This policy explains how SweepFeed Limited Liability Company ("SweepFeed," "we," or "us") handles personal information for the SweepFeed website and distributed mobile applications. SweepFeed is intended for adults in the United States and Canada.
At a glance
- You can browse public sweepstakes listings without an account.
- Your saved listings, entry notes, prize follow-up records, and rules watches help you organize yourself. They do not submit an entry or prove that a sponsor received one.
- Ordinary sponsors receive campaign totals, not your SweepFeed profile or private organizer records. A sponsor handles information you submit on its own website.
- Analytics and personalized advertising depend on your region and choices. Open Your Privacy Choices or the footer Privacy Settings control at any time.
- You can request an account export or deletion in settings, or contact us using the addresses below.
1. Information we handle
1.1 Public and guest use
You may browse public listings without an account. Saves, entered status, and similar guest preferences may be kept in your browser or on your device. Today's shortlist review marks are stored on that device; its time-budget plan is temporary page state. Our servers receive ordinary request and security data, such as IP address, browser or app type, requested page, time, response status, and signals used to prevent fraud and abusive automation.
1.2 Account information
If you create an account, we receive the name, email address, profile image, and provider identifier made available by Google, Apple, or our email sign-in provider. We also store the profile choices you make, and the date of birth or birth year you provide to confirm adult status and organize age-related eligibility information. Other stored choices may include eligibility preferences, saved and entered listings, alerts, reward activity, charity preferences, privacy choices, reports, and account settings. We do not store an account password.
If you use the private prize follow-up organizer, we store the listing you selected, the stage you chose (potential, confirmed, or delivered), your checkmarks for contact and paperwork, and any response deadline you enter. The organizer does not collect a tax form, identity document, sponsor email, or free-form claim note. If you watch a listing for rules changes, we keep a private baseline of its displayed deadline, eligibility and entry limits, a rules link, and a source checksum when one is available. The watch is a change signal, not a full archive of official rules. You can remove an individual record in the organizer.
1.3 Local Contact Card and sponsor forms
The contact details you choose for the optional mobile Contact Card are stored in secure storage on your device for copy or autofill. SweepFeed does not upload that card for this feature and does not issue you a personal mailbox, email address, or phone number. Information you type or autofill on a sponsor's site goes to that sponsor or its form provider, not to SweepFeed. SweepFeed does not submit the form for you.
1.4 Usage, diagnostics, and advertising
Analytics. SweepFeed uses PostHog to understand how the website and mobile apps are used, and Vercel Web Analytics for the website. Where analytics is on (see Section 4), we record pages viewed and left, clicks and similar interactions (without the text or attributes of the element you clicked), search activity (such as search length and result count, not the raw search text) and filters, outbound sponsor visits, device characteristics, and broad region inferred from an IP address. Vercel Web Analytics receives pageviews from public pages only, without query strings or account and sponsor pages; it does not set visitor cookies. We also process crash and error details needed to diagnose the service.
With analytics enabled, PostHog also receives structured listing interactions: visible card impressions, detail views, saves and removals, shares, entry-button clicks, and member-confirmed entry records. These events can include the public listing ID and category, its feed position, and the ranking version so we can measure and improve recommendations. The same limited events may be recorded on saved-listing and outbound handoff pages. They do not include form text, raw searches, destination URLs, or your preference profile. An entry confirmation records your statement; it does not verify a submission on the sponsor's website. On Today's shortlist, analytics may include the time-budget option and number of displayed listings. Decision-panel events record counts of known and missing listing facts, not your profile answers. With analytics enabled, organizer events record that you opened the private prize organizer, saved or deleted a claim record, or reviewed a rules comparison. Their custom fields contain only the action and dashboard area, not the claim stage, checkmarks, response deadline, listing ID, rules snapshot, or changed fields. The ordinary analytics identifiers and device details described above may still accompany these events. In the iOS and Android apps, these limited events pass through an authenticated SweepFeed server to PostHog under your account identifier only after you enable app analytics and any required device permission. Turning off app analytics or saving an account privacy opt-out stops this flow. The mobile path does not run PostHog session replay.
Session replay. New session recordings are paused while we verify our provider retention and access settings. If enabled after review, replay will require the analytics choice described in Section 4. The configured client masks all text and form fields, blocks forms, excludes network request content, and excludes sign-in, account, settings, profile, dashboard, sponsor, billing, outbound handoff and administration pages.
