Privacy policy
What we collect when you play Split the Win, why, and what you can do about it.
Last updated October 8, 2026.
1. Who we are
Split the Win is run by Split the Win LLC, 2501 Chatham Rd, Suite N, Springfield, IL 62704 ("we"). Questions about your privacy: support@splitthewin.com.
2. What we collect
- What you give us when you sign up: a username, your email address, your date of birth and your state. Your password is stored only as a one-way hash that nobody, including us, can read.
- Your play: your picks, points, results, leagues and drawing entries, the challenges you send or take up, your friends and friend requests, and, if you joined through a friend's link, who invited you.
- If you use the Weekly Drawing's free entry form (described in the Official Rules; it doesn't need an account): your first and last name, date of birth, street address, city, state, ZIP code and email address, and the days you entered. We use them to confirm you're eligible (age and residency), to limit entries to one per person per day, to email you about your entries, and to contact you if you win. Names, dates of birth, addresses and email addresses are stored encrypted. We also keep a coded fingerprint of your name and date of birth, and of your internet address, to stop one person entering more than once a day.
- Technical details: your IP address (used to stop repeated wrong passwords and abuse, and kept briefly in server logs) and your browser type. When you sign up or log in, we also keep a coded fingerprint (not the address itself) of your IP address and of a random ID stored in your browser, so we can spot one person running several accounts, which the Official Rules don't allow. The sign-up and free entry forms use Cloudflare Turnstile to check that a person is sending them: for that check, Cloudflare receives your IP address and details of your browser, under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
- If you set up a passkey (to log in with Face ID, Touch ID, a fingerprint or Windows Hello): its public key, the kind of device it's on, and when it was added and last used. Your face or fingerprint never leaves your device, and we never see it.
- If you add Split the Win to your phone's Home Screen: that you've opened it from there, and whether it's an iPhone or Android, so we can count how many players use it that way.
- Notifications, if you turn them on: an address from your browser's push service (Google, Apple, Mozilla or Microsoft) that lets us send notifications to that device, and the kind of device it is. In the Split the Win app for iPhone and Android, it's a token from Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging, which delivers our notifications through Apple's or Google's notification service.
- Cookies and similar: one cookie that keeps you logged in, one that recognizes your browser to prevent duplicate accounts, and a few settings saved in your browser (for example, that you dismissed a notification offer). If you follow a friend's invite link, that same login cookie remembers who invited you until you sign up. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies.
- Prize winners: to pay a prize we may need your name, a payment address (such as a PayPal account) and, for larger prizes, tax information (IRS Form W-9). We collect these directly from winners, outside the site.
3. How we use it
- To run the game: your account, your picks, the leaderboards, leagues, the weekly contest and drawing.
- To check eligibility for prizes (age and state), and to stop fraud, cheating and multiple accounts.
- To email you about your account: confirming your email, resetting your password, security notices, and prizes you win. We don't send marketing email.
- To send the notifications you turned on, which you can change or turn off at any time.
- To meet legal and tax obligations.
4. What others can see
Your username, and how you're doing (points won, record, entries), appear on leaderboards, league pages and winners lists. Your public profile shows your record, stats, badges, streak and picks on games that are over (never picks on games still to be played). Recent picks on a game are shown without names. If you joined through a friend's link, they see your username in their list of friends who joined, and whether you've started playing (not your picks). When you take up a friend's challenge on a game, the two of you see each other's pick on that game; nobody else does. On the Friends tab, your friends see you on their friends leaderboard (the same username, points and record the main leaderboard shows), and a player you send a friend request sees your username; only you see your friends list. Your email, date of birth and state are never shown to other players. If you win the Weekly Drawing after entering by the free entry form, your first name and last initial are shown as the winner (as the Official Rules explain); nothing else you gave us is.
5. Who we share it with
We don't sell your personal information or share it for targeted advertising. We share it only with:
- Service providers who help run the site (hosting, sending email, delivering notifications, including Google Firebase for the app, checking forms are sent by people), only to do that work for us.
- Authorities, when the law requires it, or to protect players or the site from fraud or harm.
- A buyer of the business, if Split the Win is sold, under this policy.
Prize sponsors don't get your contact details unless you agree.
6. How we protect it
Passwords, yours and your leagues', are stored only as one-way hashes. Email addresses and dates of birth are stored encrypted, with the key kept separately from the database. The site uses HTTPS, and one-time links we email you expire.
7. How long we keep it
We keep your details while your account is open. When you delete your account, your email, date of birth, state, notification settings and league memberships are removed right away. Picks you made stay in their pots without your name, because other players' results depend on them, and we keep records of prizes paid as long as tax law requires. Details given on the free entry form are kept for as long as needed to run, audit and answer questions about the drawings they were entered in (at least one year), and longer for a prize winner, as tax law requires. To ask us to delete them sooner, email support@splitthewin.com. Prize winners' payment details and tax forms (IRS Form W-9), which we collect outside the site, are kept securely, only as long as tax law requires, and then deleted.
8. Your choices and rights
- Change your email or password, and turn notifications on or off, on your account page.
- Delete your account yourself, from the same page.
- Ask for a copy of your information, or to correct it, by emailing support@splitthewin.com.
- Depending on where you live, you may have other rights under state privacy laws. Email us and we'll help.
9. Children
Split the Win is for people 18 and older. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger; if we learn we have, we delete it.
10. California residents
If you live in California, here's the same information, in the terms California law uses:
- What we collect (section 2): identifiers (username, email address, IP address, and a random browser ID); personal details you give us (on the free entry form, your name and street address); your age (from your date of birth); your state; and your activity on Split the Win (picks, entries and the technical details in section 2). We collect them from you and from your browser, for the purposes in section 3.
- We don't sell or share your personal information (including for targeted advertising), and we haven't in the last 12 months. We don't give it to anyone for their own marketing.
- How long we keep it: section 7.
- Your rights: to know what we have about you and get a copy, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted (you can delete your account yourself on your account page), without being treated differently for asking. To ask, email support@splitthewin.com from the address on your account or entry, so we know it's you; we'll answer within 45 days.
11. Do Not Track
We don't track you across other websites, and we don't let advertisers or anyone else do that through ours. So Split the Win works the same way whether or not your browser sends a "Do Not Track" or Global Privacy Control signal.
12. Changes
If we change this policy, we'll update it here, with the date at the top, and for important changes, tell you by email or on the site before they take effect.