Privacy

You can read every page of Roboxing without an account. Two kinds of measurement exist here. A basic page counter runs always: it sets no cookie, stores nothing on your device, and cannot recognise you or follow you anywhere. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity run by default — they set cookies, and Clarity records an anonymised replay of how you use a page. You can switch both off, on your first visit via the notice at the foot of the page or any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer, and they stop from that moment.

There is no advertising network here and nothing is sold or shared for advertising.

An account exists for one reason — to make predictions and keep your own record of them. A newsletter subscription exists for one reason — to send you the newsletter.

Roboxing is operated by Tobias Hock, in the United States. For anything on this page, including a request to delete your data, write to tobias@roboxing.tv. A person reads that address.

• Reading the site. Our host records the usual request data — IP address, time, page, browser string — as part of serving and protecting the site. We do not build profiles from it and we do not join it to anything else.
• Page views (always on). Separately from that log, each page view is counted. What is stored with it: the time, the page address, the site that linked you here, a rough location (country, region, city), your browser and operating system, and whether you are on a phone, a tablet or a desktop. Your IP address is not stored — it is used once, in passing, to work out the country and to produce a scrambled value that distinguishes you from the next visitor for 24 hours, after which it is discarded. Pages under /account and /admin are excluded outright, and web addresses are stripped of everything except the tags that say which link brought you (?ref=, ?utm_source= and similar).
• Analytics and session replay (on by default, opt-out any time). Two further products run unless you switch them off. Google Analytics 4 measures which pages you visit, where you came from and what you do here, using cookies, with IP anonymisation on and all advertising features off. Microsoft Clarity records an anonymised replay of your visit — scrolling, clicks, where you hesitate — with typed text masked by its default settings. Opt out via the first-visit notice or “Cookie settings” in the footer and both stop immediately and stay off on every later visit.
• If you create an account. Your email address, the display name and profile picture your sign-in method provides, and the identifier our authentication provider issues. If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name, email address and profile picture — nothing more, and we do not gain access to anything else in your Google account.
• If you make predictions. Which robot you picked in which bout, and when. Your record is yours; picks are shown to other people only as an aggregate percentage across everyone, never attributed to you.
• If you subscribe. Your email address, which page you subscribed from, and the tokens that make the confirmation and unsubscribe links work. Nothing is sent until you click the confirmation link — an address that never confirms is never mailed, ever.

That is the complete list. We do not ask for a phone number, a postal address, a date of birth or a payment method.

Three kinds of cookie can exist here, and the opt-out governs exactly one of them.

• Strictly necessary. Signing in sets session cookies — there is no version of an account that works without them. Your analytics preference is itself stored in a cookie, so we do not ask again on every page. Neither is used to track you.
• Analytics — on unless you say otherwise. Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity set their cookies as described above. Opt out and they are not loaded again. The choice holds for a year and can be changed at any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer.
• Embedded video — not ours. YouTube clips are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, which stores nothing until you press play. Twitch, Bilibili and Vimeo players have no equivalent and may set their own cookies as soon as the page loads. We never re-host video, so when you watch something here you are also a visitor of that platform, under its privacy policy.

The cookieless page counter described above sets nothing on your device in any case, which is why the opt-out does not affect it.

We run almost nothing ourselves. These companies handle data on our instructions:

• Clerk — accounts and sign-in.
• Neon — the database holding accounts, predictions and subscribers.
• Vercel — hosting, the server logs described above, and the page-view counter.
• Resend — sending the newsletter and the confirmation mail.
• Cloudflare — image and video storage for material we publish ourselves.
• Google — if you choose to sign in with Google, and — unless you opt out — as the operator of Google Analytics.
• Microsoft — unless you opt out, as the operator of Clarity session replay.

Two things this site uses that never see your data: the language model that scores and drafts news items is sent public headlines and public article text only, and the payment processor is not in use — Roboxing charges nobody for anything today. If either changes, this page changes before it does.

These services are based in the United States, so that is where your data is stored and processed.

Account data and predictions stay until you ask us to delete the account. A subscriber record stays until you unsubscribe, at which point it is marked unsubscribed and stops being mailed; tell us and we will remove the row outright. Server logs age out on our host’s own schedule.

You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it, or object to our keeping it. Every newsletter has a one-click unsubscribe link; you do not need to write to anyone to use it.

For anything else, email tobias@roboxing.tv. There is no form and no ticket system — the list of people with accounts here is small enough that a reply is faster than either.

If you are in the EU, the EEA or the UK, you also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority. We would rather you told us first, but that right does not depend on us.

This site is not directed at children, and an account is not intended for anyone under 16. If you believe a child has created one, write to us and we will delete it.

When this page changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. Continuing to use the site after that is how you accept the new version — see the terms of use for the rest.