Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2026

HighlightHype is a private-beta site where parents and guardians share youth sports highlights. This policy explains — in plain language — what we collect, why, and what we never do. HighlightHype is run by HighlightHype; reach us any time at hello@highlighthype.com.

1. What we collect

• The plays: videos or photos you upload (or links you paste), plus the title, sport, play type, and short story you add.
• Athlete display info: the athlete's first name (shown publicly as first name + last initial), team, board (Boys/Girls), and jersey number if you add one. This is what appears on the board.
• Parent/guardian contact (kept private): the guardian email and, if you provide it, guardian mobile number and whether you checked the text opt-in. This is stored with the play and is never shown on the public site.
• Activity data: votes (tied to a random token stored in your browser, not to your name), contest entries, and reports you submit.
• Basic technical data: standard server logs (time, page requested, browser type) used to keep the site running and safe.

There are no user accounts in the beta, and we don't ask for athletes' last names in full, birthdays, schools, or home addresses. Please don't put an athlete's full name together with their school or team in titles or stories — our pre-publication review flags that, and the site rules ask for first names only.

2. How we use it

• To run the board, athlete pages, team filters, and the Hype of the Month contest.
• To review every play before it goes public (a person moderates each upload).
• To contact the parent/guardian — approval updates, and, if a play wins Hype of the Month, the prize claim message. Email is the default; texts are sent only if the guardian checked the text opt-in box at upload.
• To respond to reports and keep the community safe.

3. What we never do

• Guardian email addresses and phone numbers are never displayed publicly and never appear in the site's public data.
• We never sell personal data — not guardian contact details, not anything else.
• No advertising targeted at children, and no ad tracking of athletes.
• We never DM or privately message athletes. All official contact is with the parent/guardian.
• We never text an athlete's number, and we never text a guardian who hasn't opted in.

4. Children’s privacy

HighlightHype is built for parents and guardians to share their young athletes' moments — athletes themselves are not the users of this site. For athletes under 13, a parent or guardian must be the one who submits the play and gives permission (including for other athletes featured in the clip). If we learn that a play about a child under 13 was submitted without a parent/guardian's involvement, we will remove it when a parent/guardian lets us know. Parents and guardians always control their child's presence here — see the next section.

5. Parent & guardian rights — correction and deletion

• Email hello@highlighthype.com (or use the Report button on any play) to ask us to correct or delete your child's videos or data. We may ask a simple question to confirm you're the parent/guardian.
• When we delete a play, we delete the uploaded media file, the play's votes and contest entries, and the guardian contact stored with it. The athlete's board entries for that play disappear everywhere, including athlete pages and contest standings.
• Backups and security logs may hold remnants for a short period after deletion, and are then discarded in the normal course.

6. Who helps us run the site (service providers)

We use a small number of providers, by category: a hosting provider (runs the website, database, and media storage), an email provider (sends approval and winner-contact emails), and — only if texting is switched on — an SMS provider (delivers texts to guardians who opted in). These providers process data only to provide their service to us. Separately, when a clip is shared to HighlightHype's own social channels under the Terms of Use license, that clip is governed by the social platform's own privacy policy while it's there.

7. How long we keep things

Plays stay up while the beta runs, until they are removed or a parent/guardian asks us to delete them. Guardian contact details are kept only with the play they belong to and are deleted with it. Server logs are kept briefly for security and troubleshooting, then discarded.

8. Security

Guardian contact fields are kept out of every public page and public data feed the site produces, and moderation tools are restricted to the site owner. No system is perfect — this is a private beta, and we work to keep the data footprint small on purpose: the less we collect, the less there is to protect.

9. Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new date. Questions about privacy, or requests about your child's data: hello@highlighthype.com. See also our Terms of Use.