Privacy Policy.

Scout Signal ("Scout Signal," "we," "us," or "our") provides sports discovery, athlete development, team and league tools, recruiting support, performance and wellness features, cognitive training, events, partner services, and AI-assisted guidance through our websites, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and disclose it, the choices available to users and parents, and how to contact us.

By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not provide personal information or use the Services. Additional notices may apply to specific features, subscriptions, contests, events, or partner programs.

The Services are operated by [INSERT LEGAL BUSINESS NAME], doing business as Scout Signal.

• Mailing address: [INSERT COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS]
• Privacy email: privacy@scout-signal.com [CONFIRM OR REPLACE]
• Support email: support@scout-signal.com [CONFIRM OR REPLACE]
• Telephone: [INSERT PUBLIC PRIVACY/PARENT CONTACT NUMBER, IF APPLICABLE]

If more than one operator collects or maintains personal information from children through the Services, each operator and its contact information must be listed here before launch.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through Scout Signal websites and applications, including Scout Signal, Scout Assist AI, PeakFuel, Sentric, team and league tools, event and partner directories, account support, and communications that link to this Policy. It does not control the independent privacy practices of third-party websites, schools, teams, leagues, coaches, recruiters, service providers, or partners that do not act on our behalf.

Scout Signal is designed to support youth athletes while placing parents and guardians at the center of account safety.

• Under 13. A child under 13 may use the Services only through an approved parent-managed process and only after Scout Signal obtains verifiable parental consent when required. Until consent is complete, we will limit collection to information reasonably necessary to contact the parent, protect the Service, and complete the consent process. [CONFIRM WHETHER UNDER-13 ACCOUNTS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT LAUNCH.]
• Ages 13 through 17. Scout Signal requires a linked parent or legal guardian account and parent approval for material features involving a minor, including profile publication, media sharing, direct-message requests, recruiter/scout visibility, purchases, and other features identified in the product.
• Adults. Users 18 or older may create their own accounts, subject to these policies and any role-verification requirements.
• No age bypass. Users may not misrepresent age, create an unauthorized account for a child, or help another user avoid parent controls.

Parents may contact us to review the categories or specific items of personal information collected from their child, request deletion, revoke consent, or refuse further collection or use, subject to legal retention and security requirements. We will verify the requester before granting access or taking action.

A. Account and identity information. We may collect name, username, date of birth or age band, email address, phone number, password or authentication information, profile photo, account role, account status, and communication preferences.

B. Athlete profile and recruiting information. Depending on user choices and permissions, we may collect sport, position, team, school, graduation year, general location, height, weight, athletic measurements, accomplishments, biography, academic or eligibility-related information provided by the user, top skills, availability, goals, recruiting preferences, watchlist activity, notes, and profile visibility settings. Users should not upload official school records, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive documents unless a specific secure feature requests them.

C. Parent and guardian information. We may collect a parent or guardian name, relationship to the minor, contact information, identity or consent-verification information, linked child accounts, approvals, restrictions, notification settings, purchases, and consent history.

D. Coach, team, league, recruiter, scout, facility, event, and partner information. We may collect professional role, organization, sport, credentials, verification materials, roster relationships, service area, event details, portfolio, packages, starting prices, travel radius, availability, background or safety-review information where permitted, and other profile or directory information.

E. Photos, videos, audio, documents, and other user content. We may collect profile images, highlights, game or practice film, workout videos, media-day content, voice notes, play diagrams, assignments, captions, comments, reports, and other files users upload or share. Media can include a person's image, voice, uniform, school, team, location clues, and other personal information. Users must have permission to upload and share content involving other people, especially minors.

F. Team, league, event, and activity data. We may collect rosters, schedules, attendance and RSVP responses, announcements, checklists, practice plans, assignments, event interests, registrations, participation records, challenge progress, and related activity.

G. Messages, reports, and support communications. We may collect message requests, messages sent through the Services, parent approvals, blocks, reports, moderation history, customer-support communications, survey responses, and feedback. We may review or use automated tools on communications when reasonably necessary for safety, moderation, fraud prevention, legal compliance, or user support, subject to applicable law.

