Privacy Policy

We collect information to run SlateKings and respond to you. We do not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Who is responsible

Digital North Ventures, operating as SlateKings
1870 Evans Blvd, London, Ontario, N6M 0N5, Canada
[email protected]

The operator is responsible for personal information under its control. Herbert Garrison is the designated privacy lead. Use the contact details above for privacy questions, withdrawal of consent, access, correction, deletion, or a complaint.

Information we collect

• Local preview accounts: email, account creation time, country and versioned adult/terms attestations. Short-lived sign-in token hashes and email/IP hashes support sign-in and request limits. The local preview shows a link in your requesting browser session instead of sending email; it does not verify mailbox ownership. Accounts do not enroll you in marketing. Session authentication expires after 24 hours.
• Launch list: email, country of residence, a versioned record of your adult-eligibility attestation, the exact launch-email consent wording and policy version, request/confirmation/withdrawal times, hashed confirmation and unsubscribe tokens, and email-provider message identifiers and bounce, suppression or spam-complaint status. Subscribing does not create a player account.
• Sponsor inquiries: contact/acceptance details, name or business, proposed prize value and type, permitted prize countries, preferred leaderboard and month, and any note you choose to provide. Sponsor inquiries are not marketing subscriptions.
• Security and service data: a temporary session identifier and a hash derived from your IP address for request limiting. The web server also receives IP addresses, request paths, timestamps, and technical request information; server logs may record these.

Do not put passwords, identity documents, tax identifiers, payment-card details, health information, or other sensitive information in the sponsor note. The practice slate runs in your browser, saves example picks in this tab’s session storage, and does not submit picks to the server. Your appearance preference is stored locally in your browser.

Why we use it

We use contact information to save the launch invitation you request or discuss your sponsor proposal. If you ask to be told when baseball or basketball picks open, we keep your email address only to send you that one message when they do. Country and adult attestations support eligibility checks. Acceptance records document the choice and policy version shown. Security data supports fraud prevention and service operation. We use information for legal compliance or dispute resolution when necessary and permitted.

Required fields are marked on each form. Optional notes are voluntary. You may browse without subscribing. We do not make consent to unrelated marketing a condition of playing, claiming a prize, or making a privacy request.

Email choices

Submitting the launch form with explicit consent activates your subscription immediately. We send an optional confirmation link to verify that you control the address; verification is not required to receive the launch invitation. Unverified subscribers remain eligible; unsubscribed, bounced and suppressed addresses are excluded. Invitations will identify the sender, provide its business mailing address and a working contact method, and include an unsubscribe mechanism. You can withdraw consent at any time. We will process opt-outs without delay and within the applicable legal deadline. Transactional replies to a sponsor inquiry will concern that inquiry.

Sharing and processing locations

The public website and its database are hosted by DigitalOcean. Launch emails are sent through Resend, which receives the destination email address and message content, including the confirmation and unsubscribe links. These providers process information to host the service and deliver email. Fonts and logos are served by SlateKings. Browser and network providers may process technical traffic independently.

Provider processing may occur outside your province or country, including in the United States, and may be subject to lawful access there. We use a dedicated database and an encrypted database connection. We will update this notice before adding other service providers or materially changing collection. A future sponsor receives only information necessary for a specific fulfillment, after the recipient is told who will receive it and why. A sponsor does not automatically receive the player or mailing list.

We may disclose information when legally required, to protect lawful rights or safety, or in a business transaction with legally required safeguards and notice. We do not currently sell, share for targeted advertising, or use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics.

Retention and security

Active launch subscriptions and their consent evidence are kept while awaiting the launch invitation. Optional verification links have no time-based expiry while the subscription exists; unsubscribing invalidates them. Subscription records are removed 12 months after the launch invitation is sent or attempted, or 24 months after withdrawal. A minimal record of bounced addresses and spam complaints is retained to prevent further sending until corrected or removed through a privacy request. Consent evidence is kept for at least 24 months and while the subscription remains active. Request-limit hashes cover one hour. Cleanup runs when a valid new waitlist request is processed or the operator runs maintenance; physical removal may occur later during inactivity. Withdrawn subscriptions are excluded from launch mail immediately, without waiting for cleanup. Server logs and email-provider records have separate retention settings; contact us for access or deletion assistance.

We keep only the information needed for the requested invitation, security and evidence of consent. Privacy requests can also be made by email. Access restrictions, validation and encrypted connections reduce risk, but no system is risk-free. We investigate incidents and provide notices where required.

Your rights and requests

Subject to applicable law, you may request access to your information, correction, deletion, withdrawal of consent, and an explanation of our handling practices. Where applicable, you may also have portability, processing-restriction, objection, authorized-agent, or appeal rights. We do not retaliate against you for exercising privacy rights. We will verify identity proportionately, explain a lawful refusal or required retention, and respond within the deadlines that apply to the request. A request is not an invitation to send identity documents by ordinary email.

For Canadian concerns, you can also contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the provincial regulator with jurisdiction. U.S. residents may contact their state attorney general or privacy regulator. These rights are described subject to applicability; we do not claim every state statute applies to a prelaunch project.

Children and future features

We do not invite minors to submit personal information. Participation requires age 18 or the local age of majority, whichever is higher. If we learn that we collected information from an ineligible minor, we will address it and remove it as appropriate. Parents or guardians can raise a concern through the privacy contact.

Player profiles, game histories, public leaderboards, push notifications, identity verification, tax reporting, prize fulfillment, and AI-generated summaries are planned features, not current data collection. We will explain the actual information, visibility, recipients, and controls before enabling them and obtain additional consent where needed. Sensitive identity or tax data will not be sent to a general-purpose AI service.

Cookies and updates

See the Cookie Notice for the current session cookie. We count visits and page loads with a random session identifier, retain visit records for 90 days, and report aggregate traffic and launch-list totals. We do not store IP addresses or user-agent strings for these analytics. Traffic sources are limited to known Daily Trivia sites, direct visits or other sources; we do not retain referrer URLs. We honour Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control for visit tracking. (Updated 27 October 2026.) On slatekings.com, Google Analytics (provided by Google LLC) also sets analytics cookies and receives the pages you view, your browser type, approximate location and how you arrived, which we use to understand traffic. It does not load if your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. Google signals and ad personalization are off. There are no advertising cookies, profiling or ad-personalization features. Material changes to this policy will receive appropriate notice and consent where required; the revision date identifies the current version.