Privacy

01Who is responsible for your information

stophunt.lol is operated by a sole trader based in the United Kingdom. That person is the controller of the information described here, and is called the operator throughout.

Write to support@stophunt.lol about anything on this page. It is the address for every request and every complaint, and a person reads it.

02What this covers

Four kinds of information, and they behave differently:

• What a listing publishes — a handle, a link and one short line. Public by design, on a page that does not reset.
• What a payment leaves behind — the amount, the date, the payment reference, and the email address the payer gives our payment provider at checkout. Not public.
• What analytics collects — how the site is used, and only if you agree to it.
• What the counters store — a scrambled form of the address your internet connection is using, so the same visit is not counted twice. Never the address itself, and not public.

The counters are the fourth kind, and they are the smallest thing here. A visit is counted once a day, and a click on a listing once a minute. Doing that means recognising the same connection twice without knowing whose it is, so the address your connection uses is scrambled one way, the scramble is what gets stored, and the address itself is never written down. That is a smaller thing to hold than an address rather than a magic one, so we treat the scramble as standing in for the address for as long as the row lives. Nobody reads it through the site: no page asks for it, no page shows it, and none of it is public — the visitor figure on the leaderboard is a total and never a list. We do it on the basis of our legitimate interest in counting an audience once each rather than once per reload, and it is used for that and nothing else.

There are no accounts here. We do not ask you to register, we hold no passwords, and we never see your card details.

A handle is personal data. A username identifies a person even where it looks anonymous and even where nobody could work out their real name from it. We do not pretend otherwise, and everything below is built on that.

03If you pay for a listing

What we hold, why, and on what basis:

• The handle, link and line you submitted. To publish the listing you paid for. Basis: our contract with you.
• The amount, the date and the payment reference. To place the listing at the rank your total supports, to keep the leaderboard honest, and to answer a dispute. Basis: our contract with you, and our legal obligation to keep business records.
• Your email address, which our payment provider collects at checkout and passes to us. We use it to send your receipt, to contact you about your listing — including if it is reported, delisted or taken down, and to give you the appeal — and to deal with a complaint or a payment dispute. Basis: our contract with you, and our legitimate interest in being able to reach the person who paid for a listing before deciding what to do about it.
• The acceptance record — the exact wording you ticked before paying, which version of the terms it belonged to, and when. To show what you agreed to if a payment is ever disputed. Basis: our legitimate interest in defending a dispute.

We never see your card details. Those go to our payment provider and stay there.

We do not send marketing email. If that ever changes you will be asked first, and asked separately.

04If somebody else puts your handle on the leaderboard

Anyone can pay to list any handle, so your handle can appear here without you asking for it. When that happens we publish your handle, the link and the one line the payer wrote, and the total paid.

We do that on the basis of our legitimate interests in running a public, paid leaderboard, and the payer's interest in advertising on it. We have weighed that against your interests and written the assessment down. If you want to see it, ask and we will send it.

We only list public-facing accounts. We do not list private individuals and we do not list anyone under 18. If either has happened, tell us and it comes off ahead of everything else in the queue.

We tell you when it happens. A message goes to your handle when a listing carrying it goes up, so you find out from us rather than from somebody else.

We read the line a payer writes about you. Allegations, anything about your conduct, anything about your health, beliefs, background or anything you have been accused of — none of that is allowed here, whoever paid. A listing goes live on payment, so if one of those gets through it comes off the moment we see it, and it does not wait for you to complain.

Getting it removed.

You can object to us publishing your handle, and we will not argue. One message from that handle, enough proof you control it, and the listing is removed the same day and the handle cannot be listed again. There is no charge for it. That is your right, not a favour — we have simply decided not to make you fight for it.

What stays: the payment records behind the listing. We are required to keep those for tax, and that requirement outlives the listing. They are not public and they are not the leaderboard.

When a listing comes off, we take reasonable steps to stop it persisting elsewhere: it goes from the live leaderboard and from the archive views, we ask search engines to drop the page, and we do not leave the handle in our own posts about it.

05Where the information comes from

If your handle was listed by somebody else, we did not get it from you. We got it from the person who paid for the listing, who typed it in. Where a listing shows profile information that was already public on the platform the handle belongs to, that came from the public profile.

We do not buy data about anyone, we do not scrape anyone, and we build no profile of anyone beyond what their own listing shows.

06Analytics and the consent banner

We use Google Analytics to see how the site is used — which pages people read, how they arrived, and where they stop. It runs only if you agree to it, and it does not run before you have answered the banner.

The same goes for X’s conversion pixels — they measure whether our advertising on X brought anyone here. They run under the same consent, and never before you have answered the banner.

The basis is your consent, and you can take it back at any time. Taking it back is as easy as giving it: the consent tool leaves a way back in on every page, and withdrawing is treated as a request to delete what was collected under it.

Google is a recipient of that information. The cookie table — every cookie, what it does, how long it lasts — is maintained by our consent tool rather than typed out here, because a hand-written table goes stale and a generated one does not. It is reachable from the banner on any page.

The cookies and similar technologies the site needs to work at all — the ones that remember your consent choice — do not need your permission and are set either way.

