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Privacy notice

Effective 22 September 2026. This notice is the information required by Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and by the Protection of Natural Persons with Regard to the Processing of Personal Data Law of 2018 (Law 125(I)/2018) of the Republic of Cyprus.

1. Who is responsible

Controller: the natural person established in the Republic of Cyprus who operates the service under the name Padel Scope.
Email for every privacy request: privacy@padelscope.app
Companies register: not a registered company, so there is no ΗΕ number. If that changes, the number will be published here.
VAT: not VAT-registered.
We have not appointed a data-protection officer. The tasks in Articles 37–39 GDPR are not required for this service at its current scale. Write to the address above.

2. What this notice covers

It covers personal data we process when you use the Padel Scope website (padelscope.app) and the iOS, Android and browser apps. It also covers a profile a club or organiser creates for you before you sign up.

3. Data we process

You must give an email (or a working Apple or Google sign-in that yields one) to open an account. Display name is needed for a public profile. Date of birth, gender, phone, photo, city and country are optional; without a date of birth we cannot place you in an age category, and without gender we cannot place you in a gendered draw.

4. Where it comes from

5. Why we process it, and the legal basis

PurposeDataBasis (GDPR Art. 6)
Create and run your account, games, entries and the rating you asked for Account, profile, questionnaire, matches, entries Contract, Art. 6(1)(b)
Show a public player profile, lineup and leaderboard so the rating and the games work for everyone in them Name, photo, city, country, club, rating, category, gender where a draw needs it, match and tournament participation Contract, Art. 6(1)(b). For records that also belong to other players, legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f): an auditable rating, balanced against your rights and limited to what the product shows
Age and gender categories Date of birth, gender Contract, Art. 6(1)(b), when you enter a category that uses them
Verify a rating and moderate proofs, disputes and abuse Proofs, questionnaire, disputes, roles Legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f): integrity of the rating. Proof files are visible to moderators, not to other players
Keep sessions secure and limit abuse IP address, user agent, token hashes Legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f)
Service email and in-app notices about your account, games and entries Email, notification text Contract, Art. 6(1)(b)
Push notifications Device token Consent, Art. 6(1)(a). You withdraw it in the system notification settings, or by writing to us
Answer a privacy or legal request, and keep a record that we did The request and our reply Legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c), and legitimate interests, Art. 6(1)(f)

The legitimate interests are the integrity of a shared rating, the safety of accounts, and the ability of opponents and partners to rely on match history. You can object (section 9). We do not sell personal data. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not build advertising profiles.

6. Who receives it

Other players see the public profile and the matches, games and tournaments you take part in. Organisers see the entries and rosters they run. Moderators see proofs and disputes. Processors act only on our instructions:

We do not allow these providers to use the data for their own purposes. A court or a public authority can receive data when the law requires it.

7. Transfers outside the EEA

We keep the service oriented to the European Economic Area. Some providers (in particular email, push and sign-in) process from the United States or another country outside the EEA. Where there is no adequacy decision, the transfer uses Standard Contractual Clauses under Article 46 GDPR, with supplementary measures where a transfer assessment shows they are needed. You can ask for a description of the safeguards at privacy@padelscope.app.

8. How long we keep it

9. Your rights

Under the GDPR and Law 125(I)/2018 you can ask us to:

Write to privacy@padelscope.app or use the in-app export and delete tools. We reply within one month. We may extend that by two further months for a complex request, and we will tell you if we do. We may ask you to prove you control the account before we disclose data. The service is refused only if a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, in which case we will explain why.

You can lodge a complaint with the Commissioner for the Protection of Personal Data of Cyprus, 1 Iasonos Street, 1082 Nicosia, P.O. Box 23378, 1682 Nicosia, telephone +357 22818456, commissioner@dataprotection.gov.cy, www.dataprotection.gov.cy. If you live in another EEA country you may also complain to the supervisory authority there. We ask you to write to us first so we can fix it.

10. Children

Law 125(I)/2018 sets 14 as the age from which a child can consent, on their own, to an information-society service. We do not rely on consent for the account or the rating. Consent is used only for optional push notifications. A player under 14 should turn those on only with a parent or guardian.

Date of birth is used to compute an age category (including youth categories). We do not market to children. A parent or guardian may write to privacy@padelscope.app to access, correct or delete a child’s account, or to object to a club-created profile. We will ask for enough information to confirm parental responsibility before we act.

11. The rating is calculated

The public rating is produced from your questionnaire and from match results the other side confirms. It is an estimate of level for padel, not a legal or credit decision, and it does not by itself decide access to a tournament: the organiser does. You can dispute a result, and a person reviews the dispute. You can also ask us, at the email above, for a human review of a rating outcome that you consider wrong. Article 22 GDPR (decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects) is not how the rating is used.

12. Security

Passwords are stored only as a hash. Refresh tokens are stored only as a hash. Proof files sit in a private bucket and are opened, if at all, through short-lived links for moderators. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure.

13. Changes

If we change what we collect or why, we will update this page and change the effective date. A change that needs new consent will be asked for in the product before it starts. The current version is always at https://padelscope.app/privacy.