Privacy Policy

GoldenSports is the sports profile and rankings platform for VIS student-athletes, coaches, press and admins. This policy explains what personal data we collect, why, who can see it and how we protect it.

Account data: your email address and a securely hashed password, or your Google sign-in identity. We never see or store your Google password.

Profile data you enter: name, sport, team, position, jersey number, school, birth year, height, weight (optional and can be hidden), social link and your character design.

Sports data you log: games, match results, times, placements and other stats, quest submissions and the proof files you upload.

Social data: friend requests, team membership, team designs and logos.

Media: interviews, highlights and videos uploaded by press and admins.

Technical data: the language you picked (stored only on your device) and the minimum session data needed to keep you signed in.

To run the service: show player profiles and boards, calculate rankings, run quests, teams and friends, and let coaches compare players.

To keep the platform fair and safe: admins review quest proof, press posts and can correct wrong stats.

We do not sell your data, do not show advertising and do not use your data for profiling outside the platform.

Visible to signed-in members of GoldenSports: your name, sport, team, position, jersey number, school, character, stats, rankings, team and approved media. This is what makes the platform work.

Never shown to other users: your email address and password. Weight is hidden when you choose to hide it.

Private: quest proof files, rejected or pending submissions, and pending press videos are visible only to you and admins.

Admins can view and correct player data to keep stats accurate. Coaches can view and compare player stats but cannot change them.

Nothing is visible to people who are not signed in, except the public home page.

All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS). Data is stored in a secured cloud database with row-level access rules, so each person can only change their own data.

Uploaded files are stored privately and shared only through short-lived signed links.

Admin and press access is granted only through one-time codes issued by the owner.

When a team leader uploads a logo, the image is sent through Lovable's AI service to check whether it is suitable for a school community and to create a cartoon-style version. Both the uploaded image and the result are checked before the result is displayed. Automated checks can make mistakes and are not a guarantee of safety.

Upload only logos you have permission to use. Do not include photographs of people, personal information or contact details. The original upload is not saved to our file storage. Only the approved styled logo is stored privately and shown to signed-in members, including on team clothing. We retain a processing record to enforce upload limits.

Many users are students under 18. Only enter information you are comfortable sharing with your school community. If you are under 16, please make sure a parent or guardian agrees to you using GoldenSports.

When you submit Street quest proof, your description and supported photo are sent through Lovable's AI Gateway to evaluate the quest requirements. We do not send your email, birth year, height, weight or profile to the AI. Images may nevertheless contain personal information: avoid including faces, contact details or private documents, and only upload content you have permission to share.

Clear evidence may be approved automatically; blank or meaningless proof may be rejected with a reason. Text-only claims, videos and uncertain evidence remain pending for an admin. AI cannot establish that a claimed activity actually happened or guarantee that an image is genuine. You may resubmit rejected proof for a new review, or ask a school admin to reconsider a decision. Processing records are retained alongside submissions for accountability and abuse limits. The selected review endpoint reports zero provider retention; this is not a guarantee about every intermediary's processing or retention.

Admin and press members may create shared basketball match records with a roster, final score and optional recording link. Player stats can include timestamped highlights. A recording link does not itself verify every stat. Recordings hosted on YouTube or Vimeo follow those services' privacy rules and may be accessible outside GoldenSports depending on the uploader's settings. Obtain the school's and participants' required permissions before recording or sharing, especially for minors.

Numerical limits and anomaly checks flag inconsistent or unusually high match stats. A warning is not an accusation of cheating. Admins can review and correct stats; no disciplinary action is decided automatically by these checks.

We keep your data while your account is active. When an account is deleted, its profile, stats, submissions and uploads are deleted too.

You can view and edit your profile and stats at any time in Settings.

You can ask us to export or delete your account and all associated data, or to correct anything that is wrong, by contacting a GoldenSports admin at school.

Under GDPR you may also object to processing or complain to your local data protection authority.

If we change this policy we will update the date above and ask you to accept the new version when it matters.