What we collect, what we delete, and when.
The short version. You send us betting slips. We read the numbers off them, keep the numbers, and delete the pictures within 14 days. We never sell anything. Your record is private unless you choose to make it public. Ask us to delete you and we delete you — the rows and the images both.
Your Telegram chat ID and username. That is how we know where to send a pick and which record is yours.
Which features you used and when, so we can size the thing and find bugs.
We do not ask for, want, or store: your name, your address, your date of birth, your sportsbook login, your bank details, or any payment card. Payments, if you subscribe, run through Stripe and we never see the card.
This is the part that deserves plain speech, because it is the most sensitive thing you hand us.
A slip screenshot often shows more than the bet. It can show your account balance, your username, a live bet ID, and whatever else was on your screen when you took it. We only need the numbers. The picture is evidence that we read those numbers correctly, and it stops being useful once the reading is confirmed. So:
What survives is the row: the wager, the stake, the odds, the result. That is your record, and it is the reason you sent the slip.
Each member's data is stored under their own owner tag and kept apart from everyone else's.
Public boards are opt-in. CERSports runs a public contest called The Streak, where pickers' records, streaks and P&L are shown by name. You are not on it unless you ask to be, and you can ask to come off. Signing up does not put your record in front of anyone.
Reading the numbers off a slip is done by automated image-recognition services under contract. We send them the picture and nothing else — no name, no contact details, no account identifier. They see a betting slip; they do not see whose it is.
We do not name which services we use, or which part of the system uses which. That is how the product is built, and publishing it would hand away the method without telling you anything useful about your privacy. What matters to you is the shape of it: the image goes out stripped of you, and the result comes back as numbers.
We would like to learn from the aggregate: which markets are hard to price, where lines move, which kinds of bets settle badly. This is how the product gets less wrong over time.
Where we do that, it is aggregate and de-identified — patterns across many slips, never “this member bets X”. Your individual history is not a product, is not published, and is not shared. If you would rather we left your data out of it entirely, say so and we will. It costs you nothing.
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Slip images | 14 days maximum, usually less — deleted once parsed |
| Machine transcriptions of slips | the same 14 days |
| Parsed bets — your record | while your account is open, because it is the record |
| Contact details | while your account is open |
| Deletion records | kept — counts and fingerprints, never contents |
How: message us on Telegram, or email info@cersports.com. Today these are done by hand — a person runs them, rather than a button in an app. We would rather say so than imply a self-service portal that does not exist. We will confirm when it is done.
We are two people running this on our own hardware. We are not a bank and we do not have a security team. We take the obvious precautions and we deliberately hold as little as possible — which is the real protection here, and the reason the images go in 14 days rather than living forever. If something goes wrong we will tell you rather than hope you do not notice.
If this changes we will say so and date it, the same way the ledger publishes its losses. A policy quietly edited is not a policy.
Questions: info@cersports.com