PRIVACY & COOKIES

Last updated: 3 October 2026

messivsronaldo.info is an independent fan site. We keep data collection to the minimum needed to run the site's interactive features and to fund it through advertising.

WHAT WE COLLECT

Poll votes: your chosen player, the country you optionally select, and a one-way hashed identifier used only to prevent duplicate voting. We cannot recover your IP address from it.

Verdict wall: the name, country and message you choose to submit. Submissions are moderated before publication.

Newsletter: your email address, used only to send site updates. Every email includes a way to unsubscribe, and you can request removal at any time.

Collected automatically: our hosting and service providers process technical data such as IP address, device and browser type, approximate location and pages viewed, in order to run and secure the site.

Page visits: we keep our own basic visitor statistics — which pages were viewed, on which day, and which website referred you (the domain only, never the full address). Unique-visitor counts use a one-way hash that changes every day, so the same person cannot be linked from one day to the next and no IP address is stored. This is done on our own server: there is no Google Analytics, no third-party analytics script and no tracking cookie. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, the visit is counted but no identifier is generated at all.

Embedded widgets: a click from a widget can increment an aggregate daily count by widget type and publisher domain. No IP address, visitor identifier or cookie is stored for this count. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control suppress it. The daily challenge saves your answers in this browser’s local storage so you can resume the same challenge; those answers are not sent to us.

COOKIES AND ADVERTISING

This site is funded by advertising. We use essential cookies for core features, and with your consent where the law requires it, we and our partners use cookies and similar technologies for advertising and measurement.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings.
• You can opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices or youronlinechoices.com.
• You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, though some parts of the site may not work as intended.

WHAT WE DON'T DO

We don't sell your personal data, and we don't require an account to use anything on this site.

DATA RETENTION

We keep personal data only as long as it is reasonably needed for the purposes above, or as long as the law requires.

YOUR RIGHTS

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to our processing of your personal data, and to withdraw consent where processing relies on it. If you are in the UK or EEA you may also complain to your local data protection authority. To make a request, use the contact page.

CHILDREN

This site is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

CHANGES

We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we'll revise the date at the top of this page.

CONTACT

Questions or removal requests: dannyrasul@gmail.com, or reply to any newsletter email.