Privacy Policy

Information we collect

• Discord profile: when you sign in, we receive your Discord user ID, username, display name, avatar image reference, and legacy discriminator if present. We create an internal member ID and record your first and most recent sign-in times. Our community bot also retrieves your latest join date in the OrangePower Discord server, which we store separately from your website signup date and display on your private account page.
• Participation: we store your poll rankings, the poll they belong to, and when your ballot was submitted or updated, connected to your member ID. For Pick’em, we also store your game selections, tiebreak prediction, display handle at submission, entry timestamps, and the public-picks notice version acknowledged when you submit.
• Technical information: our hosting and security provider, Cloudflare, processes connection and request information such as IP addresses, browser information, and request times to deliver and protect the site. Operational logs may record requests, errors, and security events.
• Messages to us: if you email us, we receive your email address and whatever information you include.

Website sign-in requests Discord’s identity permission. It does not request your Discord password, email address, private messages, or full server membership list. Discord access and refresh tokens are not retained after sign-in. The community bot separately obtains aggregate server member and online counts and posts poll results.

Why we use it

We use this information to sign you in, keep your profile connected across visits, save and update your ballot, calculate results, prevent duplicate or abusive participation, respond to requests, and keep the site working securely. Your Discord ID lets us recognize the same account even if its handle changes.

Cookies and sign-in

We use an essential sign-in cookie that normally lasts 30 days. Successful authenticated visits renew it, at most once per hour. A separate temporary cookie helps verify the Discord sign-in process and expires after 10 minutes. These cookies are marked Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Lax.

You can browse public pages without signing in. Signing out clears the current browser’s login cookie and requests deletion of that session. You can also clear or block cookies in your browser, although member features will not work without the necessary cookies. Signing out or clearing cookies does not delete your member profile or ballots.

Who can see information

Your individual Power Poll ballot is shown to you when signed in; we do not provide other members with your ballot or a voter list. Site administrators can access stored records when needed to operate, secure, or support the site.

Published aggregate poll results and season trends are public and can be viewed without signing in. Combined poll rankings, points, first-place totals, and ballot counts may appear on the site and in graphics posted to the OrangePower Discord community. Power Poll posts do not include individual ballots or Discord handles. Aggregate results may remain in the historical archive after a member’s records are deleted.

Pick’em: before the weekly lock, only you and site administrators can view your entry. After lock, your submitted display handle, Discord avatar, individual game selections, and tiebreak prediction become public on the site, alongside weekly and season standings and aggregate selection percentages. By submitting picks, you acknowledge this publication as part of the contest rules. Avatars are refreshed when you sign in and displayed beside your name in weekly and season standings. Avatar images are served through our site from Discord’s image service. Weekly winners and their handles may also be announced in Discord. Contest records remain in the archive; contact us for deletion or anonymization requests.

The homepage also displays an aggregate count and latest activity time from public Discord conversations. Bot messages are excluded. We do not store or publish message contents, authors, or per-channel activity totals for this feature.

We use Cloudflare for hosting, data storage, security, and generating result graphics, and Discord for authentication and bot features. Providers process information as needed to deliver those services. We do not sell member information or share it for targeted advertising. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law or protect people, accounts, or the service.

Provider practices are described in Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy and Discord’s Privacy Policy. Providers may process information in countries other than your own.

Retention and security

We currently retain member profiles, ballots, and Pick’em contest records for account continuity and contest history; they do not have an automatic deletion date. Login sessions expire separately. Technical logs and backups follow the applicable provider’s retention settings. We may retain limited information when needed for security, legal obligations, or resolving a dispute.

We use HTTPS, protected session cookies, restricted administrative access, and server-side checks to safeguard information. No online service can guarantee complete security.

Your choices and requests

To request access to, correction of, or deletion of your member information and individual ballots or Pick’em entries, email contact@orangepower.net. Include your Discord handle or user ID so we can locate your account. We may ask you to verify control of that account; do not send passwords, bot tokens, or login codes.

We review requests manually. Rights and applicable exceptions depend on where you live. Published aggregate results do not identify individual voters and generally remain part of the archive. Removing your data here does not delete your Discord account or information held independently by Discord, linked sites, or other people. You can also remove the application from Discord’s Authorized Apps settings; this stops future authorization but does not itself erase data already held here or necessarily end an existing website session.

Children and linked services

Member features are intended for people at least 13 years old who also meet Discord’s minimum age requirements in their country. We do not knowingly collect member information from children under 13. Contact us if you believe a child has provided information so we can investigate and remove it where appropriate.

Discord conversations, X, our forum partner, and other linked services have their own rules and privacy practices. This policy covers this website, not those separate services.

Changes and contact

We will update the date on this page when our practices change. For material changes affecting existing member data, we will provide additional notice on the site or through the community before applying the change where required.

Contact Greg Bartlett at contact@orangepower.net. See also our Terms of Use.