Privacy policy
Draft of 14 October 2026
Draft for the invite-only beta. Highlighted parts are not decided yet.
Padelapu analyses padel match videos for the people who played in them. This page explains what personal data Padelapu handles, why, for how long, and what rights you have. Padelapu never sells your data and shows no advertising.
Who is responsible
Padelapu is a hobby project run by Jarno Tenni, a private person in Finland. He is the controller of your personal data. Contact: [privacy email].
What we collect and why
| Data | Why | Legal basis | How long we keep it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email address and name | To log you in and to send messages about your account | Our agreement with you (the terms) | Until you delete your account |
| Player profile: name, playing levels, profile picture | To show you in your matches and to the players you play with | Our agreement with you. The picture is your choice and you can remove it at any time | Until you delete your account or remove the item |
| Match videos you upload | To analyse the match | Our agreement with you | The original file: 30 days after the analysis. A smaller viewing copy and clips: until you delete the match or your account |
| Analysis results: positions, hits, rallies, statistics | To show your reports, replays and coaching tips | Our agreement with you | Until you delete the match or your account |
| Match proposals: the times offered, and the name and times each person who opens the invite link gives | So the friends who share the link see who can play when, and the organiser can set up the match | Our agreement with the organiser, and your choice to answer | Until the organiser deletes the proposal or their account. A confirmed match keeps the four names, like any match |
| Other people in your videos | They appear because they played in the match | The legitimate interest of the players in analysing their own match | As long as the video and its results |
| Login session and server logs: IP address, time, page | To keep the service secure and working | Legitimate interest | Logs: 30 days |
| Messages you send us | To answer you | Legitimate interest | 12 months |
We collect nothing else. We do not buy data about you from anyone.
People in a video who have no account
A match usually has four players, and not all of them use Padelapu. The person who uploads a video enters the players' names. The other players are then shown by name, and their positions and hits appear in the analysis.
If you are in a video and want it removed, or your name taken out, email [privacy email]. We act on it within one month, usually much sooner.
How the analysis works
The analysis is automatic. It tracks where the players and the ball are, and estimates each hit. It does not recognise faces and does not identify anyone by their body or face. Names come only from what the uploader types in.
The analysis makes no decisions about you that have legal or similarly significant effects.
Who else handles your data
Only Jarno Tenni, who runs Padelapu, has access to the data. These service providers store or deliver it on our behalf, under data processing agreements:
- Hosting and database: [provider: UpCloud Oy, Finland].
- Video storage: [provider: Backblaze, Inc., USA].
- Video analysis on rented GPUs: [provider, planned: RunPod, USA].
- Email delivery: [provider: Brevo, France].
We add any new provider to this list before it receives data. Some of these providers are US companies. [transfer basis outside the EU and the EEA: standard contractual clauses or the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, per each provider's data processing agreement]. We disclose data to authorities only when Finnish law requires it.
Cookies
Padelapu uses only cookies it needs to work:
- Login session: keeps you logged in. With "Keep me logged in" ticked, for 60 days. Without it, until you close the browser, and never longer than a day.
- Your name and player id: let the pages show your own data.
- Data view: remembers whether you view automatic or verified data.
- Match invite answer: when you answer an invite link without an account, your browser keeps a key so you can change your answer later. It is stored in the browser, not as a cookie, and only for that link.
There are no tracking or advertising cookies, so there is no cookie banner.
Your rights
- Access: ask what data we hold about you, and get a copy.
- Correction: fix wrong data. You can edit most of it yourself.
- Deletion: delete a match or your whole account yourself, or ask us to.
- Export: get your data in a machine-readable form.
- Objection and restriction: ask us to stop or limit processing based on legitimate interest.
- Withdraw consent: remove your profile picture at any time.
- Complaint: you may complain to the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman, tietosuoja.fi.
Email [privacy email] to use a right. We answer within one month.
Age
You must be 16 or older to create an account.
How we protect your data
All traffic is encrypted (HTTPS). Matches are private by default. Videos open only through links that expire. Only the people who played a match see it.
Changes to this policy
We tell you by email before any important change. The date at the top shows the latest version.
Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies, licensed under CC BY 4.0.