Privacy

Barstool Bush is a content-only site. Browsing is anonymous — there are no accounts and no sign-in. We do not accept, process, settle, or facilitate any wagers — odds and market prices displayed on the site are read-only data sourced from third parties and shown for information and entertainment. Google Analytics and server logs, covered below, are the only data collected.

Games (Fibster)

The multiplayer Fibster game asks for a display name when you create or join a room. That name and the answers you type are sent to our game server and shown to the other players in your room — don't use a name or write anything you wouldn't want a roomful of strangers to see. Rooms are ephemeral: sessions and submissions are deleted shortly after a game ends, and abandoned rooms self-purge. A small resume token (room code + your display name) is kept in your browser's localStorage so a refresh puts you back in your seat.

Newsletter

If you enter an email address in a signup box on this site, we store that address, the page you signed up from, and the date. We use it to send you our own newsletter and nothing else. We don't sell, rent or share the list, and we don't link it to your browsing on the site. Reply to any email, or use the contact address below, and we'll remove you.

Analytics & cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to measure pageviews, traffic sources, approximate location, and basic device info. GA4 sets cookies (typically _ga and _ga_*) and processes data per Google's privacy policy. We don't configure any advertising features, demographic tracking, or Google Signals beyond what GA4 collects by default for measurement purposes. We do not track or record any betting decisions, market clicks, or odds-page interactions back to your account or email.

You can opt out of GA tracking sitewide by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on or by enabling your browser's Do Not Track / tracking protection. Analytics exports are retained in Google BigQuery under our own account and are subject to the same GA4 scope described above — nothing additional is collected.

Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control: the site behaves the same way for every visitor and does not change what it collects in response to browser Do Not Track signals (the opt-out add-on above is the effective way to block GA4). Because we do not sell or share personal information, there is nothing for a Global Privacy Control signal to opt you out of.

Separately from cookies, the site uses your browser's localStorage for display preferences — selected sportsbooks and the fee toggle on Markets, your World Cup timezone and group pick, and the game resume token described above. Preferences stay in your browser and are never sent to us.

Advertising

The site may carry advertising served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites, and third-party vendors may do the same. We don't receive or store anything those cookies collect, and no data we hold — an email from the newsletter, a Fibster nickname — is ever passed to an advertiser.

You can turn off personalised advertising in Google Ad Settings, or opt out of third-party vendors' cookies at aboutads.info.

Your cookie choice

In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, cookies that aren't strictly necessary are denied by default until you choose, and a banner asks on your first visit. Everywhere else there is no banner: analytics runs as described above and no consent prompt is shown, which is the honest reason you may never have seen one. Your answer is remembered in your browser's local storage under bb-consent — clearing site data resets it and the banner asks again.

Server logs

The site's frontend is served via Cloudflare and the backend API runs on AWS Lightsail. Both keep standard server logs — IP addresses, user-agent strings, and request paths — short-term for security and abuse prevention. These aren't connected to any user identity by us.

Third-party content & data

Pages on the site embed video and image content directly from X (Twitter), YouTube, and other publicly-posted sources. When you load that content, your browser communicates directly with those providers and is subject to their privacy policies, not ours.

Odds, lines, totals, and prediction-market prices shown on the league boards and game pages are aggregated from third-party data providers (currently Pinnacle Sports, Polymarket, Kalshi, and DraftKings). That data is fetched server-side and displayed to you. We do not share your browsing activity with these providers and they do not set cookies on the site. Nation flag images on World Cup pages load directly from flagcdn.com, a static image CDN, which sees the same standard request data any image host would.

Our smart-money features are built from publicly-visible on-chain trading activity. We show the bet itself — side, size, price and time — and no longer display the wallet address or the username a wallet publishes on Polymarket. The underlying feed is still keyed to specific wallets, so if a profile is yours and you'd like it excluded, email [email protected] and we'll add it to the opt-out list.

What we don't collect

• No advertising or remarketing cookies of our own.
• No fingerprinting beyond what GA4 collects automatically.
• No wager, account-balance, or banking information of any kind.
• No payment methods (we don't process payments).
• No accounts, sign-in, or profile data. A newsletter signup stores an email address and nothing attached to it — no browsing history, no reading behaviour, no profile.

Your rights, selling & children

We do not sell, rent, or share personal information with anyone for money or for cross-context advertising — there is no advertising on the site. The site is small enough that no U.S. state privacy law's coverage thresholds currently apply to it, but we honor the spirit of those laws anyway: reach out and we'll tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it.

The site is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has signed in or submitted content, contact us and we'll delete it.

For corrections, takedown requests, data-deletion requests, or anything else, see Contact. For fan-site and sports-market disclaimers, see Terms.