Privacy Policy

Who I Am

Dinkredibles is operated by Proluminary LLC, a Utah limited liability company. Proluminary LLC is the data controller for personal information collected through dinkredibles.com and the Dinkredibles private community.

This privacy policy explains how I collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit dinkredibles.com, subscribe to the Dinkredibles list, or join the private community.

Who Can Join

Accounts are held by men 18 and over who live in the United States or Canada. I don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If I learn I have, I delete it and close the account. To report an account you believe belongs to someone under 18, email legal@dinkredibles.com.

Can I stay anonymous here?

To other members, yes. Use a handle instead of your real name if you'd rather, and pick an avatar that isn't your face. Nothing posted in the forum is public or indexed by search engines, it's gated and paid, and what's said here stays here.

You can't be anonymous to me or the moderators. I receive your billing name and email through my payment processor, and card numbers never touch my server. That's the limit of it: I don't share any of it, and nothing goes to third parties for marketing.

A few things worth knowing:

• What you post is visible to every other member. Details about your town, your job, your injuries, and your training partners add up over time. Share deliberately.
• If you post video, remember that your face and your home courts are in it. Others who play locally may recognize both. That's your call to make.
• If you run a pickleball business and list it in your profile, you've identified yourself. That's a reasonable choice. Trust is easier to earn with a name on it.
• Use an email that isn't tied to your identity if you want a clean separation. ProtonMail, Tuta, or an alias service like SimpleLogin all work.

Information I Collect

When you join the waitlist, I record your email address, your IP address, the time you signed up, and which versions of the Charter and Terms you agreed to. I keep that record indefinitely as proof of what you agreed to. Unsubscribing from emails doesn't delete it.

When you join the community:

• Name and email address
• Payment information (processed by my payment processor; not stored by me directly)
• Profile information you provide (photo, bio, location)
• Content you post in the forum (posts, replies, messages)

Messages sent through the contact form are delivered to me by Formspree.

Automatically collected:

• IP address recorded at waitlist signup as part of the consent record, and in basic server log data. Server logs are used only to keep the site secure and working, and are not used to build any profile of you. The waitlist consent record is kept to document your agreement to the Charter and Terms, and to receive emails.
• Your light or dark mode choice, saved in your own browser's storage rather than a cookie, and on the forum, the cookies described in the Cookies section

How I Use Your Information

Your email address is used to send you updates about Dinkredibles: what I'm building, when the community opens, and occasional broadcasts. No automated drip sequences. When there's something worth telling you, I tell you.

Community members' information is used to operate the forum: authentication, profile display, and posting.

I do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Third-Party Services (Processors)

I use third-party services to run Dinkredibles: email list management and broadcasts, payment processing, application and database hosting, file storage, DNS, transactional email, and the contact form. Each processes data on my behalf and is not permitted to use it for their own purposes.

A few services help run Dinkredibles: Kit sends email, Cloudflare hosts the website and stores the waitlist record, forum uploads and forum backups, Formspree delivers contact form messages, DigitalOcean hosts the forum, Resend sends the forum's email, and Proton Mail hosts the dinkredibles.com mailbox. Stripe will handle payments when membership opens. Each receives only what it needs for its part of the job.

The forum runs on infrastructure I control rather than a third-party community platform. The application and database are hosted on a server I administer, and your posts and messages are not sitting inside somebody else's product.

Cookies

The forum sets three cookies, and none of them track you or serve ads. Two keep you signed in and protect your session. One remembers how you've arranged the forum sidebar. The forum also saves a few display preferences in your browser. This website sets no cookies of its own.

Videos

Video thumbnails on this site are served by this site, so nothing loads from YouTube until you press play. When you do, the video plays in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com), which connects you to YouTube's and Google's servers, and YouTube's own privacy policy applies to that playback.

Data Retention

Email list subscribers remain on the list until they unsubscribe. Waitlist consent records are kept indefinitely as proof of what you agreed to. Community member account data is retained while membership is active and for a reasonable period afterward in case of dispute.

To request deletion of your personal information, email legal@dinkredibles.com. I will delete your data within a reasonable timeframe, except where retention is required by law or legitimate business purposes (such as payment records).

Leaving and Account Closure

Email legal@dinkredibles.com from the address on your account and I'll close it.

Posts stay in the forum. Conversations here belong to those involved, and pulling one man's side out leaves everyone else talking to themselves. If you'd rather your name not stay attached, say so and I'll anonymize the account: your words remain, your name comes off.

If you posted something you shouldn't have about your family, your employer, or your health, tell me which post and I'll remove it.

Payment records are retained as required by tax law.

Your Rights

You may unsubscribe from the Dinkredibles email list at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email.

To access, correct, or delete your personal information, contact legal@dinkredibles.com.

Updates to This Policy

Proluminary LLC may update this policy at any time.

Contact

Proluminary LLC
For privacy-related inquiries: legal@dinkredibles.com.