Safety & privacy

Built for teams of kids, from the first line of code.

Coaches decide who is on the team. Parents can read along. Nothing anyone says can quietly disappear. Here is exactly how that works.

Who gets on the team

A team code only asks to join. The coach or a team manager approves every player and parent before they see anything.
Staff see each person’s name and email before letting them in.
Staff can remove anyone, or remove and block them so they cannot ask again with any code.
Codes cannot be guessed: tries are limited per account and per network.
Assistant coaches and managers join with one-time staff invites that run out after a week.

Every message is kept in a permanent record. Edits and deletions are added as new entries; the original is never erased.
Each entry is numbered and sealed to the one before it, so tampering shows up when the record is checked.
Parents and guardians can read every team message. They cannot post.
Coaches can turn the team chat or the play chats off at any time.
Coaches and school administrators can download the full record for the school’s files.

Names, emails and messages are encrypted in the database, with the key kept separately.
Passwords are never stored, only a salted, slow hash of them.
Profile photos are shrunk on your device, and location and camera details are stripped before they are saved.
Only people on your teams can see your photo. Staff can take down any photo on their team.
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Approvals, removals, blocks, staff changes and school access are written to an access history that cannot be edited.
Every team always keeps at least one team admin, so someone is always responsible for it.
Players can leave a team at any time.

For schools and clubs

An athletic director or principal can see everything a team says, without being able to post or change a thing.

The coach creates a school access code on the Roster tab. It is separate from the team code, longer, and can be replaced at any time.
The administrator signs up, chooses “I am a school administrator” and enters the code.
They get read-only access to the team’s plays, roster and every message, and can check and download the full message record.
Every access is logged. Giving access, removing it, and every download appear in the team’s access history, which cannot be edited.

Read the guide for coaches and parents, or set up a team and see the controls for yourself.