccer is used to provide app functionality, validate referral codes, determine eligible purchase pricing, verify and restore Google Play purchases, prevent duplicate or fraudulent processing, secure backend functions, maintain creator referral attribution and settlement records, investigate support or security issues, and meet legal, accounting, and operational requirements. We do not sell this information or use it for behavioral advertising.

IT-cares does not sell users’ personal information. We use service providers as necessary to operate and secure our website and app. Website contact forms use Formspree; the app uses Google Play Billing, Google Play Developer API, Google Play Integrity, Firebase Cloud Functions, Firebase App Check, Cloud Firestore, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and Secret Manager. Cloud Scheduler may be used for operational reconciliation when enabled.

These providers may process information on behalf of IT-cares as necessary to deliver, verify, maintain, and secure the services. We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, respond to lawful requests, prevent fraud, protect security or rights, or resolve disputes. The app does not share user information with advertising networks or data brokers.

Website contact information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary for communication, business records, disputes, or legal compliance. Device-local application information is retained as necessary for app functionality; signed referral tickets are subject to their validity and lifecycle rules, and encrypted pending purchase-registration information is removed after successful processing.

Backend purchase, referral attribution, settlement, payout, adjustment, security, and audit records may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for verification, entitlement restoration, accounting, creator reward settlement, fraud prevention, disputes, security, and legal obligations. Financial and audit records do not all have a fixed short-term deletion period. Short-lived rate-limiting or other security-control data is retained only as reasonably necessary for service protection.

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards. Communications between Kickoff Booster: Soccer and protected Google/Firebase backend services use encrypted network connections. Sensitive purchase-registration values are not intentionally placed in application logs, public API responses, or plaintext Firestore document identifiers. However, no method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Depending on applicable law and the information involved, users may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their information. Kickoff Booster: Soccer does not create an IT-cares account, so there is no separate account to delete. Privacy and data deletion requests may be submitted through the contact form on this website.

Backend purchase records are not necessarily linked to a user’s name, email, or IT-cares account; we may need sufficient information to verify that a transaction can be associated with a request. Records may be retained where reasonably necessary for financial, accounting, legal, settlement, security, fraud prevention, or dispute-resolution purposes. Uninstalling the app generally removes app-local data according to Android behavior, subject to platform backup and restoration mechanisms.

Kickoff Booster: Soccer does not provide user accounts, social networking, advertising, or direct user-to-user communication features. It is not designed to collect children’s personal profile information through an IT-cares account. Questions regarding information relating to minors may be submitted through our website contact form.

IT-cares LLC operates from Japan. Information processed through our website, Google, Firebase, or other service providers may be handled in Japan or other countries where those providers operate, subject to applicable legal requirements and relevant contractual and security safeguards.

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, applications, data-processing practices, service providers, or applicable legal requirements change. The latest version and its effective date will be published on this page.

IT-cares LLC
Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan
For website inquiries, Kickoff Booster: Soccer support, privacy questions, or data deletion requests, please use the contact form on this website.

October 16, 2026