Effective date: August 17, 2026
Last reviewed: August 17, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Digital Design Solutions LTD, doing business as Cutting Ball (“Cutting Ball,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information when you visit CuttingBall.com, contact us, submit a correction or sportsbook report, subscribe to communications, or interact with our content.
Cutting Ball is an informational publisher. We do not operate a sportsbook, accept wagers, hold sportsbook balances, or control the privacy practices of sportsbooks, affiliate networks, cryptocurrency services, or other third parties discussed on the site.
This policy should be read with our Terms of Use, Cookie Policy and Privacy Choices, Affiliate Disclosure, and Editorial Policy.
Topic | Cutting Ball practice |
Controller or business | Digital Design Solutions LTD, doing business as Cutting Ball |
Intended audience | Adults age 21 and older |
Direct information | Information submitted through forms or email, such as name, email, page URL, and message |
Automatic information | Device, browser, page-view, referral, cookie, approximate-location, and security-log data |
Affiliate tracking | Click identifiers, campaign details, and limited conversion information may be processed |
Sportsbook account access | Cutting Ball does not receive or control sportsbook passwords or complete account access |
Privacy choices | Available through your privacy choices |
Privacy contact | |
Mailing address | Digital Design Solutions LTD |
This policy applies to information collected through:
It does not govern information collected by sportsbooks, casinos, racebooks, payment providers, crypto wallets, exchanges, regulators, social networks, or other third-party sites.
When you leave Cutting Ball, the third party’s privacy policy and terms govern that interaction.
We may collect information you voluntarily submit, including:
Do not send:
Cutting Ball will never ask for a wallet seed phrase or sportsbook password.
When you visit the site, our systems and service providers may collect:
This information can be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
When you click an affiliate link, Cutting Ball, the operator, or an affiliate network may use a cookie, click identifier, referral parameter, campaign code, or similar technology to attribute the visit.
Depending on the program, Cutting Ball may receive limited information indicating that a referral resulted in a registration, deposit, qualified account, or other contracted action.
We generally do not receive:
Read the Affiliate Disclosure for more information.
When you submit a sportsbook report, correction, legal notice, or editorial tip, we may collect the information and evidence needed to review the matter.
We can disclose limited relevant information to:
We disclose only what is reasonably necessary for the stated purpose, subject to law and our editorial judgment.
A submission does not create an attorney-client, fiduciary, treatment, or formal dispute-resolution relationship.
If Cutting Ball enables comments, profiles, forums, contests, or other public contributions, information posted there may be visible to the public, indexed by search engines, copied by others, or retained in archives.
Do not post confidential or sensitive information in a public area.
Deleting an account or post may not remove copies retained by search engines, archives, quoted posts, backups, or other users.
We may receive information from:
We do not treat an unverified allegation as established fact solely because it was submitted to us.
We may use information to:
We do not use personal information to make solely automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on a person.
Where European, UK, or similar law applies, we may rely on:
Legal basis | Example |
Consent | Optional analytics, advertising cookies, or requested email communications |
Legitimate interests | Operating, securing, improving, and measuring an informational website |
Contract or pre-contractual steps | Responding to a proposed commercial relationship |
Legal obligation | Responding to a valid legal or privacy request |
Legal claims | Preserving evidence needed to establish, exercise, or defend rights |
Consent can be withdrawn at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
Cutting Ball may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and comparable technologies for:
Where legally required, nonessential technologies should not activate until appropriate consent is obtained.
We may disclose information to vendors providing:
Limited click, referral, campaign, and conversion information may be disclosed to attribute referrals, prevent fraud, and calculate compensation.
Information may be shared with lawyers, accountants, insurers, auditors, and consultants when reasonably necessary.
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar transaction. A successor remains subject to applicable privacy obligations.
Cutting Ball does not sell personal information for money.
Certain analytics, advertising, or affiliate disclosures may nevertheless be defined as a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some privacy laws.
Cutting Ball does not knowingly sell or share personal information belonging to people under 16.
The following schedule is a publication template. Configure systems to match the final stated periods.
