Privacy

Visit statistics

We use DataFast to count page views and a few actions, such as starting a bid, opening a profile or paying. The totals are public. A small bar asks whether we may use a cookie for this.

• Until you choose, and if you say no: your visit is counted without cookies. DataFast makes a hash of your IP address and browser details with a key that changes every 24 hours, so the visit cannot be linked to you or to your visits on other days.
• If you allow the cookie: from the next time you load the site, DataFast sets four first-party cookies on founderboard.lol. datafast_visitor_id, datafast_visitor_first_seen_at and datafast_visitor_session_count recognise a returning visit and are kept for one year; datafast_session_id groups the pages of one visit and lasts 30 minutes. When you bid, the two IDs go with the payment to Stripe so DataFast can tell which page or link led to it. The legal basis is your consent.
• Changing your mind: your choice is kept in your browser as founderboard-analytics. Cookie choice, here and at the bottom of every page, lets you change it at any time. Saying no deletes the four cookies.

DataFast also counts the pages that known crawlers read, such as Googlebot indexing the board or ChatGPT opening a page to answer someone. For those requests only, our host sends DataFast the crawler's IP address and the name it identifies itself with, so DataFast can check that the crawler is genuine. Visits by people are not part of this.