Privacy policy

The short version: we collect very little, we do not set advertising or tracking cookies, and we do not sell personal information. The details are below.

When you read the site

The site is served through Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes basic request data such as your IP address, browser type, and the page you asked for, so it can deliver the page and protect the site from abuse.

We may use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits. It does not use cookies, does not build a profile of you, and does not follow you across other websites. It tells us things like which pages are read and roughly where readers come from.

We do not use Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or social media trackers. We do not set cookies. If you confirm you are 21 or over on The Line or Stadium Culture, your browser remembers that choice for the session in its own storage on your device; it is not sent to us.

When you contact us

If you email us or use the contact form, we receive your name, email address, and whatever you write. We use it to read and reply to your message. Form messages are passed to our email provider for delivery. We keep correspondence only as long as we need it for that conversation, corrections, or our records, and we delete it on request.

Links to other sites

Stories link to other websites. Once you leave The Paddock Cut, that site's own privacy policy applies.

Children

The site is not aimed at children, and our betting and nicotine coverage is for adults 21 and over.

Your choices

You can ask what we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by writing to[email protected]. If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it.