Privacy Policy

Badie is a free app that helps you find badminton partners at your level and courts near you. This policy explains what we collect, why, who we share it with and the choices you have. “Badie”, “we” and “us” mean the people who run Badie.

• We collect what we need to match you with players: your email, a nickname, your level and the games you set up.
• Other players see your nickname, photo, level and game record. They never see your email.
• We don’t sell your information and we don’t use advertising or tracking. We count website visits without cookies.
• You can delete your account and its data at any time in Settings.

What we collect

• Account: your email address and password. The password is stored only as a one-way hash by our sign-in provider. If you continue with Google or Apple, we receive the name and email they share; Apple lets you hide your email behind a relay address.
• Profile: nickname, country, app language, gender, level and your level-quiz answers, the photos you choose to upload (profile photo and card background), your card color, and your settings. Men’s and women’s levels are rated separately, so gender is used only to place your level and to match you. It isn’t about how you identify, and you can change it in Settings.
• Activity: match requests (date, time, courts and level range), games, check-ins, results and scores, court-fee “paid” marks, groups, rooms and challenges you join, friends, messages, reviews you give and receive, reports and blocks, courts you add or confirm, and level-verification applications (which can include your name as it appears in tournament results and links to them).
• Feedback: what you write in Help & feedback, sent with the app version, system, device model and language so we can look into problems. It’s deleted with your account.
• How you found us: when you create your profile, which link brought you to Badie (for example, someone’s shared level card) and, if you choose to answer, where you heard about Badie. This contains no personal information.
• Level quiz without an account: your answers and the level card you make stay in your browser and aren’t sent to us. If you then create an account, your answers are saved to your profile like any other level-quiz answers.
• Device: if you turn on notifications, a push token for your phone or browser.
• Location: used on your device to find courts near you. When you search nearby, the coordinates are sent with that search and are not stored. The website remembers the last area you searched in your own browser.
• Technical: like any website, our hosting providers process IP addresses and request logs to keep the service secure and prevent abuse.
• Visit counts: the website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count page views, where visitors come from and how fast pages load. It doesn’t use cookies or store anything on your device, and doesn’t identify you or follow you across sites. The iPhone app doesn’t use it.

How we use it

• To run Badie: match you with players, show your games, and send the notifications and emails you ask for.
• To keep games reliable and safe: reliability and review tags, reports and blocks. Offensive words in names and messages are filtered automatically. Badie admins review reports and level-verification applications. A report review includes the messages the reported player sent in the last 30 days in conversations the reporter was part of.
• To prevent abuse: bot checks, rate limits, and checking new passwords against known data breaches. For that check only the first 5 characters of a hash of your password are sent; the password itself never leaves your device.
• We don’t sell or rent personal information. If we ever add advertising, we will update this policy first.

What other players see

• Your nickname, photo, level (and whether it’s on the men’s or women’s ladder), games played, reliability and the positive tags others gave you. Reviews are only shown as anonymous totals.
• Leaderboards, “regulars” at your courts and search by nickname. You can turn each of these off.
• When you’re looking for a game, nearby players can see your nickname, photo, card background, level, and the time and courts you picked, and invite you to play. You can turn this off in Settings. Your contact details are never shown.
• Messages are seen by the people in that conversation.
• Your email address is never shown to other players.

Service providers

We use these companies to run Badie. They process information only to provide their service to us.

• Supabase: database, sign-in and file storage.
• Cloudflare: website hosting, bot checks and visit counts.
• Email delivery providers (such as Resend): the emails you receive from us.
• Apple Push Notification service and your browser’s push service: notifications.
• Google and Apple: only if you choose to sign in with them.
• Apple (tips in the iPhone app) and Ko-fi (tips on the website and, in the US, from the iPhone app): they handle the payment. We don’t receive your card details, and a tip doesn’t change anything in your account.
• Have I Been Pwned: the breached-password check (it receives only a 5-character hash prefix).
• OpenFreeMap (maps on the website) and Apple Maps (maps and place search in the iPhone app).

We may also share information when the law requires it or to protect someone’s safety.

How long we keep it

We keep your information while your account exists. When you delete your account in Settings (on the website or in the app), we delete your profile, photos, requests, games, messages, reviews, friends and devices. Courts you added stay in the directory without your name. Copies in backups are removed as the backups expire. If you signed in with Apple, deleting your account in the iPhone app also removes Badie from your Apple account.

Your choices and rights

• Change your profile, privacy settings, notifications and match emails in Settings at any time.
• You can see and correct most of your information in the app. To get a copy of your data, or for anything else, email us and we will reply within 30 days.
• Depending on where you live (for example California, the EU or the UK), you may have more rights, such as data portability or objecting to some uses. We honor them and won’t treat you differently for using them.

Children

Badie is not for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we will delete it.

Security

Connections are encrypted, passwords are hashed, and database rules limit each player to their own private data. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a password you don’t use anywhere else.

Where it is processed

Our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries.

Changes

If we change this policy in a meaningful way, we will update the date above and let you know in the app.