Privacy
What we collect, why, and how to get rid of it — plus the cookies analytics and advertising set, and how to turn them off.
You can use every part of Lottery FM without creating an account. There are no passwords and no profiles. This policy covers the two features that take data you give us — the number checker and jackpot alerts — and the analytics and advertising technologies that run on the site. A separate section covers the internal tool we use to publish videos on our YouTube channel.
1. Numbers you check
Lines you enter in the number checker are saved in your browser’s local storage on your own device, and they disappear when you clear the site data or use the “Clear all lines” control on the checker. When you run a check, the numbers on the lines being checked are sent to our server so it can search our indexed draw history for them — that request is what produces your results. The checker does not write checked numbers to our database or link them to an account, email address, or alert record. Because the check is currently sent in a URL query string, it may appear with ordinary request metadata in infrastructure logs. If you also choose to watch a line for upcoming draws — a separate, opt-in step described in “Jackpot alerts and watched lines” below, reached from the checker’s own “Get results for your lines by email?” panel or from Alert manager — that choice does copy those exact numbers to our database, linked to your email address; the check itself still does not.
2. Jackpot alerts and watched lines
To get email alerts you enter your address, and we send a one-time 6-digit code to confirm you control it; the code expires after 10 minutes and is stored only as a keyed hash, never as the plain digits you typed. Once those 10 minutes pass the code stops working, which is separate from how long we keep the record of that request: it — your address, the keyed code hash and the request’s IP hash — is deleted immediately if your subscriber record is later deleted, including by unsubscribing, and is otherwise removed after 24 hours, the next time anyone requests a verification code. If you chose your games, alert types and jackpot threshold on the signup page before entering the code, a correct code saves those choices immediately — nothing is emailed to you until that happens. If your address already had alerts set up, entering the code instead takes you into Alert manager, where the games you just picked are added to what you already have and nothing changes until you press Save. When that code creates a new subscriber record, we also store the country you signed up from, as located from your connection by our hosting provider, so the lottery data and alerts you receive are the ones for your market; verifying again later does not change the country already on file for an existing subscriber. We store a salted, one-way hash of the IP address a code was requested from, used only to slow down abuse; the raw IP address itself is never stored. A number of subscribers signed up through an older confirmation-link email sent before this change; those links still work until they expire and recorded the country the same way. Every alert email carries a working unsubscribe link, and using it deletes your entire record — email, preferences, country and IP-address hash — rather than flagging it as inactive.
If you also choose to watch specific ticket numbers for a game — from the “Get results for your lines by email?” panel on the number checker, or from “+ Add a line” in Alert manager — we store those numbers once they are saved (a line from the checker panel is saved as soon as you confirm your email address with a code; a line you add or change in Alert manager is saved when you confirm your address and press Save there), which game they are for, how long you asked us to watch them (either “Until I stop” or a fixed number of draws), whether you turned on “Wins only”, and our own progress judging them against each new draw, linked to your subscriber record and therefore your email address. Each of your watched lines is judged against its own next covered draw whether or not an email follows for it. When we do send an email for that draw, it includes every covering line’s result and the numbers themselves, in the same results email a results subscriber for that game already gets. If you are not already a results subscriber for that game, every one of your lines covering that draw has “Wins only” turned on, and none of them won, we send no email for that draw — your lines are still judged and their progress still advances either way. A watched line is deleted the moment you remove it and press Save in Alert manager, or the moment your subscriber record is deleted, including by unsubscribing; nothing else in this application deletes one. A line you asked us to watch “Until I stop” keeps being judged for every future draw until you remove it, and a line that has finished its fixed number of draws stays listed, marked finished, until you remove it or choose to watch it again.
3. Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to count page views and see which games people look for. It runs in production only, and it is not loaded at all on the alert confirmation, management and unsubscribe pages. This application sends it nothing beyond the standard page-view signal — not your email address, not your alert preferences, not the numbers you check, and not any line you choose to watch. Google Analytics sets its own cookies in your browser; the cookie section below explains how to refuse or clear them.
