Privacy Notice

01What we collect

• Account: email address, handle, stance, and the profile details you choose to add.
• Game content: the videos you record in the app for official attempts, match chat messages, and game results.
• Spots: locations, photos, and descriptions you deliberately contribute. Your device location is used only to show nearby spots and only with your permission.
• Device basics: push notification token and the technical logs needed to keep uploads and games working.
• Access requests on this website: the form at /request-invite collects the name, email address, country, city and message you type, along with the phone you picked and the language the page was in. You do not need an account to send one, and it is the only place on this website where you hand us personal data.
• Website cookie: one cookie, sl_locale, which remembers the language you are reading in. It is the only cookie we set — no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies. Our hosting provider keeps ordinary server logs of requests, as any web host does.

02What we do with it

We use this data to run the game: showing your attempt to your opponent, applying letters, sending turn notifications, storing history, and moderating reports. Experimental video analysis produces quality signals (such as blur or framing) that are advisory only and never decide a game.

03What we do NOT do

• We do not sell your personal data.
• We do not publish your game videos to a public feed — none exists.
• We do not show your exact location to other users without your action.
• Sensitive skate spots are displayed at reduced precision; exact coordinates stay restricted.

One thing does become public, and only because a player chooses to publish it: the result card. When a game is finished, either player can press Share result. That creates a public web page at skatelabs.app/r/ plus a long random code, showing both players’ handles, both S.K.A.T.E letter racks, who won, how many tricks were thrown and the date it finished. No video, no chat, no email address, no location. Anyone holding the link can open it without an account, and we ask search engines not to index it. Both players share one link, and the link keeps working — we cannot un-send what someone has already forwarded.

Sharing is on by default. In the app’s settings you can turn your own name off: on a card the other player publishes, you then appear as an anonymous skater instead of by your handle. It also applies to cards that were already shared, because the page is built from your current setting every time someone opens it — including the preview image that unfurls in a chat. Two limits worth knowing. It does not stop the other player from sharing the match, only from naming you. And it does not apply to a card you published yourself: publishing is you choosing to be named.

04Storage and access

Videos live in private storage. Playback links are short-lived and only issued to the participants of your game and to moderators handling a report or dispute.

These companies process data on our behalf: Supabase (the database, file storage and sign-in behind the app), Cloudflare (serves this website and keeps its request logs), Expo (builds the app and delivers push notifications), Sentry (records crashes and errors so we can fix them), Google (Google Play testing, and Google Analytics for how this website and the app get used), and Apple (TestFlight). When we add you as a tester, we put your email address on the TestFlight or Google Play testing list — which means Apple or Google receives it, and their own privacy terms apply to what they do with it.

On this website, Google Analytics tells us how many people arrive and which pages they open. In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland it runs without storing anything on your device — no cookies, no identifier — so there is nothing there for you to accept or refuse. Everywhere else it sets its usual cookie. We do not run ads and we never ask it for advertising data.

05Retention and deletion

Alpha data is retained while your account is active. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time — Settings → Account → Delete account. You retype your handle to confirm, and deletion happens immediately: your account stops working, every device is signed out, and your handle, name, bio, city, profile picture, email address, password and sign-in methods are destroyed along with your saved spots, settings, blocks and notification registrations. Your clips and photos stop playing for everyone at that moment and the stored files are then erased.

Two things survive deletion, and we would rather say so plainly than surprise you. A finished match is a record of two people, so completed games stay exactly as they were played — the same winner, the same letters, the other skater’s clips — and cannot be rewritten or removed by one player leaving. Safety reports and the moderation trail also stay, so abuse can still be investigated after an account is gone; anything attached to a report that is still open is kept until that report is closed. Neither carries your name: what remains is keyed to a random identifier that no longer points at you.

Export is not automated yet. Email support@skatelabs.app to request a copy of your data; during the alpha these requests are handled manually and confirmed to you when complete.

06Contact

Privacy questions: support@skatelabs.app.