Privacy Policy

The short version

We store the minimum needed to keep the poll honest. We do not sell data, we do not run advertising trackers, and we never store your raw IP address.

What we store when you vote

• An anonymous device identifier, issued by our server and kept in a cookie. It is a random value and is not linked to your name, email, or any account.
• The alliance you voted for and the time of the vote.
• Your country, derived from your connection at the moment you vote.
• A one-way cryptographic hash of your IP address, used solely to detect repeat voting. The original address is never written to our database and cannot be recovered from the hash.

Cookies

We set one functional cookie containing the anonymous device identifier described above. It exists to enforce the one-vote-per-device rule and is not used for advertising or cross-site tracking. Your browser also keeps a small local record of your selection so the page can display your choice instantly.

Analytics

We use privacy-preserving, server-side traffic analytics provided by our hosting platform. It reports aggregate figures such as page views, referring sites, and countries. It does not use cookies and does not build a profile of individual visitors.

Third parties

Our web fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives the request needed to deliver the font files. Our site and database are hosted on Netlify. We do not share vote data with anyone else.

Retention and your rights

Vote records are kept for as long as the poll runs, because deleting them would corrupt the standings. You can clear the cookie at any time through your browser. To ask what we hold about your device identifier, or to request its deletion, contact us through the contact page.