Bystander Sports Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 14, 2026

Bystander Sports ("Bystander Sports," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to explaining how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information when you use the Bystander Sports website, applications, community features, and related services (collectively, the "Services").

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Services and explains your choices concerning certain information.

By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Services.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use Bystander Sports.

We may collect information directly from you, automatically from your device, and from third-party sources.

Information You Provide to Us

When you create an account, participate in the community, contact us, or otherwise use certain features, we may collect information such as:

• Name or display name.

• Username.

• Email address.

• Password or authentication information.

• Profile information.

• Date of birth or age information where necessary to determine eligibility.

• Profile photograph or other profile information you voluntarily provide.

• Comments, posts, messages, and other community contributions.

• Photos, videos, audio, documents, and other files you upload.

• Information contained within material you voluntarily submit.

• Communications you send to Bystander Sports.

• Information you provide when reporting content or submitting a complaint.

• Information you provide when requesting removal of content.

• Information you provide when contacting customer or community support.

  
  

You should not submit sensitive personal information through public community features unless the feature specifically requests or permits it.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you access or use the Services, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

• IP address.

• Browser type and version.

• Device type.

• Operating system.

• General geographic information derived from IP address.

• Language preferences.

• Time zone.

• Pages and content viewed.

• Referring and exit pages.

• Dates and times of access.

• Links and features interacted with.

• Search terms or queries submitted through the Services.

• General information about how you use the Services.

• Device identifiers and similar technical identifiers.

• Information about errors, crashes, and website performance.

  
  

We may use cookies, pixels, local storage, SDKs, and similar technologies to collect certain information automatically.

2. Information From Cookies and Similar Technologies

Bystander Sports and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate and improve the Services.

These technologies may be used for purposes including:

• Keeping you signed in.

• Remembering preferences.

• Maintaining security.

• Understanding website usage.

• Measuring website performance.

• Preventing fraud and abuse.

• Personalizing certain features.

• Measuring advertising performance.

• Delivering or measuring advertisements where applicable.

  
  

Some cookies may be necessary for the Services to function, while others may be optional depending on the technologies we use.

Your browser may provide controls for managing cookies.

Certain jurisdictions may provide additional choices regarding cookies and similar technologies.

3. Information From User-Generated Content

Bystander Sports is a community platform.

If you create an account and participate in community features, information you voluntarily make public may be visible to other users and potentially to the general public.

This may include:

• Username.

• Display name.

• Profile information.

• Comments.

• Posts.

• Photos.

• Videos.

• Uploaded files.

• Links.

• Other information you choose to publish.

  
  

Do not post information publicly that you expect to remain private.

Information included in a photograph, video, document, or other upload may reveal additional information about you or another person, including names, locations, faces, voices, backgrounds, metadata, or other identifying information.

You are responsible for considering what information you include in content before publishing it.

4. How We Use Information

We may use information we collect for purposes including:

Providing the Services

• Creating and managing accounts.

• Authenticating users.

• Providing community features.

• Displaying user profiles and community content.

• Hosting and delivering uploaded content.

• Processing requests and communications.

• Providing customer and community support.

  
  

Operating and Improving Bystander Sports

• Understanding how users interact with the Services.

• Improving website functionality.

• Developing new features.

• Troubleshooting technical problems.

• Testing and improving performance.

• Understanding community activity and trends.

  
  

Safety, Security, and Moderation

We may use information to:

• Detect spam.

• Prevent fraud.

• Detect malicious activity.

• Investigate abuse.

• Enforce our Terms of Service.

• Enforce our Community Guidelines.

• Investigate reports.

• Protect users and the Services.

• Detect attempts to evade account restrictions.

• Protect our rights and property.

  
  

This may include reviewing information associated with accounts, posts, comments, uploads, reports, and technical activity where reasonably necessary.

Legal and Compliance Purposes

We may use information to:

• Comply with applicable laws.

• Respond to lawful legal processes.

• Respond to government requests where legally required.

• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

• Protect the rights, safety, and property of Bystander Sports, users, or others.

