The complete terms on which The Battery collects, uses, discloses and retains personal information. Where this document and the plain-language summary differ, this document controls.
1.1 This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes how Scott Haungs, an individual who builds and runs The Battery as a personal project in Massachusetts ("The Battery", "we", "us", "our"), collects, uses, discloses, retains and protects personal information in connection with the Battery web application at lineupiq.app, any The Battery mobile application, and any related features, content and support we provide (together, the "Service").
1.2 For the purposes of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679, "GDPR") and the UK GDPR, The Battery is the controller of the personal information described in this Policy, except where Section 7 states otherwise. For the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, "CCPA"), The Battery is a business.
1.3 This Policy takes effect on the effective date stated above and supersedes all prior versions. It forms part of, and is incorporated by reference into, the Battery Terms of Service.
1.4 This Policy does not apply to any third-party website, product or service that we do not control, including those reached through links in the Service.
2.1 In this Policy the following terms have the meanings given below. Terms defined in the Terms of Service and used but not defined here have the meanings given in the Terms of Service.
3.1 The Service is offered solely to individuals who are at least eighteen (18) years of age and who are acting in a coaching, managerial or administrative capacity for a youth baseball or softball team.
3.2 The Service is not directed to children, is not marketed to children, and does not knowingly permit any individual under the age of eighteen (18) to register an Account or submit information to the Service.
3.3 Every record within a Team is created by an adult Coach. Players do not hold Accounts, do not log in, and do not interact with the Service.
4.1 We collect the categories of Personal Information set out in the table below. The table also identifies, for each category, the corresponding statutory category under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(v) where applicable.
| Category | Specific items | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Account identifiers § 1798.140(v)(1)(A) | Email address; hashed password credential; account creation and last sign-in timestamps; unique account identifier. | To create and secure the Account, authenticate sign-in, deliver confirmation and password-reset messages, and communicate about the Service. |
| Team and roster records § 1798.140(v)(1)(A), (K) | Team name, league or division, rule settings and display preferences; Player Entries consisting of a first name and last initial, draft or evaluation rank, eligible fielding positions, availability, and batting and fielding statistics; pitching records, consisting of pitch counts, innings caught, the dates on which a player pitched, and a per-game pitch limit expressed as a number of pitches; generated lineups and defensive assignments; award notes. | To provide the core function of the Service: to compute, store, display and share optimised batting orders and defensive rotations, and to apply the pitch-count and rest-day limits set by the Coach’s league. |
| Sharing records § 1798.140(v)(1)(A) | Email addresses of Coaches invited to a Team; invitation tokens; role assignments; membership and revocation records. | To operate Team sharing, to deliver invitations, and to enforce access permissions. |
| Technical and log data § 1798.140(v)(1)(F) | IP address, user agent, request timestamps, requested resource and response status, generated automatically by our hosting providers. | To deliver the Service, maintain security, detect abuse, diagnose errors and maintain records of availability. |
| Correspondence § 1798.140(v)(1)(A) | The contents of messages you send us, and the address you send them from. | To respond to support requests, rights requests and other enquiries, and to keep a record of having done so. |
4.2 Information we deliberately do not collect. We do not collect and the Service provides no facility for storing: a player's surname beyond a single initial; a player's date of birth, age or grade; a player's photograph, video or likeness; a player's address, telephone number or email address; a player's medical, disciplinary or educational records; precise geolocation; biometric information; government identifiers; or financial account information. A per-game pitch limit is stored as a number of pitches — 50, 75 or 85 — because that is the figure a league’s rules operate on. The Coach selects it, and no age, grade or date of birth is recorded, derived or stored alongside it.
4.3 We do not collect any category of sensitive personal information as that term is defined in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ae), and we do not process any special category of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 of the GDPR.
4.4 If we introduce paid features, payment card details will be collected and processed directly by a payment processor and will not be stored on our systems. We will update this Policy before any such feature becomes available.
5.1 We obtain Personal Information from the following sources only:
5.2 We do not purchase, licence, rent or otherwise acquire Personal Information from data brokers, list vendors, advertising networks, social media platforms or other third-party sources.
