Privacy

What this site knows about you

Reading Third and Data requires no account, and nothing here is sold or shared with advertisers. Last updated 7 September 2026.

Reading the site

Scores, schedules, box scores, team pages and rankings are open. No account, no sign-in wall, and no advertising or tracking cookies of any kind.

We do measure traffic, using Vercel Web Analytics and Speed Insights. Those record which pages are visited and how quickly they load. They are cookieless, they work at the level of a page rather than a person, and they do not follow you to other sites.

If you make an account

Optional, and only needed to follow teams across devices

Sign-in is handled by Clerk. Your password never reaches us — Clerk holds the credentials and tells this site who you are. Clerk sets a session cookie so you stay signed in; it is necessary for the account to work and is not used for advertising.

What we store against your account, and nothing else:

  • your email address, your name as you gave it to Clerk, and your Clerk user id
  • whether you are a member or an admin
  • your theme choice and your one pinned team
  • which teams you follow
  • the tabs saved in your workspace
  • when the account was created

If you are signed out, the teams you follow stay in your own browser. They are held in that browser’s local storage and are never sent to us. Sign in and they are merged into your account; until then, we do not know they exist.

If you report a problem

The feedback form stores what you wrote, along with the page you were on and the game, team, season or figure it was about — captured automatically so you do not have to describe them.

It also stores your browser’s user-agent string and a one-way hash of your IP address, salted with a secret, which exists to stop one person submitting a thousand reports. The hash cannot be turned back into an address, and the address itself is not written down.

If you are signed in, your email is attached so we can reply. If you are not, the report is anonymous — and anonymous reports are welcome.

Who else handles it

Four companies, each doing one job, all in the United States:

  • Clerk — sign-in and account credentials
  • Neon — the database everything is stored in
  • Vercel — hosting, and the traffic measurement above
  • Stripe — payments. Not yet in use: nothing is being sold today and no payment details have been collected. This page will say otherwise before that changes.

CollegeFootballData is a source, not a recipient. We fetch football data from them. Nothing about you goes the other way.

We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and there are no advertising or social-media trackers embedded in these pages.

How long it is kept

Account data lasts as long as the account. Delete the account and the profile, the teams you follow and your saved tabs go with it.

Feedback is kept while it is still useful — a report about a wrong number is worth having until the number is fixed and the fix is confirmed. Ask and we will delete yours, or strip your email from it and keep the substance.

Admin actions are recorded in an audit log, with the admin’s own id and email. That covers people administering the site, not people reading it.

Getting it deleted, or seeing it

Email privacy@thirdanddata.com and say what you want — a copy of what we hold, a correction, or deletion. Write from the address on the account if you can; if you cannot, say so and we will find another way to check it is you rather than refusing.

You do not need a legal reason and you do not need to explain why. There is not much held here, which makes this a short conversation.

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what is collected will be described rather than quietly substituted.