Privacy policy

Who runs this

SeeBallHitBall is a free, non-commercial project built and run by one person as a hobby, not a company. There is no in-house legal or data-protection team; this policy is our best plain-English description of what we do with your data. We are still the data controller for the personal data described here.

What we collect

• Account: email address, and your Google account name and email if you sign in with Google.
• Profile: display name, username, photo, preferred positions, skill level, and confirmation that you are 18 or over.
• Activity: games you host or join, your sign-up status, waitlist entries, reports you make.
• Game details hosts enter, including venue and payment details the host chooses to share — a host's own bank details or payment link, never anything of yours.
• Technical: login session cookies and basic server logs (IP address, browser) kept for security.

We never collect card numbers or other payment credentials. All payment is by direct bank transfer between player and host, off this website — we never see or touch the money.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

• To run your account and the games you host or join: performance of our agreement with you.
• To send essential notifications and emails (sign-in codes, cancellations, changes, kicks): performance of our agreement.
• To keep the service safe, handle reports and prevent abuse: our legitimate interests.

We do not sell your data, show ads, send marketing, or use tracking or analytics cookies... yet.

Who can see what

• Anyone can see public games and the display names on their rosters.
• Signed-in users can see your profile, your past games and, unless you hide them, your upcoming games.
• A host's payment details are shown only to players who have joined that host's game.
• Hosts see the names and profiles of players in their games.

Service providers

We use some companies to process data on our behalf - some may process data outside the UK under standard data-protection safeguards. We don't sell or share your data with anyone else.

Data security

We use reasonable technical measures — database access controls and encrypted connections — to protect your data. No system is completely secure, and as a free hobby project we can't offer the guarantees a commercial service might.

How long we keep it

Account and profile data until you delete your account. Game history for as long as your account exists. Notifications for 90 days. Server logs for up to 30 days. Backups for up to 30 days after deletion.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can access, correct, export or delete your personal data, and object to or restrict how we use it. You can exercise most of these yourself at any time: edit your profile, or delete your account entirely, from Settings, which removes your profile, photo and sign-ups. Because this is a one-person hobby project rather than a company, there is no monitored support inbox for privacy requests — if Settings can't do what you need, we may not be able to help further. You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) at any time.

Cookies

We use only cookies that are strictly necessary to keep you signed in.

Age

SeeBallHitBall is for people aged 18 and over.

Changes

We'll post any changes on this page and tell signed-in users about significant ones.