Privacy Policy

Mat Patterns respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information Mat Patterns collects, how that information is used, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you.

Mat Patterns is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training journal and school platform. Depending on how you use the service, Mat Patterns may process personal training information, school membership information, family or guardian relationships, and other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on the features you use. It may include:

• Your display name, email address, account credentials, and account preferences
• Your belt or rank and other profile information you choose to provide
• School or team memberships, administrative roles, coaching roles, and guardian relationships
• Training sessions, rolls, submissions, submission attempts, techniques, positions, guards, notes, goals, and other training information you record
• Training partner names and other information you enter about your training
• School schedules, announcements, membership information, and school administration information
• Family and child profile information provided by a parent, guardian, or authorized adult
• Information associated with invitations to schools, family connections, or guardian relationships
• Notification preferences and technical information needed to deliver push notifications
• Information related to school subscriptions and billing status

Information Collected Automatically

When you use Mat Patterns, certain technical information may be collected automatically to operate, secure, measure, and improve the service.

This may include information such as:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type and operating system
• Pages or features viewed
• Approximate timestamps and usage activity
• Login and authentication activity
• Error and diagnostic information
• Security and abuse-prevention records
• Referral or campaign information

How We Use Your Information

Mat Patterns uses information to provide and operate the service, including to:

• Create and maintain your account
• Save, organize, and display your training history
• Generate training statistics, patterns, summaries, and goal progress
• Provide school, coaching, schedule, announcement, invitation, and administrative features
• Provide family and guardian features
• Deliver notifications you have enabled
• Process school subscription payments and manage billing status
• Send account confirmations, password resets, invitations, and other service-related messages
• Protect Mat Patterns and its users from fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security threats
• Troubleshoot errors and improve the performance and usability of the service
• Understand how people discover and use Mat Patterns

Your Training Data

Your individual training journal is intended to remain private. Mat Patterns does not make your personal roll-by-roll history publicly available.

Information such as your individual training partners, who submitted whom, tap counts, private training notes, and detailed roll history is not made visible to teammates simply because you belong to the same school.

Mat Patterns may use information from your training history to generate statistics, summaries, patterns, goal progress, and other features for your own account.

School and Coaching Features

If you join a school or team, certain information may be made available through school-related features.

This may include your display name, belt or rank, membership role, training activity totals, aggregate technique patterns, or other information intentionally made available through team and coaching features.

Authorized coaches may also have access to student training summaries designed to show broader training patterns and areas of focus.

These summaries are designed to preserve the privacy of individual rolls. Private training partners, individual tap records, roll-by-roll details, and private notes are not provided through coach summaries.

Family and Guardian Information

Mat Patterns includes optional family features that allow parents or guardians to connect with children who participate at a school.

A parent, guardian, school administrator, or other authorized adult may provide information such as a child's display name, school relationship, and belt or rank.

Child profiles do not require the child to create a separate Mat Patterns login.

Family relationships may also include information identifying connected parents or guardians and the schools with which those relationships are associated.

Guardians may be given access to family-related school information, including schedules and announcements. Guardian access does not provide access to another user's private training journal unless a feature explicitly states otherwise.

Children's Privacy

Mat Patterns accounts are intended to be created and managed by adults or other users legally permitted to create an account.

Mat Patterns is not designed for young children to independently create and manage accounts.

However, Mat Patterns does allow parents, guardians, and other authorized adults to create limited child profiles as part of school and family features.

Information associated with a child profile may include the child's name or display name, belt or rank, school relationship, and connections to parents or guardians.

If you believe information about a child has been provided without appropriate authorization, please contact us at support@matpatterns.com .

Push Notifications

If you enable notifications, Mat Patterns may store technical information needed to deliver browser or device push notifications.

Notifications may include training reminders, school announcements, or other service-related information.

You may disable notification permissions through Mat Patterns, your browser, or your device settings where supported.

Email Communications

Mat Patterns may send transactional or service-related emails, including:

• Email confirmation messages
• Password reset messages
• School or guardian invitations
• Important account or security notices
• Other messages necessary to provide requested features

Payments and Billing

Paid school features may require payment through a third-party payment processor such as Stripe.

Mat Patterns does not need to store your full payment card number. Payment information is processed by the payment provider according to that provider's own privacy and security practices.

Mat Patterns may retain information such as subscription status, billing identifiers, subscription dates, and other information necessary to determine access to paid features.

Analytics and Website Measurement

Mat Patterns may use analytics and measurement services to understand how visitors find and use the website and to help improve the service.

These services may collect technical and usage information such as browser type, device information, pages visited, approximate location derived from an IP address, referral information, and interactions with the website.

Mat Patterns may use services such as Google Analytics and Meta measurement technologies for website analytics and campaign measurement.

Mat Patterns does not provide your private BJJ training journal contents, individual roll details, training partner history, or private notes to advertising platforms for targeted advertising.

Cookies and Browser Storage

Mat Patterns uses cookies and similar browser technologies for purposes such as authentication, security, preferences, analytics, and application functionality.

Some cookies are necessary for Mat Patterns to function, including cookies used to keep you signed in and protect authenticated sessions.

Service Providers

Mat Patterns relies on third-party service providers to operate portions of the service.

Providers may assist with services such as:

• Website and application hosting
• Database hosting
• Email delivery
• Payment processing
• Analytics and performance measurement
• Push notification delivery
• Security and abuse prevention

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide the services used by Mat Patterns and are subject to their own contractual, privacy, and security obligations.

We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information

Mat Patterns does not sell or rent your personal information.

Mat Patterns does not sell your private training history, training partner information, roll details, or private notes to advertisers or data brokers.

When Information May Be Disclosed

Mat Patterns may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law or legal process
• Respond to valid requests from government or law-enforcement authorities
• Protect the rights, safety, security, or property of Mat Patterns, its users, or others
• Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or illegal activity
• Operate the service through trusted service providers

Data Security

Mat Patterns uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

However, no website, application, database, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Data Retention

Mat Patterns generally retains account and training information while your account remains active and for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service.

Certain information may be retained for longer when reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, backups, dispute resolution, accounting, or legal compliance.

Account and Data Deletion

You may request deletion of your Mat Patterns account and associated personal information by contacting support@matpatterns.com .

We may need to verify your identity before completing a deletion request.

When an account is deleted, information associated with the account will be deleted or anonymized where reasonably possible, subject to limited retention needed for backups, security, fraud prevention, financial records, dispute resolution, or legal obligations.

Leaving a school does not automatically delete your Mat Patterns account or your personal training history.

Your Choices

Depending on the feature, you may be able to:

• Update your profile information
• Leave a school or team
• Change notification permissions
• Manage family and guardian relationships
• Update certain training information you have entered
• Request account deletion

Mobile and Installed Applications

Mat Patterns may be used through a web browser, installed Progressive Web App, or other mobile application made available by Mat Patterns.

Installed versions of Mat Patterns may interact with device capabilities such as notifications, links, or local application storage when necessary to provide application features.

If additional device permissions are introduced in the future, Mat Patterns will request those permissions when required by the device or operating system.

Use From Other Locations

Mat Patterns is operated from the United States. If you access the service from another country, information may be processed or stored in the United States or other locations used by our service providers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Mat Patterns may update this Privacy Policy as the application, its features, or applicable requirements change.

When the policy is updated, the revised version will be posted on this page and the "Last updated" date will be changed.

Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, believe information has been provided without proper authorization, or would like to make a privacy or account deletion request, contact: support@matpatterns.com .