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Privacy Policy
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Lottery Sambad is built to work without knowing who you are. There is no account and no login, and reading a result sends us nothing about you. A few optional features do keep something: phone alerts, the result email, saved tickets and the contact form. This page describes, feature by feature, what your phone sends and what it does not send.
The short version
- The ticket number you type in the checker is matched inside your browser. It is not uploaded to us.
- We have no user accounts and we never ask for your phone number or home address.
- If you switch on phone alerts, our service stores the push subscription of your browser so it can send them. It is deleted when you switch alerts off.
- If you ask for the result email, we store your email address after you confirm it. Every mail has a one-tap unsubscribe link.
- If you write to us, by the contact form or by email, we keep the message so we can reply.
- The site sets no cookies of its own. It saves a few small entries in your browser’s storage, listed below.
- Our hosting company, Cloudflare, keeps standard request logs, as it does for every site it serves.
What the ticket checker does
The checker runs on your phone. When you tap Check result, your browser downloads the result file for the date you chose. That file holds the published sheets of the day and is the same for every visitor. Your browser then compares your number with the sheets and shows the answer. The number itself stays on your device.
The request for that file does show which date you picked, because the date is part of the file name. It does not show your number.
Number history works the same way, with one detail you should know. The history is split into one hundred small files, grouped by the last two digits of a prize number. Your browser downloads the one file that fits your number, so the request shows those two digits and nothing more. The full number and the series are matched on your phone.
When you have just loaded the page, the checker also downloads the list of stored dates to fill the date menu. If the stored file for your date does not yet hold all three draws, it asks our results service for the newest sheets. Neither request carries anything you typed.
Links that already contain a number
The checker can open with a number filled in when the page address carries one. The checker never puts your number into the address by itself. But if you open or share such a link, the address, with the number in it, is requested from the host as with any web address, and it can be saved in your browser history. If you prefer to keep a number private, type it in the box instead of using a link.
What the live board does
The board on the home page and on the live page asks our results service one question: “what are the newest sheets?” It asks every 20 seconds around a draw and every five minutes at other times, for as long as the page is open. The request contains no personal data and nothing you typed. The answer is the same list of sheets for everyone.
The countdown is worked out on your phone from its own clock. We do not read your location.
Phone alerts
Alerts are off until you switch them on, on the alerts page or in the Alerts box. When you do, your browser creates a push subscription: a web address at the notification service of your browser maker, plus two keys used to encrypt what is sent to it. Our service stores that subscription, the language of the alert and the time it was created. It does not contain your name, phone number or email address.
We use it for one purpose: to send the result notification after each draw, and a test alert when you ask for one. Switching alerts off on the same page deletes the subscription from our service. A subscription that your browser has cancelled is removed the next time a send to it fails.
The result email
If you type your address into the email form, we store it with the time, the page the form was on and the consent sentence you ticked. We also keep the browser type and a scrambled form of your network address (a short hash, not the address itself), which is how the form stops one device from sending hundreds of requests. The phone-alert record keeps a short device label such as “Chrome on Android”, and the contact form keeps the same kind of scrambled address for the same reason. We then send one confirmation mail. Result mails start only after you tap the link in it. An address that is never confirmed receives nothing more.
Every result mail carries an unsubscribe link that works with one tap and needs no password. After that we send you no more result mail. To have the address erased from our records as well, write to us from it. We do not sell addresses, share them with advertisers or use them for anything other than the mails you asked for.
Saved tickets and ticket photos
Tickets you save on the My tickets page stay in the storage of your own phone. There is one exception. If you turn on ticket alerts, which means phone alerts are on in the browser that holds your saved tickets, the saved numbers that still wait for a draw are sent to our service so that it can check them against each new sheet and tell you the outcome. They are removed from the service when you switch alerts off. If you use a photo to read a ticket, the photo is sent to our service only to be read. It is not stored.
Hosting and request logs
The pages, the result files and the results service are all served through Cloudflare. To deliver a page and to block attacks, Cloudflare processes the technical details of each request. These typically include the address requested, the time, the network (IP) address of the device and the browser type. Cloudflare handles this data under its own privacy policy.
We do not combine these logs with anything else to work out who a visitor is, and we could not link them to a number typed in the checker, because the checker does not send it. The fonts on the site are served from our own pages, so loading them does not contact a font company.
When you write to us
The form on the contact page sends our service the topic you chose, your message, the name and email address if you filled them in, and the address of the page you came from. The service stores the message and forwards it to our inbox. If you write to our email address directly, we receive your address and the text you send.
In both cases we use the details to reply and to correct the problem you reported. We do not sell them, pass them to advertisers or add you to a list. You do not need to send a ticket number or a photo of a ticket to report an error, so please leave them out.
You can ask us to delete a message or an email conversation by writing from the same address.
Age, law and changes to this page
The site is for adults, meaning people who are 18 or older, and we do not knowingly collect data about children. As the sections above show, we hold nothing about a reader who only looks at results, and very little about one who turns on an optional feature. This policy is read under the laws of India.
When the way the site works changes, this page changes with it, and the date under the heading shows the last edit. The terms of use and the disclaimer cover the other rules. When you are done here, today’s Dear lottery board is one tap away.