Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 15, 2026
1. Who We Are
PickleFitter ("we", "us") is an independent website operated from the United States. We are the controller of the personal data described here. Questions or requests: privacy@picklefitter.com.
2. What We Collect
a. Your email address, if you give it to us
- Weekly email and results: your email, where you signed up, the date, and (if you signed up from quiz results) your quiz session id and the paddles we recommended with their prices at the time.
- Game reminders: your email, the game, and the browser id described below (only if you allowed it). A reminder only adds you to the weekly email if you tick that box.
b. Quiz answers
Skill level, play style, game type, how you win points, swing speed, frustrations, budget and the paddles recommended, stored with a random session id. Your answer about arm, wrist or elbow pain is used in your browser to shape the recommendations and is not sent to or stored by us. Your answers do appear in the results page address so you can share it; we strip that address from analytics.
c. Usage, games and buy-link clicks
- Page views and events (for example a finished quiz, a game played, a share): the event, the page, the site that referred you (and any campaign tag in the link you followed), your country, whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer, and the browser id.
- How you move through the site: a random visit id that groups the pages of one visit, the order you viewed them in, how long each page was in use and how far down you scrolled, and which questions of the quiz you reached (not your answers). We use it to see which pages help and where people give up. Only with the browser id below.
- Game results: the game, the day, your score and picks, and the browser id, so a daily result is counted once.
- Tour Pick'em entries: the display name you choose, your picks, the group code if you join one, and the browser id so you can edit your entry. Your display name, picks and score are shown to other players on the event's leaderboard; the browser id is never shown. Use a nickname if you prefer.
- Buy-link clicks through picklefitter.com/go/: the paddle, the store, the page and spot you clicked from, your country, and the browser id.
- Vercel Web Analytics counts page views without cookies or a stored id, from page addresses with any query string removed.
- Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC, as our processor) sets its own cookies to count visits, pages and the events above. It loads only after you accept the banner where consent is required, and never when your browser sends Global Privacy Control. Advertising features, Google signals and ad personalisation are off. Pages are reported without query strings.
- Problem reports: if you use “Report a problem”, we store your note, the page and the time. Nothing that identifies you. Kept up to 12 months.
d. IP address and server logs
Our host, Vercel, processes your IP address, browser user agent and request times to serve the site and keep it secure. We use the IP address briefly for rate limiting and to look up your country; we do not store it in our database.
4. Why We Use It, and Our Legal Basis
- Sending the weekly email, results and reminders: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
- The analytics browser id, visit id and how you move through the site: your consent in the EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland; elsewhere, our legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used and fixing pages where people get stuck. You can turn this off at any time (section 3).
- Anonymous counting of page views and clicks without the ids: our legitimate interest in knowing how the site is used. Nothing is stored on your device and visits can't be linked to you.
- Tour Pick'em entries: running the game you entered, including its public leaderboard.
- Quiz answers, aggregate statistics, improving recommendations: our legitimate interest in running and improving a free service. Quiz answers are not linked to you unless you also sign up from your results.
- Security and abuse prevention: our legitimate interest in keeping the site working.
5. Affiliate Links
We earn commissions from Amazon and some paddle brands when you buy through our links, at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. When you click a buy link, the store learns that you came from picklefitter.com, but not which page or your browser id. The store's own privacy policy applies once you are there. See our Terms for more.
6. Who We Share It With
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Service providers process it for us under contract:
- Supabase: database hosting.
- Vercel: site hosting and cookieless analytics.
- Google: Google Analytics, if you allow it (see above).
- An email delivery service: to send emails you signed up for.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it. These providers store data in the United States. Where data from the EU, EEA, UK or Switzerland is transferred, it is protected by the providers' Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards.
7. How Long We Keep It
- Email addresses and reminders: until you unsubscribe, then deleted straight away.
- Page views, events (including visit ids, time on page and scroll depth), buy-link clicks, game results and quiz answers: up to 24 months, then deleted.
- Tour Pick'em entries: until you ask us to delete them, so past leaderboards stay complete.
- Problem reports: up to 12 months, then deleted.
- Server logs: per Vercel's retention, typically days to weeks.
8. Your Rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you, correct, delete or export your data, and object to how we use it. Unsubscribe in one step at picklefitter.com/unsubscribe. For anything else, email privacy@picklefitter.com; we reply within 30 days. To find data tied only to your browser id, tell us the id: it is the pf_device value in this site's local storage.
EU, EEA, UK and Switzerland
You also have the right to restrict processing, to withdraw consent at any time (without affecting earlier processing), and to complain to your data protection authority.
California and other US states
In the last 12 months we collected identifiers (email, browser id, visit id, Pick'em display name), internet activity (pages, events, clicks, time on page and scroll depth), approximate location (country) and inferences (quiz-based paddle preferences), from you and your browser, for the purposes in section 4. We disclosed them only to the service providers in section 6. We do not sell or share personal information, and we do not collect sensitive personal information. You may ask to know, delete or correct your data, use an authorized agent, and you won't be treated differently for using these rights. We verify requests by asking you to confirm from the email address involved.
9. Children
PickleFitter is not directed at children under 13, and not at children under 16 in the EU, EEA and UK. We do not knowingly collect their personal information. If you think a child has given us theirs, email us and we will delete it.
10. Changes to This Policy
We will post changes on this page and update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use the email address you gave us, we will tell you by email first.
11. Contact
Questions or concerns about this policy or your data: privacy@picklefitter.com.