Privacy policy

No accounts, no personal profile

VERSUS4 has no user accounts. You can vote without signing up, and we do not ask for your name, email address or any other identifying detail.

What is stored when you vote

• The poll and the option you picked.
• A random visitor identifier held in a cookie in your browser.
• A one way hash of your IP address, salted with a secret we hold. The original address is never written to our database.
• The two letter country code that Cloudflare reports for the request, used for country level breakdowns.
• The network your request came through, stored as its public network number and a rough type such as home, mobile or data centre. This is the number that identifies an internet provider, not you; millions of people share one. We keep it so we can say how many different networks a result came from, which is how vote brigading is spotted.
• The patch the game was on when you voted, so historical results stay tied to the right version.
• The time of the vote.

Why the hash exists

A random visitor identifier is stored in your browser and a one way hash of your IP address is stored with each vote. Both exist for one reason: stopping the same person or bot from voting on the same question many times.

The network number works the same way and for the same reason: a result that came from four hundred different networks means something different from one that came from a single network, and that difference is the only way we can tell a real argument from a co-ordinated push.

Analytics

We count events such as poll views, completed votes, share clicks and outbound clicks. These records carry the same hashed visitor identifier and no personal data.

We do not use third party advertising trackers and we do not build cross site profiles.

Processors we rely on

• Cloudflare hosts the site, runs the database and provides the bot check. Request metadata passes through Cloudflare.
• Cloudflare Turnstile verifies that a vote comes from a person. Turnstile issues a token for that check.
• Creem.io is our merchant of record for sponsorship and other commercial agreements, and it handles the billing details of the brand that buys one. Visitors never pay for anything on this site, so no visitor payment data reaches it.

Selling data

We do not sell personal data. If we publish or license community insight in the future, it is aggregate sentiment only, never individual records.

Who operates this site

The operator of versus4.fun and full contact details are on the terms page.

Retention and your rights

Vote records are kept as long as the poll history is useful, because removing them would falsify the historical curve. Since a vote carries no identifying data, it cannot be traced back to a person.

If you believe we hold something about you and you want it removed, write to info@versus4.fun and describe what you are asking for.