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Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal data Clutch Data LLC ("Clutch Data", "we", "us") collects through clutchdata.net, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and what rights you have over it. It covers this website only. Data processed inside a client engagement is governed by the confidentiality and data processing terms of that specific contract.

1. Who is responsible for your data

The data controller is Clutch Data LLC. We are a distributed team working across Europe and the Americas. For any question about this policy, about how your data is handled, or to request the controller's registered details, write to info@clutchdata.net and a member of the team will respond directly.

2. What we collect

Information you send us

When you submit the contact form on our homepage, we receive the fields you fill in: your name, your club or organization, your email address, and the description of the decision you are facing. When you email us directly, we receive whatever your message and email signature contain. We ask you not to send confidential player medical data, contract terms or any special-category personal data through the website form; that belongs in a channel covered by a signed agreement.

Information collected automatically

  • Aggregate usage analytics. We use Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and referrers. It is a cookieless analytics product: it does not set tracking cookies, does not build a cross-site profile of you, and does not store a persistent identifier that we can tie back to an individual.
  • Performance measurement. We use Vercel Speed Insights to measure how quickly pages load and respond (Core Web Vitals). It records anonymous performance metrics together with the page visited and the type of browser and device. It sets no cookies and stores no identifier tied to you.
  • Server logs. Our hosting provider records standard request data (IP address, timestamp, requested URL, user agent) for security and reliability purposes.
  • Language preference. If you change the site language, that choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the key cd_lang. It never leaves your device, is not a cookie, and is not sent to us. Clearing your browser data removes it.
  • Where your visit started. When you open the site, the first page you see, the website that sent you here (its address without any query string) and any campaign tags in our own links (utm_*) are kept in your browser's session storage under the key cd_entry. It is erased when you close the tab, and it reaches us only if you send the contact form, together with your enquiry, so we know how you found us.

We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, session recording or heat mapping on this site.

3. Why we use it, and on what legal basis

  • To answer your enquiry and scope possible work. Legal basis: steps taken at your request prior to entering a contract, and our legitimate interest in responding to business enquiries (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f)).
  • To keep the site secure and available. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in operating and protecting the service (Art. 6(1)(f)).
  • To understand which pages are read and how fast they load. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in improving the site, using aggregate, cookieless measurement only (Art. 6(1)(f)).

We do not sell personal data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we do not use it to train machine learning models.

4. Who processes data on our behalf

We keep the number of third parties deliberately small. The following processors are involved in running this website:

  • Vercel Inc. Website hosting, content delivery, cookieless analytics and performance measurement.
  • Formspree, Inc. Delivery of contact form submissions to our inbox.
  • Slack Technologies, LLC. Notification of new contact form submissions in a private channel of our team.
  • Google LLC (Google Fonts). The site loads two typefaces from Google's font CDN, which means your IP address is visible to Google when the fonts are fetched.
  • Our email provider. Receipt and storage of correspondence sent to info@clutchdata.net.

Some of these providers are established in the United States, so your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area. Such transfers rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent adequacy mechanism offered by the provider.

Substack, LinkedIn and X are linked from this site but are separate services. Following those links takes you to platforms with their own privacy policies, which govern anything you do there.

5. How long we keep it

Contact enquiries are retained for as long as the commercial conversation is live and for up to 24 months afterwards, so that we can pick up a thread that resumes a season later. If an engagement begins, correspondence is retained under the terms of that contract. Server logs are held for a short operational period by our hosting provider. Aggregate analytics contain no personal data and are kept indefinitely in aggregate form. You can ask us to delete your enquiry sooner at any time.

6. Your rights

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the GDPR gives you the right to access your data, to correct it, to have it erased, to restrict or object to its processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Similar rights exist under other applicable data protection laws.

To exercise any of these, email info@clutchdata.net. We will respond within 30 days. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection supervisory authority.

7. Security

The site is served exclusively over HTTPS. Access to enquiry correspondence is limited to the senior analysts who need it; we have no sales team and no CRM seats handed out broadly. Confidentiality is the default posture of the business, not an add-on: we do not disclose who we are talking to, and most client work is never named publicly.

8. Children

This site is aimed at professional basketball organizations and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16 through this website. Analysis performed inside a client engagement may concern players who are minors; that processing takes place under the club's instructions and the terms of the relevant contract, not under this policy.

9. Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle personal data we will update this page and revise the date at the top. Material changes affecting people who have already contacted us will be communicated by email where we hold a valid address.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything in it you would like clarified before sending us an enquiry: info@clutchdata.net. See also our contact page and about page.