Privacy Policy

What we store

• Your account: your email address and password. Passwords are stored encrypted, and we can't read them.
• Your profile: your username, display name, chosen avatar, and the starting skill levels you picked.
• Your games: matches, every shot and score you record, Cutthroat games, team matches, confirmations and disputes, and the ratings and skill levels we calculate from verified games.
• Your connections: friends, friend requests, team memberships and invites, and players you've blocked.
• Guest players: names you type in for people without an account. Only you can see them.
• APA skill levels: if you add them, your APA member number, the levels you enter and your screenshot are kept privately so a hall admin can check them. Only you and hall admins can see the member number and screenshot, and the screenshot is deleted 30 days after it's checked.
• Safety reports: if you report someone, we save the reason, your note and the time. Only hall admins see reports, and the person you report isn't told it was you.

Who can see it

• Anyone signed in can see your username, display name and avatar, for example when they search or open your share link. You can turn off username search in Settings.
• Your friends can see your games, stats, ratings and skill levels. People who aren't your friends can't.
• If you share a live-score link, anyone with that link sees the player names and live score of that one game, until the game ends or you stop sharing.
• Hall admins can see what's needed to run the hall: players, reports, and games for correcting results.
• We don't sell your data. Pool Hall is free and supported by ads. Before any ads appear, we'll update this policy to name the ad provider and what it collects.

Visitor analytics

Our host, Lovable, measures how the published site is used. It records the pages visited, where visitors came from, their country, browser, operating system and device type, how long they stay, how fast pages load, errors, and which buttons and links are clicked. Clicks are identified by where they are on the page, not by what you typed.

This uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device, doesn't keep IP addresses and doesn't identify you. It is recorded for every visitor. Detailed data is kept for 90 days and daily summaries for a year. Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable's privacy policy (lovable.dev/privacy) explains how it handles it.

Other services we use

• Sign-in and storage: your account and app data are stored with our backend provider (Lovable Cloud). Your browser keeps a sign-in token in local storage so you stay logged in.
• Fonts: pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which receives your browser's request (including your IP address) as it serves the font files.

How long we keep it

We keep your data while you have an account. When you delete your account, we delete your login, profile, friends, requests, blocks, guest players, notices and reports right away.

Games you played against friends stay in their histories under the name "Deleted player". This keeps their records and ratings correct, and nothing in those games links back to you.

If you delete your account, we keep a one-way code made from your email address and your two skill levels for 90 days, so you start at the same levels if you come back; the code can't be turned back into your email.

Your choices

• You can edit your profile, email and password, and turn off username search, in Settings.
• You can block or report players from their profile.
• You can delete your account at any time from Settings.

Children

Pool Hall isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

Changes and contact

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above. Questions? Email support@yourdomain.com.