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Privacy Policy

Last updated October 21, 2026.

Chirp (the chirpsports.app website and the Chirp app) is operated by Flock Labs Inc., which is responsible for the personal information described here. Chirp shows live scores, stats and trends, and hosts game chat, posts (“takes”) and free picks. You can follow scores without an account; an account is needed to chat, react, post, follow people and make picks.

The short version

What we collect and why

Account. Your email address (to send sign in codes and account notices), the username, optional display name and bio you choose, your favorite teams, and your settings (such as whether you chose to see game lines, whether we may feature your chirps, and whether you want Chirp news by email). Your settings, who invited you and your check-in days are private to you. When you sign up we ask the year you were born to confirm you are 14 or older; we do not keep the year, only the fact that you confirmed. The app also asks, optionally, how you found Chirp and the username of a friend who told you about it; we keep your answer to learn what brings people in and to credit that friend. If you sign in with Apple or Google we receive the email address that provider shares with us; with Apple this can be a private relay address. We use these to run your account.

What you post and do. Chat messages, posts and replies, reactions, picks and your pick record, who you follow and who follows you, the people you block, and the reports you file. We use them to run chat, the feed, picks and moderation. Moderators can see reported content.

Usage analytics. To learn which features help people, Chirp keeps its own first-party usage events on the web and in the app: which pages and screens are opened and which features are used (for example signing in, making a pick, sending a chat message, sharing, following a team, and turning on or opening alerts). Each browser or device gets a random id stored on it, and when you are signed in the events are linked to your account. We also record the link that brought you to Chirp (campaign tags and the referring site's domain, never the full address), your app version, and your country as reported by our hosting provider, plus a one time event the first time the app is opened. We do not store IP addresses with these events. Links you share from the app carry your username (for example ?ref=u-yourname) so we can count visits from your shares; if someone signs up after opening your link, or names you as the friend who told them, both of you are credited with Seeds and the link between the two accounts is kept, private to you. You can turn usage analytics off below for this browser, or in the app under You.

Crash and performance reports. When the app hits an error, freezes, or closes unexpectedly, it sends a short report (the error message, the first lines of the code location, the screen, and the app version), and once a minute a count of slow frames per screen. These go to the same first-party analytics, are linked the same way, and are used only to fix bugs.

Live viewer counts and game rooms. While a game is on screen the website and app check in about every 30 seconds with the game, the random device id (or your account id when signed in), and the time. We use this to show how many people opened a game. When you are signed in, other people in the same game can see that you are there, and people who follow you may get an in-app note that you joined. You can turn off “Show me in who's watching” (at sign up, or later in the app under You, then Edit profile); you then still count in the viewer number but your name is not shown and followers get no note. The live check-in is kept for about 10 minutes and the record that you opened a game for 7 days.

Alerts. If you allow notifications, we store your device's push token, the teams, games and alert types you follow, your time zone (so alerts arrive at sensible hours), and a log of the alerts we sent. If you turn on Live Activities (live scores on your iPhone screen and Dynamic Island), we also store that Live Activity's push token. Each device also creates a random secret that proves its alerts belong to it; we store only a one way hash of it. If you delete your account, alerts you set up on that device keep working as a signed out device until you turn them off in the app or in your phone's settings.

Ask Chirp. When you ask Chirp a question we keep the question, how long the answer took and which data it looked up, with the random device id (or, without one, a one way hash of your IP address, never the address itself) so we can cap questions per day. Questions are answered by Anthropic's Claude from our sports data and kept for 90 days.

Things stored on your device. The website uses cookies only to keep you signed in and to return you to the page you came from after signing in, and stores your favorite teams, the random device id, campaign tags and similar settings in your browser's local storage. The app keeps the same kind of settings on your phone.

Support. If you email us, we keep the conversation to answer you.

What is public

Your username, display name, bio, level and Seeds totals, pick record and picks, equipped shop items, favorite teams, followers and following, and everything you post (chat, takes, replies, reactions) can be seen by other people on Chirp and, for public pages, by anyone on the web. Your email address and your settings are never shown.

Email and notifications

We only send you marketing email (news, new features, game previews) if you turn on “Email me Chirp news” in your profile. It is off unless you turn it on, we record when you gave or withdrew consent and where, and you can turn it off anytime in your profile or with the unsubscribe link that every such email will carry. Sign in codes and account notices are sent regardless, because Chirp needs them to work. Push alerts are only sent if you allow notifications, and you choose which ones in the app.

Featuring your chirps

If you turn on “Feature my chirps” (off unless you turn it on), we may show some of your chat messages, with your username, in posts on Chirp's own social media accounts (for example X and Instagram). Once posted there, those platforms' own privacy policies apply. Turning it off stops new features; ask us to remove an existing one.

Who processes your data for us

We use service providers who handle data on our behalf and only for running Chirp:

Team logos, player photos and some images load directly from ESPN's image servers, which see your IP address like any website you load images from. Some game pages on the website show posts from X through X's embed, which loads from X and is subject to X's privacy policy; we ask X not to use it for personalization. Statistics and scores come from public sources and injury designations from public injury reports.

Your information is stored and processed in the United States, so it may be accessed by courts and authorities there under US law.

How long we keep it

When you delete your account, we delete your profile, sign in details, messages, posts, replies, reactions, picks, follows, blocks, reports, notifications, Seeds and email preferences right away. Usage events you made stay only without the link to your account.

Your choices and rights

You can see and correct your profile in the app and on the website, delete your own messages and posts, turn email, alerts and usage analytics on or off, and delete your account. Depending on where you live (for example Canada, including Quebec, several US states, and the UK) you may also have the right to ask for access to the personal information we hold about you, a copy of it in a usable format, correction, deletion, or to withdraw consent, and to complain to your data protection authority. Email [email protected]; we will confirm it is your account and answer within 30 days. We will not treat you differently for using these rights.

We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of; we still treat a Global Privacy Control signal as that request.

Children

Chirp is for people 14 and older. We ask for a birth year at sign up, and if someone is younger we do not create the account and do not keep what they entered. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 14. If you believe someone under 14 has an account, email [email protected] and we will delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit, access to our database is limited by row level security, and only a small team can see account data. If a breach affecting your information creates a real risk of harm, we will tell you and the relevant authorities as the law requires.

Contact and the person responsible

Questions, requests or complaints about privacy go to our Privacy Officer the person in charge of protecting personal information at Flock Labs Inc.: [email protected].

If we change how we handle data, we will update this page first and change the date above. See also the Terms of Service and the support page.