Information We Collect
We may collect information directly from you, automatically when you use the Services, and from third parties.
Depending on how you use Spark My Sport, you may provide information including:
- Name, email address, and telephone number
- Account credentials
- Age, date of birth, or graduation year
- School, club, team, league, or organization
- Sport, position, jersey number, and other athletic information
- Height, weight, performance statistics, and other profile details
- Profile photographs
- Sports videos, game footage, highlights, and other media
- Recruiting or scouting information
- Messages, comments, inquiries, and customer-support communications
- Information submitted through registration, contact, or recruiting forms
Spark My Sport is designed to help athletes showcase their abilities and enable coaches, scouts, recruiters, teams, and other authorized users to evaluate athletic performance.
When you create or manage an athlete profile, upload video, participate in an event recorded through our Services, or use our sports technology, we process game/practice footage, video highlights, team rosters, performance statistics, player positioning/movement data, coaching observations, and analytics derived from sports content.
Some athlete information may be made available to coaches, scouts, recruiters, teams, organizations, or other users depending on account settings and permissions.
Spark My Sport uses software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, and other technologies to process sports videos and related information.
These technologies perform functions such as identifying sports events, creating highlights, measuring performance, generating statistics, organizing game footage, supporting scouting/recruiting, and improving platform performance.
How We Use Information
We use information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve Spark My Sport
- Create and maintain user and athlete accounts
- Host, process, stream, organize, and display sports video
- Generate sports statistics, highlights, analytics, and performance insights
- Help athletes showcase their abilities
- Facilitate connections among athletes, parents or guardians, coaches, teams, scouts, and recruiters
- Personalize features and recommendations
- Develop new products, services, technologies, and functionality
- Analyze usage and performance of our Services
- Communicate with users, respond to support requests, and send service alerts
- Send promotional communications when permitted by law
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, security incidents, or harmful activities
- Protect athletes, users, Spark My Sport, and third parties
- Enforce our Terms of Service and comply with legal obligations
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Certain Spark My Sport Services use artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, or automated analytics.
Sports content and associated data are processed by these systems to provide features such as performance analytics, automated video processing, statistics, highlights, recommendations, or other sports-related insights.
We may also use information as permitted by applicable law to develop, test, maintain, and improve the performance, reliability, safety, and functionality of our technology.
How We Disclose Information
We disclose information in the following circumstances:
Analytics and Third-Party Services
We may use third-party analytics providers to help us understand how users interact with Spark My Sport. These providers collect device, usage, and cookie data according to their own privacy policies.
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, apps, or social networks. Spark My Sport does not control third-party privacy practices, and this policy does not apply to external services.
Your Choices
Account Information: You may review or update account information through your profile settings or by contacting us.
Marketing Communications: You may opt out of promotional emails via the unsubscribe link in those messages. Operational and transactional emails regarding your account will continue.
Cookies: Browser and device controls allow managing cookies. Disabling cookies may affect certain platform features.
Children's and Student-Athlete Privacy
Our Services involve youth and student athletes. We do not knowingly collect personal information online directly from children under 13 in a manner requiring parental consent under COPPA without obtaining authorization required by law.
Where required, a parent, legal guardian, school, team, league, club, or authorized organization must provide appropriate permission before minor information is processed.
Parents or legal guardians who believe information of a child under 13 was submitted improperly may contact us at support@sparkmysport.com to request review and deletion.
Organizations using Spark My Sport are responsible for obtaining all required notices, releases, and consents for athlete information and media capture.
Sports Video and Event Recording
Spark My Sport provides technology for recording, streaming, analyzing, or distributing sporting events.
Athletes, coaches, officials, spectators, and participants may appear in video or photos captured at sporting events.
Organizations using Spark My Sport recording technology are responsible for providing notices and securing permissions required by applicable law and organizational policies.
Data Security
We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information.
However, no internet transmission or storage system is 100% secure, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Services, fulfill policy purposes, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect legitimate interests.
Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, applicable law may grant privacy rights including:
To submit a request, contact support@sparkmysport.com. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your legal privacy rights.
California Residents
California residents may have additional rights under California privacy law, including rights to know, access, correct, or delete personal information, and rights regarding disclosures/sharing.
Spark My Sport processes applicable California privacy requests in accordance with governing state law.
International Users
Spark My Sport is operated from the United States. Information may be stored and processed in the US or other countries where our service providers operate.
If accessing the Services from outside the US, note that privacy laws may differ from your local jurisdiction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. When updated, we will post the new version and revise the "Last Updated" date.
For material changes, we will provide additional notice as required by law.
Contact Us
If you have questions, comments, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us: