Introduction
Good Game Sports, Inc. ("Good Game Sports," "we," "us," or "our") provides software and mobile applications that help pickleball facilities and players organize and manage tournaments, leagues, and social play (the "Services").
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and the choices you have about your personal information. By using our website, mobile applications, or related services, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Parents and guardians: some facilities use the Services to run junior programs. Children under 13 cannot create or hold their own account. A parent or legal guardian may create a Junior Profile on a child's behalf. Section 7 explains exactly what we collect about a child, how it is used, and how you can review or delete it at any time.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Account Information
When you create an account or use our Services, we may collect:
- •Email address
- •Username and profile information
- •Phone number
- •Location (city and state)
- •Birth date and gender
We ask for a birth date when an account is created. We use it to confirm eligibility for age-restricted divisions and membership tiers, and to determine whether an account may be created at all. See Section 7.
1.2 Tournament & League Information
When you register for tournaments or leagues, we collect information required to administer the event, such as:
- •Your name and basic contact details
- •Information used to determine division eligibility (for example, age or skill level)
- •Partner or team selections
- •Tournament selections, participation history, and other event-specific details
- •Emergency contact details, and any medical or allergy information the hosting facility requires for participant safety
1.3 Payment Information
When you make a payment through our platform, we collect:
- •Billing information
- •Transaction amounts and history
Payments are processed by third-party payment processors such as Stripe. We do not store full credit or debit card numbers on our systems. Payments relating to a Junior Profile are always made by, and billed to, the adult account holder.
1.4 Technical & Usage Information
When you use the Services, we may automatically collect:
- •Device and browser information (for example, device type and operating system)
- •Log information (such as IP address, timestamps, and usage activity)
- •Device and usage data used for analytics and notifications
Because a child under 13 does not sign in to the Services, we do not collect technical or usage information from a child's device. Any technical information associated with a Junior Profile is generated by the guardian's own use of the Services.
1.5 Information You Choose to Provide
You may choose to provide additional information, such as:
- •Profile preferences and settings
- •Profile photos
- •Tournament performance data
- •Other content you choose to share through the Services
1.6 Junior Profile Information
When a parent or guardian creates a Junior Profile for a child under 13, we collect only what is needed to enroll and safely run the child in a program:
- •The child's first and last name
- •The child's date of birth
- •Skill or rating level, and gender where a division requires it
- •Program registrations, schedules, match results, and standings
- •Emergency contact details and any medical or allergy information the facility requires
All of this is entered by the guardian, not by the child. We do not collect a child's email address, phone number, precise geolocation, photographs, or any content authored by the child, and a child cannot post, message, or upload anything through the Services.
1.7 Information We Process for Facilities
Facilities that use the Services to manage their members, players, bookings, and payments may give us information about the people they serve, for example when they add a player at the front desk or bring their records over from another system. We process that information on the facility's behalf and under our agreement with it, and only to provide and support the Services. The facility decides what it collects and is responsible for giving its own notices and obtaining any consents it needs, including a parent's or guardian's consent where required. If you have a question about information a facility holds about you, contact the facility or email us at info@ggsports.co.
2. How We Use Your Information
2.1 Provide and Operate the Services
We use your information to:
- •Create and manage your account
- •Register you for tournaments and leagues
- •Organize and manage events, including schedules, brackets, divisions, and check-ins
- •Facilitate partner or team assignments where applicable
2.2 Process Payments
We use your information to:
- •Process registration fees and other payments
- •Handle refunds in accordance with event policies
- •Maintain necessary accounting and financial records
2.3 Communicate with You
We use your information to communicate with you about the Services, including to:
- •Send registration confirmations
- •Provide event updates, schedules, and logistics
- •Deliver results and standings
- •Respond to your questions and support requests
Every communication about a Junior Profile — confirmations, schedules, results, cancellations, and announcements from the facility — is sent to the guardian's contact details. We never contact a child under 13 directly.
2.4 Marketing & Notifications
With your consent where required, we may use your information to:
- •Send information about upcoming tournaments and events
- •Share news about new features, partnerships, or promotions
- •Deliver optional marketing notifications via email or in-app messages
You can opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in emails, adjusting notification settings in the app, or contacting us at info@ggsports.co.
We do not market to children. Junior Profile information is never used for marketing or promotional messaging of any kind, and is not used to build profiles for advertising.
