RSNStats.com is an independent Red Sox statistics and commentary site. This page explains what information the site and the services it uses collect when you visit, comment or subscribe, and the choices you have.
The short version: the site shows a few Google ads and measures traffic with Google Analytics, both of which use cookies. If you comment or subscribe to the newsletter, the site stores what you submit. Nothing is sold, and you can opt out of personalized advertising.
Advertising
RSNStats.com shows ads through Google AdSense: one in the sidebar and, on longer articles, one within the article and one before the comments. Google and its advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies to show these ads, measure them, and limit how often you see the same one.
Google may use information about your visits to this and other websites to show ads based on your interests. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits here and elsewhere on the internet.
- Opt out of personalized ads: visit Google’s Ads Settings. You will still see ads, but they won’t be based on your interests.
- Opt out of other vendors: visit aboutads.info/choices or, in the EU, youronlinechoices.eu.
- Learn more: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, a consent message from Google asks for your permission before personalized advertising and related cookies are used. You can change that choice at any time with the Privacy & cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.
Analytics
The site uses Google Analytics to understand how readers use it: which articles are read, how visitors arrive, roughly where they are, and what kind of device and browser they use. Google Analytics sets cookies to tell visits apart. The reports are aggregated; they don’t tell me who you are.
- Opt out: install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or block cookies in your browser.
- Learn more: how Google uses this data.
Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked through the same Google consent message before analytics cookies are used.
Comments
When you leave a comment, the site stores what you enter in the form (your name, email address, and the comment itself) along with your IP address and browser user agent. Your email address is never published. Comments are moderated and may be kept for as long as the article they belong to is online.
To keep out spam, comments are checked by Akismet (Automattic), which receives the comment and related details to judge whether it is spam. See Akismet’s privacy notice.
Comment avatars may come from Gravatar (Automattic): a scrambled version of your email address is sent to Gravatar to check whether you have a profile picture. See Gravatar’s privacy policy.
You can ask for a comment you wrote to be removed, along with the personal details stored with it.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to the RSNStats newsletter, the site stores your email address, any name you provide, and the date you signed up, so it can send you the newsletter. Your address is used only for that and is never sold or shared with advertisers.
Every newsletter includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops further mail, and you can ask for your subscriber record to be deleted entirely.
Other services
- Getty Images: some articles include photos embedded from Getty Images. They are shown in Getty’s embed viewer, which loads from Getty’s servers, so Getty receives your IP address and browser details and may collect information about your visit and how you interact with the photo, as described in Getty Images’ privacy policy. Getty’s viewer loads whether or not you accept advertising cookies.
- Bluesky posts in the sidebar are fetched by this site’s own server and shown as plain text. Your browser doesn’t contact Bluesky unless you click a post.
- Buy Me a Coffee: the Support RSNStats link goes to buymeacoffee.com. Anything you do there, including payments, is governed by Buy Me a Coffee’s privacy policy.
- Social links to X, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads are plain links. Those services see your visit only if you follow one.
Your choices
- Cookies: you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. The site still works without them, though ads will be less relevant.
- Consent: visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland can review or withdraw consent through the Privacy & cookie settings link at the bottom of every page.
- Your data: you can ask to see, correct or delete the personal information this site holds about you from comments or the newsletter. Depending on where you live (including the EU, UK and California), you may have further rights under local law.
This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their personal information.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date.
Questions or requests about your data: info@rsnstats.com.
Last updated: November 5, 2026.