Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 12, 2026
This policy explains what information Beat the Book collects, why, and who we share it with. Beat the Book is operated by Carter Smith from Ontario, Canada. We don't sell your personal information.
1. Information we collect
When you use the site, we collect:
- Account info from Google sign-in: your name, email address, and profile image.
- Profile details you set: your username, optional country flag, odds-format preference, and email-notification preference.
- Gameplay data: your picks, results, records, streaks, and related timestamps.
- Technical data: basic log and device information (such as IP address and browser) collected automatically by our hosting and error-monitoring providers.
We do not collect payment information, because no money moves through the site.
2. How we use it
- to run your account, picks, and the leaderboards;
- to show public profiles (see “What's public” below);
- to send competition emails you can opt out of at any time;
- to contact prize winners and administer the competitions;
- to keep the site secure, debug errors, and prevent abuse.
3. What's public
Your username, country flag, records, streaks, badges, and settled pick history are visible on leaderboards and your public profile. To prevent copying, your pending picks are hidden from other players until they settle. Your email address is never shown publicly.
4. Service providers we share with
We use trusted providers to run the site. They process data only to provide their service to us:
- Google — authentication (sign-in).
- Vercel — website hosting and logs.
- Neon — database hosting (United States).
- Resend — sending competition emails.
- Sentry — error monitoring and diagnostics.
- The Odds API — sports odds data; we send it no personal information.
Some providers are located in the United States, so your information may be processed outside Canada. We don't sell your personal information or share it for advertising.
5. Cookies
We use a small number of essential cookies to keep you signed in and to operate the site. We don't use third-party advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
6. Retention
We keep your account and gameplay data while your account is active and as needed to run the competitions and meet legal obligations. When you delete your account, we remove or anonymize your personal information within a reasonable period, except where we must retain something to comply with the law.
7. Your choices and rights
- Turn competition emails on or off from your profile at any time.
- Change your username, country, and preferences from your profile.
- Request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information by emailing us.
Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as Canada's PIPEDA. To exercise any of these, contact support@beathebook.com.
8. Children
The site is for adults 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18; if we learn we have, we'll delete it.
9. Changes and contact
We'll post any changes to this policy here with an updated date. Questions or privacy requests: support@beathebook.com.