Cookie and Tracking Notice

Status: Public policy Effective date: 2026-06-16 Last updated: 2026-06-16

1. Purpose

This notice explains how SportPulse uses cookies, local storage, device identifiers, app identifiers, push notification tokens, analytics signals, and similar technologies across the website, mobile apps, APIs, and partner tools.

Read this with the Privacy Policy and DPDP Notice.

2. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, SDK identifiers, mobile device identifiers, push tokens, analytics tags, server logs, and app telemetry.

SportPulse uses these technologies to keep accounts secure, keep users signed in, protect against fraud, remember preferences, understand app performance, deliver notifications, and improve product reliability.

3. Essential Technologies

Essential technologies may be required for:

• Account login and session management.
• CSRF protection and secure form submission.
• Authentication with SportPulse, Google, or Apple.
• API requests and same-origin web proxy behavior.
• Security monitoring, abuse prevention, rate limiting, and fraud detection.
• Remembering basic service state needed for bookings, payments, app routing, or account flows.
• Load balancing, uptime, diagnostics, and error logging.

You cannot opt out of essential technologies without stopping use of the affected service.

4. Preference Technologies

Preference technologies may remember:

• Display or interface preferences.
• Account flow progress.
• Device or app preferences.
• Notification settings.
• Selected location or discovery settings.
• Recently used app state.

You may clear browser or device storage, but doing so may reset settings.

5. Analytics and Performance Technologies

SportPulse may use analytics and performance technologies to understand:

• Which pages, screens, and features are used.
• App crashes, API errors, slow requests, and broken flows.
• Booking, game, tournament, scoring, coaching, and subscription feature usage.
• Device type, OS, app version, browser, region, and approximate network details.
• Aggregate conversion, retention, and product performance.

Analytics and performance tools should avoid unnecessary collection of sensitive content, chat bodies, full payment details, or student report contents. SportPulse may use service providers for analytics, crash reporting, logging, hosting, app performance, fraud prevention, security, support, and product measurement.

6. Push Notification Tokens

If you enable push notifications, SportPulse may store device tokens, platform, app variant, active status, last-seen time, and notification preferences. We use this to send:

• Booking updates.
• Game invites, approvals, waitlist, team, and score updates.
• Tournament registration, match, bracket, and live updates.
• Chat and community updates.
• Coaching and report updates.
• Partner and venue operational alerts.
• Subscription, billing, security, and system notices.

You can disable push notifications through app or device settings, but some important updates may be delayed or unavailable.

7. Location Signals

SportPulse may use location-related signals from:

• User-entered city or address.
• Venue, game, tournament, and custom venue coordinates.
• Device location permission.
• IP-derived approximate location.
• Map pin selections.

These signals support discovery, nearby results, booking, custom venue creation, safety, fraud prevention, and support. You may manage device location permissions through your device settings.

8. Advertising and Promotion

SportPulse may display promoted tournaments, events, venues, or boosts within SportPulse. SportPulse does not sell personal data to third-party advertisers. If advertising pixels, retargeting SDKs, or materially different ad technologies are added, SportPulse will update this notice and provide choices where required by law.

9. Third-Party Technologies

SportPulse may use third-party technologies from:

• Cloud hosting and CDN providers.
• Authentication providers.
• Payment processors.
• Apple and Google billing services.
• Push notification providers.
• Email and SMS providers.
• Analytics, crash reporting, logging, and support tools.
• Maps and geolocation providers.

Third-party terms and privacy notices may apply. The exact providers may change over time as SportPulse updates hosting, payments, analytics, notification, support, and security infrastructure.

10. Managing Cookies and Tracking

You may manage some technologies by:

• Changing browser cookie settings.
• Clearing browser local storage or cookies.
• Changing device app permissions.
• Disabling push notifications.
• Changing SportPulse notification preferences.
• Contacting support for privacy requests.

Blocking cookies or identifiers may break sign-in, security, booking, payments, subscriptions, or other core features.

11. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Signals

SportPulse does not currently treat browser "Do Not Track" signals as a separate opt-out control. You can use browser settings, device permissions, SportPulse notification settings, and support requests to manage available choices.

12. Changes

SportPulse may update this notice when technologies, vendors, analytics, advertising, payment flows, or legal requirements change.