Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 11, 2026

Verdict is a sport horse marketplace operated by Vlada Lvova, based in Georgia, United States.

Questions or requests go to hello@getverdictapp.com.

The short version

You can browse Verdict without an account. If you want to save horses or get alerts, we ask for your email address. We do not sell your personal information. We use Google and Meta advertising tools, and when you request a sign-in link your email address is hashed and sent to Google so it can measure which ads worked. You can opt out of that and ask us to delete your account information at any time.

You can also ask Verdict to read a horse ad you found anywhere, from the Chrome extension or the website. We use what you send for that one read and keep none of it. The full detail is in "Reading an ad you found elsewhere" below, and the short version is at https://www.getverdictapp.com/data.

What we collect

If you never sign in. Your browser stores a record of horses you have viewed, on your own device. That list is not uploaded to us, but our server does record that a view happened, and our advertising tools record it too. We also record your IP address to enforce rate limits and prevent abuse, and record page and event counts so we know which parts of the site are used.

If you give us your email address. We ask for your email when you join the waitlist, sign in, save a horse, or set up alerts. We use sign-in links rather than passwords, so we store your email address, a short-lived sign-in token, and a session identifier, along with when and how often you sign in. Depending on what you use, your account can also hold saved horses, saved searches, alert preferences, information you enter in My Horse such as a horse's name, sire, breeder, veterinary status and photo, and records of reports or analyses you generated.

Your comparison list is not saved. It lives in your browser for the length of your visit.

If you claim a listing. The claim form asks for your name, email address, and relationship to the horse, and works whether or not you are signed in. We keep what you submit and email it to ourselves so we can follow up.

If you contact a seller or send a listing to your trainer. We pass your message and your email address to the recipient so they can reply to you directly. For many listings we cannot relay a message, so we prepare one for you to send yourself, and in that case the content never reaches us. Where we do relay, we keep only short-lived counters used for rate limiting.

If you ask for a read of an ad. That has its own section below, "Reading an ad you found elsewhere".

If you list a horse for sale. We collect the listing details, photos, and contact information you provide. Photos you upload are stored publicly so they can be displayed on the site.

If you report a sale. We collect the details shown on the form, which can include a breeder name, a sire name, a link to the listing, and any free text you add.

Reading an ad you found elsewhere

You can ask Verdict to read a horse ad you found anywhere: from Chrome with the Verdict extension, or by uploading a screenshot on the website. We call the answer a read. You need a Verdict account for one: your browser sends Verdict's sign-in cookie with the read, and we check it before we look at anything you sent. If you are not signed in, we refuse the read and keep nothing from it.

What you send. From your phone or the website, a screenshot. From the Chrome extension, the words visible on the page and the page's web address, and a picture of what is on your screen when you click the Verdict button. If you correct a detail on the result, such as the level, we receive the correction too. The page's web address is used only to check whether Verdict already follows that ad, and is not kept.

What happens to it. We send the screenshot or the page's words to Anthropic, our AI provider, to read the horse's details, such as discipline, level, age, region and asking price. We then compare those details with similar horses listed right now and put together your read. A screenshot can show other things, such as the seller's name, comments, or other people. We do not use them. We do not judge the horse from its photos.

What we keep. Nothing from the screenshot or the page. The image, the page's words and any photos in them are not saved, not written to a database and not logged. They are gone when the read is done. Reads never go into Verdict's listings, our price figures, or any search index.

The result link. A read from your phone or the extension opens at its own web address, and that address carries the read itself: the details we read, the range of asking prices for similar horses and how many there were, the list of what we could not see, and which Verdict listing it is when we already follow the ad. It is signed, so nobody can change what it says. It does not carry the screenshot, the ad's words, any photo or any name. If a read is too long to fit in a web address, we keep those same details under a random code for 30 days, not linked to you, and then they are deleted. Anyone you send the link to can see the read. The result page carries no advertising tags.

