Privacy Policy

Account information: name, email address, and account role (student or business), collected when you sign up with email/password or with Google sign-in.

Business profile information (business accounts only): business name, bio, rates, location (city/state/zip), contact email, website and Instagram handle, skill levels taught, specialties, certifications, years of experience, and any photos you upload. You provide this voluntarily, and most of it appears on your public listing.

Messages: content of messages sent between students and businesses through TennisGrove's messaging feature.

Reviews: star ratings and written reviews students submit for businesses.

Saved listings: which business profiles a student has bookmarked.

Student preferences (optional): after signing up, students can answer a short survey — skill level, what they're looking for, areas to improve, a budget range, and a city. It's entirely optional and you can skip it.

Technical data: like any website, our hosting provider processes your IP address and basic request details to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

Payments: TennisGrove doesn't charge for accounts or basic listings. If you buy the optional Featured upgrade when it becomes available, payment is handled by Stripe — we never see or store your card number, only a Stripe customer and subscription reference.

We use this information to run the platform: showing business listings to students, enabling messaging between students and businesses, displaying reviews, emailing you when you receive a message (you can turn that off), letting you manage your account, and understanding in aggregate what players are looking for. We do not sell or share your personal information for advertising, and we do not use your data to advertise to you.

We use a small number of service providers to operate TennisGrove:

• Supabase — stores account and profile data, messages, and uploaded photos in a hosted database with access controls that restrict who can read each piece of data (for example, only you and admins can see your own messages).
• Vercel — hosts the site and provides privacy-friendly analytics (see below).
• Resend — sends our emails, such as new-message notifications.
• Stripe — processes payments for the optional Featured upgrade, once available.
• Google — if you choose Google sign-in, Google handles authentication and shares your name and email with us; we don't receive your Google password.

TennisGrove uses only essential cookies, to keep you signed in and remember basic preferences. We don't use advertising, tracking, or analytics cookies, which is why the site doesn't show a cookie banner. If that ever changes, we'll ask for your consent first.

We use Vercel Analytics to see aggregate traffic patterns — which pages get visited and roughly how much traffic the site gets. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't track you across other websites, and doesn't collect anything that identifies you personally. We use it only to understand how TennisGrove is used, not to advertise to you.

We email you about new messages, plus account emails like sign-up confirmation and password reset. We don't send marketing email. Every message notification includes an unsubscribe link, and you can switch them off any time in your account settings.

You can update your name, photo, and business profile any time from your dashboard. You can delete your account yourself at any time from account settings. That permanently erases your profile, listings, photos, messages (including ones you sent, which disappear from the other person's inbox too), reviews, saved listings, and survey answers, and cancels any Featured subscription. Deleted data may remain in routine backups for a short time before being overwritten.

You can also email us to ask what data we hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. If you live in California, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to have it deleted or corrected, and to opt out of its sale or sharing — we don't sell or share personal information, and we won't treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.

TennisGrove accounts are intended for users 13 and older, and we ask you to confirm your age when you sign up. Junior players are welcome to be discussed and booked through a parent or guardian's account — we don't knowingly collect account information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, email us and we'll delete it.

If this policy changes in a material way, we'll update the date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify users directly.

Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, can be sent to veer@tennisgrove.com.