A few things are saved on your own device so the site works and remembers what you did.

A random ID for your browser

Local storage · Kept until you clear your browser data. It isn’t made from anything about you.

A random ID for this tab

Session storage · Gone when you close the tab. Lets us tell one visit from another.

Your votes, Best 11 and progress

Local storage · Kept until you clear your browser data, so the site works without an account.

Every vote

Database · Which player won, which lost, which list, your browser’s random ID and the time. Kept — votes are the rankings.

The steps of a visit

Database · A short label (arrived, saw a duel, voted, skipped), the two random IDs, the time, and the website that linked you here. Deleted automatically after 180 days.

For the website that linked you here, we keep only its name — reddit.com, say — never the full link, because a full link can contain a search term or something personal.

We don’t store your IP address in our database. Our hosting providers keep standard server logs, which do include IP addresses, for security and to keep the site running.

We store your email address so you can sign back in, and a display name, which starts as the first part of your email. Your votes become linked to your account so they follow you between devices.

An account is optional. Every vote on the site works without one.

Vercel

Hosting · Runs the website. Also counts page views with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies.

Supabase

Database · Stores votes, visit steps and accounts.

Resend

Email · Sends the account emails — sign-in links, password resets and sign-up confirmations. It receives your email address only when one of those is sent to you.

Nobody else. We don’t sell or share this data.

We don’t use cookies for advertising or to track you across other websites. The things we store in your browser are listed above — they’re there so the site works and remembers your votes. You can clear them at any time in your browser’s settings; you’ll lose your saved votes on that device unless you have an account.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — including your account and every vote linked to it. Email makeyourgoat@gmail.com.

If you’re unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to your data protection authority. In Poland that’s the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO).

Make Your GOAT is an independent project run from Poland. Questions about anything on this page: makeyourgoat@gmail.com.