Privacy
What this site keeps about you
The short version: no accounts, no cookies, no ads and no trackers. Almost everything you do here stays in your own browser, and the few things that don't are listed below. Last updated November 10, 2026.
In your browser, and nowhere else
Saved on your device so the site remembers them. We never see them, unless you turn on alerts (next section).
- The parlays you build and track, and your pick’em picks.
- The teams and players you follow.
- Your theme, your alert settings, and when you last visited (for “since your last visit”).
- Pages you’ve opened, kept so they still open without a connection.
- To erase all of it, clear this site’s data in your browser’s settings.
If you turn on alerts
Only then does anything about you reach our server.
- Your browser gives us a delivery address from its own push service (run by Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft, depending on your browser). It doesn’t say who you are.
- With it we keep what you asked to hear about: your tracked parlays’ legs, the teams and players you follow, and which alerts you want. That’s how the server knows what to send.
- Alerts only ever go through those push services, never anywhere else.
- Turning alerts off deletes all of it from the server. A browser that hasn’t visited the site for 30 days is deleted automatically.
Counting visits
So we know whether anyone’s using the site, without knowing who.
- Each day the server adds up how many times someone opened the site, which kind of page they landed on (for example, “an NBA game page”), and the name of the website that sent them (for example, google.com).
- That’s all. No IP addresses, no cookies, no browser fingerprints, and no record of anyone visit by visit: only totals for the day.
- Robots, link previews and moving between pages inside the site aren’t counted.
Server logs
- Errors, content your browser blocked for safety and reported to us, and requests turned away for coming too fast are logged one line each, without IP addresses, identifying headers or the details in a page’s address.
- To stop floods, the server counts requests per address for a minute, in memory only, and keeps nothing.
- The company that hosts the server may keep its own access logs, under its own policy.
Other companies your browser talks to
- Team logos and player photos load from ESPN's image server, so ESPN sees your browser fetch them, as on any site showing its images. Scores, schedules and odds come from ESPN's public feeds through our server, not your browser.
- No one else: the fonts are served from this site, and the site’s security rules stop your browser connecting to anywhere but this site and that image server.
Betting
- Forecasts, odds and the parlay tools are for insight and entertainment, not betting advice. Nothing here takes bets or sends you to a sportsbook.
- If you bet, you must be of legal age where you live, and set limits. Help is available at 1-800-GAMBLER.
Questions
This site's code is public, so you can check every word of this page against it: github.com/ShadowCrypts/shadowcrypts-predictions. You can ask a question there by opening an issue. To report a security problem privately, see the security page. The data the site publishes is described on the data page.