6.1 We process Personal Information only for the purposes set out below. For individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the corresponding legal basis under Article 6(1) GDPR is identified.
| Purpose | Legal basis |
|---|---|
| To create and maintain your Account and provide the Service you have requested, including computing lineups, storing Teams and synchronising data across your devices. | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b) |
| To operate Team sharing, deliver invitations and enforce access controls. | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b) |
| To send service messages such as confirmation, password reset, and notice of material changes to this Policy or the Terms. | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b); legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c) |
| To secure the Service, prevent and investigate fraud, abuse and unauthorised access, and maintain the integrity and availability of our systems. | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f), being our interest in operating a secure service |
| To diagnose faults, monitor performance and improve the reliability and function of the Service, using aggregated or de-identified information wherever practicable. | Legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f) |
| To respond to your enquiries and to rights requests, and to keep records demonstrating that we have done so. | Performance of a contract — Art. 6(1)(b); legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c) |
| To comply with applicable law, to respond to lawful requests from public authorities, and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. | Legal obligation — Art. 6(1)(c); legitimate interests — Art. 6(1)(f) |
6.2 Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have carried out a balancing assessment and have concluded that our interests are not overridden by the interests, rights or freedoms of the individuals concerned. You may obtain information about that assessment by writing to us.
6.3 We do not use Coach Data to train machine learning models. We do not use Personal Information for advertising, for the creation of marketing profiles, or for any form of behavioural targeting.
7.1 A Player Entry is created by a Coach in the exercise of that Coach's own coaching responsibilities. As between The Battery and the Coach, the Coach determines what is recorded about a player, for what purpose and for how long. The Battery provides the tool and stores the record; it does not select, verify or supplement the content of a Player Entry.
7.2 Where the GDPR applies, The Battery acts as a processor in respect of Player Entries and the Coach or the Coach's league acts as the controller. The Battery processes Player Entries only on the documented instructions of the Coach, as expressed through the Coach's use of the Service, and as required by applicable law.
7.3 By submitting a Player Entry, the Coach represents and warrants that the Coach has the authority to record that information, including any authority required by the Coach's league, club or organisation, and by applicable law.
7.4 We provide a notice for parents and guardians that a Coach may distribute, describing what The Battery stores about a player and how a parent may ask the Coach to correct or remove it.
7.6 Pitching records are matched across a single Coach’s Teams. Where the same first name and last initial appears on more than one Team held in one Coach’s account, the Service adds those Teams’ pitching records together, so that a player’s pitch counts and required rest days follow the child rather than the roster. This is done to protect a young arm from the cumulative workload of playing for more than one team in the same week. The matching happens on the Coach’s own device and only among Teams that Coach already has access to; it does not disclose a Player Entry to anyone who could not already see it.
7.5 A request from a parent or guardian to access, correct or delete information about a player should ordinarily be made to the Coach, who controls the record and can act on it immediately from within the Service. If you contact us directly, we will make reasonable efforts to identify the relevant Coach and refer the request, and we will act on the request ourselves where applicable law requires us to.
8.1 The Service is not directed to children under thirteen (13) within the meaning of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506, and its implementing regulation at 16 C.F.R. Part 312 ("COPPA"). The Service is designed, presented and marketed exclusively to adult coaches. Children do not register, log in, or submit information to the Service.
8.2 We do not knowingly collect Personal Information online from a child under thirteen (13). We have designed the Service to minimise, by construction rather than by policy, the information it can hold about any minor: the Service accepts a first name and a single last initial and provides no field for a surname, date of birth, age, photograph, contact detail or persistent identifier associated with a player.
8.3 If we become aware that we hold information collected from a child under thirteen in circumstances requiring verifiable parental consent under COPPA, we will delete that information promptly.
8.4 A parent or guardian who believes that information about their child is held in the Service may contact us at privacy@lineupiq.app. We will respond, and where we are able to identify the record we will act as described at Section 7.5.
8.5 We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of any consumer under sixteen (16) years of age, and we do not engage in the practices for which Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.120(c) would require opt-in consent.
9.1 We disclose Personal Information only as described in this Section.
A Team is private to the Coach who created it until that Coach invites another Coach by email. An invited Coach receives access to that Team's roster, statistics and lineups at the permission level assigned by the owner. The owner may view the list of Coaches with access and revoke any of them at any time from within the Service. Revocation takes effect on the revoked Coach's next synchronisation with our servers.