H. PeakFuel, Sentric, performance, and wellness information. If a user chooses these features, we may collect workout selections and completion, equipment, goals, readiness check-ins, sleep or recovery inputs, nutrition searches or logs, dietary preferences, cognitive-training activity, scores, reaction or decision-training results, progress, and related user-entered information. These features are for general sports development and wellness and are not a substitute for medical care.

I. Scout Assist AI information. We may collect prompts, questions, generated responses, feedback, selected filters, saved actions, draft outreach, safety flags, source references, and usage logs. Do not enter confidential medical records, government identification numbers, financial account information, or another person's private information into Scout Assist.

J. Payment and transaction information. If paid services are offered, payment processors may collect card or bank details. Scout Signal generally receives transaction status, billing contact information, subscription plan, purchase history, refunds, chargebacks, and limited payment metadata rather than full card numbers. Marketplace or partner payouts may require additional identity, tax, and banking information collected by the payment provider.

K. Device, network, and usage information. We may collect IP address, device and browser type, operating system, app version, identifiers, login records, pages or screens viewed, clicks, search and filter activity, referring pages, approximate location derived from IP, crash data, performance logs, cookies, and similar technologies.

L. Location information. We may collect a city, state, ZIP code, service area, travel radius, or approximate location for discovery and events. We will request separate permission before collecting precise device location, if that feature is introduced. Minor precise location should not be publicly displayed.

M. Verification and safety information. We may collect information used to verify identity, age, parent relationship, professional role, organization, or account legitimacy, and information needed to investigate fraud, impersonation, unsafe conduct, abuse, or violations. Verification may be handled by a specialized provider and should be limited to what is necessary.

• Directly from users, parents, guardians, coaches, teams, leagues, scouts, recruiters, facilities, event operators, partners, and support contacts.
• Automatically from devices and use of the Services through logs, cookies, SDKs, and similar technologies.
• From connected services or APIs that a user authorizes, such as authentication, payment, workout, nutrition, video, calendar, notification, or analytics providers.
• From organizations that invite or manage a user, such as a team, league, school, coach, event, or parent account.
• From public or licensed sources when permitted, such as public event listings or organization information, subject to verification and correction processes.

• Create, authenticate, maintain, and secure accounts.
• Build profiles, control visibility, and support athlete discovery, search, watchlists, comparison, and recruiting workflows.
• Connect minors to parent accounts and enforce parent approvals and safety settings.
• Provide team, coach, league, event, partner, messaging, assignment, workout, nutrition, cognitive, media, and AI features.
• Personalize content, filters, recommendations, training guidance, and user experience without making guaranteed or solely automated high-impact decisions.
• Process subscriptions, purchases, refunds, and payouts.
• Verify roles, prevent impersonation, detect misuse, moderate content, investigate reports, and protect users and the public.
• Analyze reliability, performance, engagement, and product usage; debug and improve the Services.
• Communicate about accounts, consent requests, security, transactions, service updates, and optional marketing choices.
• Comply with law, enforce agreements, establish or defend legal claims, and respond to lawful requests.
• Create aggregated or de-identified information that is not reasonably linked to a person, and use it for product, research, safety, or business analysis.

Scout Assist may use user inputs, account context, approved knowledge sources, and selected feature data to generate responses, filters, recommendations, explanations, summaries, draft outreach, or training guidance. AI output may be incomplete, inaccurate, or unsuitable for a specific user. Scout Assist does not guarantee recruiting results, scholarships, team selection, admissions, NIL opportunities, performance gains, health outcomes, or eligibility.

We may use automated tools to detect spam, abuse, unsafe content, fraud, or policy violations. We do not intend Scout Assist to make final medical, legal, eligibility, disciplinary, employment, admissions, or recruiting decisions. Material decisions should include human review and, for minors, appropriate parent involvement.

