🔒 Privacy

The short version

We store the minimum needed to run a live leaderboard. We never see your card details — Polar handles the entire payment. We do not sell data, run ad trackers, or embed third-party analytics.

What we store

• Anonymous client id — a random string generated in your browser (localStorage) used to route live updates and confirm your own pump. It is not tied to your identity.
• Optional handle — if you type a name before pumping, it is stored with the pump and displayed publicly. Leave it blank to appear as "anon".
• If you pump: truncated email + one-way hash — Polar tells us the email attached to your checkout. We keep only (a) a one-way hash of it, which becomes your private pumper-page address, and (b) a truncated form like j***@gmail.com, shown on leaderboards and feeds. Your full email is never written to our database and never displayed. If you set a handle, that shows next to the truncated email instead.
• Pumper page data — your aggregated totals (amount pumped, pump count, last tier, last pump time) and the list of projects you pumped. Public by design, same as the board itself.
• Public pump records — for every paid pump: the project, the tier, the amount, and the time. These power the leaderboard and charts and are visible to everyone. That is the point of the site.
• Choke counts and referral source — anonymous counters, plus the ?ref= project that brought a visitor here, if any.
• Consent flags (on your device only) — whether you accepted the current terms version, or declined the consent dialog. A decline blocks the arena on that device permanently: ranks page only, no pumping or submitting.
• IP address — every pump and choke receipt keeps the IP it came from, in a raw server-side ledger used for abuse prevention, audit, and rate limiting. Never shown publicly, never sold, never used to profile you — but it is recorded.

Project submissions — public info only

Every project listed on this leaderboard enters it through a voluntary user submission: the submitter provides the domain (and optionally a name, tagline, or emoji), and we may read publicly available information from that domain — such as its page title, meta description, or favicon — to fill in the listing. We collect publicly available information only. We never access private pages, authenticated content, paywalled material, or anything a site did not already publish openly to the entire internet.

Legal declaration: all submitted project information is provided by third-party submitters, not by us. We do not verify, edit for accuracy, monitor continuously, or endorse any submission. We expressly disclaim — and accept no liability whatsoever for — the accuracy, truthfulness, completeness, legality, ownership, or fitness of any user-submitted content, including the identity of the submitter and their right to submit that domain. A listing is a pointer to something someone asked us to rank. It is not our statement, our recommendation, or our claim about any site, person, or product. If you believe a submission is false, infringing, or unlawful, contact us: we may investigate and remove it at our sole discretion, but we are under no obligation to pre-screen and no warranty of removal is given.

What we never store

• Card numbers, bank details, or full payment credentials — these go directly to Polar, never to us.
• Passwords or accounts — the site has no login system.
• Your full email address — we keep only the truncated display form and a one-way hash.
• Tracking cookies or advertising identifiers.

Third parties

• Polar (polar.sh) — merchant of record for payments. Processes your payment and may store your email/receipt per their own privacy policy.
• Vercel — hosting and edge CDN (request logs).
• Supabase — managed Postgres database hosting the leaderboard data described above.

Your controls

• Stored preferences (theme, client id, referral) live only in your browser and can be removed like any site data.
• Pump with a blank handle to stay anonymous; amounts and project totals remain public by design — a public leaderboard cannot honor deletion of a project's aggregated total without breaking the product.
• Contact us for anything else and we will do our best within the limits of a public experiment.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, the updated date at the top changes with it. Questions: open an issue or reach the operator of the deployment you are using.