4. Advertising
We may use advertising services, including Google AdSense, to cover the cost of running the site. Where advertising runs, the rest of this section describes what it does and how to control it.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Other third-party vendors or ad networks may also serve ads here and may use their own cookies, web beacons or similar technologies; we do not control those technologies, and each vendor’s own privacy policy governs them.
Ads may be personalized or non-personalized. Personalized ads draw on information a vendor already holds about your interests or prior browsing. Non-personalized ads use only general context — the page you are on and a coarse location — but still use cookies or similar technologies for frequency capping, aggregate reporting and fraud prevention.
You can opt out of personalized advertising by Google at Google’s Ads Settings (google.com/settings/ads) or My Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com). To opt out of many other vendors at once, use www.aboutads.info/choices, www.youronlinechoices.eu in Europe, or optout.networkadvertising.org. Browser controls work too — see the next section.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
Lottery FM’s own application code sets no cookies. The cookies you may encounter here come from the third-party services described above — Google Analytics, and any advertising service once one is enabled — and from the infrastructure that serves the site, which may set short-lived cookies for security and load balancing. The number checker uses your browser’s local storage rather than a cookie; that storage mechanism itself stays on your device, though a line you separately choose to watch is copied to our database as described above.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. Blocking them does not lock you out: results, archives, statistics and the number checker all work without cookies.
6. Consent in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland
Where we serve advertising to visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we use a Google-certified consent management platform to ask for your consent before advertising cookies or similar technologies are used for personalized advertising. You can change or withdraw that choice at any time using the privacy-settings control the consent tool provides.
7. What we never do
8. Your choices
You can clear locally stored lines at any time from the number checker, or by clearing site data in your browser. To change your alert preferences, use the manage link in any alert email, or open Alert manager at /alerts/manage and verify with a one-time code if you don't have a link handy. To stop watching a line without unsubscribing, remove it in Alert manager and press Save. To have your email address, alert preferences and any watched lines removed entirely, use the unsubscribe link in any alert — that is a hard delete, not a deactivation — or write to us and we will remove it within seven days. Where advertising is running, you can manage personalized-ads settings at the opt-out pages listed above, and — in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland — reopen the consent tool at any time to change your choice.
9. Our YouTube channel and YouTube API Services
Lottery FM publishes short draw-result videos on its own YouTube channel. To upload and manage those videos, the internal publishing tool we use to run the site uses YouTube API Services. Only Lottery FM’s operator uses that tool, and it acts only on our own channel, with the authorization of the Google account that owns that channel. Visitors to this website never sign in with Google or connect a YouTube account here, and we do not access any visitor’s YouTube data.
With our channel’s authorization, the tool uploads videos we made ourselves and sets their title, description and visibility; reads back the status of those videos, such as whether processing has finished and whether a video is public or private; and can make one of our videos private, or delete it, when the draw data it shows is corrected.
What we store: for each video the tool uploads or records, its YouTube video ID and link, its upload and processing status, its visibility, any error message YouTube returned, and the time of each step. The authorization token for our channel is kept in our hosting provider’s environment settings, not in our database. Apart from these, we store nothing obtained through YouTube API Services.
We do not sell this data. We share it only with our hosting and database providers, and only so the tool can run.
YouTube is a Google service, and Google’s handling of data is described in the Google Privacy Policy.
Revoking access: in addition to our own deletion process below, the Google account that authorized the tool can revoke its access at any time on the Google security settings page.
Deleting data: to have the stored YouTube data deleted, email [email protected]. Deleting the data Lottery FM stores does not in any way affect data stored by YouTube; to delete a video or other data on YouTube itself, use YouTube, for example YouTube Studio.
Questions or complaints about how we handle this data: [email protected].
10. Changes
If this policy changes materially we will note it on this page and update the date above. Continued use after that means you accept the updated policy.