Private user content should not be used to train a third-party provider's general-purpose model unless that use is expressly disclosed, contractually approved, and consented to where required. [CONFIRM EACH AI PROVIDER'S DATA-USE SETTINGS AND CONTRACT.]

We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

• At the user's direction. To people, teams, leagues, events, recruiters, scouts, coaches, partners, or services selected by the user, subject to profile settings and parent controls.
• To parents and guardians. A linked parent or guardian may receive access to and notifications about a minor's profile, messages, media, activity, assignments, purchases, consent records, safety reports, and settings as designed in the product.
• To authorized organizations. Team, league, coach, facility, or event administrators may access information necessary to manage rosters, schedules, assignments, participation, and safety within their authorized scope.
• To service providers. Vendors may process information for hosting, storage, authentication, security, analytics, communications, notifications, customer support, payments, AI, video, workouts, nutrition, verification, and similar operational purposes. They should be contractually restricted to approved purposes.
• For legal and safety reasons. We may disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect a child or other person, investigate abuse or fraud, enforce our agreements, or protect rights, safety, and security.
• Business transactions. Information may be disclosed as part of a financing, merger, acquisition, restructuring, sale of assets, or similar transaction, subject to confidentiality protections and applicable notice requirements.
• With consent. We may disclose information for another purpose with appropriate user or parent consent.
• Aggregated or de-identified information. We may disclose information that does not reasonably identify a person, provided we do not attempt to re-identify it except to test de-identification or as permitted by law.

Information designated public or shared with a broad audience may be viewed, copied, recorded, reshared, or indexed by others. Scout Signal will provide visibility controls, but no platform can guarantee that public information will remain private. For minors, public profile publication and broad media sharing require parent approval under Scout Signal policy.

Users should avoid publishing home addresses, personal phone numbers, private schedules, travel details, school documents, medical information, government identifiers, or precise live location. Scout Signal may remove, restrict, blur, or disable content or metadata that creates a safety or privacy risk.

Where the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) applies, Scout Signal will provide direct notice to a parent, explain its child-data practices, obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from a child under 13 unless an exception applies, allow the parent to review and request deletion, allow refusal of further collection or use, collect no more information than reasonably necessary for an activity, and maintain reasonable safeguards.

Information collected from a child may include account information, profile details, photos, videos, audio, persistent identifiers, activity, messages, and location information, depending on the feature and parent permissions. A feature-specific parent notice should identify the exact information, purpose, disclosure, and retention before consent is requested.

Parents may contact us using the information in Section 1. We may require reasonable verification of identity and relationship before providing access or acting on a request. Revoking consent may require us to disable or delete the child account or affected features. We may retain limited records necessary to document consent, comply with law, resolve disputes, prevent fraud, or protect users.

Some optional features may involve information that users consider sensitive, including wellness, readiness, nutrition, injury-related inputs, cognitive results, precise location, identity-verification information, or media used for form analysis. We will limit collection to the feature purpose, use heightened access controls where appropriate, and provide additional notice or consent when required.

Scout Signal is not automatically subject to HIPAA merely because users enter wellness information. HIPAA may apply in particular arrangements involving a covered healthcare entity or business associate. Other privacy, consumer-protection, health-breach, and state laws may still apply. Users should not use Scout Signal as an emergency or clinical medical-record system.

Uploaded photos, video, or audio may contain a person's image, movement, or voice. Scout Signal does not intend to use facial recognition or other biometric identification at launch. Before introducing a feature that creates or uses a biometric identifier or template, Scout Signal should provide a separate written notice describing purpose, collection, disclosure, retention, destruction, and consent, and complete a legal review. [CONFIRM PRODUCTION FEATURE SET.]

We may use cookies, local storage, SDKs, pixels, and similar technologies to operate the Services, remember preferences, maintain security, measure performance, understand use, and support communications. Categories may include:

• Strictly necessary technologies for login, security, consent records, load balancing, and core functionality.
• Preference technologies for language, display, saved settings, and user choices.
• Analytics technologies for usage, performance, errors, and product improvement.
• Marketing technologies only if enabled, disclosed, and permitted by user choices and applicable law.

