Privacy policy

Pickle & Spin (https://pickleandspin.com) collects very little about you. There are no accounts, no sign-up, no newsletter and no comments, and we never ask for your name, address or payment details. This page lists everything that does handle data when you use the site, so you can decide for yourself.

Data stored in your own browser

Your shortlist, your compare picks and the “price since you saved it” feature live in your browser, not on our servers. They are kept in your browser’s local storage under two keys:

• ps-shortlist-v1 holds the paddles you have saved to your shortlist or chosen to compare.
• ps-seen-prices-v1 holds the price each saved paddle had when you saved it, so the site can show whether it has gone up or down since.

This data is never sent to us. We cannot see your shortlist and we have no copy of it. It stays on that one device and browser, so a shortlist saved on your phone will not appear on your laptop. To remove it, clear the site data for pickleandspin.com in your browser settings, or remove paddles from the shortlist yourself. Private or incognito windows usually discard it when they close.

A shared compare link is different only in that the paddle choices are written into the link itself. Whoever you send it to can see which paddles you compared, and nothing else.

Analytics

We may use Google Analytics 4 and Microsoft Clarity to understand how the site is used: which pages are read, which tools are used, what kind of device and browser visitors have, and their approximate region. Clarity can also record anonymized page interactions such as clicks and scrolling, which helps us find layouts that confuse people. We use this to improve pages, not to identify you.

• Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland see a consent banner. Analytics scripts load only after you accept. If you decline or ignore the banner, they do not load.
• Visitors everywhere else are measured without a banner. You can opt out at any time by blocking cookies or scripts for this site in your browser settings, using a content blocker, or installing Google’s opt-out add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google and Microsoft process analytics data under their own privacy policies, which you can find at policies.google.com/privacy and privacy.microsoft.com. They may set cookies for this purpose.

Affiliate links to Amazon and brand stores

Buy links on Pickle & Spin go to Amazon or to the maker’s own online store. When you click one, you leave our site, and that site’s cookies and privacy policy apply from then on. Amazon uses cookies to attribute a purchase to the link you followed, which is how we earn a commission. We receive reports of qualifying sales from Amazon, but not your name, address or what else is in your basket. Brand stores handle any data you give them under their own policies. Read theirs before you buy.

The USA Pickleball list, fonts and hosting

• The approved-list lookup loads its data from our own server (/data/usap.json). Loading the list does not send your visit to USA Pickleball.
• Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address and browser details in order to deliver the font files.
• Hosting is provided by Vercel. Like any web host, Vercel keeps server logs that include IP address, browser user agent, the page requested and the time, used for security, debugging and reliability.

Email

If you email us at sukielovesupport@gmail.com, we receive your address and whatever you write. We use it only to reply and to act on your message, for example to fix a spec. We do not add you to any list, and we delete correspondence once it is no longer needed.

Cookies

Pickle & Spin sets no advertising or tracking cookies of its own. The browser storage described above is functional and stays on your device. Analytics providers may set cookies when they load, as explained above. Amazon and brand stores set their own cookies after you click through to them. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The catalogue, finder, compare tool and lookup all work without them.

No sale of personal data

We do not sell, rent or trade personal data, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not build profiles of visitors.

Children

Pickle & Spin is a general-audience site about sports equipment and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR, the UK GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct or delete personal data and to object to its processing. Send any request to sukielovesupport@gmail.com. Because we hold no accounts, the only personal data we could hold directly is email correspondence, and we will act on requests about it. Analytics data is held by Google and Microsoft under their own policies, and both offer their own tools for access and deletion. Data in your browser’s local storage is already under your control.

Changes to this policy

When the site starts or stops using a service that handles data, this page is updated and the date at the top changes. Related pages: terms of use, editorial process, contact.