07Who else sees your information

Our payment provider, Stripe. It processes the payment, collects the card details we never see, and passes us the payer's email address and the payment record. Stripe acts as our processor for that — and, on its own account, as an independent controller in its own right, for fraud detection, anti-money-laundering, meeting its own regulatory duties and developing its products. What it does in that second role is governed by Stripe's own privacy policy, not by this one.

Google, for analytics, if you have agreed to it.

X, for measuring our advertising there, if you have agreed to it.

Our consent tool, which records the choice you made about cookies.

Our hosting provider, which serves the pages and keeps the ordinary server logs any web host keeps. Those logs see the address your connection uses, the way every web server's do. The counter scrambles in section 02 are a separate thing: they sit in our own database, they go nowhere else, and neither the logs nor the scrambles can be read from a page on this site.

Beyond that: nobody. We do not sell information about anyone, we do not share it for anyone else's marketing, and we do not hand a listing's payer details to the person the listing names — or the other way round — except where the law makes us, or where the defamation procedure requires a complaint to be put to whoever paid.

08Information going outside the UK

Stripe, Google and X are US companies, so information reaches the United States.

Stripe and Google are certified under the UK extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, which the UK government has found to give adequate protection. That is the basis we rely on for those transfers, so there is no separate transfer agreement to point you at. We check periodically that each certification is still live and still covers what we send.

X is different. Its paperwork under that framework has not been steady, so we do not lean on it: nothing goes to X at all unless you have agreed to its cookies, and X’s own privacy policy sets out the safeguards it applies to what it receives.

09How long we keep things

Four clocks, and they are not the same clock.

• Listings — for as long as the all-time leaderboard is maintained. That is the purpose, and it is a continuous one: the leaderboard is a record of money paid, in order, and a record with holes in it is not a record. A listing removed under any of the four routes goes at that point.
• Payment records, including the payer's email address — for as long as the tax rules require a sole trader to keep business records, which is at least five years after the 31 January submission deadline for the tax year they fall in. These survive a delisting. Deleting the listing does not delete the fact that money was paid, and we would be breaking the law if it did. They are not public.
• Analytics — only as long as we need it to see how the site is used. We set our analytics provider's own retention to the shortest it offers, and we do not keep a copy after that.
• The counter rows — a visit scramble does its whole job in 24 hours, a click scramble in 60 seconds. Past that the row counts nothing and is used for nothing, and it is cleared on a rolling basis rather than on a fixed date we would then have to keep to. We would rather say that than quote you a schedule.

We do not call the leaderboard an archive to justify keeping it. Archiving would have to be the only reason we kept it, and taking money for placement is a second reason.

10Your rights

The right to object, first, because it is the one that matters here.

You can object to us publishing your handle. We publish third-party listings on the basis of legitimate interests, and that is exactly the basis an objection is aimed at. We do not argue with objections about a handle: one message from that handle, enough proof you control it, and the listing is removed the same day, at no charge, and the handle cannot be listed again. This is section 04, and it is a right rather than a service we offer.

The rest of them.

• Access — a copy of what we hold about you, and where it came from.
• Rectification — correcting anything wrong.
• Erasure — deleting it, where there is no reason left to hold it. This is the delisting route for a handle; it does not reach the payment records described above.
• Restriction — asking us to stop using it while a dispute about it is settled.
• Portability — a copy of what you gave us, in a machine-readable form, where we hold it on the basis of consent or a contract.
• Withdrawing consent — for analytics, at any time, as easily as it was given.

11How to exercise them

One address: support@stophunt.lol. Say which right you want and enough for us to find what you are asking about. If you are asking about a handle, we need enough proof you control it — Support says what counts.

We answer without undue delay and within one month. If a request is complicated, or there are several of them, we may need up to two months more — in which case we will tell you inside the first month and say why.

There is no charge. The only exception is a request that is clearly unfounded or excessive, and we would look at that one request on its facts rather than apply a blanket rule.

12Complaining

You can complain to us. Write to support@stophunt.lol and say that is what you are doing. We will acknowledge it within 30 days, look into it, and tell you the outcome. You do not have to complain to us first, but it is usually the fastest way to get it fixed.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, on 0303 123 1113, or at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

13Children

You must be 18 or over to pay for anything here.

Nobody under 18 may be listed, whoever pays. If you believe a listing names a minor, tell us at support@stophunt.lol and put the word minor in the subject line. It goes to the front of the queue and comes off ahead of everything else.

This is a paid advertising product for people who trade futures and crypto, priced in dollars. It is not aimed at children and we do not believe children are likely to use it. We have written down why we think that, and we look at it again if the product changes.

14Changes to this notice

If we change what we do with information, we change this page and move the version and the date at the top of it.

Where a change matters to someone whose handle is listed — a new recipient, a new purpose, a different clock — we say so on the page rather than moving the date quietly.

Version 1.1, 1 September 2026. The counters joined section 02, section 07 and section 09: the site counts a visit once a day and a click once a minute, and it does that with a scrambled form of the address your connection uses rather than the address. Nothing new leaves the site, and nobody new receives anything.