Privacy Policy

What We Collect

When you sign a petition, we collect:

• First name, last name, and email address
• ZIP code, and whether you live in the city or play, work, or vacation there
• Your street address, only if you choose to add it to count in your council district

When you submit a datapoint, we collect the information you provide:

• Name and email address
• City, state, and ZIP code
• Spend amount and category

When you suggest a place to play, we collect the place name, address, and any notes you add. When you contact us about a partnership or a donation hub, we collect your name and email, plus any phone number, organization, city, and message you include.

We may also collect basic usage data (page visits, browser type) through standard web analytics.

We also record anonymous usage events as you move through the site, such as a ZIP search that finds no matching city, to decide where to expand coverage and improve the experience. When a ZIP search succeeds, we record the matched city rather than the ZIP code itself; a searched ZIP is kept only when no city matches. These events are never tied to your name or email.

To stop abuse, we limit how often one visitor can send a form. We do this with a one-way code made from your IP address; the address itself is never stored.

How We Use It

Your signature counts toward your city's petition once you confirm it by email. When we bring the petition to your city council, we give them the names and ZIP codes of confirmed signers, the signer count, and district totals where we have them. Your email is never shown or given to a city.

Your street address is used only to place you in your council district. It is never shown.

Datapoint submissions are used to build anonymized, aggregate advocacy reports that demonstrate pickleball's economic impact to local governments. Individual submissions are never identified in any public report or presentation.

We use your email to send your confirmation link, updates on the campaign in your city, and occasional ways to support PaddleClub, new programs, or initiatives relevant to pickleball infrastructure. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We may share information with trusted service providers and program partners who help us operate PaddleClub or facilitate programs you choose to participate in. Any such sharing is limited to what is necessary to deliver those services or programs. Today these are Supabase (our database and sign-in system), our email delivery service, Cloudflare (hosting, bot protection, and site analytics), and the U.S. Census Bureau's address lookup, which receives a street address only if you add one.

We share petition counts and district totals with city councils and the public, and signer names and ZIP codes with your city council. We never give a city your email or street address. A petition given to a city can become a public record.

If you opt into a specific program, promotion, or partnership offered through PaddleClub, we may share relevant information with the applicable partner to fulfill your participation in that program.

Bot Protection

To keep automated bots and spam out of the dataset, this site uses Cloudflare to verify that signatures and submissions come from real people. This check may process limited technical signals from your browser. Your use of it is subject to Cloudflare's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Cookies

When you sign a petition, we save a small record in your browser so the page can show that you're supporting a city and let you add your address later. It lasts 180 days. During a visit we also keep the ZIP code you entered and the share link that brought you here, so the right person gets credit. None of this is used for advertising.

On datapoint pages, we store a single first-party identifier in your browser (a cookie and a matching local-storage value) so we can recognize your device across visits, avoid double-counting your contributions, and credit any referral that sent you here. It is not used for advertising and is never shared with third parties. You can clear it any time through your browser settings.

Data Retention

We retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, or as required by law. Sign-ups that are never confirmed by email are kept but never counted. You may request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us.

Your Rights

You can withdraw your signature or remove your information at any time from the page your confirmation email opens.

You may also request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information at any time. To do so, email [email protected].

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at [email protected].