Effective Date: May 24, 2026
StakExpress (“we”, “us”) is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and how we protect your privacy when you use our website.
Important Disclaimer: Informational Tools and News Only
StakExpress is an independent source of sports news, analysis, and betting tools. We are not a sportsbook or gambling operator. We do not accept, process, or handle financial wagers, bets, or transaction details.
1. Data We Collect
We only collect the minimum amount of information necessary to run our tools and deliver sports content.
Information You Provide Voluntarily:
- Email Address: Collected when you subscribe to our newsletter or mailing list.
- Name (Optional): Collected only if you choose to provide it at subscription.
- Correspondence: Any text or details you send us directly via email.
Information Collected Automatically:
- Technical Device Data: Your IP address, browser type, and device type collected via standard web server logs.
- Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on the site, and referral sources collected via Google Analytics.
- Cookie Identifiers: Digital identifiers used to remember your preferences (see Section 5).
2. How We Use Your Data
We use the information we collect strictly to maintain our website and deliver our sports content. Specifically, we use your data:
- To Deliver Content: To send you the sports betting picks, analysis, and newsletters you subscribed to receive.
- To Improve Our Tools: To monitor website traffic and usage patterns so we can optimize our sports calculators and data feeds.
- To Ensure Security: To monitor server logs to detect, prevent, and mitigate malicious activity or fraudulent use of our tools.
- To Communicate: To respond directly to your questions, feedback, or support requests when you contact us.
We are committed to data privacy: we will never sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your data securely under the following globally recognized legal frameworks:
- Consent: We only send you sports betting picks and email marketing updates if you have explicitly given us your consent. You can withdraw this consent at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any email.
- Legitimate Interests: We process technical website analytics and server logs to maintain site security, protect our intellectual property, and improve our sports tools.
- Legal Obligation: We may process or disclose your data if required to do so by law or to protect our legal rights in accordance with our Disclaimer and Terms of Service.
4. Data Retention
We only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with our sports content and tools.
- Email Subscribers: We retain your name and email address until you choose to unsubscribe from our list or formally request that we delete your account.
- Analytics Data: Standard website usage data collected through Google Analytics is retained automatically for up to 14 months before being purged.
- Server Logs: Technical logs used for site security and troubleshooting are automatically overwritten or deleted within 30 days.
5. Cookies
StakExpress uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience, analyse site traffic, and track outbound links. The types of cookies we use include:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary technical cookies required for the basic functionality and security of our website and sports tools.
- Analytics Cookies: Powered by Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to help us measure traffic patterns, see which betting tools are most popular, and understand how users navigate our news feed.
- Affiliate Tracking Cookies: Set by our external sportsbook partners when you click on links within our content. These track referrals in accordance with our Affiliate Disclosure.
You can manage, restrict, or disable cookies entirely through your individual browser settings. Please note that disabling cookies may cause some of our interactive sports calculators or tools to stop functioning correctly.
For a complete list of individual cookies used on this site, please review our full Cookie Policy.
6. Third-Party Services
We partner with trusted third-party service providers to power our sports news platform and interactive tools. Your data is processed by:
- Google Analytics 4: Used to measure traffic patterns and tool performance. You can read the Google Privacy Policy for details on their data handling.
- Email Service Provider: A secure third-party platform used exclusively to distribute our sports newsletters and betting picks to subscribers.
- Hostinger: Our web hosting provider. They maintain the secure servers where our website files, tools, and databases are stored.
7. Your Global Privacy Rights
No matter where you live in the world, we respect your control over your personal data. You have the following fundamental rights regarding the information we hold about you:
- Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Right to Erasure: You can request that we delete your email or data (the “right to be forgotten”).
- Right to Object or Restrict: You can opt out of email newsletters at any time or object to website data processing.
- Right to Portability: You can request that we transfer your data to another service provider.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our support team at [email protected]. We will process and respond to your request within 30 days free of charge.
If you feel we have not resolved your concern adequately, you retain the right to lodge a formal complaint with the competent data protection or privacy regulator in your country or state of residence.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions, feedback, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or how we handle your information, please contact us directly at:
Platform Name: StakExpress Contact Email: [email protected]