We disclose Personal Information to the service providers listed at Section 11, each of which is bound by contract to process that information only for the purpose of providing services to us, to maintain appropriate security, and not to retain, use or disclose it for any other purpose. Each is a "service provider" within the meaning of Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ag) and a "processor" within the meaning of Article 4(8) GDPR.
We may disclose Personal Information where we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process or an enforceable governmental request; enforce the Terms of Service, including investigation of a potential breach; detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues; or protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of The Battery, our users or the public, as required or permitted by law. Where we are permitted to do so, we will make reasonable efforts to notify the affected Coach before disclosing.
If The Battery is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganisation, bankruptcy, or sale of all or part of its assets, Personal Information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will post notice on this page before Personal Information becomes subject to a materially different privacy policy as a result of such a transaction.
We may disclose Personal Information for any other purpose with your consent, which you may withdraw at any time.
10.1 We do not sell Personal Information, and we have not sold Personal Information in the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of this Policy. "Sell" has the meaning given at Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ad) and the corresponding meaning under the consumer privacy statutes of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana and other states with comparable laws.
10.2 We do not share Personal Information for cross-context behavioural advertising, as that term is defined at Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ah), and we have not done so in the preceding twelve (12) months.
10.3 We do not process Personal Information for targeted advertising or for profiling in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects.
10.4 Because we do not engage in any of the practices described in this Section, we do not offer an opt-out mechanism for them and we do not respond to opt-out preference signals for sale or sharing. There is nothing to opt out of.
11.1 We engage the following sub-processors:
| Provider | Function | Information processed |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Database hosting, authentication and account management | All Account, Team, Player Entry and sharing records; authentication events |
| Vercel | Application hosting and content delivery | Technical and log data generated by requests to the Service |
11.2 We will update this Section before engaging an additional sub-processor that processes Personal Information.
11.3 We remain responsible under this Policy for Personal Information processed on our behalf by a sub-processor.
12.1 Personal Information is stored and processed on servers located in the United States.
12.2 If you access the Service from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to, stored in and processed in the United States, where data protection law may differ from that of your jurisdiction.
12.3 Where we transfer personal data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland to the United States, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914), together with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where applicable, and we carry out a transfer impact assessment. You may request a copy of the relevant transfer mechanism by writing to us.
13.1 We retain Personal Information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.
| Record | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Account records | For the life of the Account; erased on deletion of the Account. |
| Teams, Player Entries, statistics and lineups owned by you | For the life of the Account; erased on deletion of the Account or on deletion of the individual Team. |
| Your membership of another Coach's Team | Until revoked by the owner, until you leave the Team, or until deletion of your Account. |
| Unredeemed invitations | Until redeemed, until expiry, or until deletion of the issuing Account, whichever occurs first. |
| Technical and log data | A short rolling window determined by the relevant hosting provider, after which records expire automatically. |
| Correspondence | For as long as necessary to resolve the matter and to evidence our compliance, and thereafter for the period of the applicable limitation. |
13.2 Deletion of an Account through the Service erases the Account, the Teams owned by it and their rosters, the Account's memberships of other Coaches' Teams, and any unredeemed invitations issued by it. That deletion is immediate and irreversible. We do not archive or soft-delete this data and we cannot restore it.
13.3 We may retain information for longer where required to comply with a legal obligation, to resolve a dispute, or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim. Any information so retained remains subject to this Policy.
14.1 We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure and unauthorised access. Those safeguards include:
14.2 We maintain a written information security program consistent with the requirements of 201 CMR 17.00 (Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts).
14.3 No system is perfectly secure. We do not represent or warrant that the Service or any information transmitted to it is or will remain secure against every possible compromise. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for the activity conducted through your Account.
14.4 In the event of a breach of security compromising Personal Information, we will notify affected individuals and the relevant supervisory authorities where and as required by applicable law, without undue delay.
14.5 The Service is not intended for, and must not be used to store, medical records, disciplinary records, educational records, or any other category of sensitive information.