Information category | Example | Retention target |
Contact information | Name and email | Up to 24 months after the matter closes |
Communications | Messages, tips, corrections, and attachments | Up to 24 months, longer if needed for a legal claim |
Analytics data | Page views, device, referral, and approximate location | Up to 14 months |
Security logs | IP, errors, and suspicious traffic | Generally 90 days, longer during an investigation |
Affiliate attribution | Click IDs and limited conversion status | Up to 24 months or as required by contract or law |
Consent records | Cookie choices and opt-outs | Up to 5 years |
Privacy and legal requests | Verification and request history | Up to 5 years or as required by law |
Newsletter information | Email and subscription status | Until unsubscribe, plus a limited suppression record |
Public contributions | Comments or forum posts, if enabled | While published and as required for moderation or legal purposes |
We may retain information longer when reasonably necessary to comply with law, resolve a dispute, investigate abuse, enforce an agreement, or establish or defend legal claims.
When information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to delete, anonymize, or securely dispose of it.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to:
Cutting Ball may voluntarily extend some request options even when a particular law does not require it.
Submit a request through our contact form.
Include:
We may request reasonable verification. Do not send unredacted identity documents unless specifically requested through a secure process.
Where allowed, an authorized agent may submit a request for another person. We may require proof of authority and direct verification from the individual.
If a request is denied, reply with the subject line Privacy Appeal and explain why the decision should be reconsidered.
Residents of states with comprehensive privacy laws may have rights described above.
During the preceding 12 months, Cutting Ball may have collected identifiers, internet activity, approximate geolocation, communications, and affiliate-attribution information as described in this policy.
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about a person.
We do not provide a financial incentive in exchange for personal information unless a separate, legally compliant notice is presented.
Where applicable, users may have rights to access, correct, erase, restrict, object, and receive portable copies of personal information.
Users may submit a complaint to the data-protection authority in the country where they live or work, or where they believe a violation occurred.
Cutting Ball is operated from Costa Rica. Information may be processed in that country or in locations where service providers operate. Where required, appropriate transfer safeguards should be used.
Where legally required and supported by our technology, Cutting Ball recognizes Global Privacy Control as an opt-out request for covered sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activity.
There is no universally accepted legal standard for the older Do Not Track browser setting. Cutting Ball may not respond to that signal in every browser.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information.
Safeguards can include:
No system is completely secure. Do not send information that is unnecessary for your request.
Security concerns can be reported.
Cutting Ball is intended for adults age 21 and older.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child submitted personal information, contact [email protected].
Nothing on Cutting Ball is intended to encourage underage gambling.
Cutting Ball links to sportsbooks, regulators, support organizations, crypto services, and other sites.
We do not control those sites and are not responsible for their privacy, security, or business practices. Review their policies before providing information or creating an account.
Copyright notices and counter-notifications may contain personal information. We may forward that information to the affected contributor, complaining party, legal advisers, courts, or government authorities as required by law.
We may update this policy when practices, technology, or legal obligations change.
Material changes will be identified by a new last-reviewed date and, when appropriate, a prominent notice.
We will not change the date merely to make an unchanged policy appear new.
Cookies are small text files or identifiers stored by a website or service on a browser or device. Similar technologies include pixels, tags, local storage, software development kits, and server-side identifiers.
These technologies support essential functions such as:
They may operate without optional consent where permitted by law.
Preference technologies can remember:
Analytics technologies help us understand:
Providers: SemRush
Where required, analytics should remain disabled until consent is provided.
Affiliate technologies can connect a click from Cutting Ball with a registration, deposit, qualified account, or other contracted event.
Read the Affiliate Disclosure.
Embedded video, social sharing, or other third-party content can set cookies or collect information under the provider’s own policy.
Providers: YouTube
Most browsers allow users to block, delete, or limit cookies. Blocking all cookies can affect essential functions.
Users can also review provider-specific controls where available.
Where legally required and technically supported, Cutting Ball treats a Global Privacy Control signal as an opt-out request for covered sale, sharing, or targeted-advertising activity.
The preference center should display whether a signal was detected and how it was applied.
There is no universally accepted standard for the older Do Not Track signal. Cutting Ball may not respond to that signal in every browser.
Where applicable, use the controls on this page to opt out of:
To submit access, correction, deletion, or portability requests, contact us.
We may update this page when vendors, cookie purposes, retention periods, or legal requirements change.
The inventory should be rescanned and reviewed at least quarterly and after major technology changes.