Privacy

Effective date: October 30, 2026

Last updated: October 30, 2026. Questions about your privacy: message us from the course or email support@vintonpoker.com.

What we collect#

• Your account: name, email address and password (the password is handled by our sign-in provider; we never see it).
• If you were a student on our old course platform (Thinkific), we moved your name, email and course enrolments to this site so you keep access.
• Your course work: lesson progress, video position, Field Work, quiz answers, notes, and what you post in Killers Circle (including any photos you upload).
• Payments: handled by Stripe. We keep what you bought, the amount and the payment status; we never see or store your card number.
• Messages: messages you send the coach, and emails we send you.
• Site usage: the pages you visit, what you click and use (for example lessons finished, hands built, checkouts started), and recordings of how pages are used, so we can see what works and fix what doesn't. What you type into boxes is hidden from the recordings. When you are signed in this is linked to your account. Also anonymous page-view counts and error reports when something breaks.
• Forms: if you apply for coaching, join the newsletter, start the free course, take the Leak Score quiz or ask for the Hand of the Day answer, your email (and, for the quiz, your result) is kept, with whether you ticked the box for other Vinton Poker emails and when. It goes to our email list provider (Kit) only if you ticked that box, or when you apply for coaching (your application goes to Kit so we can read it). The Leak Score is added to Kit only if you ticked the marketing box. Hand notes you build in the HandBuilder are kept to improve the tool: linked to your account if you are signed in, otherwise without your name or address. Each hand also keeps the city and country your internet connection comes from (never an exact address), so we can see where hands come from. When you save a hand, it is kept with your account. When you share a hand or ask the coach how you played it, the hand gets a private link that anyone you give it to can open; it isn't listed anywhere. With “Post to the Wall of Hands” ticked (it is unless you untick it), the hand you build also goes on our public Wall of Hands with the coach's read, with names left out and never your note or city (signed in, it shows your screen name as the poster unless you untick “Show my screen name”); you can take it down from the table, or from My hands when signed in. If you apply to be an affiliate, your name, email and what you tell us go to the team by email.
• Results you share: if you share a result for the results wall and tick the box, it is shown publicly with the name you chose, once the team approves it. Ask us and we take it down.
• Small cookies: to keep you signed in, to count one Hand of the Day vote per browser, to recognize your browser in our site-usage records (and whether you are using the app or the website), and, if you arrived through a partner's link, to credit that partner for 60 days (visitors in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland are asked first).

If you tick the box at checkout to hear from us and don't finish paying, we may send you one reminder email about that checkout. We don't add you to our mailing list from that box, and every email has an unsubscribe link.

Your Leak Score review email has replay links. Anyone with a link can open it without signing in. Each link lasts 90 days from when we send the email and then stops working.

Everyone who submits an email on the Leak Score gets one review email, whether or not they ticked the marketing box, unless that address has asked to stop Leak Score emails. The email lists each spot, the play you chose and the right play, with replay links. We add that address to Kit only if the box was ticked. Kit then stores the email address and these fields: leak_score_band (your band), leak_score_weakest_category (your weakest category, or none if no leak showed up), leak_score_product (leak_score), leak_score_version (the quiz version) and leak_score_src (where you came from). Kit also gets a band tag, a weakest-category tag or the no-leaks tag leakscore-no-leaks, and an archetype_provisional tag for your playing style when we have one. If the mini course is on for you, this is not a perfect sheet, and this address has not already started one, Kit can also add you to that category mini course. If a Kit form is set for the Leak Score, the address is added to that form too. We do not send Kit your guess, your numeric score or your answers. Stopping marketing emails does not delete your Leak Score data and does not remove you from Kit.

If you share your Leak Score, we make a private link that shows only your score, band, playing style and biggest leak. It never shows your email, name or answers. Anyone with the link can open that one card. The link stops working after 90 days, when you turn it off, or when you delete your data. We use your IP address to limit how often links are made and opened, and we delete those records within 24 hours.

Where did you find us?

When you sign up for vintonpoker.com or LeakHunter, we ask "Where did you find us?" We store the option you pick with your signup and with the link data described in this policy, so we can see, in grouped reports, where people found us. Our lawful basis is our legitimate interest in measuring how well our own content reaches people. Answering is optional, "Prefer not to say" is always available, and any text you type under "Other" is optional too. Internally we only use grouped counts, and we never use your answer to choose what we email you. You can object or ask us to delete your answer by emailing support@vintonpoker.com, and we will set your stored answer to none within one month of receiving your request. If you typed "Other" text, we will also clear it from our assistant logs by hand within that same month. We keep those logs for 90 days or less. Unsubscribing from our emails stops marketing email, but it does not by itself clear your answer, so please email support@vintonpoker.com if you want your answer cleared.

Why#

To run the course you paid for: unlock lessons in order, save your progress, let the coach read and answer your work, run the community, send the emails you asked for (you can turn alerts off in your profile), and keep the site working and secure. We don't sell your data, and we don't use it for advertising.

Who processes it#

• Vercel (hosting, file storage, page-view counts)
• PostHog (site usage and recordings)
• Neon (database)
• Clerk (sign-in)
• Stripe (payments)
• Bunny.net (lesson videos)
• Twilio SendGrid (email)
• Sentry (error reports)
• Chatbase (when you tap How did I play? in the HandBuilder: the written hand is sent to Vinton Poker Coaching AI)
• Anthropic (when the coach asks the AI helper to draft a reply to a community post, and when you build a hand in the HandBuilder: the text is sent to read it and not used to train models)
• Kit (newsletter and coaching applications)
• Cloudflare Turnstile (a spam check on public forms; it sees your browser and IP address, not what you type)
• Riverside (recording of Leak Review calls)
• Telegram (Vinton Poker Coaching AI chats)

Cookies#

Besides the sign-in and site cookies above, these cookies are about partners (affiliates). Visitors in the UK, the EEA and Switzerland are asked first, and we set the first two only if you accept.

• vp_ref: the partner whose link brought you, so they get credit if you enroll. 60 days. Only with your consent.
• vp_src: the sales source: the partner, clip, post or email that brought you. Up to 60 days. Only with your consent.
• vp_consent: your choice (accept or reject), so we don't ask again. 12 months. Essential: it only stores your answer.

To withdraw your consent or change your choice, click Cookie settings at the bottom of the page and choose Reject non-essential. That deletes vp_ref and vp_src at once. You can also delete cookies in your browser.

Your choices#

You can update your profile, turn email alerts off, and delete your own posts at any time. To get a copy of your data or have your account deleted, message the coach from the course; we answer within 30 days.

To stop marketing emails, email support@vintonpoker.com. We unsubscribe that address in Kit and keep a record so we do not add you again. This does not delete your data or remove you from Kit.

To delete your Leak Score data, email support@vintonpoker.com. We remove your email from our records and unsubscribe that address in Kit. Then our team deletes you from Kit by hand, because our connection to Kit cannot delete you. Your quiz attempt and its scores can stay, with your email removed.

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