2.5 Improve and Develop the Services
We use aggregated and de-identified information to:
- •Understand how users interact with the Services
- •Improve user experience and performance
- •Develop new features and offerings
- •Identify and address technical issues or security concerns
Junior Profile information is used only to run the programs a child is enrolled in and for the internal operations necessary to do so, such as security, fraud prevention, and maintaining the integrity of the Services.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share your information only in the following circumstances:
3.1 Service Providers
We work with trusted third-party service providers who help us operate and support the Services, such as:
- •Payment processors (for example, Stripe)
- •Authentication and hosting providers (for example, Firebase, Supabase)
- •Email, SMS, and notification service providers
- •Error monitoring and application reliability providers
These providers process information on our behalf and are permitted to use your information only as necessary to provide services to us.
3.2 Integration Partners
We may share limited information with third-party integrations that support tournament operations, player verification, ratings, or related event services. We only share the minimum information necessary for these features to function. We do not share Junior Profile information with rating or verification partners unless the guardian has separately and expressly consented to that specific disclosure.
3.3 Tournament Facilities and Organizers
When you register for an event, we share necessary information with the hosting facility or organizer, such as:
- •Participant lists
- •Relevant contact details
- •Event-related registration details
This allows them to manage logistics, communicate with players, and run the event. When a child is enrolled in a junior program, the hosting facility receives the child's name, division, schedule, results, and the emergency and medical details you provided, together with the guardian's contact information. The facility is responsible for its own use of that information.
3.4 Legal, Safety, and Compliance
We may disclose your information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
- •Comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes
- •Respond to lawful requests from public or governmental authorities
- •Enforce our Terms of Service or other agreements
- •Protect the rights, property, or safety of Good Game Sports, our users, or others
- •Detect, prevent, or address fraud, security, or technical issues
3.5 Business Transfers
In connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or a portion of our business, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any recipient continues to handle your information in line with this Privacy Policy.
3.6 Limits on Sharing Junior Information
Information about a child under 13 is shared only with:
- •The facility or organizer running the program the child is enrolled in
- •The service providers listed in Section 3.1, acting on our behalf and under contract
- •Authorities or others where disclosure is required for the legal and safety reasons in Section 3.4
We never sell a child's information, never share it for advertising of any kind, and never make a child's profile publicly searchable or visible to other players outside the child's own program roster.
4. Data Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously and use industry-standard safeguards to protect it. These measures include:
- •Encryption of data in transit where appropriate
- •Access controls limiting who can access personal information
- •Use of reputable cloud and infrastructure providers with strong security practices
We maintain a written information security program covering the personal information we hold, including information about children. That program designates staff responsible for security, identifies the risks to the information we hold, applies safeguards to address those risks, requires our service providers to maintain appropriate protections by contract, and is reviewed periodically.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
5. Data Storage and Retention
5.1 General Retention
We store your information on secure systems operated by us and our service providers. We retain personal information only as long as necessary to:
- •Provide and improve the Services
- •Comply with legal, tax, or accounting obligations
- •Resolve disputes and enforce our agreements
When personal information is no longer needed for these purposes, we will delete or anonymize it within a reasonable period.
5.2 Children's Data Retention Policy
We retain personal information collected about a child under 13 only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the specific purpose for which it was collected. We do not retain children's information indefinitely, and we do not retain it for any secondary purpose.
- •Junior Profile details (name, date of birth, skill level, gender) — kept while the profile is active, and deleted within 30 days after the guardian deletes the profile or 24 months after the child's last program participation, whichever comes first.
- •Emergency contact and medical or allergy information — kept only for the duration of the program the child is enrolled in, and deleted within 90 days after that program ends.
- •Program registrations, schedules, results, and standings — kept while the profile is active so that a child's playing history and ratings remain accurate, and deleted or de-identified when the profile is deleted.
- •Payment and transaction records — these belong to the guardian's account, not the child, and are retained as long as required by tax and accounting law. Where such a record identifies the program a child was enrolled in, we minimize the child's details in that record on deletion.
A guardian can delete a Junior Profile at any time without waiting for these periods to expire. When information reaches the end of its retention period, we delete it securely.
6. Your Privacy Rights
6.1 Access, Correction, and Deletion
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- •Request access to the personal information we hold about you
- •Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- •Request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal or contractual obligations
You can also update certain account information directly within the app.
6.2 Marketing Preferences
You can opt out of marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link in those emails or by contacting us at info@ggsports.co. You may also control certain notifications through your app or device settings.
6.3 How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise your rights or submit a privacy-related request, contact us at info@ggsports.co. We may need to verify your identity before responding and will respond within the time period required by applicable law.