• Investigate suspected unlawful activity.

  
  

Communications

We may use your information to send:

• Account-related communications.

• Security notifications.

• Service announcements.

• Responses to support requests.

• Information concerning policy changes.

• Other communications necessary to operate the Services.

Where required by law, promotional communications will include appropriate choices for opting out.

5. How We Share Information

We do not sell your account password or other authentication credentials.

We may disclose information in the following circumstances.

Service Providers

We may share information with third-party service providers that help us operate Bystander Sports.

These providers may perform services such as:

• Website hosting.

• Cloud storage.

• Database hosting.

• Email delivery.

• Authentication.

• Security.

• Content moderation.

• Analytics.

• Advertising.

• Payment processing.

• Customer support.

• File and media processing.

• Technical infrastructure.

  
  

Service providers may access information as reasonably necessary to provide services to Bystander Sports.

Public Community Content

Information that you intentionally publish through public community features may be visible to other users and the public.

For example, if you publicly post a comment or upload a photograph to a public community area, that material may be accessible to others.

Public content may also be indexed, cached, copied, linked to, quoted, or shared by third parties.

Bystander Sports cannot guarantee that publicly posted information can be completely removed from the internet after publication.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law.

• Respond to valid legal process.

• Respond to lawful requests from government authorities.

• Protect the safety of a person.

• Investigate suspected fraud or unlawful activity.

• Protect the rights or property of Bystander Sports or others.

• Enforce our agreements and policies.

  
  

Business Transfers

If Bystander Sports is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so or otherwise provide consent where consent is required. Send requests to admin@bystandersports.com. 

6. Account Information

If you create a Bystander Sports account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure.

We may retain account information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain security, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect our legitimate interests.

If you close your account, some information may remain in backups, security records, legal records, moderation records, or other systems where retention is reasonably necessary or legally required.

7. User Uploads and Community Content

Bystander Sports allows eligible community members to upload photos, videos, files, and other material.

Uploaded material may be processed and stored by Bystander Sports and our service providers.

We may process uploaded content for purposes including:

• Providing the requested upload functionality.

• Storing and delivering content.

• Converting or compressing files.

• Generating thumbnails or previews.

• Detecting malware.

• Detecting prohibited content.

• Responding to reports.

• Enforcing our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.

• Protecting users and the Services.

• Complying with applicable law.

  
  

Publicly uploaded content may be visible to other users and the public.

You should not upload sensitive personal information, confidential documents, or other material that you do not want publicly accessible.

8. Content Moderation and Safety

Bystander Sports may review, analyze, restrict, or remove content when reasonably necessary to enforce our policies, protect users, maintain security, or comply with applicable law.

Moderation may involve automated technologies, human review, or both.

Information associated with moderation activity may include:

• Reports.

• Account information.

• IP addresses.

• Device information.

• Content.

• Upload information.

• Moderation decisions.

• Communications relating to reports or appeals.

  
  

We may retain certain moderation information when reasonably necessary to prevent abuse, investigate repeated violations, comply with law, or protect the Services.

9. Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Safety Reports

Bystander Sports strictly prohibits nonconsensual intimate imagery.

If you report nonconsensual intimate imagery or another serious safety violation, we may collect information necessary to investigate and respond to your report.

This may include:

• Your name or contact information.

• The URL or location of the reported content.

• Information necessary to identify the affected content.

• Information concerning your report.

• Communications between you and Bystander Sports.

• Information necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements.

  
  

You do not need a Bystander Sports account to submit a nonconsensual intimate imagery removal request.

Requests may initially be submitted to:

admin@bystandersports.com

Please do not unnecessarily send or redistribute intimate material when making a report.

Bystander Sports may retain information relating to reports when reasonably necessary to comply with law, investigate abuse, prevent repeated violations, protect affected individuals, or establish or defend legal claims.

10. Children's Privacy

Bystander Sports takes the privacy and safety of children seriously.

The Services are not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where applicable law requires parental consent unless the applicable requirements have been satisfied.

