The Japanese American National Bowling Association ("JANBA") runs janba.co for its members, its Locations and the National tournament. This page explains what we collect, why, who can see it, and how to delete your account. Questions go to contact@janba.co.
What we collect
- Your account: your name, email address, username, and, if you add them, a phone number and profile photo.
- Sign in with Google or Facebook: if you choose it, that service shares your name, email address and profile photo with us. We never see your Google or Facebook password.
- Locations you follow and whether a manager has approved you there.
- Messages you post in Location channels, and your reactions.
- Tournament entries: what you type on an entry form, such as bowler names, contact details, addresses, entering averages and signatures, plus any printouts you attach.
- Your bowler name, claimed titles and claimed scores, if you set them on your dashboard: the name and hometown you give, which titles in JANBA's tournament archive you say are yours, and which scores in JANBA's published results you say you bowled (your dashboard works out your average and best games from those). JANBA's admins can see your claims, so they can sort it out when two members claim the same title or the same scores.
- Your email and text preferences, and messages you send through the Contact form.
- Basic technical logs kept by our hosting provider, such as IP address and the pages requested, used to keep the site running and secure.
How we use it
- To run your account and show you your Locations, channels and entries.
- To process tournament entries for the tournament committee.
- To send announcements by email, and by text only if you opt in. You can turn either off on My profile, use the unsubscribe link in any email, or reply STOP to any text.
- To answer you when you contact us.
We don't sell your information, show ads, or use advertising or analytics trackers. The only cookies we set keep you signed in.
Who can see it
- Other signed-in members see your display name and photo next to messages you post in channels you share.
- Entering averages and other entry details are private: only the person who submitted the entry, that Location's managers and Regional Representative, and JANBA's global admins can see them.
- Tournament results and history that JANBA publishes, such as standings, all-time scoring and the Hall of Fame, are public, as they have always been.
Services we use
We share information with these providers only so they can do their job for us:
- Supabase: our database, sign-in and file storage.
- Vercel: hosts the website.
- Resend: sends our emails.
- Twilio: sends text messages, if you opt in.
- Google and Facebook: only if you choose to sign in with them.
- Photon by Komoot: suggests addresses as you type one on an entry form, so the text you type is sent to it.
Delete your account
You can delete your account at any time: sign in, open My profile, and choose Delete my account at the bottom of the page. This deletes your profile, photo, Location memberships, channel messages, notifications, preferences, bowler name, claimed titles and claimed scores straight away, and it can't be undone. The tournament results themselves stay in JANBA's archive.
Tournament entries you've already submitted are kept, because they belong to your team's tournament record, but they're no longer linked to an account. To have an entry removed too, or if you can't sign in, email contact@janba.co and we'll take care of it.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update the date at the top of this page, and tell members by email when the change matters.