Advertising. SweepFeed may show Google AdSense ads on editorial articles after site approval and clearly labeled sponsor placements. Whether ads may be personalized depends on where you are and your choices (Section 4). When personalization is on, Google and other vendors may use cookies to serve and measure ads based on your prior visits to SweepFeed or other websites. When you have opted out, we stop Google display ads; clearly labeled first-party contextual promotions may remain. You can also change Google's personalized-ad setting at Google Ads Settings.
Recommendations. The categories and eligibility preferences you give us can organize your feed. Learning from your saves, entries, hides, or other activity requires a separate account recommendation choice. You can turn that learning off and reset learned interests in Profile Settings. A browser analytics choice controls PostHog collection; it does not erase saved account preferences. Global Privacy Control and a saved account privacy opt-out pause activity-based learning.
1.5 Purchases, support, and submitted content
If you choose an available business service, shop item, or mobile-store purchase, the payment provider processes the payment details. SweepFeed may receive a transaction identifier, product, amount, status, and limited billing or receipt information, but not a full card number. We also process messages, correction reports, and other content you choose to send us. If you set up a sponsor account, we receive business and contact details, campaign creative and destination, official-rules evidence, billing status, and campaign service records. Content you deliberately post in a public community area or choose to publish with a separate visibility setting may be visible to other people.
2. Why we use information
- Provide, secure, troubleshoot, and improve SweepFeed
- Authenticate accounts and sync user-requested features
- Organize listings using eligibility and preference choices
- Send requested alerts and necessary account messages
- Maintain rewards, referrals, saved charity preferences, and ledgers
- Measure product performance and advertising when permitted
- Detect fraud, abusive automation, and security incidents
- Comply with law and establish or defend legal claims
Personalization is an organizational aid, not a legal eligibility decision and not a prediction that a user will win.
3. When information is disclosed
- Infrastructure and service providers: Providers may process information needed for hosting, authentication, databases, storage, email delivery, analytics, crash reporting, advertising, payments, security, and rate limiting. Current production categories include services from Google/Firebase, Vercel, PostHog, Stripe, applicable mobile stores or purchase managers, Arcjet, and Upstash. A provider is used only for the feature where it is enabled.
- Sweepstakes sponsors: SweepFeed does not provide an ordinary sponsor listing with your account profile, Contact Card, prize follow-up records, or rules watches. Sponsors can see totals for their own campaigns, such as recorded impressions, clicks, and sponsor-reported actions. For a participating ad click, an optional random reference may go to the sponsor's site when advertising measurement is allowed. That reference contains no name, email, or SweepFeed profile and expires for attribution after seven days. When you leave for a sponsor's site, that site handles what you submit under its own privacy notice.
- Every.org: If you choose to donate, Every.org handles the donation and receipt. SweepFeed may keep a favorite nonprofit, an explicit charity support preference, and a provider-confirmed status.
- Advertising and analytics: Where the choices in Section 4 permit, PostHog analytics and ad providers such as Google may receive online identifiers, usage events, and broad region and device information. Vercel Web Analytics receives public pageviews without visitor cookies; new session replay is paused. Some state laws call personalized-ad disclosures a "sale" or "sharing" even when no money is paid. You can opt out at any time (Section 4). When you opt out, we stop analytics and Google display ads. Clearly labeled first-party contextual promotions may remain.
- Legal and organizational events: We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users or the service, investigate abuse, or complete a merger, financing, reorganization, or sale subject to appropriate notice and safeguards.
3.1 No behavioral-data marketplace
SweepFeed is not selling reports derived from individual users' behavior. New Data Intelligence report sales are paused. Existing orders and artifacts remain on record, but report delivery and downloads are paused during privacy review. A purchaser can contact support about an order or remedy. If SweepFeed offers business research in the future, the intended source is crawler and public promotion-inventory data—such as prize categories, rules availability, duration, and link health—not a marketplace of user activity. We do not promise that removing direct identifiers automatically makes data anonymous.
4. Privacy choices
How defaults depend on where you are. We use the country your connection appears to come from:
- United States: analytics and personalized advertising are on by default; session replay is paused. You can opt out at any time, and we honor Global Privacy Control automatically.
- European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland: analytics and advertising stay off unless you opt in. Google display ads are currently disabled in these regions while SweepFeed completes its certified consent integration; your SweepFeed choice alone never enables them.
