Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

MyDartFinder ("we", "us", "our") is a free informational website that helps dart players find darts that match their preferences. We are committed to protecting your privacy.

We do not require registration to browse the site, and we do not keep a database or profile of visitors. Our hosting provider keeps short-lived technical and security logs (such as IP addresses) for its own stated periods. The personal data we receive directly is what you choose to send us through the contact form (see Section 2) and, once comments are enabled, what you provide if you create an account to comment (see Section 6). The third-party tools described below (analytics, affiliate networks, hosting) may process data such as your IP address or cookie identifiers, which can be personal data; this policy explains each of them.

Data controller: MyDartFinder is operated by a private individual based in Finland, who is the data controller for the processing described in this policy. We have not appointed a data protection officer. For any question about this policy, or to exercise the rights described in Section 9, contact us at [email protected].

2. Contact Form

If you contact us through our contact form, we receive the information you submit: your name, email address, and message.

• Purpose: used solely to respond to your enquiry, never for marketing, profiling, or sale to third parties
• Processor: submissions are delivered to us by Web3Forms (web3forms.com/privacy)
• Retention: we keep correspondence only as long as needed to handle your enquiry, then delete it

The contact form does not set any cookies. To request deletion of past correspondence, simply contact us.

3. Analytics (Google Analytics)

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use our site. This helps us improve content and the finder tool.

Google Analytics may collect:

• Pages visited and time spent on the site
• Browser type, device type, and operating system
• Approximate location (country or region, not precise)
• Referring website or search query

This data is aggregated and anonymous. Google Analytics does not identify individual users and we do not use it to do so.

Consent: Google Analytics loads only after you accept analytics cookies in our consent banner. If you decline (or ignore the banner), no Google Analytics cookies are set and no data is sent to Google.

4. Analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics)

We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first measurement tool provided by our hosting platform. It does not use cookies, does not store any identifier on your device, and does not track you across sites: it gives us aggregate page-view and performance counts only. Because it stores nothing on your device and processes no personal profile, it runs independently of the cookie-consent banner. Details: cloudflare.com/web-analytics.

5. Affiliate Links & Tracking Cookies

MyDartFinder earns a small commission when you purchase darts through our affiliate links. This does not affect our rankings or recommendations: the finder algorithm is purely preference-based.

When you click an affiliate link, the partner's tracking network may set a cookie in your browser to record the referral. We currently participate in the following programmes:

• Amazon Associates: links to Amazon carry our associate tag
• eBay Partner Network: links to eBay listings are affiliate links
• Darts Corner: tracked via the Adtraction affiliate network

When you click an affiliate link, the retailer or its tracking network may receive the following data: the referring URL (mydartfinder.com), a click timestamp, and a session or device identifier stored in a cookie. MyDartFinder does not receive personal data, purchase details, or payment information at any stage.

These cookies are set by the respective networks, not by MyDartFinder. We do not receive or store any data about your purchases, browsing history, or personal details.

6. User Content (Comments)

This section applies once comments are enabled on the site. Until then it has no effect.

If you create an account and post a comment or reply, we process the following data:

• Your account: the identifier of your login and your email address, held by our sign-in provider (Clerk, Inc., United States; see the processor list in Section 9), and the display name you chose. Your comments and moderation records are stored by our hosting provider (Cloudflare) in its data centres, which may include locations outside the EEA. Transfers to Cloudflare and Clerk outside the EEA rely on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in their data processing agreements and, where the provider is certified, on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; you can obtain a copy of these safeguards from us on request.
• The content of your posts, their edit history, and their publication status.
• A moderation log recording what happened to each post: whether it was published, flagged, hidden, or removed, whether the decision was made by the automated filter or by a person, and, for restrictions, the stated facts and reason.
• Reports you submit about other users' content: the explanation, the link to the reported content, and your name and email address (required, unless the report concerns offences covered by Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU, which may be reported anonymously).

Automated classification. Before a post is shown publicly, its text is checked on our own server by an automated rule-based filter for indicators of spam, harassment, threats, illegal content, and other possible breaches of our content rules. The filter applies predefined rules and pattern checks; it does not use a machine-learning model and does not send the post text to any external moderation provider. Depending on the result, a post may be published, queued for human review, or temporarily hidden pending human review. A human makes the final decision on every post that the filter flags or hides. You may request human review and challenge a restriction using the procedure described in our Terms of Use.

Legal bases. Creating your account, storing and displaying your posts, and letting you edit them is necessary to provide the comment feature you asked for (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)). The automated check and human moderation of posts rest on our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f)) in keeping the site free of spam, harassment, and illegal content and in protecting other users; you can object to this processing (section 9). Writing statements of reasons, keeping the moderation log, and handling reports of illegal content are necessary to comply with our legal obligations under Articles 16 and 17 of the EU Digital Services Act (Art. 6(1)(c)). Following up a report with you, where needed, rests on our legitimate interest in handling it properly (Art. 6(1)(f)).

