Privacy & cookies
GasDex is fan-run. Nothing here asks you for personal information: the only way the site gets any is if you choose to fill in a form. Everything else it touches is below.
- The only personal information we ask for is what you choose to type into a form.
- Votes, predictions and Pirate Pick entries carry no name, no email and no account.
- No advertising, and nothing following you around other sites.
Reading the site
Page visits are counted with GoatCounter, an open-source counter that sets no cookies, keeps no IP addresses and no tracker IDs, and can’t follow you anywhere else. It records which pages were looked at, which outside links were clicked, roughly how many people, which country and how wide the browser was, on servers in the EU. None of it identifies you. Once a visit, the page also tells GoatCounter whether this browser has been here before and roughly how long ago — read off the gasdex-last-visit note below, so nothing new is stored.
The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, so GitHub’s servers handle your IP address to send you the page, under their own privacy policy. GitHub is an American company, so that handling can happen on servers in the United States, under the standard safeguards for international transfers. We never see those logs.
Voting, predicting and Pirate Pick
None of the fan features ask who you are. A Man of the Match vote is a single pick from that match’s players; a prediction is a scoreline; a Pirate Pick entry is three players, filed under a pirate name the site gave you. There is no account, no email address and no free text anywhere in any of them, so nothing in an entry says who made it.
All three hang off one thing: your GasDex code, a random string this site mints for your browser. It is not an account — no email, no name, no password, no reset, and no way for the site to identify you from it. What the vote system keeps against it is a short hash of the code (never the code itself) and the picks you have made — your predictions, your votes, your Pirate Pick threes — so that entering the code on another device can bring your history back. Entering the code is the only way to connect that history to a person, and only whoever holds the code can do it. Like the entries themselves, the history record stays put and nothing clears it out.
The exception is your IP address, which arrives with every request, as it does at any website. It is stored as a short hash rather than the address itself, used only to cap how many entries come from a single network and to throttle rapid-fire requests. Entries live in Cloudflare’s storage, which the vote system runs on; Cloudflare’s network is worldwide and its home is the United States, so an entry can be handled there, under the same standard transfer safeguards. The legal basis is legitimate interests: running a fan vote and preventing fraud, on the least data that makes that possible.
Votes and predictions come out as totals only — vote counts, the most popular scoreline. Pirate Pick works differently: once a match is over, everyone’s three picks and points are published against their pirate name. Entries stay put so the totals can be rechecked, and nothing clears them out.
Sending a message or a match report
This is the only part of GasDex that collects anything personal. The contact form and the match report form send us what you type, plus a name and email address if you choose to give them.
An email address does one job: replying to you, or telling you your report has gone up. It is never published or passed on, and it never goes on a mailing list, because there isn’t one. Nothing clears the inbox automatically, so a message stays until it is deleted by hand — ask and yours goes sooner. For replying, and for keeping the site accurate, the basis is legitimate interests.
Both forms are delivered by Formspree, which handles the submission on its servers in the United States under standard contractual clauses and passes it to the GasDex inbox.
If your report goes up, the display name you chose appears with it, along with the date you sent it. Nothing else does. That happens because you asked for it and ticked the box, so the basis there is your consent, and you can withdraw it — say the word and the report comes down.
What is kept in your browser
Nothing here is an advertising or analytics cookie, and no third party is tracking you. The full list:
- gasdex-code — your GasDex code: a random string with no meaning outside this site, mirrored in a cookie that lasts a year (the cookie keeps the old name below), so the site knows you have already had your say — and, if you save the code, so a new device can pick your history back up. Strictly necessary for fraud prevention.
- gasdex-ballot-token — the code’s old name. Still written alongside it for a while so nothing breaks mid-changeover; it holds the same string.
- gasdex-voted-<match> — a yes/no note that this browser has voted on a particular match.
- gasdex-predicted-<match> — the scoreline you predicted.
- gasdex-pp-pick-<match> — the three players this browser picked.
- gasdex-pp-code — the separate Pirate Pick code from before the one-code changeover. A browser that still holds one folds it into gasdex-code the next time the site sees it, then lets it go.
- gasdex-pp-name — the pirate name you were given.
- gasdex-last-visit — when you were last here, and how new the newest news item, club announcement and video were at the time, so the page can mark what has arrived since, and say whether you’re back.
- gasdex-bookmarks — the stories, club posts and videos you starred on the index: a copy of each title, link, source and date, kept in your browser only, so the Your GasDex page can list them without asking us.
- gasdex-my-season — a copy of your own season (predictions, votes, picks and the results beside them) fetched with your code when you ask for it on the Your GasDex page, kept for a few hours so the page doesn’t ask again every time.
- gasdex-gotm-seen — the last month whose Gashead of the Month banner you have seen on the Pirate Pick page, so it shows once.
- gasdex-bg and gasdex-order — the background you picked and the order you put the boxes in.
Clearing a per-match note doesn’t let you go again, because the site checks its own side too. Clear your browser storage and cookies and the lot goes: the default look comes back, and the vote treats you as new — unless you saved your code, in which case entering it on the code page brings your votes and picks back. Lose the code as well and there is no way back, on purpose: recovery would mean collecting an email, and this site doesn’t. None of it tracks or advertises: that is why there is no cookie banner to click away. Nearly all of it is written only when you use the feature it belongs to; the exceptions are gasdex-last-visit, which the page stamps on every visit so it can mark what’s new on the next one, and gasdex-code, which the code page mints on view so there is something to save — conveniences for you, not records of you, and both clear with the rest.
Links to other sites
Almost every headline, video and link here takes you somewhere else. Follow one and you are on that site, under its privacy policy rather than this one.
Where we rely on legitimate interests — the vote, the games, replying to you — you have the right to object to it. Want a copy of anything you’ve sent us, or want it deleted? Ask via the contact form. If we get it wrong, the ICO is at ico.org.uk.
Last updated: 13 August 2026.