Privacy Policy

This website ("Site") is operated by Sports Witness LLC, doing business as The Ballpark Witness. Sports Witness LLC is based in Virginia, United States. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding your data. The Ballpark Witness is a personal baseball game log and statistics tracker. It stores information about MLB games attended and the players’ box score statistics from those games.

Information Collected

• Account Information. When registering, users may provide information such as an email address, username, favorite ballpark, profile details, and communication preferences.
• Password Security. Passwords are not stored in plain text and are securely hashed using the ASP.NET Identity framework.
• User Game Data. The site stores records of games a user marks as attended. Multiple users may link themselves to the same game.
• Usage Information. The application stores limited activity data to support functionality, improve the product, and maintain security. This may include last access time, pages and features used within the site, and general interaction patterns.
• Technical Data. Standard server logs may automatically collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, and access times for security and operational purposes.
• Baseball Statistics. The site stores baseball game results and player statistics imported from publicly available MLB data sources.
• Email Preferences. Users may optionally choose to receive occasional product updates, feature announcements, milestone alerts, and baseball archive-related emails. Users may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

How Information Is Used

Account and usage information is used solely to:

• Authenticate users
• Associate games attended with a specific user account
• Display personalized statistics and baseball history
• Generate aggregated statistics about games and players seen
• Operate administrative tools used to maintain the service
• Maintain the security and reliability of the application
• Understand how features are used in order to improve the application and prioritize development
• Send optional product updates, feature announcements, and account-related communications to users who opt in

Cookies

We use essential cookies for authentication, security, and session management. These cookies allow you to log in and access your personal data. We do not use cookies for advertising or third-party tracking.

Analytics

This site does not use third-party analytics services. However, platform-level monitoring tools (such as Microsoft Azure diagnostics) may collect standard usage data including page views, approximate geographic region, device type, and browser type.

Data Storage

Application data is stored in a database hosted on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. Stored data primarily consists of baseball game results, player statistics, and user-selected game attendance records. Communication with the site is encrypted using HTTPS.

Administrative Access

Site administrators may access limited account and usage data for operational and product improvement purposes. This may include:

• Email address
• Number of games recorded
• Recent activity timestamps
• High-level feature usage (such as pages visited and tools used)

This information is used to maintain system reliability, identify issues, and understand which features are most valuable to users. Administrators do not access private user data beyond what is necessary to operate and improve the service.

Third-Party Services

Baseball schedules, box scores, awards, and related statistics may be retrieved from publicly available MLB data sources and APIs. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Major League Baseball.

Data Sharing

This site does not sell, rent, or trade personal information. Information may be disclosed only if required by law or necessary to protect the security and integrity of the application.

We do not track users across other websites and do not sell or share personal data for advertising purposes.

User Game Data

The site stores records of games a user marks as attended in order to generate personal baseball statistics, milestones, and historical tracking features.

If enabled by the user through profile or sharing settings, certain attendance information, profile details, and baseball statistics may be visible to other users. This may include attendance at specific games, shared game history, public profile pages, leaderboard participation, and other community-oriented features.

Data Retention

User account and associated game data are retained for as long as the account remains active. Users may request account deletion, at which point associated personal data will be removed except where retention is required for legal or administrative purposes.

User Rights

Users may request access to or deletion of their personal data by contacting the site administrator.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the site administrator at admin@theballparkwitness.com.

Last updated: 2026-05-31