Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

DEBATED respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and the rights you have over it when you use our platform, which includes the DEBATED debate-practice experience and the LAW courtroom experience (together, "the Platform"). One account covers both.

2. Personal Data We Collect

2.1 Account and Authentication Data

• Name: Your display name and the name provided at sign-up
• Email: Your email address, used for login and account notifications
• Profile information: Username, profile picture, experience level, debate style, and onboarding preferences
• Authentication records: Sign-in events (time and sign-in method), verification codes, and security events such as email or password changes

2.2 Debate and Practice Activity

• Debate transcripts, arguments, and notes you create
• Practice activity history, scores, streaks, points, badges, and achievements
• Class, team, tournament, and leaderboard participation

2.3 LAW Activity

• Trial participation, your roles and sides, trial events (arguments, objections, questions, motions), and trial notes you write
• AI-generated verdicts, rulings, and performance evaluations from your trials
• Trial invitations you send or receive and your public-courtroom activity

2.4 Social Data

• Friend requests and accepted friendships, debate challenges, and related notifications
• Blocks and reports you submit; reports submitted about you are handled as described in Section 6

2.5 Subscription, Payment, and Coupon Data

We store your subscription tier and status, renewal dates, payment and refund records, promotional-code redemptions, and billing-related emails. Payment card details are processed by our payment provider (Stripe) and are not stored by DEBATED. We retain records of payments and subscription changes for accounting and support purposes.

2.6 Communications and Support

• Emails we send you (transactional, security, subscription, and optional product or marketing emails you have enabled)
• Contact messages, feedback, and bug reports you submit, including attachments you choose to provide

2.7 Technical, Log, and Analytics Data

When you use the Platform we may collect technical information such as browser type and approximate locale needed to provide and secure the service, usage events recorded by our analytics, per-user rate-limit counters, and administrative audit logs. We do not collect precise geolocation.

3. What Is Public and What Is Private

Your profile has a public side and a private side:

• Public on your profile: Your username, profile picture, experience level, debate style, points, level, streaks, public stats, badges, and public LAW trial counts (total, completed, active). Other signed-in users can view these on your public profile.
• Private: Your email address, account role, subscription and payment details, and the content of your private trials and notes are not shown on your public profile.

Content you post in public debates, public courtrooms, community areas, classes, teams, and tournaments is visible to the other participants of those spaces.

4. AI Features and Your Content

DEBATED and LAW use artificial intelligence to generate debate responses, feedback, scores, rulings, verdicts, and analysis. To provide these features, your inputs (debate arguments, trial arguments, questions, transcripts, and related content) are sent to third-party AI providers for processing. The purposes are to generate your feedback and results and to improve your experience. We do not sell your personal data or your content.

5. How We Use Your Information

• Service provision: To operate features such as debates, trials, scoring, classes, tournaments, and social features
• Account management: Authentication, email verification, and account security
• Communication: Transactional and security emails, renewal reminders, and notifications you have enabled
• Improvement: To analyze usage and improve features and AI quality
• Security and safety: To detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, and policy violations, including reviewing reports and rate-limit counters
• Legal compliance: To meet legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service

6. Legal Basis

Where applicable (for example, under the GDPR), we process your data based on: performance of our contract with you (providing the service), your consent (for optional communications), our legitimate interests (security and improvement), and legal obligations.

7. Recipients and Processors

We use third-party providers to operate the Platform. These may include:

• Payment provider: Stripe, to process subscription payments
• Authentication providers: For sign-in options such as Google and Apple
• AI providers: To generate debate and courtroom feedback, rulings, and analysis
• Email provider: To deliver transactional and security emails
• Hosting and analytics: To host and monitor the Platform

Each provider processes data only as needed to provide its service to DEBATED and under appropriate agreements. We also share limited information when legally required or to enforce our Terms.

8. International Data Transfers

Your data may be processed by providers located outside your country, including outside the EU/EEA. We use providers under appropriate safeguards to help protect your data when it is transferred.

9. Data Retention and Deletion

• Active accounts: Data is retained while your account is active
• Deleted accounts: Most personal data is removed when you delete your account; some records (such as payment records and audit logs) may be retained for legal, accounting, or security purposes

You can delete your account at any time from your account settings. A confirmation email is sent to your address when deletion completes.

10. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Delete your account and associated personal data
• Receive a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used format (data portability)
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Withdraw consent for optional processing (such as marketing emails)
• Lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority if you are in the EU/EEA

To exercise these rights, contact us at contact@getdebated.com or through the in-app contact option. We will respond within the timeframe required by applicable law.

11. Notification Preferences

You can manage optional email preferences (renewal reminders, product updates, and marketing offers) from Settings → Notifications. Security, payment, and subscription-change emails are always enabled to keep your account safe.

12. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use essential cookies and similar technologies for authentication, session management, preferences, and security. We do not use your personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising.

13. Security

We implement industry-standard measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit, access controls, and server-side authorization checks on sensitive operations. No system is completely secure, but we work to protect your information.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will notify you of material changes. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

15. Contact

For privacy questions or requests, contact us at contact@getdebated.com or through the in-app contact option.