Privacy Policy

The short version

• We don't require an account, login, or any personal information to use the site.
• We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people use the site, in aggregate.
• We use cookies for analytics and for advertising delivered through standard ad networks.
• We do not sell your personal information.
• If you email us, we will keep the email until the conversation is over and then delete it.

Information we collect automatically

When you visit Lottery Atlas, our server and our third-party analytics provider receive standard web request information:

• Your IP address (anonymized by Google Analytics before storage where possible)
• The page you requested
• The referring URL (where you came from)
• Your browser type, language, and operating system
• The date and time of your visit
• The country / state your IP is in (for geo-aware features and analytics)

This is the same information any web server receives. We use it for analytics, abuse detection, and to debug site issues.

Cookies and similar technologies

Lottery Atlas uses cookies for two purposes:

1. Analytics. Google Analytics 4 sets cookies (typically named _ga, _ga_*) to measure unique visitors, pageviews, and traffic sources. We use this data in aggregate to understand which content is useful and to improve the site. You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
2. Advertising. Display advertisements on the site are delivered through standard ad networks, which may set their own cookies for ad targeting and frequency capping. You can manage your ad preferences at adssettings.google.com and optout.aboutads.info.

We do not use cookies for tracking across other websites beyond what these standard analytics and ad networks do by default.

Information you provide voluntarily

The only way to send us personal information is to email hello@lotteryatlas.com. If you do, we'll have your email address and whatever you wrote to us. We use that information only to respond to your message. We delete the thread after the conversation is over, typically within 90 days.

We do not run an email newsletter, customer database, or marketing-automation system. We have no list to add you to.

How we use the information

• To run the site: debug errors, detect abusive traffic, maintain uptime.
• To improve the site: understand which pages are useful, which load slowly, which produce errors.
• To deliver advertising: standard contextual and behavioral ads through ad networks, as described above.

We do not:

• Sell your personal information to third parties.
• Share email addresses with anyone outside the editorial team.
• Use your information to make automated decisions that affect you legally or significantly.

Third parties

We use these third-party services, each of which has its own privacy policy:

• Google Analytics 4 — Google's privacy policy
• Advertising networks — vary by ad served
• cPanel / LiteSpeed — our hosting infrastructure, which logs requests in standard server logs retained for 30 days
• A commercial lottery data feed — supplies winning-number data; receives no information about our visitors

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws like the EU GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

• Right to access any personal data we hold about you. Email hello@lotteryatlas.com with your request.
• Right to deletion of any personal data we hold (typically: emails you have sent us, server log entries from your IP).
• Right to opt out of analytics via the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
• Right to opt out of personalized advertising via the AdChoices links above.

We will respond to verified rights requests within 30 days.

Children

Lottery Atlas is intended for adults of legal lottery-playing age (typically 18+, sometimes 21+). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has sent us information, please email hello@lotteryatlas.com and we will delete it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy as the site evolves. The current version is always at lotteryatlas.com/privacy with a "last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes will be reflected in that date.

Contact

Privacy questions or rights requests: hello@lotteryatlas.com.