For families

Your child's team uses Squadpoint

Your child's coach runs the team with Squadpoint, a phone app for youth football: planning who plays where, keeping playing time fair, and timing the match. This page says what it holds about your child, and what you can do about it.

What it holds about your child

• Their name, as the coach typed it. We ask coaches to use a first name, or a first name and initial.
• Their shirt colour and the position they prefer to play.
• For each match: whether they were there, where they played and for how long, goals and assists, and any award such as Player of the match.

Nothing else: no date of birth, address, contact details, photos, health information or location. Your child never uses the app and has no account in it.

Where it is kept, and who sees it

On the coach's phone. If the team's coaches share the team between their phones, it is also kept on Squadpoint's server in the EU (Frankfurt, Germany), where only that team's coaches can see it. It is used only to run the team. It is never used for advertising, never sold, and never shared with anyone else.

Who is responsible for it

The team's club, or for a team that isn't part of a club, its coaches. Squadpoint holds the records for them and does nothing else with them. The app is made by Christopher Brookes, trading as Brookes Industries, in the United Kingdom.

Changing it or having it removed

Ask your child's coach. They can correct your child's name, or take your child out of the squad, and the change reaches Squadpoint's server too. A removed player's details go from the server at once; a bare record number stays while the team is on the server, so the coaches' other phones learn of it, and the server's backups clear within a week.

If you can't reach the coach or the club, or would rather ask us, email policy@squadpoint.app and we will help. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

How long it is kept

Until the coach deletes it. A team nobody has used for 18 months is deleted from Squadpoint's server.