Users may control optional cookies through the cookie settings tool and browser or device settings. Blocking necessary technologies may prevent parts of the Services from working. [INSERT ACTUAL COOKIE/SDK LIST OR LINK TO COOKIE NOTICE.]

Scout Signal's launch policy is not to sell personal information for money and not to use a minor's profile, media, messages, precise location, wellness data, or cognitive data for targeted advertising. Scout Signal should not disclose sensitive personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If practices change, we will update this Policy and provide legally required notice and choices before the change takes effect.

Sponsorship, featured partner listings, or brand content do not give a sponsor unrestricted access to personal information. A user's information should be shared with a sponsor or partner only at the user's direction, under an authorized operational relationship, or with legally sufficient consent.

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing the Services, maintaining consent and transaction records, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, preventing fraud, protecting users, and meeting legal obligations. Retention depends on the category, account status, user age, feature, sensitivity, and legal requirements.

When information is no longer needed, we will delete it, de-identify it, or securely isolate it until deletion is possible. Backups may persist for a limited period. Parent-consent records, security logs, and transaction records may be kept longer when necessary. [INSERT OR LINK TO APPROVED INTERNAL RETENTION SCHEDULE.]

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed for the nature of the information and the size and complexity of the Services. Measures may include role-based access, parent permissions, encryption in transit and at rest where appropriate, secure authentication, vendor review, logging, backups, vulnerability management, incident response, and employee or contractor access restrictions.

No system is completely secure. Users should use a strong unique password, protect devices, review account activity, and report suspected misuse promptly. We will provide legally required notices following qualifying security incidents.

Depending on the Service and applicable law, users and parents may be able to:

• Access, review, correct, or update account and profile information.
• Change profile visibility, communication, notification, cookie, and marketing preferences.
• Download certain information or request a copy in a portable format.
• Delete content or request deletion of an account and associated information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, or withdraw consent for future processing.
• Opt out of legally defined sale, sharing, or targeted advertising if such activity occurs.
• Appeal a denied privacy request where applicable.
• For a parent, review a child's information, revoke consent, or stop further collection, subject to legal limits.

Submit a request to privacy@scout-signal.com [CONFIRM]. We may verify identity, account control, parent relationship, and authorization. Authorized agents may be required to provide proof of authority. We will not unlawfully discriminate against a user for exercising privacy rights.

Residents of certain states may have additional rights, subject to legal thresholds, exceptions, and verification. These can include rights to know or access, correct, delete, obtain a portable copy, opt out of certain sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and appeal a decision. Scout Signal will honor applicable rights and may voluntarily provide similar controls more broadly.

California residents may review applicable California privacy rights through the State of California's official privacy resources. If Scout Signal becomes subject to detailed state disclosure requirements, this Policy should be updated with required category tables, lookback periods, request metrics, or opt-out mechanisms before the threshold is met.

Scout Signal is based in the United States. If users access the Services from another country, information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States or other locations where service providers operate. Before actively offering the Services outside the United States, Scout Signal should complete a jurisdiction-specific privacy review and add required notices and transfer mechanisms.

The Services may link to or integrate with third-party websites, app stores, payment providers, nutrition or workout databases, video hosts, event operators, teams, schools, or partners. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. Scout Signal is not responsible for independent third-party practices, but we will seek appropriate contractual protections for providers processing information on our behalf.

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, vendors, features, or practices. We will post the updated version and revise the "Last Updated" date. If a change materially affects how we use previously collected information, or requires new consent, we will provide additional notice and obtain consent where required. Parent consent should be renewed when a material child-data practice changes and the law requires it.

Questions, complaints, parent requests, and privacy-rights requests may be sent to:

• [INSERT LEGAL BUSINESS NAME] d/b/a Scout Signal
• [INSERT COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS]
• privacy@scout-signal.com [CONFIRM OR REPLACE]
• [INSERT TELEPHONE NUMBER, IF APPLICABLE]