Privacy Policy
Your choices should stay yours.
This Privacy Policy explains how The Winner Wheel uses browser storage, cookies, hosting services, analytics, and advertising technologies when you use the website.
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Overview
Privacy at a glance
The Winner Wheel is designed so that its primary wheel features can work directly in your web browser without requiring an account.
Wheel entries, customization settings, and certain uploaded files may be saved or processed locally by your browser. They are not intentionally transmitted to The Winner Wheel for storage on a website database.
Our hosting, security, analytics, and advertising providers may process limited technical information as described below.
Information you provide
Wheel entries and uploaded content
You may enter names, words, phrases, numbers, emojis, or other text into the wheel. You may also upload images or audio files for supported customization features.
Wheel entries and customization content are processed by your browser to provide the wheel experience. Depending on the feature, information may be held temporarily in browser memory or saved in browser storage on your device.
The Winner Wheel does not require you to submit personal information as a wheel entry. Avoid entering passwords, financial information, medical information, private student information, or other sensitive information into the wheel.
Browser storage
How your wheel is saved
The Winner Wheel may use browser technologies such as
localStorage, session storage, or browser memory to save
wheel entries, appearance preferences, sound settings, spin
preferences, and other app settings.
This information is generally stored on the device and within the browser you used. It may not automatically appear on another device, in another browser, or in private browsing mode.
You can remove locally stored information by using the clear or reset controls provided by the website or by clearing site data in your browser settings.
Clearing browser data, uninstalling a browser, using private browsing, or changing devices may permanently remove saved wheel information.
Contact information
Information sent by email
When you contact us by email, we may receive your email address, name, message, and any other information you choose to provide.
We use this information to respond to questions, provide support, investigate technical problems, review feedback, and protect the website from misuse.
Email messages may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to address the request, maintain business records, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.
Cookies
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files or identifiers that websites and service providers may store or read through a web browser.
The Winner Wheel itself primarily relies on browser storage for app preferences. However, our hosting, security, consent-management, analytics, and advertising providers may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies.
Some cookies may be strictly necessary for website security, traffic management, fraud prevention, or remembering privacy choices. Advertising cookies may be used only as permitted by applicable law and your consent choices.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some technologies may affect website features, saved settings, consent preferences, or advertising behavior.
Hosting and security
Cloudflare
The Winner Wheel uses Cloudflare to host, deliver, secure, and improve the performance and reliability of the website.
When you visit the website, Cloudflare may process technical information necessary to provide its services. This may include your IP address, request information, browser or device information, traffic-routing information, timestamps, security signals, and information about how requests are handled.
Cloudflare may also use cookies that it considers necessary for security, traffic management, and protection against malicious or automated activity.
Cloudflare processes this information under its own privacy policy and applicable service agreements.
Website measurement
Analytics and performance information
We use Google Analytics and may use Cloudflare Web Analytics and related performance tools to understand how visitors use The Winner Wheel and how the website performs.
Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, approximate geographic location, device and browser information, referring websites, interactions with the website, and other usage and performance information.
Google may process this information using cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, or similar technologies, subject to applicable privacy laws and consent requirements.
Cloudflare Web Analytics and related Cloudflare performance tools may also provide aggregated information such as page views, referring websites, approximate geographic region, browser type, device type, page-loading performance, and Core Web Vitals.
Cloudflare states that its Web Analytics service does not use cookies, local storage, or browser fingerprinting to track individual visitors across websites.
We may add, remove, or change analytics providers in the future. When appropriate, this policy and our consent tools will be updated to reflect those changes.
Advertising
Google AdSense and third-party advertising
The Winner Wheel may display advertisements provided by Google AdSense or other third-party advertising partners.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to serve, personalize, limit, and measure advertisements.
Google’s use of advertising cookies may allow Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on your visit to The Winner Wheel, your visits to other websites, or other information permitted by your privacy choices and applicable law.
Depending on your location and consent choices, advertisements may be personalized, non-personalized, or limited. Personalized advertising may use information about previous visits or interests, while non-personalized advertising may use contextual information such as the content being viewed and an approximate location.
Other advertising vendors or ad networks may also place or read cookies or use similar technologies when serving advertisements on the website.
You can learn how Google uses information from websites that use its services and manage personalized advertising through the following resources:
Consent choices
Privacy and advertising controls
Where required, we may display a consent or privacy message that allows visitors to accept, reject, or manage certain uses of cookies, local storage, personal data, analytics, and advertising.
Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other applicable regions may be presented with additional choices before certain advertising or analytics technologies are used.
Visitors in certain United States jurisdictions may also receive options related to personalized advertising, the sale or sharing of personal information, or targeted advertising, when applicable.
Where available, you may reopen the site’s privacy settings to review or change your previous selection. You may also use your browser controls and the advertising opt-out resources listed above.
Data sharing
When information may be disclosed
We may share or allow service providers to process information when reasonably necessary to operate, host, secure, analyze, advertise, maintain, or improve the website.
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with legal obligations, respond to valid legal requests, investigate fraud or security incidents, enforce our Terms of Use, or protect the rights and safety of users, the public, or The Winner Wheel.
We do not sell the wheel entries or uploaded customization content that is stored locally in your browser.
External websites
Links to other services
The website may include links to third-party websites or services. Their privacy practices are controlled by their respective owners, not by The Winner Wheel.
Review the privacy policies of third-party services before providing them with personal information.
Children
Children’s privacy
The Winner Wheel is a general-audience website and is not directed specifically to children under 13.
We do not knowingly request or collect personal information directly from children under 13. Parents, guardians, teachers, and group leaders should avoid placing a child’s sensitive personal information into wheel entries.
Contact us if you believe a child has sent personal information to us so that the situation can be reviewed.
Security
Protecting information
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures intended to protect the website and information handled through it. These measures may include HTTPS encryption, Cloudflare security services, software updates, traffic monitoring, and access controls.
No website, network, email system, or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
International use
Processing in other locations
The Winner Wheel and its service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws where you live.
Service providers are responsible for handling information according to their own legal obligations, privacy policies, and agreements.
Policy updates
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when website features, service providers, analytics tools, advertising practices, or legal requirements change.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Continued use of the website after an update means the current policy will apply to future use.
Privacy questions?
Contact The Winner Wheel
Contact us with questions about this Privacy Policy or the website’s privacy practices.
Email a Privacy QuestionEmail: contact@thewinnerwheel.com