Privacy

If you are a player

You type a name to join a game, and that is the whole of it. The name goes on the roster for that one evening, and the organiser sees it — that is the point of writing it down.

If the game is full and you join the waiting list, you also give one contact — a phone number or an email — because a place usually frees up two hours before the game, and without a way to reach you the queue does not work. It is used for that and nothing else.

Your browser keeps a small marker so that when you open the same link again you see your own place and can take your name off yourself, without asking anyone. It lives in your browser, not on our server, and clearing your browser data removes it.

We never ask you for a password, and you cannot create an account as a player even if you want to.

Who can see your name

Before the game starts, someone who is not on the roster sees numbers — "12 of 16" — and no names at all.

Once the evening starts, the line-up is visible to anyone with the link. This is deliberate: players the organiser added by hand have no other way to find out which court they are on.

Link previews in a chat never contain names. A messenger expands the card before any password check, so only the date, the venue and the number of free spots go into it.

Game pages are excluded from search engines. They carry the real names of a dozen people who never agreed to be indexed.

If you organise games

You sign in with an email address, and we send a link or a six-digit code to it. There is no password to lose. The address is used to let you back in, and for nothing else — no newsletters, no product emails.

Your group's name and logo are yours; they show on your game pages and on the result card you send to the chat.

The roster of your games belongs to your group. Nobody else can read it — not other organisers, not visitors to the site.

What we do not do

We do not sell anything to anyone, and we do not carry advertising.

We do not track you across other websites. There are no advertising cookies and no third-party trackers on this site.

We do not touch money. When an organiser adds payment details, that is a text and a link shown to their own players — the payment happens between them, and nothing about it passes through us.

We do not post anything anywhere on your behalf. Sharing a game means your phone's own share menu, and you choose the chat.

The two services this runs on

The site runs on Vercel, and the data lives in a Supabase database hosted in Europe. Both see the technical traces any website makes — an IP address, a browser type — for the time it takes to serve a page.

We use Vercel's own visit counter, which reports how many people opened which page. It does not use cookies and does not identify anyone.

Who runs this

MyPadel is a small independent project, not a company with a sales department. One person builds it and answers the mail.

For anything on this page — a question, a deletion request, a complaint — write to hello@mypadel.space. You will get a reply from a person.

How long things are kept

Games, rosters and results stay until the organiser deletes them. There is no automatic clean-up yet: an organiser who looks back at last season should find it there.

The contact you leave on a waiting list lives with that one game and goes when the game does.

The marker in your browser expires when you clear your browser data. Nothing on our side depends on it.

An organiser's email address is kept while the account exists, and is removed on request.

Cookies, exactly

Two, and both are the working kind, not the watching kind.

A sign-in cookie for organisers, so the console remembers you between visits. Without it you would sign in on every page.

A language cookie that remembers which language you chose, so a link without a language in it opens in yours.

That is the complete list. No advertising cookies, no third-party trackers, no cookie banner — because there is nothing to consent to.

Separately, your browser keeps a small marker for each game you sign up to. It is not a cookie and never leaves your device: it is what lets you see your own place and take your name off without an account.

Deleting things

A player can remove their own name from a game from the same link they signed up with, at any time, without asking the organiser.

An organiser can delete a game entirely, and the roster and results go with it.

If you want an email address or a name removed and cannot do it yourself, write to hello@mypadel.space and it will be done.

Questions about any of this: hello@mypadel.space