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1. Who we are 2. Who can use Matchside 3. What we collect 4. How we use it 5. AI commentary & broadcasts 6. Who we share it with 7. Sharing & visibility 8. Children's information 9. Keeping & deleting data 10. Your rights 11. Security 12. Where data is processed 13. Changes 14. Contact usThe short version: You create an account (you must be 13+) and add the players you want to score or follow. We use that to run the app and turn scoring into a broadcast. We don't run ads, we don't use third-party trackers, and we never sell your data. You can delete any of it at any time.
Matchside is operated by Foundry Forty1 LLC ("Matchside", "we", "us"). This policy covers the Matchside iPhone app, the Matchside Apple TV app, and the matchside.tv website. If you have any question about it, reach us at hello@foundryforty1.com.
Matchside is for people 13 and older — players, parents, coaches, and fans. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to create an account. As an account holder, you may add the players you want to score or follow, which can include a minor (such as your own child, or a teammate you're scoring). When you do, you are responsible for that information and confirm you have the right to provide it. See Section 8.
When you sign in with Apple, Google, or an email address, we receive an account identifier and, depending on the method, your email address (Sign in with Apple lets you use a private relay address). We ask for your first and last name when you create an account (Sign in with Apple or Google supplies the name your provider returns); your first name is what other account holders see when you interact with them — see Section 7.
To score matches, you create player profiles. A profile may include the fields you choose to fill in: name, birth year or birth month, rating (UTR / NTRP) and a history of that rating over time, hitting arm, backhand style, a signature color, an on-court character, and free-text notes. Some of this may describe a minor child — you decide what to enter, and you can edit or delete it at any time.
You can add a photo to a player you have created. This is entirely optional — Matchside works exactly the same without one, and every player has an illustrated character by default.
Before you add your first photo we ask you to confirm that you are the parent or guardian of the player, and we record that confirmation with your account. We only ask once.
The photo is resized on your device before it is uploaded, and re-saved in a way that removes embedded metadata such as the GPS coordinates that cameras attach to pictures. We store the resized image, not the original file, and never the location it was taken.
You can replace or remove the photo at any time. Removing it deletes the stored file.
When you score a match, we store the point-by-point record, scores, timestamps, a short share code, and any generated broadcast commentary, highlight reels, and box-score data derived from it.
If you enable push notifications, we store a device push token so we can tell followers when a match goes live. You can turn notifications off in your device settings.
The New Match screen uses your location to fill in where you're playing and the current conditions. If you have already granted location permission, these fields fill in automatically when the screen opens; if you haven't, nothing happens until you tap "Use my location" and grant it. We never ask for location when the app launches, and we never read it in the background — only in the foreground, on that screen, as a single reading.
From that one reading we save three things. The city and state and a weather line such as "78°F, clear, breezy 9 mph" are stored with the match; these can appear on a broadcast page you share. The coordinates are also sent to Open-Meteo (a weather service) for that single lookup, and nothing else about you or your account goes with them.
We also save the venue — the coordinates of the facility, with a name you can edit — so the app can show you a private map of everywhere your player has competed, and recognise a club you have played at before. Venue coordinates are private to your account. They are never shown on a shared broadcast link, never visible to people who follow a player, and never published anywhere. Publicly shared match pages show city and state only. You can rename, merge, or delete a venue, and deleting a match or your account deletes its venue record too. We never track your movement and never record your location outside of setting up a match.
If you buy a pass, a subscription, or Fan Pass, the payment itself is processed by Apple — we never receive or store your card number, billing address, or any payment credentials. What we do store, tied to your account, is your plan status: which plan you're on, when it started and expires, your broadcast-credit balance, and a ledger of credits granted and spent (which match a credit was spent on, and when). We keep this to run the credit system, honor what you paid for, and answer support questions about a charge.
Like most apps, our servers automatically receive basic technical information (such as app version, device type, and request logs) needed to operate and secure the service. We also record first-party product events (for example, "a match was produced" or "a paywall screen was shown") to understand how the app is used. These stay in our own database and are not shared with an analytics vendor.
What we do not collect: We do not use third-party advertising or analytics SDKs. There are no ad trackers, no cross-app tracking, and no data brokers in Matchside. We never receive your payment-card details. We never read your location in the background or track your movement, and we do not collect your contacts or microphone data. We access your photo library or camera only at the moment you choose to add a player photo, and only the picture you pick — we never browse, scan, or upload anything else from your device. (We do store the coordinates of the venues you save at match setup — see Location above; those are private to your account.)
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.
Turning a scored match into a broadcast involves automated processing. Match details and player names — including a short summary of that player's earlier matches in your archive, so the commentators can refer back to them — are sent to our own compute environment and to our AI text provider to generate the play-by-play script, and to our voice-synthesis system to produce the audio. On public-facing screens and audio, a one-off opponent (a player you scored against but did not save) is shown by first name and rating only — never a full name. See Section 6 for the providers involved.
We don't sell your data. We share it only with the service providers ("subprocessors") that run the app on our behalf, each bound to use it only to provide their service to us:
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights or users' safety, or in connection with a business transfer. A current list of subprocessors is available on request.
Broadcasts are designed to be shared with family — not with the world. By default:
You control who you send a link to. Anyone you share a link with can view that broadcast.
Matchside is intended for people 13 and older and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 13 to create an account, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe someone under 13 has created an account, contact us at hello@foundryforty1.com and we will delete it.
Because Matchside is a youth-sports app, account holders — a parent scoring their child, or a player, teammate, or fan aged 13+ — may enter information about other people, including minors (for example, a player's name and birth year). That information is provided and controlled by the account holder, who confirms they have the right to provide it and, for a minor, that they are the parent or guardian or are otherwise authorized. You can view, edit, and delete any player profile you created — and delete the associated matches and your account — at any time (see Section 9).
This includes optional player photos. Because a player is often a minor, we ask the account holder to confirm they are that player's parent or guardian before the first photo is uploaded, and we keep a photo visible only to the account holder and to followers they have personally approved — never on any public page and never in a broadcast.
Note: This section addresses children's privacy, including U.S. COPPA (which applies to children under 13) and, where applicable, GDPR protections for minors. If you have a question about how any of this applies to your family, write to us.
We keep your information for as long as your account is active, so your match archive stays available to you. You are always in control:
Two things deliberately outlive a deleted account, both with every link to you removed. If you ever reported a safety concern, that report stays with us so we can still act on it — deleting an account must never become a way to erase a report. And the anonymous product counts we keep (see "Technical & log data" above) remain as unattributed rows. Neither is connected to you, your name, or your email once your account is gone.
When you delete data, we remove it from our live systems; residual copies may persist briefly in backups before being overwritten on our normal cycle.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or export your personal information, or to object to certain processing. Because you already control your account data directly in the app, most requests can be handled there — and for anything else, email us at hello@foundryforty1.com. We won't discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
We protect your information with industry-standard measures, including encrypted connections, authenticated access, and per-account access controls so that one account cannot read another's data. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to keep yours safe and to limit what's collected in the first place.
Matchside is operated from the United States, and our providers may process and store data in the United States and other countries. If you use Matchside from outside the U.S., you understand your information will be processed in the U.S., where privacy laws may differ from your own.
We may update this policy as the app grows. When we make a material change, we'll update the date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Continuing to use Matchside after an update means you accept the revised policy.
Questions, requests, or concerns about your privacy? Email hello@foundryforty1.com.
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