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Privacy Policy

Effective October 22, 2026

1. The short version

We collect only what the game needs: your name, email, date of birth and what you do in your leagues. We don't sell your information, show ads, or use tracking or advertising cookies. You can ask us to delete your account at any time.

2. What we collect

  • Account details: your name, email address and date of birth. Your date of birth is used for age checks and the “your birthday” scoring bonus. Your password is handled by our sign-in provider (Amazon Cognito); we never see or store it.
  • Game activity: leagues you run or join, team names and icons, draft picks, watch lists, waiver claims, objections, celebrities you add by hand, buy-in status a commissioner records, and your notification choices.
  • Things you type into searches, including web lookups, so we can find the person you mean.
  • Email delivery information: whether our emails were delivered, bounced or marked as spam, so we stop sending to addresses that don't want them.
  • Technical information: your IP address, browser type and request times in our servers' logs, used to run and secure the Service.
  • Cookies: a few essential cookies to keep you signed in, remember which league you're viewing and remember an invite link, plus a short-lived one while you sign in. Your light/dark theme choice is stored in your browser. We use no analytics or advertising cookies.

We don't collect payment information. Donations happen on Venmo, under Venmo's own privacy policy.

3. Information about public figures

The game uses publicly available information about public figures from sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata, including dates, photos and documented health information, and some features use AI to summarize it. If you are a public figure and believe information about you here is inaccurate, contact us and we'll review it.

4. How we use it

  • to run the game: leagues, drafts, scoring, standings, waivers and payouts records;
  • to send the notifications you choose (you can turn each type off, or all email, at any time);
  • to keep the Service secure, prevent abuse and enforce our Terms, including reporting threats of harm to law enforcement;
  • to fix problems and improve the Service.

5. Who sees it

Other players in your league see your name, team name and icon, picks, and league activity. They don't see your email address or date of birth, although scores that use your birthday are visible.

Service providers who process information for us only to run the Service: Amazon Web Services (hosting, database, sign-in, backups and email, in the United States) and Anthropic (AI features; we send it public information about celebrities and the searches you type, not your account details). When you view a page, your browser loads celebrity photos directly from Wikimedia Commons, which receives your IP address under its own policy.

Legal reasons: we may share information if required by law, or to protect anyone's safety, including reporting credible threats of harm. We don't sell or rent personal information, and we don't share it for advertising.

6. How long we keep it

We keep your account and league history while your account is open, so past seasons stay accurate for your league. When you delete your account, we remove your personal details and your sign-in within 30 days; league records may keep your team name without your personal information. Encrypted database backups are kept for 35 days, so deleted details leave them within that time. Server logs are kept for up to 90 days.

7. Your choices and rights

You can update your name and team in your profile, choose which emails you get on the Notifications page, and unsubscribe from any email in one click. You can ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete your account. We'll respond within 45 days and won't treat you differently for asking. Depending on where you live (for example Virginia, California or other states with privacy laws), you may have additional rights, which we honor.

8. Security

Information is sent over encrypted connections (HTTPS) and stored with access limited to what's needed to run the Service. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we'll tell you as the law requires.

9. Age

The Service is only for people 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18, and we'll delete it if we learn we have.

10. Changes and contact

We'll post any changes here with a new effective date and tell you about significant ones. Questions or requests: contact@racetothegates.com. See also our Terms of Use.