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Cookies and Browser Storage
PadelFormat uses browser storage for site functions such as tournament tools. Optional analytics or advertising storage does not load without the required consent.
Browser storage used by tournament tools
Tournament tools save tournament names, player names, settings, draws and scores in your browser. This prevents a refresh or temporary connection problem from immediately erasing a tournament in progress.
This storage is used to provide the tool you requested. It is not used to build an advertising profile.
Clearing padelformat.com’s browser data may remove saved tournaments from that device.
Necessary storage
- Saving tournament data on your device.
- Maintaining security and preventing abuse.
- Remembering whether a visitor accepted or rejected optional cookies.
- Keeping a requested feature working between page loads.
Necessary storage cannot be switched off through cookie controls because the requested feature may not work without it.
Optional analytics
PadelFormat uses Google Analytics 4, and it is entirely optional. Nothing from Google is requested until you choose “Accept analytics” in the cookie banner. If you decline, the Google script is never loaded and no analytics cookies are set.
Declining does not affect the site or any of the tools: the tournament generators, live scoreboard, rankings and gear pages all work exactly the same.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with the “Cookie settings” button in the footer. Withdrawing consent stops tracking immediately, clears Google Analytics cookies where the browser allows it, and reloads the page so the Google script is no longer present.
Analytics would be used only to understand which pages and tools are used, where errors occur and whether visitors complete a tournament setup. Player names, tournament names, scores, contact-form content and email addresses are never sent to analytics.
Affiliate links
A normal affiliate link does not require PadelFormat to place a cookie in your browser. The retailer or affiliate network may use tracking after you click and leave PadelFormat.
If an affiliate provider supplies a script, pixel or other tracker that runs on PadelFormat before the click, it is classified as marketing storage and blocked until consent. No such tracker runs today.
Cookie inventory
| Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration | Necessary or optional |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pt.tournament.active / pt.tournament.active.mexicano | PadelFormat | localStorage | Keeps the tournament in progress (players, draw, scores) on your device. | Until you delete the tournament or clear site data | Necessary |
| pt.tournament.list | PadelFormat | localStorage | List of recent tournaments saved on this device. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| pt.tournament.draft / pt.tournament.autodraft / pt.tournament.setupmode | PadelFormat | localStorage | Remembers an unfinished tournament setup so a refresh does not lose it. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| pt.tournament.timer | PadelFormat | localStorage | Keeps the round timer running correctly across page loads. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| pt.tournament.alerts | PadelFormat | localStorage | Stores your sound and alert preferences for the round timer. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| pt.tournament.live | PadelFormat | localStorage | Organizer credentials for a live sharing link, so only the organizer can update a shared scoreboard. | Until sharing is stopped or site data is cleared | Necessary |
| pf-offer-region-v2 | PadelFormat | localStorage | Remembers the region and currency you selected for retailer prices. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| pf-analytics-consent | PadelFormat | localStorage | Remembers whether you accepted or declined optional analytics cookies. | Until cleared | Necessary |
| _ga / _ga_* | Google Analytics 4 | Cookie | Measures page and tool usage in aggregate. Only set after you accept analytics cookies. | Up to 2 years | Optional |
| sb-*-auth-token | Supabase (via PadelFormat) | localStorage | Keeps an editor signed in to the private admin area. Not set for ordinary visitors. | Until sign-out or session expiry | Necessary |
| sidebar:state | PadelFormat | Cookie | Remembers whether the admin sidebar is expanded. Only set inside the admin area. | 7 days | Necessary |
Every item above is necessary for a function you requested, apart from the optional Google Analytics cookies described below. PadelFormat sets no advertising cookies and no marketing tracking pixels.
Managing your choices
Use the “Cookie settings” button in the site footer to reopen the cookie banner and change your answer at any time, in either direction.
You can delete site data at any time through your browser settings. Deleting PadelFormat browser storage may erase locally saved tournaments.
Changes
We review this page whenever a new analytics, advertising, embedded-media, affiliate or authentication service is added. Questions can be sent through the contact form.
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