Privacy Policy

Last updated October 6, 2026

This policy explains what SpotStarter (“we”) collects when you use getspotstarter.com, our emails, and our apps, how we use it, and the choices you have.

The short version: we collect what we need to get games going. We don’t sell your information, we don’t show ads, and you can ask us to see or delete your information at any time.

What we collect

When you sign up for early access: your email address, the sports you play, your town, whether you want to host, and where you heard about us, if the link you used says (a flyer or a post, for example).
When you create an account: your email address (you sign in with a code we email you) and the name you choose to show other players. You can add your town, and your gender, which we use only to apply division rules, like saving spots for women in co-rec games, and never show to anyone.
When you use SpotStarter: the games and leagues you host or join, your answers to them (in, maybe, or out) and when they changed, and your email settings. At a league night, the host checks you in when you arrive, and we keep whether you came to the nights you said you’re in for, didn’t come, or cancelled late, and the reliability points that follow. We keep a record of the emails we send you, like call-ups and reminders, so nobody gets the same one twice. If a league you’re in has a fee, we keep whether you’ve paid it: you say you did, and the host confirms it. You pay the host directly, so we never see card or bank details.
About people who play without an account: when you’re in and bringing guests, how many. At a game night, the host can add someone who’s playing but isn’t on SpotStarter by first name, for that night’s teams, and whose guest they are. We clear those the morning after, and keep nothing else about them.
When you host a league: the documents you add, like an insurance certificate or a school’s approval, which can include names and addresses.
When you agree to our Terms: which version you agreed to, and when.
When you contact us: your name, your email address, and what you write.
When you tell us something’s wrong with a place on the map: what you pick and write, and your account, if you’re signed in.
Automatically: cookies that keep you signed in, and the basic technical details that websites record, like IP addresses and browser types, which our service providers keep in their logs to run and protect their services. We don’t use advertising or tracking cookies, and we don’t track your device’s location.
Your location, if you share it with the map: it stays in your browser, which uses it only to sort places by distance. It never reaches us. Your browser remembers that you chose it (or which town you picked instead), and you can stop sharing it in your browser’s settings.

How we use it

To run SpotStarter: signing you in, sending call-ups and reminders, showing rosters and headcounts, and applying the rules of each game.
To keep games fair and safe: noting whether people show up when they say they will, looking into reports, and enforcing our Terms.
To tell early-access sign-ups when SpotStarter opens near them, and to find hosts.
To answer you when you contact us, and to fix the map when you tell us something’s wrong.
To see what’s working and make SpotStarter better.
To follow the law, and to protect SpotStarter, our players, and the public.

What other players see

Signed-in players can see your name, and your town if you add it. A public game you start is open to everyone: anyone can see its sport, place, and time, your note, and how many are in, and signed-in players see that you’re hosting it. The people in a game see who’s in, and everyone on a league’s call list sees who else is on it. Hosts and league organizers see who’s in, maybe, or out for their games, and how those answers changed. A league’s hosts see who has paid its fee, and each player’s reliability: their no-shows and late cancels, their points, and whether they’re benched. Everyone on a league’s call list sees the documents the hosts choose to share. Other players never see your reliability, your email address, or your gender.

We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t share it for advertising. We share it only:

with the service providers that run SpotStarter for us, only so they can provide their services: Supabase (our database and sign-in), Vercel (hosting), Resend (sending email), Cloudflare (serving the map), and Google Workspace (our email inboxes);
when the law requires it, or when we believe it’s needed to protect someone’s safety or rights;
with a new owner, if SpotStarter is sold or merged, who must keep the promises in this policy for the information we have;
when you ask us to.

How long we keep it

Early-access sign-ups: until you ask us to remove you, or two years after SpotStarter opens in your area, whichever comes first.
Accounts: while your account is open. When you ask us to delete it, we delete or anonymize your information within 30 days, except what we must keep to settle disputes, prevent abuse (like a record that someone was removed), or follow the law.
The first names of people who play without an account: until the morning after the night they played.
League fees and documents: while the league is on SpotStarter. Hosts can remove a document at any time.
Messages to us, and notes about places on the map: for as long as we need them to help you or fix the map, and no more than two years.
Logs: for our service providers’ usual periods.

Your choices

Change your information: edit your name, town, gender, and email settings on your profile.
Get a copy, or delete it: email privacy@getspotstarter.com to get a copy of your information, or to delete your account or your early-access sign-up. We’ll confirm the request is yours (usually by replying to the email address on it) and answer within 30 days.
Emails: turn league emails or game emails off on your profile, or from any of those emails. Every email we send that isn’t needed to use SpotStarter tells you how to stop them.

We handle these requests the same way wherever you live.

Security

We protect your information with encryption between your device and our servers, with database rules that limit who can see what, and by storing the links in our emails only in scrambled (hashed) form. No system is perfectly secure, though. If a breach affects your information, we’ll tell you as the law requires.

Children

SpotStarter is for adults, 18 and older. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you think we have, email privacy@getspotstarter.com and we’ll delete it.

Where your information is

Our service providers store it in the United States.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll post the new version here with a new date, and tell you about important changes by email or in SpotStarter.

Contact

Email privacy@getspotstarter.com, or use our contact form.