Privacy

Who we are

GAA Pitch is a session planner for grassroots GAA coaches, operated from Northern Ireland and reachable at support@gaapitch.com. This page explains what personal data we hold, why we hold it, and the rights you have over it. We welcome users from GAA clubs around the world; this policy applies to all of them.

What we collect

• Account details — your email address (and optionally your name) when you sign in via our authentication provider, Clerk.
• Content you create — the sessions and drills you build inside the app, including their names, durations, and any notes you add.
• Server access logs — request method, path, response status, and duration. We use these to debug and protect the service. Logs do not contain request bodies.

We do not run analytics tools, advertising trackers, session-replay scripts, or third-party social pixels.

Why we hold it

• To sign you in and keep you signed in — handled through Clerk.
• To deliver the service — we store the sessions and drills you create so you can return to them on any device.
• To keep the service running — access logs help us investigate outages and abuse.

Who processes data on our behalf

We rely on a small number of vendors to operate the service. Each processes your data only on our instructions.

• Clerk — authentication. Stores your email address and session tokens.
• Google Cloud — application hosting and database, located in the European Union (europe-west1, Belgium).
• Vercel — frontend hosting.

We do not sell your data and we do not share it with advertisers.

Clerk and Vercel are headquartered in the United States, so some processing happens outside the UK and the EU. We rely on the standard safeguards (UK International Data Transfer Agreement, EU Standard Contractual Clauses) that these vendors put in place for international transfers.

Cookies

GAA Pitch uses only the essential cookies set by Clerk to keep you signed in. We do not set analytics, marketing, or preference cookies, which is why you will not see a cookie consent banner. If we introduce non-essential cookies in future, we will ask for your consent first.

Where your data lives

Application data is hosted in the European Union (Google Cloud europe-west1, Belgium). Authentication and frontend hosting may process limited data in the United States as described above.

How long we keep it

We hold your account and the content you create for as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, we remove your account record and your content from our live database promptly. Encrypted database backups are retained for up to 7 days before they are overwritten.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law — and equivalent laws that apply where you live, such as the EU GDPR — you have the right to:

• access the personal data we hold about you,
• correct it if it is wrong,
• delete it (subject to the backup window above),
• receive a copy in a portable format,
• object to how we use it.

To exercise any of these rights, email support@gaapitch.com. Our lead data protection regulator is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). If you live elsewhere you can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

GAA Pitch is intended for coaches and is not designed for use by children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has created an account, please contact us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the service evolves. If we make a material change, we will email account holders before it takes effect. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page tells you when the current version was published.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? support@gaapitch.com.