KitchenBracket — Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 2026
KitchenBracket is a free app for creating, running and following amateur pickleball tournaments. It is made by YoloStart. We keep the app simple, and the same goes for the data it handles.
1. What the App Does Not Do
- No accounts. You never sign up, and we never ask for an email address, phone number or social login.
- No tracking. The app contains no analytics or advertising SDKs and collects no device identifiers.
- No background activity. The app only contacts our service when you create, join, refresh or push a tournament.
2. How to Delete Your Data
KitchenBracket has no accounts, so there is no account to delete. Data lives in tournaments, and deleting a tournament deletes everything in it.
If you organize a tournament
Open it in the app, go to Manage and tap Delete tournament. This removes the tournament from our cloud service immediately. It stays recoverable by us for 180 days in case of accidental deletion, then it is permanently erased. Remove from this device only deletes the local copy on your phone.
If your name appears in someone else's tournament
Ask the organizer to edit or delete it, or contact YoloStart through yolostart.com with the tournament join code and the name to remove. We respond within 30 days and remove the name from the stored document.
What is kept
After a tournament is permanently erased, nothing about it remains except anonymous daily counters such as the number of tournaments created, which contain no names or tournament details. Copies that other people downloaded to their own devices while following the tournament are outside our control.
3. What Is Stored and Where
On your device
Your preferences (theme, an optional device nickname), the list of tournaments you organize or follow, and a local copy of each tournament document. Access tokens and tournament passcodes are kept in the operating system's secure storage (Keychain on iOS, Keystore on Android). Removing a tournament from the device deletes its local copy; deleting the app deletes everything.
In the cloud
Each tournament is one document stored on Cloudflare (D1 database and Workers) so organizers can share it. It contains the tournament name, date, location, notes, settings, the player names and optional details the organizer entered (gender, level, age group), teams, schedule, scores and rankings. It also stores the tournament's passcodes, encrypted, and an optional device nickname sent with each push. Nothing in it identifies you as an app user.
Service counters
The service keeps anonymous daily totals such as the number of tournaments created or refreshed. They contain no tournament or player data.
4. Player Names and Other People's Data
Organizers type in the names of the people playing. By entering someone's name you confirm you may do so. Everything in a tournament, including player names, is visible to anyone who has the join code and the player passcode, or to anyone with the join code when the organizer leaves the player passcode blank. Public tournaments are also listed in search by name, date and location, but never by player.
If your name appears in a tournament and you want it removed, ask the organizer, who can edit it before the tournament is locked, or contact us with the join code.
5. Passcodes
Organizer and player passcodes are chosen by the organizer and sent to our service over an encrypted connection to obtain an access token. They are stored encrypted so that organizers can see and share them later. Changing a passcode immediately signs out every device that used the old one.
6. Retention and Deletion
- A tournament stays in the cloud until its organizer deletes it. Deleted tournaments are kept for 180 days so they can be restored, then permanently removed.
- Tournaments that are never locked and untouched for 90 days are removed automatically.
- Local copies on other people's devices are not affected by a cloud deletion.
7. Service Providers
The cloud service runs on Cloudflare Workers, D1 and KV in Cloudflare's infrastructure. Cloudflare processes requests on our behalf and may log request metadata such as IP addresses for security and operation of its network under its own privacy policy. We do not combine this with tournament data.
8. Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and has no account features. Organizers entering names of minors are responsible for having a parent's or guardian's permission.
9. Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is published at this address with a new effective date. The app links to this page from Settings and the first launch screen.
10. Contact
YoloStart, via yolostart.com or support@yolostart.com. Include the tournament join code if your request concerns a specific tournament.