We may impose age requirements or restrictions on certain features.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to Bystander Sports in circumstances where such collection was not appropriate, please contact us.

If we become aware that we have collected information from a child in circumstances where applicable law requires deletion, we may take steps to delete that information as required by law.

11. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

• Provide the Services.

• Maintain accounts.

• Provide community functionality.

• Maintain security.

• Prevent fraud and abuse.

• Moderate the community.

• Comply with legal obligations.

• Resolve disputes.

• Enforce our agreements.

• Protect our rights and the rights of others.

  
  

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.

Deleted information may remain temporarily in backups or other systems before being permanently removed.

Certain information may be retained longer when required or permitted by law.

12. Security

Bystander Sports uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, application, storage system, or transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and should notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.

13. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These rights may include the right to:

• Request access to personal information.

• Request correction of inaccurate information.

• Request deletion of certain information.

• Request information about how personal information is collected or used.

• Object to or restrict certain processing.

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

• Request a copy of certain information.

• Appeal certain privacy decisions where applicable.

• Opt out of certain targeted advertising or similar activities where applicable.

  
  

Not every right is available in every jurisdiction, and legal exceptions may apply.

To make a privacy request, contact Bystander Sports using the contact information provided below.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

14. Marketing Communications

Bystander Sports may send promotional communications where permitted by applicable law.

You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications using the unsubscribe mechanism included in the applicable message.

You may continue to receive non-promotional communications necessary to operate your account or provide the Services.

15. Advertising

Bystander Sports may display advertisements provided by Bystander Sports or third-party advertising partners.

Advertising partners may use cookies, pixels, identifiers, or similar technologies to provide, measure, or personalize advertising, subject to applicable law and available privacy choices.

The specific advertising technologies used by Bystander Sports may change over time.

Where required by law, Bystander Sports will provide applicable disclosures and choices concerning targeted advertising or similar activities.

16. Analytics

Bystander Sports may use analytics services to understand how users interact with the Services.

Analytics technologies may collect information such as:

• Pages viewed.

• Features used.

• Approximate location.

• Device and browser information.

• Referring websites.

• Session information.

• Website interactions.

  
  

The specific analytics providers used by Bystander Sports may change over time.

17. Third-Party Links and Services

The Services may contain links to websites, applications, social-media platforms, advertisers, or other third-party services.

Bystander Sports does not control third-party privacy practices.

When you leave Bystander Sports or interact with a third-party service, that service's privacy policy may apply.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third parties before providing them with personal information.

18. Social Features

If you interact with Bystander Sports through third-party social-media platforms or services, information may be shared with those platforms according to their own policies and your settings with those services.

Bystander Sports is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party social-media platforms.

19. International Users

Bystander Sports may be operated from the United States and may use service providers located in the United States or other countries.

If you access the Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in countries whose privacy laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, Bystander Sports will provide appropriate safeguards or other protections for applicable international transfers.

20. Do Not Track

Some web browsers provide "Do Not Track" signals.

Because there is not a universally accepted technical standard governing all such signals, Bystander Sports may not respond to every browser-based Do Not Track signal.

Where required by applicable law, Bystander Sports will provide applicable privacy choices.

21. Privacy of Public Content

Information that you voluntarily publish publicly is not private.

This includes information contained in:

• Public comments.

• Public posts.

• Public profiles.

• Public photographs.

• Public videos.

• Public uploads.

• Other publicly accessible community features.

  
  

Do not use public community features to publish information that you expect to remain confidential.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Bystander Sports may update this Privacy Policy periodically.

When we make material changes, we may update the "Last Updated" date and provide additional notice where required by applicable law.

Your continued use of the Services after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means that the updated policy will apply to your use of the Services to the extent permitted by law.

23. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact:

Bystander Sports

Email: admin@bystandersports.com

Bystander Sports may establish additional contact methods or procedures for privacy requests as the Services develop.

24. No Limitation of Legal Rights

Nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit rights or protections provided to you under applicable privacy or data-protection laws.

Where applicable law provides greater privacy rights than those described in this Privacy Policy, those rights will apply to the extent required by law.