Privacy

TL;DR

RINGER collects almost nothing about its readers. The site sets no cookies, runs no cross-site or advertising trackers, and uses a single privacy-first, cookieless analytics tool (Plausible) that counts aggregate traffic without collecting personal data. Joining the launch list means sending us an email; we keep that address to send launch and product updates, we never sell or share it for marketing, and one reply saying “remove me” takes you off the list. Separately, RINGER analyzes public, pseudonymous blockchain and prediction-market data (wallet addresses and their trading activity) as the product itself — the lawful basis is our legitimate interest in market-integrity analysis and public-interest reporting, and the objection channel is appeals@ringer.report, answered within 5 business days.

Who we are

RINGER (ringer.report) publishes prediction-market integrity intelligence. For anything on this page: hello@ringer.report. Subjects of a report should use appeals@ringer.report — it is the faster, on-the-record channel.

What we collect from site visitors

Almost nothing. This site sets no cookies of its own, runs no advertising or cross-site trackers, and builds no profile of you. For aggregate traffic measurement we use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-first, cookieless tool: it collects no personal data, sets no cookies, does not track you across sites or over time, and cannot identify you. It records only aggregate counts — page views, referring source, and coarse country/device — with no persistent identifier. Separately, our hosting provider (Google Firebase Hosting) processes IP addresses and request metadata in standard server logs to deliver the site, as any web host does; we do not use those logs to identify visitors.

The launch list

Joining the launch list works by email: the form on the home page opens a pre-filled message to hello@ringer.report, and you are on the list when that email arrives. What we do with the address:

• What we store: your email address and the date you joined.
• Purpose and lawful basis: to send you launch and product updates you asked for — consent, given by sending the email.
• What we don’t do: sell it, rent it, share it for anyone else’s marketing, or enrich it with other data.
• Leaving: reply “remove me” (or email hello@ringer.report) and the address is deleted from the list.
• Retention: until you unsubscribe or the list is retired, whichever comes first.

Correspondence

Email sent to any RINGER address (hello@, appeals@, press@, legal@, platforms@) is retained as ordinary correspondence. Appeals correspondence is retained as long as the related report and corrections-log entry stand, because the appeal record is part of the published accountability trail — see Appeals & Corrections. We do not publish an appellant’s identity, and we never require one — a wallet signature suffices.

Wallet data — the product itself

RINGER’s analysis is built entirely from public data: the Polygon blockchain and Polymarket’s public trade tape. Wallet addresses are pseudonymous, and in some jurisdictions (including under the GDPR) they can qualify as personal data. So we state the basis plainly:

• What we process: public wallet addresses, their public funding transfers, their public trades and settlements, and the platform usernames the venue itself publicly attaches to them. No KYC data, no identity data, no non-public data — we hold none (Authorities & Press).
• Lawful basis: legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) in detecting and reporting on coordinated activity in public markets, and freedom of expression and information for what we publish. Everything we process was already public and remains verifiable by anyone.
• What we publish: probabilistic findings about accounts, never people — we do not name real people or speculate about who is behind an address (Methodology & Limits).
• Your right to object: email appeals@ringer.report. A human reviews every good-faith objection within 5 business days against the evidence, with correction, annotation, or removal as the possible outcomes. We do not remove truthful analysis solely because its subject objects — the balancing test the law itself applies to reporting on public conduct — but a demonstrated error always gets fixed, prominently.

Your rights

If you are in the EU/UK or a similar regime, you can ask us for access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data we hold about you (launch-list address, correspondence), and you can object to processing. Email hello@ringer.report — or appeals@ringer.report for anything concerning a published finding. We answer within 5 business days; if something genuinely needs longer, we say so within the 5 days, with a date. You also have the right to complain to your data-protection authority.

Disclosure

We disclose data only: as described in Authorities & Press (hash-stamped archives of already-public data, on lawful request or to the audiences named there), to service providers strictly to run the site and list (hosting, email delivery), or when the law requires it. There is no advertising, no data brokerage, and nothing to sell.

Changes

Material changes to this policy are logged with a date on this page. This page was created alongside the launch list — before we collected the first address, not after.

RINGER analyzes public on-chain and prediction-market data. Informational only — not trading advice. Findings are probabilistic statements about accounts, never people.