Last updated: October 27, 2026 · Effective: October 27, 2026
Privacy
No accounts, no ads, no tracking cookies, and nothing to sell. We keep simple, anonymous visit counts so we know whether anyone reads the list.
What we collect
The Site has no sign-up and no forms, and it uses no advertising or third-party analytics scripts. Our own server keeps basic, anonymous statistics:
- Visit counts: how many times the home page was loaded each day, and roughly how many different visitors that was.
- Referring website: the name of the site that linked you here (for example facebook.com), if your browser sends it. We keep the site name only, not the full link.
- Device type: mobile, tablet, or desktop, worked out from your browser's user-agent.
- Which entries get opened: a daily count of how many times each breeder's entry was opened.
- Shirt clicks: daily counts of how many times each shirt's photos were opened, a size was picked, and Buy was pressed. These are totals only and aren't linked to you.
How visitors are counted without tracking you
We don't set cookies for analytics and we don't store your IP address. To avoid counting the same person twice in one day, the server briefly combines your IP address and browser type with a random value that changes every day, and keeps only a scrambled one-way code (a hash) of the result. At the end of each day that random value is deleted, so the codes can't be turned back into an IP address or linked across days. After that, only the daily totals remain.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We honor both. If your browser sends a Do Not Track (DNT) or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, your visits and clicks are not counted at all. Known bots and automated tools are not counted either.
Shirts
The shirt names and prices at the top of the page come through our own server. The shirt photos load from Fourthwall’s image server, which (like any website) sees your IP address and browser type when it sends them; no cookies are set. If you press Buy, you go to Fourthwall’s checkout page, and anything you enter there (name, email, shipping address, payment details) goes to Fourthwall, not to us. Fourthwall handles it under its own privacy policy. We may see order totals and the shipping details needed to fulfil orders in our store dashboard; we use them only to handle orders and don’t sell or share them.
How long we keep it
The daily hashes are deleted at the end of each day. Daily totals (counts only) are kept for up to about 13 months and then deleted.
Cookies and browser storage
We don't set any cookies for visitors. The page keeps a couple of small flags in your browser's session storage (for example, so an animation only plays once, or so a message you closed stays closed); they are cleared when you close the tab. None of these hold personal information, and you can clear them any time from your browser's site settings. The only cookie we set is a sign-in cookie for the people who run the Site, set only when they log in to the admin area; it's strictly necessary for that login and isn't used for tracking. Embedded YouTube videos may set their own cookies (see Embedded video below).
Embedded video
Some pages may show an embedded YouTube video that starts playing automatically (muted). We use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, but because the video plays on page load, your browser connects to YouTube when you open the page, and YouTube/Google may receive your IP address and set cookies or similar storage under Google's privacy policy. We don't control that and don't receive any of that data. Videos belong to their owners; we don't host them.
Third parties
Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so your browser connects to Google's servers, which may log your IP address and browser details under Google's privacy policy. Shirt photos load from Fourthwall’s image server in the same way (see Shirts above). The Site is hosted on Amazon Web Services; like any web host, its servers necessarily handle your IP address to deliver pages, and our server may keep short-lived technical logs for security and troubleshooting. We never sell, rent, or share visitor information, and we don't use it for advertising.
Protecting the Site
To keep the Site up, the server limits how many requests a single connection can make in a short time. This happens in memory and isn't stored.
If you email us, we'll use your message and address only to reply and handle your request, and we won't share them.
Children
The Site isn't directed at children under 13 and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them.
Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example California, Virginia, Colorado, and other U.S. states with privacy laws), you may have rights to know about, access, or delete personal information. Our statistics are anonymous totals that can't be tied back to you, so there's usually nothing to hand over, but you can always ask at top50balls@gmail.com and we'll respond.
Changes
If we change what we collect, we'll update this page and the dates at the top before the change takes effect.