Saving a read. We check that you are signed in when you ask for a read, but the read is kept with your account only if you save it to your shortlist. Then it is kept with your other saved horses until you remove it or ask us to delete your account information.

On your device. Your browser remembers which ads you have read: the ad's web address, the asking price then and the date, so a read can tell you when you come back to the same ad. That memory stays on your device and is not sent to us.

Counting and limits. We count reads so we know which ways in people use: the phone, the extension or the website, and for the extension, which listing site the ad was on, grouped by site and never by page. We also count which details people correct, and why a read gave no range. A count is not linked to you.

The extension and the website may keep a random code on your device and send it with each read, so we can count how many people come back in a later week. The code is not linked to your name or email, and we keep only the date we first saw it. To keep reads working for everyone, we use your IP address to limit how many reads come from one connection in an hour, and we limit how many reads one account can ask for in a day. Those counters expire on their own within a day.

The Chrome extension

On the horse sale sites where Verdict runs on its own, it checks the page address against a list kept on your computer and shows a line under the price when the horse is already on Verdict. Nothing about the page leaves your computer until you click Full read. Those sites are listed under the extension's permissions in Chrome. Everywhere else, including Facebook, nothing is read until you click. On Facebook, a read sends the post's words, and the group's discipline when its name states one. It also sends how many videos the post holds, never the videos themselves. When the panel opens, it asks Verdict whether you are signed in. That check carries nothing about the page.

The list is the same for everyone and holds no web addresses. Each listing on it is a short code made from its web address, with what its line shows: the range of asking prices for similar horses and how many listings it comes from, when Verdict first saw the listing, and its last price change. The extension downloads a new copy from Verdict once a day, and that download sends nothing about you or the pages you visit.

When you click Full read, or the Verdict button on any site, the extension reads the tab in front of you and only that tab: the words visible on the page and the page's web address, and, for the Verdict button, a picture of what is on your screen. Before anything leaves your browser, it removes email addresses, phone numbers, links and social media handles from the page's words. It sends the rest to Verdict for your read and shows the result beside the page, or in a new tab if Chrome does not open the side panel. On a Facebook group, a read sends the post's words plus the group's discipline when the group's name states one (dressage, hunter, jumper, eventing or western) or names hunters and jumpers together, never the group's name. It also sends how many videos the post holds, never the videos themselves.

It keeps no record of the pages you visit and carries no advertising or tracking code. On your own computer it keeps the list, the random code described above, the latest read for each open tab until that tab closes, and the reads you make with it. For each read it keeps a short code made from the ad's web address (or, for a Facebook post without one, from the post's own words), the asking price, the site, the day, Verdict's range for it and how many listings it comes from, the link to your result, the asking price as the ad wrote it, where the horse sits against the range, and the reason when Verdict doesn't price that horse. It keeps no picture of the ad. That is how it shows your reads this week and tells you when you read an ad before. It keeps them for six months. None of this leaves your computer, and removing the extension deletes it.

Some listing sites show more to their members. If you are signed in to one and click the extension, the read uses what you can see, for you alone. We keep none of it and it never goes into Verdict's listings.

The use of information received from the Verdict extension will adhere to the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We use it only to give you the read you asked for. We pass it to Anthropic for that read and to no one else. We do not sell it, use it for advertising, or use it to decide anyone's credit or lending, and nobody at Verdict reads it.

How we use it

To run the service, to improve the product, to measure our advertising, and to email you about Verdict.

When you sign in for the first time, your email address is added to our mailing list. Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link and unsubscribing is honored. We mention this because signing in is not the same as opting in.

We do not sell your personal information.

Who we share it with

Some content on listing pages loads directly from the site the listing came from, or from video services such as Cloudflare Stream and YouTube. Your browser connects to those services directly and they can see your IP address and browser details.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety and rights of users or of Verdict.

