Privacy Policy

What you give us

When you sign up for updates, create an account, post, upload, or contact us, we collect:

• Your email address, and for email updates the date, time and form you signed up with
• Your username and password (your password is never stored in readable form; our sign-in provider hashes it)
• Your date of birth, which we use only to confirm you are 18 or older
• Anything you add to your profile, such as a bio, an avatar or profile photo, your username color and other profile settings
• What you post: messages, chat rooms, replies, reactions, star ratings, reports you file, images you upload, and the members you follow or block

Rooms and messages can be seen by other members and, depending on the room, by the public. Please do not post anything you do not want others to see. We do not collect your legal name, phone number, physical address or payment information through email signup or account creation. We do not take payments on this site today.

Signing in with Google or Discord

If you sign in with Google or Discord, we receive the basic profile information that provider shares with us, usually a display name or username, your email address and your profile picture. See section 7.

What we collect automatically

When you visit, our hosting, security and sign-in providers receive and log technical details: your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type, language, the page you came from and the pages you request. Our analytics also record which pages are visited and which outbound links are clicked, and they may estimate your country from your IP address. Some settings and drafts, such as your theme, minimized chats, notification choices and unsent drafts, stay in your own browser and are not sent to us unless you are signed in, in which case your site settings are saved to your account so they follow you to other devices.

Mobile app

We do not have a mobile app today. If we release one, we may ask for access to your camera and photos so you can upload images, and to send you push notifications. You could turn either off in your device settings, and we would update this policy first.

• To create and run your account, show your profile and posts, and let you take part in rooms and chat
• To send you website updates, offers and newsletters, only if you checked the signup box. You can unsubscribe at any time
• To send you account messages, such as confirmation emails, password resets and notices about your account
• To respond when you contact us
• To keep the community safe: checking images and messages against our rules, reviewing reports, and preventing spam, abuse and fraud
• To confirm you meet the 18+ requirement
• To understand how the site is used, including which promotional offers get clicked, so we can improve it, and to find and fix errors
• To respond to lawful requests and protect our rights

Where the law asks us for a legal basis, we rely on:

• Consent. For marketing email. You can withdraw it at any time by unsubscribing or contacting us. Withdrawing does not affect what we did before.
• Contract. To provide the account and community features you asked for.
• Legitimate interests. To keep the community safe and lawful, prevent abuse and fraud, understand how the site is used (including which offers are clicked), and keep upload records for a limited time so we can respond to abuse and lawful requests.
• Legal obligations. To cooperate with law enforcement and regulators, report illegal content as the law requires, and exercise or defend legal rights.

If you are in Canada, we process your information with your express or implied consent. In limited cases the law allows us to process it without consent, for example to prevent fraud or to comply with a legal request.

Every image is checked before anyone else can see it. The check is automatic. If it is unsure, a person reviews the image first. Images that break our rules are not posted. We convert uploaded images to a standard format and remove their hidden data, such as the location a photo was taken, before we store them.

We use outside service providers to store and deliver images, to check images for content that breaks our rules, and to alert our team when something needs review. These providers receive an image only so they can store it, check it, or deliver it. We do not send your name, email or username with it. Under their own terms, a provider that checks images may keep them for a limited time (for example, up to 30 days for abuse monitoring) and may use them to operate and improve its own safety services.

We also use automated filters to check text, and a person reviews anything the filters cannot decide. We keep a record of moderation actions (for example, that a post was held, removed or restored, and why) so we can be consistent and answer disputes, for as long as it is needed to keep the community safe and to meet our legal obligations. We do not use any of this to profile you or to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects.

When you upload an image we record the IP address and browser type you uploaded it from. We use it to prevent abuse and to respond to lawful requests. We delete it after 90 days. If an image is reported to the authorities, we keep the image, your account details and that IP address for one year, as US law requires.

We report child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as the law requires. We may disable the account that posted it immediately, without notice.

An image we reject is kept in private storage for 30 days and then deleted. An image held for review is kept until it is reviewed.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. We do not share your email address with anyone for their own marketing.

We share information with service providers that do work for us and need it to do it. They are under contract, may use the information only on our instructions, and must protect it. They fall into these groups:

• Cloud computing and website hosting
• Data storage (our database, image storage, and a private spreadsheet that holds the updates list)
• Account sign-in and authentication
• Email delivery and internal alerts to our team
• Analytics
• Performance and error monitoring
• Automated content and image safety checks (AI platforms)
• A GIF search service. When you use the GIF picker, your search terms are sent to it and GIFs load from its servers
• Government entities, when the law requires it or to protect the safety of our members

Offers and affiliate links

Our offer buttons go to sportsbooks, prediction markets and betting tools through tracked referral links, and we may earn a commission when you sign up. When you follow a link, that company sees the click and our referral code. We do not send it your account details.

Embedded content

When you open a YouTube video, an X post, an Instagram post or an ESPN video shown on our pages, that company's code loads on the page. It may receive your IP address and see that you visited the page. We have no control over what it does with that information. Its own privacy policy applies. Team and league logos and player photos on our picks pages also load directly from ESPN's and Major League Baseball's servers, so those companies receive your IP address when you view those pages.

Other members and the public

What you post, and your profile, can be seen by other members and, depending on the room, by anyone, and may stay visible outside the site, for example in search results or copies other people make.

If the business changes

We may share or transfer your information during a merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or part of our business.

