How Next Round handles account, competition, and support data.

Overview

Next Round is a tournament management app for organizers, players, teams, and followers. This policy explains the information used to operate the app, provide support, and keep tournament workflows available.

Information we process

Next Round processes information needed to provide the app, including:

• account details such as email address, username, and display name
• profile data such as country, preferred platform, and linked identity details
• uploaded media such as profile images and tournament or community banners
• competition data such as joined tournaments, teams, standings, fixtures, and results
• messages sent in match chat
• notification preferences and device push registration tokens
• linked social or gaming identities you choose to connect, such as Apple, Google, Discord, Twitch, YouTube, PlayStation, Xbox, or Steam

How information is used

Information is used for app functionality, account management, and support, including:

• creating and authenticating accounts
• running tournaments, communities, teams, and match workflows
• showing standings, fixtures, chat, and notifications
• supporting linked identity and game account flows
• responding to support, abuse, safety, or account requests

Tracking

Next Round does not track users across third-party apps or websites for advertising purposes. The app is not built around advertising SDK profiling or cross-app tracking.

Sensitive information

Next Round does not ask for special-category information such as racial or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or health information. Please avoid adding that kind of information to profile fields, uploads, tournament content, or match chat.

Notifications

If you allow notifications, the app registers a device token so it can send tournament, match, and account-related notifications. Notification preferences may be stored to respect your settings.

Device permissions and controls

The app may request device permissions for notifications and media access when you choose to receive alerts or upload images. You can change notification, photo, and storage permissions in your device settings.

Uploaded media and messages

Uploaded profile images, banners, and supported media may be stored so they can appear inside the app. Match chat messages may be stored so participants can review the conversation.

Linked identities

If you choose to connect a gaming or social account, Next Round stores the identity information needed to maintain that link and support tournament or profile features that depend on it.

Google and YouTube data

If you sign in with Google or connect a Google account, Next Round receives the Google account information needed for that feature, such as your Google account identifier, email address, and name. If you connect a YouTube account, Next Round uses YouTube read-only access to verify channel ownership and may store channel details such as channel ID, title, handle, thumbnail URL, and profile URL. Information received from Google APIs is used only to provide the linked account and channel features you choose to enable. Next Round's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Sharing and disclosure of Google user data

Next Round does not sell Google user data, share it for advertising, or transfer it to data brokers, information resellers, advertising networks, or AI model training providers.

Google user data may be shared or disclosed only as needed to provide Next Round features you choose to use, including:

• with Next Round's backend, authentication, hosting, database, storage, security, and support service providers, only as needed to operate the app
• with Google APIs and Google services, only as needed to verify sign-in, link a Google account, or verify YouTube channel ownership
• with other Next Round users only where you choose to make linked profile or channel information visible through app features, such as a profile, team, tournament, match, or stream-related context
• if required to comply with law, enforce our terms, protect users, investigate abuse, or maintain app security

Service providers are not permitted to use Google user data for their own advertising or unrelated purposes.

Service providers and linked services

Next Round uses service providers and platform services to operate the app, including authentication, hosting, storage, notifications, support, and linked account features. These services process information only as needed to provide the app and related support.

Legal bases

Where privacy law requires a legal basis, Next Round relies on the basis that fits the data and feature involved. This may include providing the app and account services you request, your consent, legitimate interests such as security, abuse prevention, service reliability, and product improvement, or compliance with legal obligations.

Security

Next Round uses technical and operational measures intended to protect account and tournament information. No online service can guarantee absolute security.

Children

Next Round is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact support so the request can be reviewed.

Data retention

Account and tournament information is kept while it is needed to provide the app, maintain records, resolve disputes, support safety and abuse prevention, or comply with legal obligations. When information is no longer needed, it may be deleted, anonymized, or kept only in restricted backup or operational records until deletion is practical.

Account deletion

Next Round includes an in-app account deletion flow. Open Profile, go to settings, and choose Delete account. Some operational, legal, or abuse-prevention records may be retained where required.

Your privacy choices

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to certain processing of your personal information, request a copy of your information, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent. Requests are reviewed according to applicable privacy laws.

Support and privacy requests

For support, privacy, or account requests, use the Next Round support community on Discord.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as Next Round prepares for public release or changes how the app works. The latest version will remain available on this page.