Policies

Children’s privacy

For parents and guardians of pitchers under 13. Written to be read in five minutes.

Last updated

Plain-English summary, pending legal review. This page describes what the platform actually does with data today. It has not yet been reviewed by counsel and is not a contract. The reviewed version will replace it before public launch.

The short version

If the pitcher is under 13, a parent or guardian holds the account. We collect nothing about the child until you have given consent, the child’s information is never public, and you can withdraw consent at any time and have the data deleted.

Consent comes first, not after

When an athlete under 13 is added to an account, the platform refuses to create the profile until a parental consent record exists. This is enforced in the software, not by policy: there is no path through the product that stores a young child’s information first and asks afterwards.

Consent has to be verifiable, so it is more than a tick-box. We record how it was verified, when, and by whom, and we keep that record for as long as the account exists.

What we collect about a child, and what we don’t

  • We collect the athlete’s age or age band, throwing hand, and development stage. That is the minimum needed to build a program that is appropriate for their body.
  • We collect the training the child actually does: logged sessions, throw counts, and workload.
  • We do not ask a child for their address, their phone number, or their school, and there is no in-product way for a child to publish anything about themselves.
  • The pitcher-type assessment on this site is written to the parent. It stores an age band, never a date of birth, and it stores nothing at all unless an email address is given.

Nothing about a minor is public

Minor profiles are private by default. There is no public leaderboard, no public search, and no recruiting visibility. Making anything about a minor visible beyond the account requires a separate, explicit opt-in from you. It is never bundled into consent to collect.

Video upload is not open yet. When it opens, video of a minor will never be publicly listable, and shared links will expire and record every access. We are stating that as a commitment about a feature we are still building, not as a description of something already running.

No advertising, ever

We do not run behavioural advertising, we do not integrate advertising SDKs, and we do not sell or share a child’s information for advertising in any form. There is no version of this product in which a child’s training data is used to target them with anything.

Withdrawing consent

You can withdraw consent at any time. When you do, the child’s personal information is deleted across the platform: profile, training history, video, messages, and reports. The only thing that survives is the security audit record of the deletion itself, which we are required to keep.

Self-service revocation is being built. Until it ships, email us and we will action it by hand and confirm when it is done.

Reviewing what we hold

As the parent or guardian you can ask to see everything we hold about your child, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it without withdrawing consent entirely. See the privacy page for how those requests work and how quickly we answer them.

Contact

Questions, requests about your data, or a parent exercising rights on behalf of a child: privacy@paintbaseball.com.