Privacy Policy

We keep this simple: we collect as little as possible and never sell your information.

What we collect

• Reader ratings: the score you give a drink and your optional comment, shown with a randomly generated Shark name (like “Wired Mako”). We never ask for your name or email. To keep ratings honest we also store a random ID your browser keeps (so rating a drink again updates your score instead of adding another) and a one-way scrambled (hashed) version of your network address, used only to limit spam and ballot-stuffing; we don’t store the address itself.
• Contact form: what you send us, so we can reply.
• Basic site analytics from our hosting provider and Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookie-free) (page views and approximate region), which do not identify you personally.

How we use it

To run the Site, publish reader ratings, calculate Shark Scores, and reply to you. The Site is hosted by Cloudflare. Contact-form messages and reader ratings are stored with Cloudflare on our behalf, and rating comments are checked by Cloudflare’s automated moderation (Workers AI) before they appear.

Cookies

The Site shows ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet. You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and learn more at How Google uses information from sites that use its services. Visitors in some regions are asked for consent before personalized ads are shown.

Your browser remembers a few things locally (not in cookies we can read): light or dark mode, your Shark name, the random rating ID, and which drinks you’ve rated, so the page can show your score. Clearing your browser’s site data resets them. Retailers you visit through affiliate links (such as Amazon) set their own cookies under their own policies; see how we make money.

Your choices

To have a rating, comment, or your contact details deleted, reach us through the contact form. For a rating, tell us the drink, your Shark name, and roughly when you posted, and we’ll remove it.

Children

The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above.