Privacy
Short version: we store an email address if you give us one, and a rotating anonymous fingerprint so we can count clicks honestly. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
If you reserve a slot
We store the URL or handle you entered, the amount you bid, and your email address. The email is used to send you the checkout link, a receipt, and alerts when someone outbids you or takes a rank you're watching. You can ask us to delete it at any time.
When someone clicks a listing
Links go through a redirect so clicks can be counted — that number is published next to every listing and is what bidders are paying for.
We do not store your IP address. We store a one-way hash of your IP and browser, salted and regenerated every day, purely so the same person clicking twice in an hour isn't counted twice. Because the salt rotates daily, that value cannot be used to follow anyone over time or matched back to a person. We also record the referring website and country.
What we don't do
No advertising trackers, no third-party analytics scripts, no selling or sharing of personal data, no profiling. Your snipe-watch list is kept in your own browser, not on our servers.
Payments
Card payments are handled entirely by Stripe. Card details never reach our servers and we never see them. Stripe processes that data under its own privacy policy.
Retention and your rights
Click records are kept in aggregate indefinitely, since published totals are the product. Raw click rows and rank history are pruned regularly. Email addresses are kept until you ask us to remove them.
You can request a copy of your data or its deletion by emailing hello@rankweb.lol.
This describes what the site actually does today. It is not legal advice and has not been reviewed by a solicitor.