Privacy
DOOMSDAY is an independent fan site run by Ataberk Soylu, not a company. Below is what personal data I process and why, as Türkiye's data protection law (KVKK, Law No. 6698, Art. 10) and, for visitors from the EU, the GDPR (Art. 13) require.
Last updated: 1 November 2026
Controller
Ataberk Soylu (a private individual), Istanbul, Türkiye. Contact: ataberk@ataberksoylu.com
The team wall and votes
When you post your team to the wall, your six picks, your nickname if you typed one and the page language are stored; the team and nickname are shown on the public wall and on the team's own page. You don't have to use your real name as a nickname.
When you vote for or report a team, the random ID in your browser is stored so each browser counts once. To protect the wall from abuse (spam, mass voting), a salted, irreversible hash of your IP address is kept; your raw IP address is not stored.
Purpose: to run the wall and the vote and keep them fair and clean. Legal basis: my legitimate interest (KVKK Art. 5/2-f; GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)); the nickname is one you choose to make public yourself (KVKK Art. 5/2-d).
Visit statistics
The site has no Google Analytics, ad pixels or other third-party trackers. A statistics system I wrote myself records the following to understand how the site is used. Legal basis: my legitimate interest (KVKK Art. 5/2-f; GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). You can turn it off at any time below or from the link at the bottom of the site.
- A random visitor ID stored in your browser, and a session count
- The pages you open, time on page, how far you scroll
- What you do on the site: the characters you pick, making and downloading a card, which channel you share to, votes, the nickname you post to the wall, sound on/off, language switch, the live clock, sealing your predictions (only how many you answered, not the answers), the FAQ question you open
- Where you came from: the previous page address, campaign tags (UTM), the type of ad click (e.g. “Instagram”)
- Browser language, window size, device/browser/OS type
- The approximate country, region and city derived from your IP address; a salted hash of your IP address (to group visits from the same network)
What I don't collect
- No fingerprinting (canvas, audio, font probing); no hidden ID is built from your browser
- Your prediction answers stay in your browser and never reach a server
- No raw IP address or device (GPS) location is stored
- Your data is not sold, used for advertising or shared (except with the providers below)
Who receives your data, and where
The site and its data run on these providers: Vercel Inc. (hosting and servers, USA), Neon (database, servers in Frankfurt, Germany). As the servers are outside Türkiye, your data is transferred abroad (KVKK Art. 9).
If you open the live clock, the YouTube stream loads in YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com); from then on Google processes information such as your IP address under its own privacy policy. If you don't open it, nothing goes to YouTube.
Data is disclosed to a public authority only when the law requires it, and only within that request.
How long it is kept
- Visit and interaction records, vote and report records: 12 months, then deleted automatically (a team's vote count stays)
- Teams posted to the wall: while the site is online; write to me to have one removed
- Statistics session data in your browser: deleted as soon as you turn statistics off
Your rights
Under KVKK Art. 11 and the GDPR you can ask to know whether and how your data is processed, its purpose and who receives it; to have it corrected, deleted or restricted; to object to processing; to receive it in a portable form (GDPR); to turn statistics off at any time; and to be compensated for damage from unlawful processing.
How to make a request
Email ataberk@ataberksoylu.com with your request; to have a team removed, include its link. I answer within 30 days, free of charge. If you're not satisfied, you can complain to Türkiye's Personal Data Protection Authority (kvkk.gov.tr) or, in the EU, to your local data protection authority.
What I store in your browser
| Key | Purpose | Type | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| dd_consent | Your statistics choice | Necessary | Until you clear it |
| dd_visitor | Random browser ID: counting your vote once, and statistics | Necessary / Statistics | Until you clear it |
| dd_session, dd_seen | Session count | Statistics | Until you turn it off |
| doooomsday:team, :nickname, :wall-mine | Your team, your nickname, your team on the wall | Functional | Until you clear it |
| doooomsday:predictions | Your prediction answers (never sent) | Functional | Until you clear it |
| doooomsday:sound-off | Your choice, if you turned sound off | Functional | Until you clear it |
| dms-loader | Showing the opening animation once | Functional | Until the tab closes |
Change your choice
You can turn statistics off or on again at any time. Turning off stops recording and deletes the session data in your browser; the site and voting work the same.
Statistics are on.