Privacy policy

Information used by Sports Oracle

Sports Oracle provides Google-backed accounts for followed teams, My Sports and Pick'em. The site does not currently offer purchases.

When you follow teams, leagues, competitions, Formula 1 drivers or constructors, and writers, the site stores essential, HTTP-only cookies so it can remember those choices. These cookies are not used to build an advertising profile.

If you join the Sports Oracle Signal, we process your email address, consent status, signup source and timestamps needed to confirm, deliver and administer the subscription. An address remains pending until its confirmation link is used.

Like most hosted websites, our infrastructure may process technical information needed to deliver and protect the service, such as an IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, timestamps and security or diagnostic events. This information is used for operation, reliability, abuse prevention and troubleshooting.

Sports Oracle accounts and Pick'em

Sports Oracle uses Google-backed accounts for cross-device followed teams and contest entries. It requests only basic profile access and stores the stable Google account identifier, the public display name you explicitly enter, followed-team identifiers, picks, tiebreaker predictions, account status and operational timestamps needed to keep one entry connected to the correct player. Sports Oracle does not store your Google profile name, email address, password, or Google access and refresh tokens. You can use a nickname and change it later from your account.

Pick'em entries require a confirmed player profile. Signed-in entries and followed teams are stored with your Sports Oracle account and follow you across devices. You can delete your account from the account page. Deletion removes its Google connection, public name and followed-team preferences, disables access, and keeps any historical contest entry under an anonymous deleted-player record so completed standings remain internally consistent.

Email delivery and measurement

Confirmed subscribers receive the weekly Sports Oracle Signal and occasional transactional messages needed to administer it, such as confirmation and welcome messages. Every campaign includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribed, bounced and complaint-associated addresses are suppressed from future campaigns.

Campaign messages may contain a small image and protected redirect links that record whether a delivery was opened or a Sports Oracle link was selected. We use these aggregate delivery events to understand reliability and editorial usefulness. Email providers may also return delivery, bounce or complaint events. You can stop future email at any time through the link in a message.

Advertising and Google AdSense

Sports Oracle uses Google AdSense. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers and similar technologies to deliver, measure and personalize ads, subject to your choices and applicable law.

Google explains how it uses information from sites and apps that use its services on its partner-sites information page. You can manage advertising personalization through Google My Ad Center.

Consent choices

Where required, a consent message allows visitors to make choices about advertising cookies and personal data before eligible advertising technologies are used. You can revisit available privacy choices through the consent controls shown by the site. Your browser can also block or delete cookies, although doing so may prevent followed-team and writer preferences from working.

External services and links

The site may display or link to information from sports-data providers, news publishers, Reddit, YouTube, official teams, leagues and other external services. Loading an embed or following an outside link can allow that provider to receive technical information and apply its own privacy policy. Sports Oracle does not control third-party websites.

Data retention and sharing

Operational and consent records are retained only as reasonably needed for delivery, suppression, site reliability, security and legal obligations. Mailing records may be handled by service providers that host the site or deliver email. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, to protect rights and safety, or in connection with a business reorganization. Sports Oracle does not sell information that visitors submit directly to us.

Children

Sports Oracle is a general-audience sports publication and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly ask children under 13 to provide personal information.

Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, restriction or objection relating to personal information. We may need enough information to verify and locate a request. Use the method on our Contact page and do not send sensitive identifiers publicly.

Policy changes

We may update this policy as the site or applicable requirements change. The effective date above identifies the current version.