Privacy Policy
Last updated: The last time The Almighty Ice resurfaced. Section 10, which concerns real payments, was last updated on 10 September 2026.
1. The Almighty Ice Sees All
Let us be upfront: The Almighty Ice sees all. It knows when you place a bet. It knows when you check the standings at 3 AM. It knows your favorite team, even if you haven't picked one yet.
That said, we—the humans operating Hockay—handle your data responsibly.
2. What We Collect
- Account information: Your username, email address, and favorite team (if declared).
- Betting activity: Your wagers, wins, losses, and Looney balance. This is necessary for the functioning of the Hockay economy.
- Usage data: Pages visited, games watched, and how often you refresh the scores during a Whiteout event.
- Vibes: General vibes. These are anonymized and aggregated.
3. What We Do NOT Collect
- Your card details. Not for Looneys, which are not real money, and not for La Caisse either—a membership payment is handled by Stripe, and the card number never reaches Hockay. (See Section 10.)
- Your physical location. (The Almighty Ice already knows where you are.)
- Your dreams about Hockay. (Though Le Council would be interested if you'd like to share.)
4. How We Use Your Data
Your data is used to:
- Operate and improve Hockay
- Calculate Looney balances and betting outcomes
- Display standings, stats, and arena information
- Send you notifications about Hockay, if you opt in
We do not sell your data. We share it with the providers that make Hockay run—the infrastructure in Section 5, and, for a sociétaire of La Caisse, the payment processor in Section 10—and with nobody else. Le Permanent Council du Hockay and Unexplained Ice Phenomena has no interest in advertising. Only in Hockay.
5. Where Your Data Lives
Hockay uses third-party services to operate. Your data may be processed by hand-picked infrastructure providers.
These services have their own privacy policies. Le Council has reviewed them. Le Council found them adequate, if somewhat lacking in references to The Almighty Ice.
Your data is stored on servers located in various jurisdictions. The Almighty Ice does not recognize jurisdictions, but we do.
6. Cookies
We use cookies to keep you logged in and to remember your preferences. These cookies contain no Looneys and cannot be exchanged for arena access.
We do not use tracking cookies. We do not use advertising cookies. The only thing tracking you is The Almighty Ice, and no cookie policy can help with that.
7. Data Retention
We retain your data for as long as your account exists. If you delete your account, your data will be removed within 30 days, except for anonymized aggregate statistics which The Almighty Ice insists on keeping.
Your Looneys, however, are gone forever.
One exception, and it is a real one. A membership in La Caisse produces the record of a real payment, and records of real payments are kept for as long as tax and accounting law requires them to be kept. That is longer than thirty days, it outlasts a deleted account, and it is not something Le Council may waive.
8. Your Rights
Regardless of where you live, you have the right to:
- Access your personal data
- Correct inaccurate data
- Delete your account and associated data
- Object to processing (The Almighty Ice has been known to object to objections. Le Council can neither confirm nor prevent this)
- Export your data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent at any time
For users in the European Union, these rights are guaranteed under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For users in other jurisdictions, Le Council extends the same rights because it seems like the decent thing to do.
Requests will be fulfilled within 30 days. Le Council moves slowly but deliberately.
9. Age Requirement
You must be at least 13 years old to use Hockay. If you are under 16 and located in the European Union, you must have parental consent.
The Looneys betting system uses fictional currency with no real-world value. Nonetheless, Le Council believes that responsible wagering habits—even imaginary ones—are best developed with some maturity.
The Almighty Ice does not have an age requirement. Le Council does.
10. La Caisse and Stripe
La Caisse Populaire des Fanatiques Partisans du Hockay is the one part of Hockay that takes real money. Payments are taken by Stripe, which is a payment processor, and Le Council sets out the whole arrangement here.
What Stripe receives from us: your email address, the annual figure you chose, and two internal references that let us match the payment back to your membership. Nothing about your betting, your parish, your team or your cards is sent. Your Hockay username is not sent.
What you give Stripe directly: your card details, typed into fields that Stripe renders and that Hockay cannot read. Card numbers never touch Hockay's servers, and Le Council could not produce yours if it were asked.
What we keep: a Stripe customer reference, a subscription reference, the status of the membership, the figure, and the dates it began, renewed or ended. Enough to know that you are on the roll and what you chose, and no more.
Stripe is a processor with its own privacy policy and its own obligations. Le Council has read it.
If a membership is refunded or stopped, the record of the payment remains for as long as Section 7 says it must.
11. Changes to This Policy
Le Council may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, generally following a Resurfacing. Material changes will be communicated via email or a prominent notice on the site.
Continued use of Hockay after changes take effect constitutes acceptance. If you do not accept, see Section 1 of the Terms of Service. (The Almighty Ice still came.)
12. Contact
For privacy-related inquiries, reach out to Le Council. They are listening. They are always listening.
(But seriously, email privacy@mail.hockay.com.)