Privacy

What Lotty keeps about you

Nothing on Lotty's own servers while you read results. You can read every page without an account, and Lotty does not record who you are or where you are. If you sign in to the Lotty app to save tickets, Lotty keeps your Google account's id, your email address and the tickets you save, as described under The Lotty app. If you accept analytics, Google Analytics counts your visit, as described below.There is no advertising on the site at the time of writing.

Cookies

Lotty stores no cookies on your device while you read results. Cookies are used only when an administrator signs in, to keep that session and protect the sign-in form.

If you accept analytics, Google Analytics sets its own cookies on this device to recognise a returning visit. If you decline, none are set. Your choice is kept in your browser's storage rather than in a cookie, and Cookie settings at the foot of every page changes it; withdrawing consent removes the analytics cookies.

Analytics

Only with your consent, Google Analytics records which pages are visited and how people move between them. Google receives your IP address and details of your browser and device. Lotty uses this only to count and understand visits, and Google processes it under its own privacy policy. Numbers you enter to check a ticket are removed from the page addresses it records. Nothing is sent to Google before you accept, and advertising signals stay switched off.

Checking a ticket

Numbers you enter to check a ticket are compared with the draw while the page loads, and are not saved by Lotty. They become part of the page address, so they appear in your browser history, and may appear in the routine request logs of the network that delivers the site.

The Lotty app

The Android app shows the same results without an account. Numbers you tap on the Check tab are checked on your phone against the draw and are never sent to Lotty.

To save tickets, you sign in with your Google account. Lotty then keeps your Google account's id and email address - not your name or photo - and the tickets you save: the game and its add-ons, the draws, each line's numbers, and when you saved it. Lotty checks them against every draw and shows you the results. If a scanned ticket's barcode was read, Lotty keeps a scrambled fingerprint of it, which cannot be turned back into the barcode, so that the same ticket is not saved twice; never the barcode itself. You stay signed in on the phone until you sign out, or until 180 days pass without opening the app.

When you scan a ticket, the photo is read on your phone and deleted straight after; it is never sent to Lotty or kept. What was read fills in the ticket for you to check, and only a ticket you save is sent to Lotty. Checking a scanned ticket without saving it asks Lotty only for the published results of its draws.

A finished ticket is deleted 12 months after its last draw, with its results. You can remove one sooner, or delete your account and every ticket saved with it in the app's Settings, or as described on Delete your account.

If you share Lotty on WhatsApp from My tickets, Lotty notes that your account has had the share bonus, how many extra tickets it gave and when, so that it is given only once. Lotty never learns who you sent it to, or whether you sent it: the app knows only that it opened WhatsApp.

The first time it opens, the app asks whether it may send notifications. If you allow it, PowerBall and Lotto results are switched on to start, and you can change the games in the app's Settings. Your phone registers with Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging, which gives it an identifier for delivering messages. Which games you chose stays on your phone: Lotty's server sends one message per game to Firebase and never learns which phones receive it.

If you are signed in and leave "My ticket results" on, Lotty also keeps your phone's Firebase identifier and the time you chose under "When", so it can tell that phone when the draws of your saved tickets have been checked. It is removed when you switch that off or sign out, and with your account; a phone not seen for 60 days is forgotten.

Only if you choose Allow when the app asks, and until you switch it off in its Settings, Google Analytics for Firebase records which screens are used and for how long, with details of the phone such as its model, Android version and approximate location from its IP address, tied to a random app ID. It never receives your name, email address or ticket numbers; the phone's advertising ID is not collected by these statistics and advertising signals are off. Google processes this under its own privacy policy.

The app shows Google AdMob advertisements in a strip above its menu and at the foot of a draw's or a game's results; on past results, also as a card below the draws and, now and then, full screen when you leave after looking through several dates. The ads are not personalised: Google does not choose them from what you do in other apps. To show an ad, count it and prevent fraud, Google receives your IP address, your phone's advertising ID and basic details of the phone and the app, under its advertising policy. You can reset or delete the advertising ID in your phone's settings.

Services that handle your visit

The site is delivered through Cloudflare, which receives your IP address and the address of the page you asked for, as a network provider does for any website. Results are collected from results providers and stored here; your visit is never passed on to them, because every page is served from Lotty's own database.

Administrators

The people who run Lotty sign in with an account holding their name and email address. Their sign-in can be checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, which then receives their IP address. Changes they make to results are recorded against their account and kept, so every correction stays traceable.

Who is responsible

Lotty is run by Astrion Group (Pty) Ltd, who is responsible for the information described on this page. To ask a question, or to ask what is held about you and have it corrected or deleted, write to [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can complain to the Information Regulator of South Africa.

When this changes

Lotty may change this policy at its discretion - for example, to show personalised ads in the app or on the site, or to add a feature that uses your information in a new way. The new version is published on this page with a new date at the top. If a change affects what is collected or how it is used, this page will say so before the change takes effect.

Anything that needs your consent, such as ads chosen from your activity, starts only after you have agreed. You can say no, and change your mind later.

Accuracy

Results are published for information only. A result here is never proof of a win — always check your ticket with the operator.