Advertising, and what Google receives

Verdict advertises on Google and uses the Meta pixel to measure advertising. These tools set cookies or similar identifiers in your browser, and third-party vendors including Google and Meta use them to show Verdict ads based on your previous visits to this and other sites.

One point beyond ordinary cookies. Verdict uses a Google feature called enhanced conversions. When you request a sign-in link, your email address is converted into an irreversible hashed form in your browser and that hash is sent to Google, so Google can match the sign-in to an advertisement you may have clicked. This happens every time you request a sign-in link, including as a returning user. We share this with Google to perform advertising measurement services on our behalf.

The Meta pixel does not receive your email address. It records page views and events only.

You can opt out:

• Google's advertising cookies: https://adssettings.google.com
• Meta's ad settings: https://www.facebook.com/adpreferences/ad_settings
• Third-party vendors generally: https://optout.networkadvertising.org and https://optout.aboutads.info

You can also block cookies in your browser, or write to hello@getverdictapp.com and ask us to exclude you from advertising measurement.

We do not sell your personal information for money. Sharing browsing activity and hashed identifiers with advertising vendors to show and measure ads is treated as "sharing" under some state privacy laws, and the opt-outs above are how you stop it. Verdict does not currently detect the Global Privacy Control browser signal.

Cookies and storage on your device

A sign-in cookie is set after you sign in and keeps you signed in for up to 30 days. It is marked HttpOnly, Secure, and SameSite=Lax, is not readable by scripts, and is set for getverdictapp.com and its subdomains. Your browser sends it with each read the Verdict extension asks for, and when the extension's side panel asks whether you are signed in, so we can check; the extension itself cannot read it.

Verdict also stores items in your browser's own storage, on your device rather than on our servers: horses you recently viewed, the ads you have read with the asking price then and the date, information you enter in My Horse, a local history of listings and analyses you have looked at, sale reports you have drafted, feature preferences, and the email address you last typed. We stop displaying recently viewed entries after 30 days, but they remain in your browser until it is cleared. You can remove all of this by clearing site data.

Google and Meta set their own advertising cookies, described above.

How long we keep it

Some records expire automatically: sign-in tokens last minutes, rate limit counters about a day, reads too long for a link 30 days, and several others up to a year. Screenshots and page words sent for a read are not kept at all. Your account, saved horses, My Horse entries, and listing claims are kept until you ask us to remove them. We do not operate a single automatic deletion schedule across everything, and we would rather say so than publish one we do not enforce.

Your choices

You can ask what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account information. You can unsubscribe from any marketing email using the link in it, opt out of advertising cookies at the links above, and clear everything stored in your browser by clearing site data.

Write to hello@getverdictapp.com. We will respond within 30 days and we will not charge you.

Listings collected from other websites

Most listings on Verdict were published publicly by sellers on other marketplaces. We collect the listing text, details, and photographs as they were published, and we keep a record of pricing and listing history over time, including after a horse is sold. That record is what makes market analysis possible and it is central to what Verdict does.

Because we keep the seller's own advertisement text as it was written, that text can contain a phone number, an email address, a location, or a person's or farm's name, because the seller put it there. We remove structured contact fields where we can, but we do not rewrite the seller's own words.

If you are a seller and you would prefer your listing not appear on Verdict, write to hello@getverdictapp.com with a link to it and we will look at it individually.

Security

Verdict uses encrypted connections, sign-in links rather than passwords, rate limits, and access controls on administrative functions. No system is perfectly secure. If you find a security problem, please tell us at hello@getverdictapp.com rather than disclosing it publicly.

Children

Verdict is not intended for anyone under 18 and we do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, write to us.

If you are outside the United States

Verdict is operated from the United States and your information is stored and processed there. If you are elsewhere, you can make the requests described above by writing to hello@getverdictapp.com. We are a small operation and do not maintain a European representative or a data protection officer.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we handle your information, we will say so on the site.

Contact

Vlada Lvova, operating as Verdict
Georgia, United States
hello@getverdictapp.com