15.1 Two rights are exercisable directly in the Service, under Setup → Account, and require no request to us:
15.2 Depending on where you live, you may also have some or all of the following rights, subject to the exceptions and limitations in the applicable law:
16.1 Write to privacy@lineupiq.app stating the right you wish to exercise. Where the request concerns an Account, please write from the email address associated with that Account; where you cannot, we may ask for additional information sufficient to verify that the request is yours. We use verification information only for that purpose and delete it afterwards.
16.2 We will acknowledge a request within ten (10) business days and respond substantively within forty-five (45) calendar days. Where the request is complex or numerous we may extend that period once by a further forty-five (45) days, and will tell you within the original period if we do. For requests under the GDPR we respond within one (1) month, extendable by two (2) further months on the same basis.
16.3 An authorised agent may submit a request on your behalf on production of written authority signed by you, and we may contact you directly to confirm it. Requests are free of charge; we may charge a reasonable fee, or decline to act, where a request is manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive, and we will explain our reasons if we do.
16.4 Appeals. If we decline a request in whole or in part, you may appeal by replying to our decision with the word "Appeal" and your reasons. We will review the appeal and inform you in writing of the outcome, with reasons, within forty-five (45) days. If the appeal is denied you may contact your state Attorney General.
17.1 California. The categories of Personal Information we collected in the preceding twelve (12) months, the sources, the business purposes and the categories of recipients are set out at Sections 4, 5, 6 and 9. We disclosed each category identified at Section 4.1 to the service providers identified at Section 11 for the business purposes described. We sold and shared no Personal Information. California residents may exercise the rights at Section 15 by the method at Section 16.
17.2 California "Shine the Light". We do not disclose Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, and therefore have nothing to report under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83.
17.3 Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, and other states with comparable statutes. Residents of these states have the rights described at Section 15, exercisable by the method at Section 16, including the right of appeal at Section 16.4. We do not sell personal data, do not process it for targeted advertising, and do not engage in profiling in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects, so no opt-out is required.
17.4 Nevada. We do not sell covered information as defined by Nev. Rev. Stat. § 603A.340.
17.5 Massachusetts. We maintain a written information security program as described at Section 14.2.
18.1 The controller is the individual identified at Section 1.1, reachable at privacy@lineupiq.app.
18.2 We are not established in the European Union or the United Kingdom and, given the nature, context, scope and purposes of our processing, we have determined that we are not required to appoint a representative under Article 27 GDPR or to designate a data protection officer under Article 37 GDPR. We will keep that determination under review.
18.3 The legal bases on which we rely are identified at Section 6.1. Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract, provision of the relevant information is a requirement of entering into that contract, and without it we cannot provide the Service.
18.4 You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement. In the United Kingdom this is the Information Commissioner's Office.
19.1 We do not use advertising cookies, third-party analytics services, tracking pixels, session-recording tools, fingerprinting techniques or cross-site tracking of any kind.
19.2 The Service stores information on your device in browser local storage and, where you have signed in, an authentication token. These are strictly necessary to keep you signed in, to remember your preferences and to allow the Service to function without a network connection. They are not used to track you and are not transmitted to any third party for that purpose.
19.3 Because we do not track users across sites, we have no practice to change in response to a Do Not Track browser signal, and we do not respond to one.
20.1 The Service computes suggested batting orders and defensive assignments using statistical methods applied to the information a Coach has recorded. The output is a recommendation presented to the Coach, who decides whether to adopt, alter or disregard it.
20.2 That computation does not constitute a decision producing legal effects concerning any individual or similarly significantly affecting any individual within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR, and is not profiling within the meaning of the US state statutes referred to at Section 17.3.
21.1 The Service may contain links to third-party websites or resources. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices. This Policy does not apply to them, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of any third party before providing it with information.
22.1 We may amend this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the effective date at the head of this page and post the amended Policy here.
22.2 Where an amendment is material, we will provide notice within the Service before it takes effect and, where required by law, obtain your consent.
22.3 Your continued use of the Service after an amendment takes effect constitutes acceptance of the amended Policy, except where applicable law requires otherwise.
23.1 Privacy enquiries and rights requests: privacy@lineupiq.app.
23.2 All other enquiries: support@lineupiq.app.
23.3 The Battery has no postal address at present. If you require one in order to serve a formal or regulatory notice, ask at privacy@lineupiq.app and one will be provided to you.