Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are and What MPPD Actually Is

The Max Potential Basketball Development Platform (MPPD) is a constraints-led player development platform for youth basketball. We are currently in our testing and beta phase, actively evaluating and refining the platform by collecting coach and player performance data. We believe that transparency regarding our testing status and active data practices builds necessary trust with our early users—coaches, recreation departments, and parents.

2. Exactly What Data We Collect

We collect functional data necessary for the platform to operate during this phase:

• Account data: Coach name, email address, and organization/club affiliation.
• Player profile data: Name, age, grade, position, and physical attributes (e.g., height, weight, wingspan, only if collected and submitted by the coach).
• Performance/assessment data: Drill results, session notes, and specific constraint-based observations logged by coaches.
• Usage data: How coaches interact with the platform, features used, and time spent.
• Device/browser data: Standard operational access logs.

3. Why We're Collecting It

Every data point has a precise functional purpose within the platform:

• Player profiles: To generate development tracking and maintain session continuity across coaches.
• Coach usage data: To directly improve platform design, fix issues, and refine workflows during our active testing phase.
• Assessment data: To surface meaningful longitudinal progress models for players and appropriately inform coaching practice design.

4. The Minor/Youth Athlete Policy

Because youth development is central to MPPD, athlete data protection is critical:

• MPPD is not directed to children under 13 without verified parental/guardian consent.
• Where coaches log data on youth athletes, the organization/club operates as the Data Controller responsible for obtaining all appropriate consent from families. MPPD serves as the Data Processor.
• Hard Commitment: Minor athlete data is never used for marketing, model training, or shared outside the participating organization without explicit written consent.
• We offer a strictly defined deletion process should any family request immediate removal of an athlete's data.

5. Who Sees the Data

Visibility into this platform is heavily restricted:

• The MPPD Team: For active platform development, debugging, and testing purposes.
• Supabase: Our database and backend infrastructure provider (operating under their own strict privacy standards as a processor).
• Vercel: Our hosting and deployment service.
• AI Service Providers: If/when AI tools are utilized to parse or generate text, we scrub identifying context, and we explicitly prohibit the use of this data for external AI model training (see Section 9).

MPPD does not sell, rent, or otherwise share your data with third parties for marketing.

6. Data Retention

We hold data for specified periods, not indefinitely:

• Testing/beta partner data: Retained for the duration of the testing period, and either formally deleted or fully anonymized within 90 days after the partner organization concludes their participation.
• Player profiles: Deleted upon the host organization's request within 30 days.
• Anonymous usage data: Aggregated structural data completely stripped of identifying information may be retained to further improve the platform architecture.

7. Security Measures

MPPD uses industry-standard encryption in transit and at rest provided via our backend infrastructure. Because we are a platform in an active testing phase, we are currently developing and deploying additional organizational access controls. We will update this section immediately as broader enterprise-grade features (like forced Multi-Factor Authentication across all tiers) are implemented.

8. User Rights

Even while MPPD is rapidly developing, you retain full rights over your information:

• Access: The right to see exactly what data we hold on you or your players.
• Correct: The right to amend inaccurate platform information.
• Delete: The right to command deletion of your, or your organization's, data.
• Opt-out: The right to decline any further direct communications.

9. AI and Automated Analysis Note

While MPPD does not currently operate widespread automated video tracking, we may utilize AI models within our workflow to generate coaching reports, extract themes, or supply practice recommendations. In doing so, all prompt payloads are anonymized to protect identities. Importantly: player data submitted to MPPD is never used to train external AI models. Your data is yours, and we secure it from unauthorized automated intake.

10. Testing & Beta Transparency Clause

Because MPPD is actively testing, functionality and data practices are subject to agile iteration:

• We do not rely on users "checking this page periodically." If material changes are made to our privacy or data practices, current testing partners and users will be directly notified.
• We will maintain an active version history reflecting exactly what changed and when it took effect.

11. State and Federal Specifics

We explicitly build our compliance framework recognizing New Jersey operations and federal constraints:

• We adhere to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by restricting unauthorized collection for youth under 13.
• If school programs join our platform, data administration is compliant with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) guidelines.
• We continuously evaluate state specific biometrics provisions (e.g., Illinois or Texas). Should future platform iterations capture biometric information, specific independent consent frameworks will precede deployment.
• Municipal recreation departments with internal data governance can request specific flow-down commitments covering their constituency.

12. Contact Us

We don't use a generic web form for privacy concerns. You can communicate with a real team member using the information below: