Privacy policy

1. Who is responsible

failedchallenge.com is run by Failed Challenge, which is responsible for the processing described here. Contact: admin@failedchallenge.com.

2. What data is processed

• Server logs: when you open a page, our hosting provider (Cloudflare) processes technical data such as your IP address, your country, your browser, the page requested and the time, to deliver the site and protect it against abuse.
• Usage analytics (PostHog): the pages you view, the buttons you use on the site (for example copying a code, choosing a firm or an account size, or opening a firm’s website), your answers to “did the code work?”, errors, and technical data such as your IP address, device, browser and approximate location. PostHog also stores a random identifier to recognise returning visits and may record how you use the page (session replay), with form fields masked.
• Data kept only in your browser: the attempt counter shown when you copy a code, your answers to “did the code work?” and your cookie choice are saved in your browser’s local storage.
• Emails: if you write to us, we receive your email address and whatever you tell us.

3. Purposes and legal bases

We make no automated decisions about you.

• Delivering and securing the site: our legitimate interest in running a safe website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Analytics, to understand which firms and codes are useful and improve the site: your consent if you are in the EU, the EEA, the UK or Switzerland (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR); elsewhere, our legitimate interest in improving the site. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page.
• Answering your emails: our legitimate interest in replying to you, or steps you ask us to take (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR).
• Complying with legal obligations when they apply (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).

4. Cookies and similar technologies

You can also delete cookies and local storage at any time in your browser settings.

• Analytics cookies and local storage (PostHog, names starting with “ph_”): count visits and recognise returning visitors. In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland they are only set after you click “Accept” in the banner. Elsewhere they are set when you visit, and you can refuse them with “Cookie settings”.
• Functional local storage (ours): the attempt counter, your “did the code work?” answers and your cookie choice (“fc.consent”). It stays on your device.

5. Links to prop firms

When you click a link to a prop firm you leave our site. The link includes utm_source=failedchallengecom so the firm knows the visit came from us; it contains no personal data. From then on, the firm’s own privacy policy applies.

6. Service providers and transfers

Cloudflare and PostHog may process data outside the European Economic Area, under the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. We don’t sell or rent personal data to anyone.

• Cloudflare, Inc. hosts and protects the site.
• PostHog, Inc. provides the analytics; its servers are in the United States.
• IONOS hosts our email in the EU.

7. How long we keep data

• Server logs: only as long as our hosting provider needs them for delivery and security.
• Analytics: as long as needed for these statistics, then deleted according to PostHog’s retention settings.
• Emails: as long as needed to answer you and follow up, then deleted.
• Browser data: until you clear it.

8. Your rights

You can ask for access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, and withdraw your consent at any time, by writing to admin@failedchallenge.com or with “Cookie settings”. You can also complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD, www.aepd.es) or to the authority of your country.

9. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures (HTTPS everywhere, as little data as possible). No system is completely secure.

10. Minors

The site is not intended for people under 18 and we don’t knowingly process their data.

11. Changes

We may update this policy. The current version is always on this page, with its date.

12. Contact

For anything about your data: admin@failedchallenge.com.