Effective Date: May 25, 2026
At FanVote, we believe voting should be fun, simple, and privacy-first. We built this app for the love of sports, sports bars, and community discussion — not for collecting or selling personal data. We're not a data broker, and we never will be.
FanVote may help users find sports bars, choose a venue, vote for games, and allow approved venue staff to make local screen decisions through FanVote Signal. FanVote does not need to track people to make that work.
What We Collect
Vote Data: When you vote on a game, matchup, or fan suggestion, we record the vote itself and a unique anonymous identifier generated by Firebase Authentication. This helps prevent duplicate votes and lets FanVote show accurate live totals.
Venue Selection: When FanVote asks you to choose a sports bar, we may save the venue you selected so the app knows which voting experience to show. This may include whether the venue is a FanVote partner, a nearby discovered sports bar, or a sports bar name you typed in yourself.
Optional Location Use: If FanVote offers nearby sports bar discovery, your browser may ask for permission to use your current location. Location use is optional. You can also enter a city, ZIP code, or favorite sports bar instead.
No Background Location Tracking: FanVote does not track your movement, does not run background location tracking, and does not build a personal location history.
No Sale of Personal Data: FanVote does not sell personal data, does not act as a data broker, and does not share personal user profiles with sports bars or advertisers.
How We Use Data
To tally votes and display live results, hot trends, community standings, and game demand.
To show venue-specific voting when a user chooses a sports bar.
To help approved venue staff understand what fans want to watch, using aggregated vote totals rather than personal tracking.
To help FanVote identify potential sports bar interest. For example, if many users select or type the same non-partner sports bar, FanVote may use that venue-level interest as a future outreach lead.
Data is used only to make FanVote better, more useful for fans, and more useful for participating sports bars.
Venue Discovery and Sports Bar Listings
FanVote may show nearby sports bars or allow users to enter a favorite sports bar. Some listed venues may be official FanVote partners, and some may simply be discovered or user-entered venues.
FanVote does not claim that every listed sports bar is an official FanVote partner. Partner status may vary and may be shown separately in the app as the product grows.
For non-partner venues, FanVote may use aggregate interest data to understand where fans would like to use FanVote. For example: "Fans selected this venue this week" or "Fans requested a game at this location." This is venue-level interest, not individual user tracking.
FanVote Signal and Local TV Control
FanVote Signal is a local venue-display control bridge. It may help approved venue staff route the right game to the right screen using hardware and services the venue already owns, such as TVs, receivers, streaming boxes, or AV equipment.
FanVote Signal does not provide, rebroadcast, or redistribute sports content. It is designed to help approved staff manage the local display environment.
FanVote Signal actions are intended to be authorized by venue staff. Fans can express demand through votes, but staff remain in control of screen changes.
Data Storage & Security
Votes, venue selections, and beta workflow data may be stored securely in Google Firebase Firestore or in the user's browser storage, depending on the feature.
Only authorized admins can view operational FanVote data needed to run the service. The goal is aggregated vote and venue demand, not individual user surveillance.
We do not sell personal data. We do not share individual user profiles with third parties.
Your Control
You can clear your browser data or log out at any time. This may clear locally saved venue selections and disassociate future votes from the current browser session.
You can decline location access and still use FanVote by selecting a venue manually, entering a city or ZIP code where available, or typing a favorite sports bar.
If you have privacy questions or need help with FanVote data, contact the FanVote team through the project site or Yellow Bird Tech.
Why This Matters
FanVote is built by fans, for fans, and for sports bars that want a better way to understand what customers want to watch.
The goal is simple: fans vote, staff stay in control, and the right game gets to the right screen without turning FanVote into a tracking platform.
We keep it simple: You choose a venue, vote for a game, and FanVote counts demand. No creepy tracking.
Thank you for being part of the FanVote community!
— The FanVote Team
Developed by Yellow Bird Tech