BATTLEPLANK

Privacy

Last updated 23 August 2026.

BattlePlank is run from Italy, so the GDPR applies. This page is written to be read, not to be survived.

What we collect, and why

Your email address
To confirm your entry is really yours, to tell you when someone takes your spot, and to give you a link that removes it. Nothing else. We never sell it and we never pass it to a sponsor.
Your username, display name, profile picture and video link
These appear publicly on the leaderboard — that is the whole point of submitting. They come from the public post you linked, or from what you typed in. We keep a copy of the profile picture on our own storage instead of hot-linking it, so that visiting the board doesn't tell the platform who is looking.
Age band, sex and country
Optional, always. If you leave them blank nothing is shown and nothing is stored. We ask so the board can be filtered later. We do not ask for your weight, your height, or anything else about your body.
Your IP address
Never stored in the clear. We keep a salted hash of it, only to stop one person flooding the form or the report button. It cannot be turned back into your address.

We do not host your video

We store a link. The video stays on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or X, under their terms and yours. Delete it there and it disappears from here too — a nightly check removes entries whose video is gone. Video players are click-to-load: nothing is requested from those platforms until you press play.

Analytics

We use DataFast to count visits and understand which pages people reach. The version currently installed sets a cookie in your browser to recognise returning visitors. We are reviewing a cookieless alternative; until we switch, this is what happens and you deserve to know it rather than find it in a devtools panel.

Who else sees your data

They process data on our instructions, not for their own purposes. Sponsors get a slot and a click count. They never get your email, and they never get told who clicked.

Getting it removed

Every email we send carries a permanent link to your own page, where one button takes your entries off the board and anonymises your details. No form to fill, no reason to give, no waiting for us to answer. If you have lost that link, write to privacy@battleplank.com from the address you signed up with.

You can also ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, or object to how we use it. Same address. If we get it wrong you can complain to the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

How long we keep it

Entries stay while they are on the board. Removed entries keep only a technical record with no personal data attached. Rate-limiting hashes expire within a day. Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires.

Age

You must be 16 or older to submit. If you believe someone younger has an entry here, tell us and we will take it down.

See also the terms and the rules.