let's clear this up properly. goal diggers asks you to sign in with your @bridge-global.com google account for exactly one reason: to make sure everyone in the pool is a real co-worker and not a stranger off the internet. google sign-in is identity verification — not surveillance. no personal tracking, no ads, no selling, no snooping. here's every detail, in plain language, with nothing hidden.
there's real money in these pools. the office-only rule is the bouncer at the door — it keeps the game small, trusted, and strictly between us.
this is a private game for our team. the maintainers collect your cash by hand and pay it back by hand. that only works if every player is someone we actually know and sit near. the domain lock is how we keep it that way.
open it to the public and you invite fake accounts, strangers dumping fake money, payment disputes, and a regulatory mess nobody wants. locking it to @bridge-global.com shuts every one of those doors before they open.
~40 known colleagues, manager-approved, cash settled offline. that's a friendly office pool — not a public sportsbook. keeping it internal is exactly what keeps it carefree.
we never build our own password for you — that would be one more thing to leak. instead google simply vouches that this is a real @bridge-global.com account. that's the whole handshake. one question, one yes/no answer.
scopes requested: your name, email & avatar · what we can read of your gmail/drive: nothing
four things. that's it. all of it exists only to run the game, and every bit is delete-on-request.
the one thing that proves you're one of us — an @bridge-global.com human. it's your login and how the maintainers know who to hand the cash to.
a random string google gives us so we can recognise you on your next login without storing a password. it means nothing outside this app.
the little avatar google already shows everywhere. purely so the leaderboard looks like people and not row numbers. delete-on-request, anytime.
you type this in yourself at sign-up. call yourself whatever you want — it doesn't even have to be your real name.
if you heard otherwise, you heard wrong. here's the stuff that simply does not happen.
google handles the login. we literally never see it — not the popup, not the keystrokes, nothing.
no gps, no ip-based tracking, no "where were you at 3pm". we have zero idea and zero interest.
we ask google for one thing: 'is this a real office account?'. we can't read your inbox or drive even if we wanted to.
no facebook/google ad tags, no cross-site cookies, no profiling. the one exception: a cookieless, anonymous page counter (cloudflare) that tallies which pages get opened — it can't see who you are or follow you anywhere else.
there is no buyer. this is an office game built for fun. your data has exactly one use: running this game.
your bets are between you and the pool. nobody's building a 'who gambles at work' dossier. relax.
the exact things people keep muttering by the coffee machine.
no. the opposite, in fact. the office login is the GATE, not a tracker. it exists so a random stranger on the internet can't wander in, dump fake money, or mess with a pool that has real ₹ in it. once you're in, we store the bare minimum to run the game — and nothing follows you outside it.
because this is a private game for our team — the people who sit around you, whose cash the maintainers physically collect and pay back. opening it to the public would mean strangers, fake accounts, payment disputes, and a regulatory headache nobody signed up for. the domain lock is what keeps it small, trusted, and "i know everyone in this pool".
one job: proving you are who you say you are, with an account you already trust. instead of inventing yet another username + password (that we'd then have to store and could leak), we let google vouch for your office email. that's the entire transaction. it's identity verification — a digital "yep, that's them" — not a data pipe.
admins can see the wallet and pool numbers needed to load cash and settle matches — that's the job. there is no hidden "spy on player X" mode, no export to anyone, no sharing outside the app. the ledger is an audit trail so the MONEY is honest, not so anyone can watch YOU.
only the cookieless, anonymous kind. we use cloudflare web analytics to count which PAGES get opened — purely so we know what's worth improving. it sets no cookies, stores no identifier, and can't tie a single view back to you or trail you across the web. it's a tally — "the matches page got 30 views today" — not "so-and-so opened the matches page". no google analytics, no ad networks, no profiles. that's the whole of it.