The short version
- No accounts and no ads. We don't sell or share your personal information.
- Google Analytics counts visits and clicks so we know what's working. It doesn't tell us who you are.
- Contact form messages are only used to reply to you. The copy in our database is deleted after 90 days.
- Your settings and game progress stay on your device.
What we collect
How the site is used (Google Analytics)
We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages, features and games people use, how they found SportsBadger, what kind of device and browser they're on, and roughly where they are (city or region, worked out by Google from the connection). It uses cookies to tell visits apart. It doesn't give us your name or email address, and Google Analytics 4 doesn't log or store IP addresses. We never send anything you type into the contact form to Analytics.
Messages you send us
When you use the Contact page, we receive your name, your email address, the topic you picked, your message, and, for data corrections, the page you tell us about. The message is emailed to our inbox, and a copy is saved in our database so nothing gets lost.
Game results
When you finish a game in The Sett, your result is saved with a random ID your browser makes for itself, so we can show how you compare with other players. It isn't linked to your name, email or IP address.
Things saved on your device
SportsBadger keeps a few things in your browser's storage: settings such as your sport, your game progress and streaks, the random game ID above, and small reminders, like a notice you closed. If you start a message on the Contact page, a draft is kept in that browser tab until you send it or close the tab. Apart from the game ID, which goes with a finished game's result, none of this leaves your device.
Server logs
Like nearly every website, our web host's servers keep standard technical logs (IP address, browser, pages requested and the time) for security and troubleshooting.
How we use it
- To run SportsBadger and make it better: which features to build next, what's confusing, what's broken.
- To read and answer your messages, and to fix data you tell us is wrong.
- To keep the site safe: blocking spam and bots, and limiting how fast anyone can send messages or game results.
We don't add you to a mailing list, and we don't sell or share your personal information. We don't run ads today. If that changes, we'll update this page first and say what the ad partner collects.
Services that load on our pages
Visit and click counts, on every page. How Google uses this information
Our fonts. Your browser fetches them from Google, which sees your IP address and browser details. Google's privacy policy
On the Contact page only. It checks that a person, not a bot, is sending a message, usually without a click, using technical details about your browser and connection. Cloudflare's privacy policy
Our web host, which also runs our email. Your messages and our database are stored on its servers.
Our footer links to SportsBadger on X, Instagram and Facebook. Those are plain links: we don't load social networks' buttons or trackers, and their own privacy policies apply once you're on their sites.
Cookies and storage
The only cookies are Google Analytics' own (named _ga and _ga_…), which tell one visit from
another. Everything else SportsBadger saves is in your browser's local storage, as described above, and is only used on
this site.
How long we keep it
- Contact messages: the database copy is deleted automatically after 90 days. The email stays in our inbox for as long as we need it to follow up.
- Spam protection: to limit how many messages one connection can send, we keep a one-way fingerprint of the IP address (not the address itself) for about a day.
- Analytics: detailed Google Analytics data is kept for up to 14 months.
- Game results: kept so the "how you compare" numbers stay accurate. They're anonymous.
- On your device: until you clear your browser's data for SportsBadger.
Your choices
- Turn off Google Analytics with Google's opt-out browser add-on, or by blocking cookies in your browser. The site works the same either way.
- Remove your settings and game progress by clearing your browser's site data for sportsbadger.com.
- Ask us what we have from you, or to delete a message you sent: write to us from the Contact page using the same email address, so we know it's you.
Children
SportsBadger is for a general audience and isn't directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us a message, let us know and we'll delete it.
Changes to this page
When this page changes, the date at the top changes too. Bigger changes, like adding ads or accounts, will also be announced on the site.
Questions about your data?We're happy to answer them.
Contact us