Privacy Policy

To put a listing on a clock you submit a name, a link, and optionally a one-line pitch and a logo URL. That is the entire form.

All of it is published publicly — that is the product you are buying. It appears on the masthead while your time runs, in the queue, in the activity feed, and permanently on the Clockroll leaderboard.

Payments are processed by PayU. Your card, UPI or banking details go to them and never touch BidClock — we cannot see them and do not store them.

PayU tells us only what we need to deliver the purchase:

• —a payment identifier, so a retried notification can't award your time twice
• —the amount and currency charged, so we grant exactly the time you paid for
• —which listing the payment belongs to

PayU collects payment details, including your email, under their own privacy policy. For anything they hold, they are the controller and their policy governs.

While the launch offer is open, the first few listings get time on the clock for free. Nothing stands between that offer and one person taking every slot, so we keep a one-way hash of the IP address a free claim came from and refuse a second claim that matches it.

• —The address itself is never written down. It is combined with a secret salt and hashed with SHA-256 before anything is stored, and the hash cannot be turned back into an address.
• —It is used for exactly one thing: comparing a new free claim against previous ones. It is never displayed, shared, or used to profile, target or track anyone.
• —It is only recorded on free claims. Paid purchases store no hash at all.
• —It is deleted once the free offer closes.

We refuse a second free claim from the same website link in the same way, using the link you typed in.

• —No accounts, no passwords. There is nothing to log in to.
• —No cookies, no localStorage, no device fingerprinting. The free-claim hash above is the only thing we derive from a visitor, and it is not used to recognise you anywhere else.
• —No analytics, advertising pixels, or third-party trackers.
• —No email list. We will not contact you for marketing.
• —No selling, renting, or sharing of anything with anyone.

Our host, Vercel, and our database provider, Neon, process requests on our behalf and keep standard operational logs, including IP addresses, for security and reliability. We do not use those logs to build any profile of you.

Listings and the time they bought are kept indefinitely, because the Clockroll is a permanent public record that never resets — that permanence is part of what is being sold.

Payment records are retained as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Free-claim IP hashes are deleted when the free launch offer closes, since they have no purpose after that.

Email officialvk02@gmail.com to ask what we hold about a listing, to correct it, or to have it taken down. We reply within 5 business days.

We can remove a listing's name, link and pitch on request. Where a purchase record must stay for accounting, we anonymise the listing rather than delete the transaction. To reach the payment data PayU holds, contact PayU directly.

BidClock is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes with it. Related reading: Terms, Refund & Cancellation Policy.

officialvk02@gmail.com