Privacy Policy

Shade is a training platform for athletes and communities. This policy explains what we collect, why we collect it, and the choices you have. The short version: we collect what the product needs to work, we do not sell your data, and you control what other members can see.

• Account information. Your email address, name, username, and profile photo, handled through our sign-in provider (Clerk). If you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive the basic profile information those services share.
• Profile details you add. Bio, date of birth, gender, height, weight, unit preferences, and training interests. These power features like age and gender based competition divisions and benchmark comparisons.
• Training data. Workouts you log, programs you build or follow, personal records, body weight entries, and body measurements.
• Community activity. Community and team memberships, event registrations, leaderboard entries and submissions (including any proof media you upload), and coaching or friend relationships you enter into.
• Payment information. Payments are processed by Stripe. We never see or store full card numbers; we keep records of your subscription status and transaction history.
• Media you upload. Avatars, community and event images, and submission proof, stored with our storage provider.
• Content you submit to AI features. Text, voice recordings, or images you provide to generate workouts or programs are sent to our AI providers to produce the result. We record usage metadata (model, token counts, timing) to operate the feature fairly.

• Running the product: logging, programs, records, communities, events, leaderboards, and coaching.
• Showing you to other members according to your visibility settings.
• Processing subscriptions and event registration payments.
• Sending transactional email such as invitations and billing notices.
• Keeping the platform safe: preventing abuse, enforcing rate limits, and moderating flagged media.

We do not sell your personal data and we do not show third party advertising.

Your profile visibility is controlled by you. The profile switch and the per-section switches (personal records, workouts, performance index, body weight) decide what other signed-in members can see. Names and avatars appear to members of communities and teams you join, and on leaderboards you compete on. Nothing about your training is visible to people who are not signed in.

We share data only with the service providers that run the platform: Clerk (sign-in), Stripe (payments), Supabase (database and storage), Vercel (hosting), Resend (email), Upstash (rate limiting), Mapbox (community address lookup), and AI model providers for the optional generation features. Each receives only what its function requires. We may disclose information if required by law.

Your data stays as long as your account exists. Deleting your account removes your personal data from our systems; some records that other members depend on (for example, results in a completed competition) may be retained in anonymized form. Communities that stop paying enter a wind-down period and their data is deleted after the retention window described in our terms.

Shade is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.

We will update this policy as the product evolves and note the date above. Questions or requests about your data: hello@shade.training.