6.4 Parent and Guardian Rights
If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child with a Junior Profile, you have additional rights set out in Section 7.4, including the right to review the information we hold about your child, correct it, refuse any further collection or use of it, and have it deleted.
7. Children's Privacy and Junior Programs
Some facilities use the Services to run junior programs, camps, clinics, and youth divisions. This section explains how we handle information about children, and it applies in addition to the rest of this Privacy Policy. Where this section conflicts with anything else in this policy, this section controls.
7.1 Children Under 13 Cannot Hold an Account
A child under the age of 13 may not create, hold, or sign in to a Good Game Sports account. We ask for a date of birth when an account is created, and we do not allow an account to be created for anyone under 13.
Instead, a parent or legal guardian may create a Junior Profile for the child inside the guardian's own account. A Junior Profile has no password and no login. The child cannot sign in, post to discussion boards or feeds, message other users, upload photos, share a location, or receive notifications or emails from us. Everything about the profile is managed by the guardian.
7.2 What We Collect and Why
For a Junior Profile we collect only the information listed in Section 1.6, and only because it is reasonably necessary to enroll the child in a program and run it safely: to place the child in the correct age and skill division, to build schedules and match-ups, to record results and standings, and to let the facility reach a responsible adult and respond appropriately in a medical situation.
We do not condition a child's participation in any program on the guardian disclosing more information than is reasonably necessary for that participation.
7.3 Guardian Consent
By creating a Junior Profile, you confirm that you are the child's parent or legal guardian and you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of the child's information as described in this Privacy Policy. We record the date and time of that consent.
If we ever want to disclose a child's information to a third party for a purpose beyond running the program — for example, submitting a junior's match results to an external rating service — we will ask for your consent to that specific disclosure separately, and you may decline it without losing access to the program.
7.4 Your Rights as a Parent or Guardian
At any time, and at no cost, you may:
- •Review the information we hold about your child
- •Correct anything that is inaccurate or out of date
- •Refuse any further collection or use of your child's information
- •Delete the Junior Profile and the information associated with it
- •Withdraw any consent you previously gave for a specific disclosure
You can review, edit, and delete a Junior Profile directly from your account, or email us at info@ggsports.co and we will action your request. We may need to confirm that you are the child's guardian before we act.
Deleting a Junior Profile removes the child from future programs. If the child is currently enrolled, deletion may end that enrollment; refunds are governed by the hosting facility's event policies. We may keep a limited transaction record where tax and accounting law requires it, as described in Section 5.2.
7.5 Players Aged 13 to 17
A player aged 13 to 17 may hold their own account. Because they are minors, we apply additional protections by default:
- •Their profile is not publicly searchable, and their contact details are not shown to other players
- •Features involving real-money contests, wagering, or payouts between players are unavailable to them
- •We do not use their information for targeted advertising or profiling, and we do not sell it
- •A parent or guardian may be linked to the account and may exercise the rights in Section 7.4 on the minor's behalf
Some facilities require a guardian's signature on a waiver before a minor can participate. That is handled during registration.
7.6 If a Child Registers Anyway
If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account despite these measures — for example, by entering an inaccurate date of birth — we will disable the account and delete the personal information associated with it. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, contact us at info@ggsports.co and we will delete it promptly.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or other reasons. When we make changes:
- •We will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy
- •If the changes are material, we will provide additional notice, such as by email or an in-app message
Your continued use of the Services after the effective date of any changes means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
If we materially change how we collect, use, or disclose information about children, we will notify guardians directly and obtain fresh consent before applying the change to information we already hold about their child.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices — including any question about a child's information — please contact us:
10. State-Specific Privacy Rights
Certain U.S. state laws (including those in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia) may provide residents with additional rights regarding their personal information. These rights may include the right to:
- •Request access to personal information we hold about you
- •Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- •Request deletion of personal information, subject to certain exceptions
- •Obtain a copy of certain personal information in a portable format
Residents of these states may also have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising. Good Game Sports does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We also do not use personal information to make automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on individuals.
Several of these laws treat information about minors as sensitive personal information requiring consent before it is processed. We treat all information about a person under 18 as sensitive: we obtain guardian consent for children under 13 as described in Section 7, we do not sell or share it for targeted advertising at any age, and we do not profile minors.
To exercise any state-specific privacy rights, you can contact us at info@ggsports.co. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request, and we will respond within the time period required by applicable law.
By using Good Game Sports, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.