Privacy policy

The short version

The Ticket Lottery is an informational site. You can use everything on it, including the ballot calendar, without creating an account or giving us any personal information. We do not run advertising trackers and we do not sell data.

We are based in Israel and the site is served worldwide, including to visitors in the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, through hosting infrastructure located in the United States and Europe. The same minimal-collection approach applies wherever you are.

What we collect

• Server logs. Like almost every website, our hosting infrastructure records basic technical data about requests (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) for security, abuse prevention and keeping the site running. These logs are kept by our hosting provider for a limited period and are not used to profile you.
• Calendar subscriptions. If you subscribe to our ballot calendar, your calendar app periodically fetches a file from our server. That is a normal web request; we do not learn who you are, and we keep no subscriber list.
• Email you send us. If you write to us (for example with a correction), we keep the correspondence so we can reply and fix things.

Email updates, if you opt in

We may offer an email digest in the future. If you choose to sign up, we will store the email address you provide, use it only to send the updates you asked for, include an unsubscribe link in every message, and delete your address on request. We will update this page before any email program goes live.

Cookies

The site does not set advertising or analytics cookies. If we ever introduce analytics, we will prefer a privacy-respecting, cookieless option and describe it here.

Third-party sites

Event pages link to official ticketing sites (for example wimbledon.com or masters.com). Those sites have their own privacy policies; what you do there is between you and them.

Your rights

Given how little we collect, the fastest route for any request is emailing hello@theticketlottery.com. Formally:

• European Union and United Kingdom (GDPR / UK GDPR). You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. Where we process anything at all, we rely on legitimate interest (running and securing the site) or your consent (if you opt in to email updates).
• California (CCPA/CPRA). You have the right to know, correct and delete personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA.
• Everywhere else. Write to us and we will extend the same treatment: tell us what to show you, fix or delete, and we will.

Changes

If our practices change (for example when the email digest launches), we will update this page and change the date at the top. See also our terms of use.