We use only the cookies the site needs to work: they keep you signed in and protect forms, and a bot-protection check on sign-up and login uses your browser to tell people from automated traffic. We do not use advertising cookies, and no ad network runs on the site.

We use analytics to see which pages are visited, which sites refer visitors, and which outbound links (such as sportsbook or tool offers) are clicked. They are set up without cookies: they do not record your screen, do not capture what you type, and do not keep an identifier for you in a cookie or local storage beyond your current visit. They may estimate your country from your IP address.

We use an error-monitoring service that receives technical details when something breaks (the page, the error and your browser type) so we can fix it.

You can set your browser to remove or reject cookies. If you do, parts of the site, such as staying signed in, may not work.

Do Not Track

Most browsers include a Do Not Track setting. There is no common standard for it yet, so we do not currently respond to Do Not Track or similar signals. If a standard is adopted that we must follow, we will say so here. California law asks us to say how we respond to these signals, and this is our answer.

If you sign in with a Google or Discord account, we receive the profile information that provider shares, usually a display name or username, email address and profile picture, and we use it only for the purposes in this policy. We do not control how Google or Discord use your information. Please read their privacy policies and check your privacy settings with them.

Our use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Our servers and our service providers are mainly in the United States, so your information is processed there, whatever country you are in.

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, which our service providers agree to, to protect information that leaves your region. You can ask us for details at support@probettorsacademy.com.

We keep information only as long as we need it for the reasons in this policy, and for these set periods:

• Account information (email, username, date of birth, profile, uploaded images): while your account is open, and for 30 days after you delete it. Then it is permanently erased
• IP address and browser type recorded at image upload: 90 days
• An image we reject: 30 days. An image held for review: until it is reviewed
• Content reported to the authorities, with the account details and IP address: one year, as US law requires
• Moderation records: as long as they are needed to keep the community safe and meet our legal obligations
• Updates email list: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it
• Analytics and server logs: kept by our service providers for a limited time under their own settings

When we no longer need information, we delete or anonymize it. If that is not possible straight away, for example because it is in a backup, we store it securely and keep it out of use until it can be deleted. Messages you posted in rooms stay in those rooms after you delete your account, but are shown as coming from a deleted user.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, including hashed passwords, database row-level security so account data is readable only by you and by us for moderation and support, and checks on every uploaded image. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot promise that hackers or other unauthorized people will never get past our safeguards. If something happens that affects your information, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.

You must be 18 or older, or the legal age for gambling in your location, to use this site, sign up for our emails or create an account. We do not knowingly collect information from, or market to, anyone under 18. If we learn we have collected information from someone under 18, we will deactivate the account and delete the information promptly. If you believe a minor has an account, contact us at support@probettorsacademy.com and we will remove it.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask for access to the personal information we hold about you and a copy of it, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to how we use it, to move it to another service, and to withdraw consent you gave us. You also have the right not to be treated differently for using these rights.

We do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you using only automated means. Our automated checks decide whether an image or message is held for review, and a person reviews anything the filters cannot decide.

How to use your rights

• Email us at support@probettorsacademy.com.
• Sign in and use your account settings to update your details or delete your account.

We will respond within the time the law requires, usually between 30 and 45 days. We may need to verify who you are first. We will only use the information you give us for that, and may ask for more if we cannot verify you from what we already hold. If you use an authorized agent, we may ask for your signed written permission and to verify your identity, and we may decline a request from an agent who cannot show they are authorized.

Marketing email

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any marketing email or by contacting us. We may still send you messages about your account or in reply to something you asked us.

Appeals

Under certain US state laws, if we decline to act on your request, you can appeal by emailing support@probettorsacademy.com. We will tell you in writing what we did and why. If your appeal is denied, you may complain to your state attorney general.

Complaints

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland and believe we are handling your information unlawfully, please contact us first. You can also complain to your local data protection authority. In the UK, that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint).

If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah or Virginia, you may have the right to know what we hold about you and how we use it, to access it and get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of the sale or sharing of your information, targeted advertising, and profiling. We do none of those things, so there is nothing to opt out of. Use the contact options in section 12 for any request.

Categories we have collected in the past 12 months

Retention is as set out in section 9. We may also collect other personal information when you contact our support channels, and use it to answer you.

What we disclose

In the past 12 months we have not sold or shared your personal information. We have disclosed categories A (identifiers), C (age), D (offers clicked), F (internet activity), G (approximate location) and H (images) to service providers for the business purposes in sections 2 and 5. The groups of providers are listed in section 5.

California "Shine the Light"

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 lets California residents ask once a year, free of charge, for the categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing, and their names and addresses. We have not disclosed any for direct marketing. To ask, email support@probettorsacademy.com.

You can delete your account at any time from your account settings or by contacting us at support@probettorsacademy.com. Deleting your account deactivates it immediately and removes your profile from public view. Signing back in within 30 days reactivates it as it was. After 30 days, a deleted account and its data are permanently erased. We may keep a small amount of information if we need it to prevent fraud, resolve a problem, assist an investigation, enforce our terms, or meet a legal requirement.

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version will always be on this page, with the date at the top. If we make a material change, we may notify you on the site or by email. We encourage you to read it now and then.

Questions or comments about this policy: email support@probettorsacademy.com or write to us at:

ACE&V Sports LLC
8 The Green, Ste A
Dover, DE 19901
United States