Privacy.

What SPOT stores.

• A device id. A random tag saved in your browser so Ace can remember what you two talked about and your picks can be shown back to you. There is no login behind it. Clearing your site data forgets you.
• Your picks. When you tell us what you decided on a game — followed Ace, went your own way, or passed — we keep it with the time and the call Ace made at that moment, so your own record can be graded from the final score.
• Chat messages and screenshots. What you say to Ace, and any picture you attach, is kept with your device id. Anything you tell him about the world — an injury, a rumor — is logged as a tip for a person to check. It never changes a stand on its own.
• Tips you send Ace. A tip, its screenshot and the display name you give are stored with the game and the time; the screenshot is never public, and the display name is shown only when a tip is confirmed by the record.
• Your season money, if you type it in. The number you set aside for the season stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere; it only turns units into your dollars on the screen.
• Your email, if you sign up. Only if you give it to us for an account or for notifications. It is used to sign you in and to send you what you asked for. Nothing else. Signed in, you also get one email every Tuesday morning with your week's picks graded beside Ace's, only in weeks you made a pick; every one of those emails carries a one-click stop link, and stopping sticks.
• What gets used. To learn which parts of SPOT people use and which they never touch, the app notes a handful of moments — the entrance loading, a matchup being opened, PRICE IT, a pick being frozen, a story being played — as a device id, the screen, the event, the game and the time. Not your name, not your email, not your address on the internet, not what you typed. It goes into our own database and nowhere else; there is no third party. If your browser says Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, none of it is sent at all.

What SPOT does not do.

Nothing here is sold. Not your email, not your picks, not your messages. Not to anyone, not ever.

SPOT does not run ad trackers and does not build a profile of you for anyone else. Chat messages are sent to the model that answers as Ace so he can answer; that is the whole use.

Where it lives.

On servers the operator runs, with nightly backups. Backups exist so the record survives a bad disk; they are not a second copy for anything else.

Forgetting you.

Clear your site data and your device id is gone, and with it the link between you and your picks and messages. If you signed up with an email and want it removed, ask the operator and it is removed.

The one thing that is never deleted is the public record of Ace's stands. That is not about you. It is on About the record.

Changes.

If this page changes, the date at the bottom changes with it.