Privacy and Data Practices

This privacy notice explains how this independent The International 2026 information hub handles data when you visit. We have built the site to be light on data collection, and we do not ask you to create an account, fill in a form or hand over personal details to read anything here. The short version: we collect very little, and we never sell what little we have.

What we collect

Like almost every website, our hosting infrastructure may automatically log standard technical information when you visit — for example your browser type, your approximate region, and the pages you view. This is used to keep the site secure and to understand in aggregate which guides are useful, never to identify you personally. We do not run registration, newsletter or contact forms, so we do not collect names, email addresses or payment details through this site.

Cookies and analytics

We may use privacy-conscious analytics to see, in aggregate, how visitors use the site so we can improve it. Any such measurement is concerned with trends, not individuals. Your browser lets you block or delete cookies at any time through its settings, and the core content of the site will still work if you do. We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles of you on this site.

Third-party links

This site links to external pages, including a betting partner and responsible-gambling organisations. When you follow a link and leave our site, you are subject to that destination's own privacy policy and data practices, which we do not control. We encourage you to read the privacy notice of any third-party platform — particularly a sportsbook — before you register or share any information with it. We are not responsible for how those external sites handle your data.

Your choices

Because we do not collect personal accounts or contact details, there is very little personal data for us to hold, correct or delete. You can control cookies through your browser, you can browse without giving us any identifying information, and you can choose not to follow any external link. If you have a question about how this site handles data, you are welcome to get in touch, and we will respond as best we can.

How long anything is kept

Because we do not run accounts, there is no profile of you sitting on our systems waiting to be deleted. Standard server logs, where they exist, are short-lived and used only for security and basic troubleshooting before being rotated out. We do not build long-term records tied to individual visitors, and we do not combine the little technical data we see with information from other sources to identify you.

We will never sell, rent or trade visitor data, because we have effectively none to trade. The site is funded through affiliate links to a betting partner, not through advertising networks that profile users, which is a deliberate choice that keeps our data footprint small. If a future change to how the site operates ever altered this, we would update the notice on this page before that change took effect.

We may update this notice if our practices change or to reflect legal requirements. Any updated version will be posted on this page, so it is worth checking back occasionally. Our goal is simple: to run a useful tournament hub that respects your privacy and asks for as little as possible in return.