Privacy on padell.io
In short: no cookies, no ad networks and no profiles. What padell.io does keep, and why, is below.
Who
padell.io is a site by Bright Idiots BV, set up by Ruud Caris. Bright Idiots BV is the data controller for the data that comes in through this site. Questions about your data go through the contact form.
Bright Idiots BV, Sphinxcour 9a, 6211 XZ Maastricht, the Netherlands. Chamber of Commerce (KvK) 63780135.
Visitor statistics without cookies
Visits are counted with Plausible Analytics, through the site's own domain stats.brightidiots.com. Plausible sets no cookies and builds no profile of you. It does count which pages are viewed, from which country and on which type of device. Also which buttons are used, for example a click to a shop or finishing the racket finder.
Your IP address is not stored. That is also why no consent banner is needed.
What your browser remembers
A few choices are kept in your own browser (localStorage) so you do not have to make them again: the country for prices, light or dark mode, your compare list and your answers in the racket finder. This stays on your device. padell.io does not receive it. Clear it by deleting the site data in your browser.
Finding your country for prices
To show prices including shipping, the site checks once which country you visit from. Cloudflare, the hosting provider, reads this from your IP address. The site only gets the country code back and stores nothing. You can always choose the country yourself.
Price alerts
When you set a price alert, your email address, the racket, your target price, the country and the language are stored. You first get a confirmation email. Without confirmation nothing happens and the alert is removed after 7 days. Once the price is reached you get one email and the alert stops. Completed and stopped alerts are deleted after 90 days.
The data is stored with Cloudflare. The emails are sent through the mail provider emailit. Your address is used for nothing else: no newsletter, no reselling.
Contact form
A message through the contact form arrives as an email, with your email address if you fill it in. It is not stored on the site. It is only used to reply or to fix a mistake.
YouTube
Some racket pages show video reviews from YouTube. The preview images come from YouTube. The video itself only loads when you click it, through youtube-nocookie.com. From that moment YouTube's rules apply.
Going to a shop
When you click through to a shop, that shop's rules apply. Some shops use a partner programme and set a cookie on their own site to note that you came from padell.io. That sometimes earns padell.io a small commission. Your price does not change. See also how padell.io earns money.
Your rights
You can ask which data padell.io holds about you, have it corrected or deleted. Stop a price alert with the link in the email or through the contact form. If you disagree with how your data is handled, you can complain to the Dutch data protection authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).