1. Introduction

Welcome to HeatCheck HQ ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, including page views, time spent on pages, and navigation patterns.
• Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
• Analytics Data: We use analytics services to understand user behavior and improve our services.
• Account Data: If you create an account, we collect your email address, username, and password (encrypted).

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our sports analytics platform
• To improve and personalize your experience
• To monitor the usage of our service
• To detect, prevent and address technical issues
• To provide customer support
• To send you updates, newsletters, and promotional materials (with your consent)

4. Data Storage and Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Your data is stored on secure servers and we use encryption for sensitive information.

5. Third-Party Services

We use third-party services to help us operate our platform:

• ESPN API: For retrieving sports statistics and game data
• MLB Stats API: For baseball-specific statistics
• Vercel: For hosting and deployment
• Analytics Services: For understanding user behavior (if applicable)

These third parties have their own privacy policies and we encourage you to review them.

6. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

• Right to Access: Request copies of your personal data
• Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
• Right to Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict processing of your data
• Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your data
• Right to Object: Object to our processing of your personal data

8. Children's Privacy

Our service is not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: