SPORDO
Yes, completely. No login, no subscription, no paywalled data. Every field, every permit status, every map view — free to anyone with a phone. That's not a marketing line. It's how we built it, and it's how we plan to keep it.
Server costs, map tile hosting, NYC Parks data access, and development time. We don't pay ourselves salaries from this. Spordo is a community project, and donations go toward keeping the infrastructure running and the data current.
A small team of New Yorkers who grew up playing in these parks. No venture funding, no corporate backing. We built this because we needed it — and because nobody else was building it for us.
These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern access to and use of the SPORDO platform, including the website, waitlist, real-time dashboard, interactive maps, permit-status layers, lighting schedules, availability indicators, notifications, referral tools, APIs, data layers, and any related content, software, or services (collectively, the "Service").
A user may use the Service only if that user affirmatively accepts these Terms in the manner described below and remains in compliance with them at all times. If a user does not agree to these Terms, that user must not access or use the Service.
SPORDO may require users to accept these Terms through a clickwrap mechanism, including by checking an unchecked box, clicking an "I agree," "Join Waitlist," "Continue," "Create Account," "Submit," or similar assent button presented with reasonably conspicuous notice of these Terms. Where such a mechanism is presented, the user's affirmative action constitutes electronic acceptance of these Terms and any incorporated policies.
SPORDO may create, store, and maintain records of assent, including timestamps, IP-related data, device or browser identifiers, session metadata, page-flow records, and the version of the Terms presented at the time of acceptance, and those records shall be admissible to prove assent to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Passive browsing, mere website visitation, or viewing of publicly accessible pages without an affirmative assent action does not by itself constitute acceptance where SPORDO requires clickwrap acceptance for the relevant feature or transaction.
These Terms incorporate by reference any additional policies or notices that SPORDO publishes for the Service, including the Privacy Policy, community rules, referral rules, or feature-specific terms, each as updated from time to time.
SPORDO is currently operated by two individual co-founders in a pre-entity or unincorporated capacity. References in these Terms to "SPORDO," "operator," "owner," "platform," "service provider," "founders," "us," "our," or "we" mean the Service and its individual co-founders solely in their capacity as operators of the Service and solely to the extent applicable law requires or permits.
Nothing in these Terms creates a personal guaranty of platform performance, data quality, uptime, safety, lawful third-party conduct, park access, field conditions, athletic suitability, or uninterrupted service. No founder personally guarantees that any feature, dataset, infrastructure provider, public source, map layer, permit record, lighting timeline, or user submission will perform in any particular manner.
Nothing in these Terms creates any fiduciary duty, special relationship, custodial duty, inspection duty, rescue duty, insurance-backed obligation, surety obligation, or enhanced duty of care running from any founder to any user or third party beyond non-waivable law.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, any right or remedy asserted by a user shall be interpreted narrowly and shall not extend to any founder's personal home, savings, wages, investments, personal equipment, vehicles, phones, computers, or other personal assets unless a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction determines that non-waivable law requires otherwise after all defenses have been fully exhausted.
The Service is intended only for users who are at least 13 years old. Persons under 13 may not use the Service, submit information to the Service, join the waitlist, or participate in any referral or leaderboard feature.
A user who is at least 13 but under 18 may use the Service only if that user's parent or legal guardian or other legally authorized responsible adult ("Responsible Adult") affirmatively accepts these Terms through SPORDO's clickwrap flow on the minor's behalf and permits the minor's use of the Service. By giving such assent, the Responsible Adult represents that they have legal authority to bind the minor and themselves.
The Responsible Adult agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to be jointly and severally bound by all waivers, releases, disclaimers, indemnification obligations, arbitration commitments, class action waivers, and other risk-allocation provisions in these Terms, both individually and on behalf of the minor user.
SPORDO does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If SPORDO learns that a user under 13 has submitted personal information or otherwise used the Service, SPORDO may delete the information, terminate access, and take any related remedial action without notice.
SPORDO has no obligation to investigate, confirm, monitor, or verify any user's age, identity, or parental authority. Any misrepresentation of age, parental status, or legal authority is solely the risk and responsibility of the user and/or Responsible Adult making that representation.
In compliance with the New York Child Data Protection Act (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-ee et seq.), users aged 13 through 17 who are located in or residents of New York State will be presented with a separate, standalone consent screen prior to any processing of their personal data beyond what is strictly necessary to provide the Service. SPORDO does not sell, share for advertising purposes, or disclose for profiling purposes any personal data of users under the age of 18 without the consent described above.
SPORDO provides a web-based dashboard intended to help users view, interpret, and interact with information relating to NYC sports field permit statuses, lighting schedules, court availability, and related recreational-use conditions. The Service may incorporate public municipal schedules, crowdsourced updates, estimated timelines, map overlays, user submissions, analytics, and technical infrastructure from third-party tools and data sources.
SPORDO is an informational and convenience tool only. It is not an official municipal source, not a permitting authority, not a reservation guarantor, not a safety certification provider, not a coach, not a referee assignor, not a park operator, not a premises owner, not a venue manager, and not a substitute for direct confirmation with a park authority, permit holder, league organizer, school, coach, or other relevant third party.
SPORDO aggregates and displays information from public municipal schedules, crowdsourced field updates, user submissions, inferred availability signals, estimated lighting timelines, map layers, and other third-party or derived inputs. Because those inputs may lag, change, conflict, break, be incomplete, be stale, or contain human or technical errors, SPORDO does not guarantee that any field, court, permit, closure notice, gate status, lighting schedule, or availability indicator is fully accurate, fully current, complete, reliable, or suitable for any specific purpose.
All data, maps, overlays, schedules, timelines, alerts, availability indicators, dashboard outputs, and related content are provided strictly AS IS, AS AVAILABLE, and WITH ALL FAULTS. Users assume all risk of relying on the Service. Before traveling, paying fees, organizing play, hiring referees, booking transportation, gathering teams, or making athletic or scheduling decisions, users are solely responsible for independently verifying all material facts with official sources, local conditions, and applicable third parties.
SPORDO may rely on third-party infrastructure, hosting, database, waitlist, mapping, and software components, including without limitation Cloudflare (Workers, static asset hosting, and the D1 database) for hosting, deployment, and permit-data storage; Supabase for user accounts, authentication, and saved-field storage; Loops for waitlist email collection and messaging; CARTO for map tiles; Leaflet.js for interactive map display; Esri / ArcGIS Online for satellite imagery shown in field previews; Wikimedia for certain field images; NYC Open Data (Socrata) and the Hudson River Park Trust as permit and facility data sources; and Google Fonts, unpkg, and jsDelivr as content-delivery networks, together with any connected APIs, SDKs, plugins, vendors, networks, CDNs, browsers, operating systems, and internet service providers (collectively, "Infrastructure Providers").
Several of these providers are contacted directly by the user's browser when the Service loads — including CARTO, Esri / ArcGIS Online, Wikimedia, NYC Open Data, Google Fonts, unpkg, and jsDelivr — and may therefore receive the user's IP address, browser metadata, timestamp, and request details as part of serving that content.
Infrastructure Providers are independent third parties outside SPORDO's ownership and direct control. SPORDO does not guarantee their uptime, security, integrity, compliance, performance, continuity, storage practices, or service levels. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SPORDO and its founders disclaim all liability arising from or related to any outage, slowdown, failure, delay, misconfiguration, deletion, corruption, breach, compromise, interception, routing failure, analytics malfunction, referral error, email-delivery failure, tile-render failure, API breakage, data loss, or other act or omission of any Infrastructure Provider.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service and all related content, data, code, APIs, maps, notifications, communications, and outputs are provided without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise. This includes any implied warranties of accuracy, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, quiet enjoyment, uninterrupted access, error-free operation, non-malicious code, data integrity, or compatibility.
Without limiting the foregoing, SPORDO disclaims any warranty that: a field or court shown as open will actually be open; a park gate will be unlocked; a permit status is valid, current, enforceable, or honored; a lighting schedule will occur as estimated or at all; a referee, team, opponent, coach, or spectator will appear as planned; a game, practice, scrimmage, or event will be safe, lawful, uninterrupted, or free from dispute; any user-submitted or crowdsourced update is truthful, non-misleading, complete, or timely; or any park, field, court, or surrounding area is safe, supervised, permitted, maintained, or fit for athletic use.
Participation in sports, travel to parks, use of public recreational spaces, attendance at games, and reliance on schedule or permit information all involve inherent and unavoidable risks, including weather changes, unsafe or defective surfaces, locked facilities, poor or failed lighting, physical collisions, third-party misconduct, law-enforcement actions, permit disputes, crowd conflicts, theft, assault, falling equipment, hidden hazards, debris, wet conditions, uneven pavement, broken fences, unmarked closures, and athletic injury.
By using the Service, each user voluntarily assumes all risks arising from travel decisions, attendance decisions, participation decisions, venue-access decisions, scheduling decisions, and sports-related activities connected in any way to information displayed by SPORDO. Each user is solely responsible for determining whether a location is open, safe, permitted, suitable, supervised, and lawful for use.
BY USING THE SERVICE, EACH USER, AND EACH RESPONSIBLE ADULT ACTING FOR A MINOR USER, EXPRESSLY, VOLUNTARILY, KNOWINGLY, AND IRREVOCABLY ASSUMES ALL RISKS OF PERSONAL INJURY, BODILY HARM, ILLNESS, PROPERTY DAMAGE, ECONOMIC LOSS, AND DEATH ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO: (A) TRAVELING TO ANY LOCATION IDENTIFIED, DISPLAYED, OR REFERENCED BY SPORDO; (B) ENTERING, REMAINING AT, EXITING, OR OTHERWISE ACCESSING ANY PARK, COURT, FIELD, SIDEWALK, STREET, SCHOOL YARD, OR RECREATIONAL FACILITY; AND (C) WATCHING, ORGANIZING, OR PARTICIPATING IN ANY SPORT, ATHLETIC ACTIVITY, PRACTICE, SCRIMMAGE, TRAINING SESSION, GAME, OR RELATED EVENT. THIS ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND RELEASE EXPRESSLY INCLUDES RISKS ARISING FROM LOCKED GATES, DEFECTIVE SURFACES, FAILED OR DELAYED LIGHTING, BROKEN EQUIPMENT, COLLISIONS, SLIPS, FALLS, WEATHER, ASSAULTS BY THIRD PARTIES, THEFT, LAW-ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, MUNICIPAL RESTRICTIONS, TRESPASS ALLEGATIONS, PERMIT DISPUTES, OVERCROWDING, USER MISCONDUCT, AND ANY OTHER CONDITION OR EVENT AT OR NEAR A PHYSICAL LOCATION. SPORDO OWES NO DUTY TO INSPECT, PATROL, MONITOR, VERIFY, WARN ABOUT, CONTROL, OR SUPERVISE ANY PHYSICAL LOCATION OR PERSON.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, SPORDO, its founders, operators, developers, advisors, contractors, volunteers, licensors, service providers, successors, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, enhanced, or statutory damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, business, goodwill, use, data, opportunity, reputation, fees, or expected savings, arising out of or relating to the Service, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Without limitation, this exclusion applies to claims arising from or related to: incorrect, stale, missing, or delayed field or court data; locked park gates or inaccessible facilities; permit conflicts or disputes with third parties; cancelled games, practices, tournaments, or reservations; lost booking fees, permit fees, league fees, referee fees, transportation costs, or equipment costs; athletic injuries, collisions, assaults, unsafe conditions, or property loss; user reliance on crowdsourced updates, comments, estimates, or map indicators; third-party actions or omissions; outages, bugs, scraping, hacking, malware, API failures, map tile failures, referral errors, hosting downtime, analytics disruptions, or Infrastructure Provider failures.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, any claim that is not lawfully excluded shall be limited in the aggregate to the lesser of: (a) the amount actually paid by the claimant to SPORDO for the specific Service feature giving rise to the claim during the three months preceding the event at issue, or (b) USD $25. If the claimant paid nothing, the maximum aggregate liability shall be $0 to the extent permitted by law.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, each user, and each Responsible Adult acting for a minor user, irrevocably releases, waives, and discharges SPORDO and its founders, operators, developers, advisors, contractors, volunteers, service providers, licensors, Infrastructure Providers, and affiliates from any and all claims, demands, causes of action, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses of every kind, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, arising from or relating to the user's access to, reliance upon, or use of the Service.
This release includes, without limitation, claims relating to permit reliance, venue access, crowdsourced data, user submissions, scheduling changes, lighting estimates, public-source inaccuracies, referral participation, waitlist participation, travel decisions, sports participation, or any in-person event or consequence occurring after viewing or using the Service.
Each user, and each Responsible Adult on behalf of a minor user, agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SPORDO and its founders, operators, developers, advisors, contractors, volunteers, licensors, service providers, successors, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, investigations, liabilities, judgments, settlements, losses, damages, penalties, fines, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to: the user's access to or use of the Service; the user's violation of these Terms; the user's violation of law or the rights of any third party; the user's submissions, crowdsourced updates, comments, or content; any in-person conduct at parks, courts, fields, schools, or related venues; or any fraud, harassment, doxing, scraping, reverse engineering, abuse, bot use, or referral manipulation by the user.
Users may use the Service only for lawful, personal, internal, non-commercial, and authorized purposes. Users may not: scrape, crawl, harvest, mirror, or extract SPORDO's APIs, datasets, or structured data except as expressly authorized; reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive source code or architecture from the Service; use bots, scripts, headless browsers, or automated agents to access the Service in a manner that overloads systems or copies protected data; circumvent authentication, security, paywalls, rate limits, or anti-fraud measures; use the Service to stalk, harass, threaten, dox, intimidate, bully, bait, impersonate, target, or otherwise mistreat other players, coaches, teams, referees, permit holders, schools, or park users; submit false, misleading, malicious, defamatory, or strategically deceptive crowdsourced field updates or reports; or use the Service in connection with unlawful conduct, commercial exploitation, competitive intelligence gathering, model training, resale, republication, or any purpose that harms SPORDO, users, municipalities, or local park communities.
If the Service permits users to submit field reports, gate updates, lighting observations, photos, comments, ratings, messages, or other content ("User Submissions"), each user remains solely responsible for that content and represents that the submission is lawful, accurate to the best of the user's knowledge, and does not violate any law or third-party right.
SPORDO does not endorse, verify, or guarantee any User Submission and assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, defamation, harassment, threats, fraud, or other harms caused by user-provided content. SPORDO may review, moderate, remove, preserve, refuse, monitor, or disclose User Submissions at any time in its sole discretion.
By submitting content, each user grants SPORDO a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, display, distribute, analyze, use, and create derivative works from that content for platform operation, moderation, fraud detection, analytics, legal compliance, safety review, and product improvement.
If SPORDO offers a waitlist, referral program, leaderboard, launch incentive, early-access promotion, or reward tier through Loops or any similar provider, participation is a revocable privilege and not a guaranteed right. SPORDO reserves the absolute right, in its sole discretion, to review, investigate, disqualify, reset, suspend, remove, or permanently ban any referral account, leaderboard position, reward eligibility, or waitlist status if SPORDO suspects cheating, fake emails, disposable addresses, self-referrals, bot activity, script-driven signups, coordinated abuse, identity manipulation, account farming, clustered signups, repeated-device abuse, or any attempt to game the referral engine. All leaderboard placements, reward decisions, and anti-fraud determinations are final, binding, and non-appealable.
The Service, including its name, branding, compilation, selection, arrangement, layout, software, code, designs, text, graphics, logos, look and feel, dashboards, maps, data presentation, referral systems, anti-fraud systems, and proprietary features, is protected by intellectual property and other laws. As between SPORDO and the user, SPORDO owns all right, title, and interest in and to the Service and related intellectual property.
Subject to compliance with these Terms, SPORDO grants users a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service solely for its intended personal use. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms or non-waivable law, users may not reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, license, index, create derivative works from, train models on, or commercially exploit the Service or any part of it without prior written authorization.
SPORDO may suspend, disable, restrict, remove, or terminate access to the Service, any account, any waitlist entry, any referral status, any submission, or any content at any time, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including suspected misuse, fraud, technical risk, legal risk, security concerns, reputational risk, inactivity, or business discontinuation. SPORDO shall have no liability arising from any suspension, refusal of service, ranking adjustment, removal decision, or termination decision.
Before commencing arbitration or any court proceeding allowed under these Terms, a claimant must send a written notice of dispute describing the claim and requested relief, and the parties must attempt in good faith to resolve the matter informally for 30 days. Except for small-claims matters properly brought on an individual basis or claims for injunctive relief expressly permitted by these Terms, any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to the Service or these Terms shall be resolved by binding individual arbitration rather than in court. Any such arbitration shall be administered by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect (available at adr.org), or, if the AAA declines or is unavailable, by JAMS under its Streamlined Arbitration Rules, with proceedings conducted in New York County, New York, or remotely by video or telephone at SPORDO's election.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, users waive any right to participate in or seek relief through any class action, collective action, representative action, private attorney general action, coordinated proceeding, consolidated action, or mass arbitration. All disputes must be brought solely on an individual basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each user also waives any right to a jury trial in any permitted court proceeding.
These Terms and any dispute arising out of or relating to the Service shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles, except to the extent federal law preempts state law or non-waivable consumer protections apply. If the arbitration provisions are held unenforceable as to a particular dispute, then exclusive venue for that dispute shall lie in the state or federal courts located in New York County, New York.
Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms, SPORDO may seek immediate temporary, preliminary, or permanent injunctive relief, specific performance, account freezes, IP blocking, bot filtering, access revocation, referral suspension, and other equitable remedies for suspected scraping, unauthorized data extraction, reverse engineering, fraud, abuse, harassment, security threats, or infringement. Because unauthorized scraping, fraud, and infrastructure abuse can cause irreparable harm not adequately compensable by money damages, each user agrees that SPORDO may pursue these remedies without posting bond to the fullest extent permitted by law.
If any provision of these Terms is found unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remainder of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect. Any unenforceable exculpatory, release, waiver, arbitration, liability-limiting, indemnity, or founder-protective provision shall be reformed narrowly to the minimum extent necessary to preserve the strongest lawful protection for SPORDO and its founders.
SPORDO may modify these Terms from time to time by posting an updated version with a revised effective date. Continued access to or use of the Service after revised Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms to the fullest extent permitted by law. For material changes affecting dispute rights, arbitration, releases, or liability limitations, SPORDO may provide supplemental notice through the Service, email, or another reasonable method.
All legal notices, COPPA data deletion requests, misuse reports, and formal support inquiries must be directed to SPORDO at: legal@spordo.app. For general support, users may also contact spordomedia@gmail.com. Legal notices are effective upon SPORDO's written acknowledgment of receipt.
SPORDO and its Infrastructure Providers (including Cloudflare, Supabase, and Loops) may collect the following categories of information when users access the Service or join the waitlist: (a) email address submitted at registration or waitlist signup; (b) IP address and approximate geolocation derived from network requests; (c) device identifiers, browser type, and operating system; (d) session metadata, page-flow data, and referral source; and (e) any field reports, crowdsourced updates, or other User Submissions voluntarily provided. Account holders may also create saved-field lists, which are stored with their account. SPORDO does not collect payment information, government-issued ID, or precise GPS location.
Data collected is used solely for: (a) operating and improving the Service; (b) managing the waitlist and referral program; (c) detecting and preventing fraud, abuse, and scraping; (d) complying with applicable law; and (e) communicating with users about Service updates, launch status, and referral activity. SPORDO does not sell, rent, or trade personal information to third-party advertisers.
In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, parents or legal guardians who believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information to SPORDO may request deletion by emailing legal@spordo.app with the subject line "COPPA Deletion Request." SPORDO will use commercially reasonable efforts to locate and delete the relevant information within 30 days of receiving a verified request.
SPORDO retains personal data as follows: (a) waitlist email addresses: retained until the Service launches and the waitlist closes, or a maximum of 24 months from collection, whichever is earlier; (b) referral and leaderboard data: retained for 12 months after the referral campaign ends; (c) assent and acceptance records (timestamps, IP data, acceptance version): retained indefinitely for legal defense purposes; (d) minors' personal data: deleted within 30 days of SPORDO learning the user is under 18, unless valid consent has been obtained or processing is strictly necessary to deliver the Service.
SPORDO ("SPORDO," "the Service," or "the Platform") is an online tool currently operated by its individual co-founders. Because SPORDO is presently unregistered and unincorporated, references in this Privacy Policy to "SPORDO," "operator," "controller," "owner," "founders," "us," "our," or "we" mean the individual co-founders acting solely in connection with operating the Service and only to the extent permitted by applicable law.
This Privacy Policy describes how SPORDO collects, uses, stores, discloses, and protects personal information through the pre-launch waitlist, the website, and the post-launch application experience. It addresses common transparency requirements that arise under U.S. privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA/CPRA"), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"), and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), particularly where location data and online tracking are involved.
This Privacy Policy is an information notice only. Except where non-waivable law provides otherwise, it does not create contractual promises, special duties, warranties, or representations beyond those expressly stated here. To the fullest extent permitted by law, SPORDO disclaims liability for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to privacy, data availability, third-party services, map content, geolocation functionality, outages, or unauthorized access.
SPORDO is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13 years of age. SPORDO does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If SPORDO learns that personal information has been collected from a child under 13 without legally sufficient parental authorization, SPORDO may suspend or delete the relevant account, waitlist entry, or associated data as promptly as reasonably practicable. If a parent or guardian believes that a child under 13 has provided personal information to SPORDO, they may contact SPORDO to request deletion.
SPORDO recognizes that personal information from minors aged 13 to 17 is privacy-sensitive and treats it with heightened care. SPORDO does not sell or share personal information of users in this age group with data brokers or for cross-context behavioral advertising. SPORDO does not collect precise geolocation data from any user; if that ever changes, SPORDO would require active, affirmative opt-in consent from the teen user (and, where applicable law requires, a parent or guardian) before processing any precise geolocation data for users aged 13 to 17.
Before full launch, SPORDO collects email addresses submitted through the pre-launch waitlist experience, which is powered by Loops.
SPORDO does not request or collect precise geolocation data. The Service does not ask the browser for the user's device location, and fields are browsed by borough, name, and map rather than by proximity to the user. If SPORDO later introduces a location-based feature, it would be strictly opt-in, this Privacy Policy would be updated first, and the practices described in Article 8 would apply.
SPORDO does not currently run any third-party analytics or advertising trackers, and does not use Google Analytics. SPORDO may nonetheless receive limited technical and usage information generated in the ordinary course of serving the Service through its hosting and infrastructure providers — including Cloudflare, Supabase, and Loops — such as device or browser information, IP-related data, request and error logs, referrer information, and approximate location inferred from IP address. If SPORDO later adds an analytics tool, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any consent required by law will be obtained before that tool is deployed.
SPORDO uses mapping and visualization technologies such as Leaflet, along with CARTO for map tiles, Esri / ArcGIS Online for the satellite imagery shown in field previews, and Wikimedia for certain field images. The Service also reads public permit and 311 maintenance data from NYC Open Data, and loads fonts and libraries from Google Fonts, unpkg, and jsDelivr. When a user loads the map or a field preview, the user's browser contacts those providers directly, and they may receive technical request information such as IP address, browser metadata, timestamp, requested tile or record coordinates, and related network logs as part of serving that content. The coordinates requested identify public sports fields, not the user.
SPORDO collects personal information in the following ways:
SPORDO does not currently collect precise geolocation data or deploy non-essential analytics technologies. Where required by law, SPORDO would obtain consent before doing either.
SPORDO uses personal information for the following purposes:
SPORDO does not sell, trade, rent, or monetize users' precise location data or email addresses to third-party data brokers.
For users in jurisdictions requiring a legal basis for processing, including the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and similar regimes, SPORDO relies on one or more of the following: Consent (e.g., joining the waitlist, or accepting non-essential cookies or a location feature should either be introduced); Legitimate interests (e.g., securing the Service, preventing abuse, maintaining basic functionality); Performance of a requested service (where processing is reasonably necessary to provide functionality requested by the user); and Legal obligation (where retention or disclosure is required by applicable law).
Because precise geolocation can reveal highly sensitive behavioral patterns, SPORDO does not collect it at all (see Article 8). Were a location feature ever introduced, SPORDO would treat precise location access as opt-in and purpose-limited, with heightened opt-in protections for users aged 13 to 17 as described in Articles 2, 8, and 11.
SPORDO does not currently deploy advertising cookies, cross-site tracking technologies, or third-party analytics tools such as Google Analytics. The Service uses browser storage on the user's own device (for example, to remember a signed-in session, saved fields, and recently viewed fields); that information stays on the device and is not transmitted to SPORDO as a tracking signal. SPORDO's hosting and infrastructure providers generate standard server and request logs in the course of delivering the Service.
Because SPORDO does not currently deploy non-essential analytics or tracking technologies, no cookie-consent banner is presented at this time. If SPORDO later introduces such technologies, it will present a cookie banner, consent interface, or similar control mechanism before deploying them where required by law. Users may also manage cookies and site storage through their browser or device settings.
SPORDO does not permit third-party data brokers to use SPORDO's integrations as a channel to purchase or exploit user email addresses or location information.
SPORDO does not collect precise geolocation data. The Service does not request device or browser location permission, does not receive GPS coordinates, and does not store, log, or maintain any archive of users' physical coordinates. SPORDO does not build movement profiles of any kind. The only location-related information SPORDO's providers receive is the approximate, city-level location that can be inferred from an IP address in ordinary server logs, as described in Articles 3 and 7.
The map shows the locations of public sports fields, which are fixed coordinates published by NYC Open Data and other public sources. Those are places, not people, and they are the same for every user.
If SPORDO later introduces a feature that uses device location, the following rules would apply: it would be strictly opt-in; coordinates would be processed transiently in the browser only as needed to display nearby fields; they would not be written to SPORDO's servers or retained as a location history; users could decline or revoke permission at any time through browser or device settings; and this Privacy Policy would be updated, with any consent required by law obtained, before the feature went live.
SPORDO may disclose personal information only in limited circumstances, including:
SPORDO does not sell users' personal information to data brokers and does not trade or monetize precise geolocation data or waitlist email addresses as stand-alone commercial assets.
California residents may have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including rights to know, access, correct, delete, and opt out of certain disclosures or uses of personal information, including certain rights related to teenagers' data. To the extent SPORDO is subject to the CCPA/CPRA, California users may request: disclosure of categories of personal information collected; disclosure of sources, purposes, and categories of recipients; deletion of eligible personal information; correction of inaccurate personal information, where applicable; and information about whether sensitive personal information, including precise geolocation, is used beyond permitted purposes.
SPORDO does not sell personal information and does not share precise geolocation or email addresses with data brokers for cross-context behavioral advertising. SPORDO also does not sell or share personal information of teen users aged 13 to 17 for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
SPORDO does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, including precise geolocation data from such children. If SPORDO learns that it has inadvertently collected such information without the legally required authorization, SPORDO may promptly delete that information and restrict associated access to the Service.
For teen users aged 13 to 17, SPORDO applies additional privacy protections. SPORDO recognizes that personal information from users in this age group is privacy-sensitive, does not sell or share teen users' personal information with data brokers or for cross-context behavioral advertising, and does not collect precise geolocation data from any user — were that to change, active, affirmative opt-in consent would be required before processing any precise geolocation data for users aged 13 to 17.Where applicable law requires parental or guardian involvement in consent for certain processing activities involving teen users, SPORDO complies with those requirements.
Parents, guardians, or teen users themselves (consistent with applicable law) may contact SPORDO to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information associated with a teen user's account or to withdraw consent for geolocation-based features.
Where the GDPR or similar law applies, eligible users may have the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, and data portability, subject to legal limits and verification. Users may also object to certain processing based on legitimate interests and may withdraw consent at any time where consent is the legal basis. Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing already lawfully carried out before withdrawal.
Depending on where data is processed, personal information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the user's home jurisdiction. Where legally required, SPORDO uses appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers; however, users acknowledge that no transfer mechanism can guarantee zero risk under all circumstances.
SPORDO retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Service, operating the waitlist, complying with law, resolving disputes, establishing defenses, enforcing agreements, and maintaining security logs. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of data, the sensitivity of the information, whether the information remains necessary for an active feature, and whether SPORDO must preserve records for legal, security, or evidentiary reasons.
SPORDO uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information processed, with particular sensitivity for account-related identifiers. That said, no system, network, software environment, API, hosting provider, browser, or transmission method is completely secure. Therefore, to the fullest extent permitted by law, SPORDO disclaims any warranty that the Service will be secure, uninterrupted, error-free, or immune from interception, loss, misuse, or unauthorized access, and the individual founders shall not be personally liable for security incidents except to the extent non-waivable law expressly provides otherwise.
Users may exercise the following privacy controls, subject to verification and applicable law:
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, this Privacy Policy, the use of the Service, and any privacy-related claim shall be interpreted narrowly so as not to expand, create, or imply personal liability of any individual founder, developer, advisor, volunteer, contractor, or representative beyond mandatory statutory obligations that cannot legally be waived. Without limiting the foregoing, any rights a user may have are limited to those expressly required under applicable law, and all discretionary, implied, non-statutory, punitive, exemplary, speculative, or consequential theories of recovery are disclaimed to the fullest extent permitted by law.
SPORDO expressly states that it does not sell, trade, lease, broker, exchange, or otherwise monetize users' precise geolocation data or email addresses to third-party data brokers. SPORDO also does not knowingly permit third-party data brokers to purchase or harvest this information through SPORDO integrations, forms, or platform features. If SPORDO's business model changes in the future in a way that materially affects this representation, SPORDO will update this Privacy Policy before implementing the change and, where required by law, obtain any required consent or offer any required opt-out rights in advance.
SPORDO may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, operational, technical, or product changes. Any updated version will be posted with a revised effective date, and material changes may also be communicated through the website, the app, email, or another reasonable notice method where appropriate. Continued use of the Service after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective may constitute acceptance of the revised policy to the extent permitted by law.
Users may contact SPORDO to submit privacy-related requests, including requests to access, correct, delete, or limit eligible personal information, or to opt out of location tracking where applicable, by emailing spordomedia@gmail.com.
SPORDO uses spordomedia@gmail.com as its designated privacy contact channel for rights requests, privacy questions, and data-related communications. SPORDO may require reasonable verification before acting on requests and may retain limited records of requests for compliance, legal, and security purposes.