Privacy policy

We collect as little as we can to run and improve the site, and we never sell it. This page says exactly what we hold, why, for how long, and how to have it removed.

Your account

If you create an account, we store your email address, your display name if you set one, your date of birth if you add it (we ask for it before you can vote, to confirm you are 18 or older), the operators you track, which version of our Terms of Use and this policy you accepted and when, and a log of a few significant actions: when you register, sign in, follow or unfollow an operator, change a consent, unsubscribe, or cast a vote. We do not log page views, clicks, or your path through the site.

When you vote in Players' Choice, we keep with the vote only what anti-abuse needs: your account's age and a hashed network prefix (the raw IP address is never kept).

When you register, we check the email domain against a public list of temporary-email services and refuse those. The check runs on our server; your address is not sent anywhere for it.

If you sign in with Telegram, we receive from Telegram your Telegram user ID, your first name and, if you have one, your username, and we keep the ID of your chat with @BullsRank_bot so the bot can message you. We use them to sign you in and, if you choose, to send you alerts. We do not receive your phone number. A sign-in request is kept for at most 24 hours. When you delete your account or unlink Telegram, these are deleted.

If you turn on alerts, we keep your alert settings and your device’s time zone so we can send them at the times you choose, and a record of the alerts we sent you for 90 days. These are deleted with your account.

Purpose: to run the service, to keep voting honest, and — only if you opt in — to email you product updates and new research. Retention: until you delete your account, except as described below. Your rights: you can delete your account at any time from your account settings.

When you delete your account, your profile and everything that identifies you is erased. What stays: an anonymous record that a deletion happened and, for 12 months, the fingerprint of your email address with the date of deletion. A vote from an account opened again with the same address starts counting 14 days after that account was opened. Your votes are removed with the account.

Who processes data for us

We do not sell your data and we do not pass it to operators. These providers run parts of the site for us under contract, and only for that: Vercel (hosting; page-speed and traffic aggregates), Supabase (database and sign-in), Resend (sending account emails), Cloudflare (our domain and forwarding of mail sent to our addresses), and Google (Analytics, as described below). If you sign in with Telegram, messages between you and @BullsRank_bot go through Telegram, which handles them under its own privacy policy.

Analytics (Google Analytics 4)

Google Analytics runs on every visit in one of two modes. Before you choose, and if you choose Necessary only, it runs cookieless: aggregate counts — how many visits, which pages, where traffic came from, rough country — with no cookie set and no cross-site profile. If you Accept, it also sets a first-party analytics cookie so repeat visits can be recognised. You can change this anytime at Cookie preferences. We run no advertising and no ad cookies in either mode. Detail: Cookie policy.

Purpose: understand traffic and improve the site. Retention: GA4 aggregate reports; no personal profile is built by us. Legal basis: your consent for the cookie; legitimate interest for the cookieless aggregate counts.

Notify-me email

If you give us an email on a “notify me” form, we use it for that one purpose only — a single message when the thing you asked about lands. Purpose: the notification you requested. Retention:kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, or until the notification is sent and the list retired. Never: sold, rented, or used for a newsletter. We ask for explicit consent on the form before storing it.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, and to correct or delete it, at any time. Email hello@bullsrank.com or use the contact form. We also run Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights for basic, privacy-preserving traffic and page-speed aggregates that set no identifying cookie.