- Everywhere else, or if we cannot tell where you are: analytics and advertising stay off unless you opt in.
These regional defaults describe the website. In the mobile apps, optional analytics starts off until you choose to enable it in the app; the account privacy opt-out also stops it. On iOS, device tracking permission is required where applicable.
How to opt out or change your choice:
- Use Your Privacy Choices to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, and related account-level uses.
- Choose Turn both off in the privacy notice, or open Privacy Settings in the footer at any time to turn analytics or personalized advertising off or on for that browser.
- Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as an opt-out of sale, sharing and targeted advertising for that browser, turn analytics and session replay off, and stop Google display ads. If you are signed in, you can save the same choice to your account so it applies on your other signed-in devices.
- Signed-in users can save a durable opt-out at Privacy Settings.
- Change activity-based recommendations and reset learned interests in Profile Settings. This is separate from optional analytics and advertising choices.
- Use the unsubscribe link in marketing email. Necessary security, legal, and account-service messages may still be sent.
You do not need an account to send a GPC signal or opt out, and SweepFeed does not reduce service quality or change prices because you use a privacy right.
5. Retention
We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for the feature, security, accounting, dispute, or legal purpose for which it is used. We are verifying our analytics provider's actual retention and team access settings before stating a fixed period. Browser analytics and advertising choices expire after up to 180 days unless refreshed. Sponsor conversion references are valid for up to seven days; cleanup of expired references runs periodically. Account records remain while an account is active. A deletion request has a seven-day cancellation period. After that grace period, the scheduled worker begins final deletion, normally within the following 24 hours, subject to limited legal, security, fraud, and transaction-record retention. Local Contact Card data remains on the device until you remove it or clear the app's storage. Retention settings for third-party providers may differ and are reviewed as the service changes. Deleting an account does not delete information you submitted directly to a sponsor under that sponsor's policy.
6. Access, correction, export, deletion, and complaints
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, export, delete, or restrict certain uses of personal information. Web and mobile settings provide account export and in-product deletion initiation. An account export includes the private prize follow-up and rules-watch fields listed above, except the internal rules checksum. You can also ask us about a specific correction or access request using the Privacy Officer address below. We may verify identity before completing a request and will respond within the period applicable law requires.
Canadian users may contact the SweepFeed Privacy Officer using the address below to request access or correction, withdraw consent where permitted, or make a privacy complaint. If we cannot resolve a Canadian privacy complaint, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the relevant provincial regulator. Quebec users receive any additional non-waivable rights provided by Quebec law.
7. Security
We use provider-managed encryption, access controls, secret management, rate limits, bot controls, audit records for sensitive workflows, and dependency scanning where implemented. No Internet service can promise absolute security. We provide notices when applicable law requires them; this policy does not promise a fixed audit, certification, penetration-test, or breach-notification schedule beyond the law.
8. Processing location
SweepFeed and its providers may process information in the United States and other places where they operate. Privacy protections can differ by location. Contact us if you have questions about a particular provider or transfer.
9. Children
SweepFeed is not directed to anyone under 18 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Contact us if you believe a minor provided account information so we can investigate and take the action required by law.
10. Changes to this policy
We publish the effective date and a plain-language history when this policy changes. We will provide additional notice or obtain consent when applicable law or the nature of a material change requires it. We do not apply a new materially different purpose to previously collected information without the notice or permission required by law.
11. Contact
- Privacy Officer: privacy@sweepfeed.com
- Support: support@sweepfeed.com
- Privacy choices: Do Not Sell or Share
12. Version history
- September 30, 2026 (revision 2): Added a quick summary; explained private prize follow-up and rules watches, local shortlist state, separate recommendation learning, sponsor campaign totals and conversion references, and export coverage.
- September 30, 2026: Paused session replay and buyer report delivery while provider controls and report privacy are reviewed; corrected the description of report access and analytics retention.
- September 29, 2026: Explained privacy defaults by region (on with an opt-out in the United States, opt-in elsewhere), masked session replay, contextual first-party offers after an opt-out, and the criteria for analytics retention.
- August 9, 2026: Removed present-tense behavioral-data sales and absolute anonymization claims; narrowed provider, compliance, and retention promises; clarified GPC, account deletion, sponsor-form separation, and Canadian privacy contacts.
- July 31, 2026: Clarified that SweepFeed does not issue personal mailboxes or phone numbers and that the optional Contact Card remains on-device.