Serious offences. If a post gives us reason to suspect a serious criminal offence involving a threat to someone's life or safety, we are required to inform the police or judicial authorities and to give them the relevant information we hold, which may include the post, its edit history, the account identifiers, and related moderation records (Digital Services Act, Article 18; legal basis GDPR Art. 6(1)(c)). We keep an internal record of such a report separately from the ordinary moderation log, accessible only to the operator, until the matter is closed by the authorities and for the same 3-year period thereafter.

What you must provide. To comment you need an account (a login identifier held by our sign-in provider) and, if you want your name shown, a display name; without them you cannot comment, but you can still read everything. To report content you must give an explanation and, except in the cases named above, your name and email address; without them we cannot process the report.

Automated decisions. The automated check described above can delay the publication of a post or hide it temporarily until a person reviews it. It works by matching the text against our content rules: low risk is published, uncertain posts are queued for review while staying visible, and high risk is hidden until a person has looked at it. Our target is to review hidden and queued posts within 7 days; this is a target, not a guarantee. A person makes every final decision. You can ask for human review, give your view, and challenge any restriction at any time using the procedure in our Terms of Use.

Retention of the moderation log. We keep the moderation log (records of what was flagged, hidden, or removed, and why) for 3 years from the decision, so that a restriction can still be reviewed or challenged after the fact. After that period, the entries are deleted or anonymised.

Reports about content. If you submit a report using the "Report" link, we keep the report, together with the moderation decision taken on the reported content, as part of the moderation records above. We use your contact details to confirm receipt, to tell you our decision and how to challenge it, and, if needed, to ask you for more information. Contact details and the free text of reports are deleted at the end of the same 3-year period.

7. Rate Limiting & Abuse Prevention

To prevent spam and abuse, we limit how many comments an account may post in a given period. These limits are counted per account, not per IP address. For the content-report form, which works without an account, we count requests per IP address using a short-lived counter (a "how many reports came from this address recently" check). The IP address is only ever stored in that counter, in a hashed form that changes daily, and is not attached to the report itself. Once the counter expires, no record of the address remains.

8. Cookies Summary

You can change or withdraw your analytics consent at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawing consent deletes the Google Analytics cookies from your browser and stops any further data being sent to Google.

You can also manage or delete cookies at any time through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies will not affect your ability to use MyDartFinder.

Local storage (on your device only)

Some features store data in your browser's local storage so they work across visits: the Setup Builder saves your in-progress setup draft, and the Compare tool saves your selected darts. This data stays on your device, is never sent to MyDartFinder or any third party, and you can clear it at any time via your browser's site-data settings.

9. Your GDPR Rights

Legal bases for processing (GDPR Article 6). We rely on: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) for Google Analytics cookies, which load only if you accept them in the banner; our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) in measuring aggregate traffic (Cloudflare Web Analytics) and in verifying affiliate referrals; and, for contact-form messages, processing necessary to handle the enquiry you initiate (Art. 6(1)(b), and your consent under Art. 6(1)(a)). The legal bases for user content and moderation are listed in section 6.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Finland this is the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (tietosuoja.fi/en); other EEA residents may contact their local authority.

You can exercise these rights for all processing for which MyDartFinder is the controller by contacting us, including where a service provider processes the data on our behalf (Web3Forms, Cloudflare, and Clerk). Some of the companies below process data as independent controllers (Google Analytics, the affiliate networks and retailers); requests about their own processing should be directed to them under their privacy notices. You can also withdraw a consent you gave (analytics cookies) at any time through the cookie settings. Their privacy notices:

• Google: myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy
• Web3Forms: web3forms.com/privacy
• Adtraction: adtraction.com/privacy-policy
• eBay: ebay.com → User Privacy Notice
• Amazon: amazon.co.uk → Privacy Notice
• Cloudflare: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
• Clerk (sign-in for comments, section 6): clerk.com/legal/privacy

Right to erasure and user content. If you ask us to delete your account, we remove the account link and the stored display name from your posts and from the moderation notices addressed to you; the moderation records keep only an internal reference that no longer points to an account. We then assess whether the text of a post, or its context in the conversation, can still reasonably identify you. If it cannot, the text may stay visible as an anonymous part of the discussion. If it can, it is still personal data and we erase or redact it, unless keeping it is necessary for the exercise of freedom of expression and information or for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims (GDPR Art. 17(3)); we tell you if we rely on one of these. You can also ask us to erase specific posts at any time, with or without deleting your account.

10. Data Retention

For browsing, the finder tools, and the contact form we do not operate any database of user information. No personal data collected by third-party processors is stored on our servers, and retention periods for third-party data are governed by their respective privacy policies.

Once comments are enabled (section 6), we retain:

• Account and posts: until you delete your account; posts are then anonymised or erased as described in section 9, and we instruct our sign-in provider to delete your login record, subject to any security or legally required records it must keep under its own documented retention periods.
• Moderation log and content reports: 3 years from the decision, then deleted or anonymised.
• Rate-limit counters: up to about one day, then automatically discarded.

11. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this page with an updated date at the top. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

12. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.