The short version
- General articles and player data need no account. Compare and Defense Matchups require a free account with a confirmed email address. If you create an account, we store your email, a display name, your plan, the league context you choose to save, and the questions you send us.
- Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see your card number; we keep only a Stripe customer reference and whether your subscription is active.
- Support form details are kept privately so we can handle your request and reply.
- The optional weekly email brief has its own signup and confirmation. We store your email, consent record and campaign source, and you can unsubscribe without an account.
- We don't sell or rent personal data, and we don't run ads.
- Your browser stores your league-scoring preference, your signed-in session when you log in, and a temporary plan selection when you begin joining. Our host's network sets one short-lived security cookie to tell people from bots.
- Our host processes standard request data, such as IP addresses, to deliver and protect the site.
Who we are
Fantasy Outsiders (“FFO”, “we”), operated by JIMS LLC, runs the website at fantasyoutsiders.com. This policy describes how the site works today. When that changes, we update this page and the date at the top.
Questions about this policy? Send a privacy request.
Hosting and request data
The site is hosted by Lovable and its infrastructure providers. Like any web host, they process the information your browser sends with each request, such as your IP address, browser type and the page you asked for, to deliver and protect the site and to give us aggregate statistics about visits. We don't combine that information with anything else or use it for advertising.
Cookies and browser storage
FFO stores your league preference in local storage, ffo_scoring, which remembers the league scoring you picked (for example Half PPR) so every page shows points your way. Your signed-in session also uses browser storage, and session storage can remember a membership plan while you sign in. Clearing this site's data removes these local settings and may sign you out. Fonts and images load from our own domain, so viewing a page doesn't contact a third-party font service.
The network our host runs on (Cloudflare) sets one strictly necessary security cookie, __cf_bm, which helps it tell people from automated bots. It expires after 30 minutes and isn't used for advertising or to track you across sites.
Accounts and Front Office requests
Creating an account stores your email address, a hashed password, the display name you choose, and your plan (free or Front Office). Accounts run on Lovable Cloud, which is built on Supabase; its infrastructure providers process this data on our behalf. Your browser keeps a signed-in session in local storage so you stay logged in; signing out removes it.
A free account unlocks Compare and Defense Matchups. Registering for these tools does not subscribe you to marketing emails or require a paid membership.
Questions you send through Ask the Front Office, and our answers, are stored on your account and visible only to you and the FFO operators. Don't include anything you wouldn't want us to read; league settings, player options and the decision you need help with are all we need. Football requests are collected in one private operator inbox. We may use AI tools to help draft advice; do not submit financial, medical, identity or other sensitive personal information.
You can save named league profiles with scoring, format, team count and roster notes to reuse in future questions. These are private to your account; context you include with a question is also visible to our operators. You can delete a saved league profile from your account. Deleting it does not erase context already included in a saved question.
We use our existing managed email provider to notify the private operator inbox when a question arrives and your account email when a reply is ready. These notices link to the signed-in portal and do not include your question, answer or roster notes. Delivery may be delayed or unavailable; your saved request and reply remain in the portal. Email delivery and suppression records are handled by the provider; we keep notification status to avoid duplicate sends.
To request deletion of your account and associated information, use the privacy request form. We may need to verify account ownership and retain records required for billing or legal obligations.
Support and cancellation requests
The support form collects your reply email, optional name, request category and message. These details are stored in our private support inbox so we can handle your request and reply. When email notifications are enabled, they are also forwarded to our support mailbox. Our hosting, storage and any email delivery providers process them on our behalf. They are not displayed publicly.
We retain support records as needed to resolve requests and meet billing or legal obligations. Do not include passwords, login codes, card numbers or sensitive personal information. Use the privacy request form to ask about access or deletion of your information.
The weekly email brief
If you choose to subscribe, we collect your email address and your explicit consent to a weekly football decision brief and occasional Fantasy Outsiders membership offers. Creating an account, paying for membership or sending a support request does not subscribe you. You must confirm the address using the link in our confirmation email before you are included in the confirmed list.
We store the consent wording version, signup and confirmation times, subscription status, and limited source information: the signup page and campaign tags included in the link you used. This helps us understand which content brings subscribers. The form does not add advertising cookies or tracking pixels. We do not put your email address in campaign links or make the subscriber list public.
Our existing hosting, database and managed email providers process signup and delivery information on our behalf. Confirmation links contain random tokens; only token hashes are stored in our database. We keep delivery-attempt records to prevent duplicate sends. Provider acceptance is not proof that a message reached your inbox.
Use the unsubscribe link in an email to stop the brief and membership offers. No password or paid membership is required. Unsubscribing from marketing does not cancel a paid subscription or stop essential account, billing or requested-service messages. We retain a minimal suppression and consent record to honor your choice and prevent accidental resubscription. For access, correction or deletion requests, use the privacy request form.
Payments
Front Office membership is billed by Stripe. Stripe collects and processes your card details under its own privacy policy; FFO never receives your card number. We store a Stripe customer identifier and the state of your subscription so the site knows what you have access to, and Stripe sends us the events needed to keep that current.
Football data
Every stat on the site is built from public NFL data published by nflverse, as described on the methodology page. It contains no information about visitors.
Links to other sites
Some pages link to other sites, such as nflverse and Creative Commons. Their own privacy policies apply there.
Children
FFO is not directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly let anyone under 13 create an account.
Changes to this policy
If what the site collects changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change takes effect.