Privacy
Last updated 25 August 2026
singles.bid is a public leaderboard. Everything about it is designed to be seen, so the short version is: your X profile and what you paid are public, your card details never touch this site, and the visitor numbers we keep are counts with nobody's name on them.
What we collect
When you connect X
Signing in gives us your X user id, handle, display name, profile picture and bio. We ask X for read access to your profile and nothing else. We cannot post, read your timeline, see your followers or send messages. We never receive your X password.
We store an access token only long enough to read your profile during sign-in, and do not keep it afterwards.
When you pay
Payments run through Stripe. Card numbers, billing addresses and any other payment details are entered on Stripe's own checkout page and are never sent to or stored by us. What we keep is the amount, the position it bought, Stripe's reference for the payment, and when it happened.
When you visit
We count page loads and clicks through to profiles, and we publish the totals on our stats page. Each record holds four things: whether it was a view or a click, which listing was clicked, the site you arrived from, and the time.
That is the whole record. No IP address, no browser fingerprint, no device information and no identifier of any kind, which means we cannot tell one visitor from another or follow anyone between visits. No cookie is set or read for this.
Where you arrived from is stored as a host name only, for example x.com. The rest of the address is discarded before anything is written down, because the path and query of a page you came from can carry private things and none of it is wanted here.
There is no third-party analytics service, no advertising network and no tracker on this site. The counting is done by our own server and the numbers never leave it.
What is public
Once you have paid, your listing is visible to anyone. That means your handle, your name and picture from X, your bio, how much you have paid in total, when you were listed, and how many people have clicked through to your profile. Bids also appear in the activity feed with the position they bought.
Click counts are totals. We do not record who clicked or store anything about them.
Cookies
Two cookies, both strictly necessary, neither used for tracking:
- sb_session keeps you signed in for 30 days. It holds a random identifier and nothing else.
- sb_pkce exists for ten minutes during sign-in to make sure the reply coming back from X is genuinely the one you started. It is discarded immediately afterwards.
Both are httpOnly, so no script on the page can read them. Your light or dark mode choice is saved in your browser's own storage and never sent to us.
Who else sees your data
- X handles sign-in and hosts profile pictures. Because pictures load from X's servers, X can see the IP address of anyone viewing the board.
- Stripe processes payments and holds the payment details we never see.
- Cloudflare hosts the site and the database.
- Google Fonts serves the two typefaces, which means Google receives your IP address when a page loads.
We do not sell your data, share it for advertising, or pass it to anyone beyond the four above.
How long we keep it
Listings are permanent by design. You are buying a position on a page, and it stays until somebody pays more. Signing out ends your session but does not remove your listing.
Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require.
Removing your listing
There is no self-serve delete yet. Email support@singles.bid from an address we can tie to your account, or message us from the X account in question, and we will take the listing down. Money already paid is not refunded, since the position was delivered the moment you paid.
You can also disconnect singles.bid at any time from your X account settings, under connected apps. That stops future sign-ins but does not remove a listing on its own.
Your rights
If you are in the UK, EU or a place with similar rules, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Write to the address above and we will answer within a month.
Children
This site is for adults. It is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly keep listings for them.
Changes
If this page changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.