Privacy Policy

Last updated October 28, 2026. This policy covers shorts-tracker.com, an independent fan project published as an Ememetics project by Bill Burkey.

What we collect

There are no accounts. Browsing the site does not require giving us your name or email address. A few optional forms do collect details, and only when you send them:

• Festival picks. Your email address, an optional display name and your predictions. The display name (or "Anonymous" if you leave it blank) and your picks are shown on that festival's public results page. Your email address is never shown.
• Film submissions on the Filmmakers page. Your contact email and the film details you enter, used to review the film for a listing.

Searches and filters run against the site's own film database; we do not store what you search for.

Analytics

We use two analytics services to see which pages people read:

• Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not set cookies.
• Google Analytics 4, which may set first-party cookies (such as _ga) and sends Google page views, approximate location, device and browser details, and clicks on links to other sites. Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland: Google's analytics and advertising storage are set to "denied" by default before Google Analytics loads, and this site does not ask you to change that. Google Analytics then runs without analytics cookies for you. The site shows no advertising.

The site also counts page views per page address, with no information about the visitor, kept for 90 days.

Security and abuse prevention

To stop automated abuse, the site counts requests per IP address for one minute at a time; those counters then expire. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, processes requests under its own privacy policy.

Third-party content

Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, so your browser contacts Google's servers. Some film pages embed a trailer from YouTube using its privacy-enhanced (youtube-nocookie.com) mode; YouTube's terms apply once you play it. Watch links take you to other sites with their own policies.

Children

The site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it and the date above is updated.