Ballhockey.com Ratings

Privacy

What this site collects, why, who can see it, and how to get a rating corrected or removed.

Last updated October 22, 2026

Who runs this site

ballhockeyratings.com is run by Ballhockey.com to rate players for Ballhockey.com tournaments. Questions about this page or your information go to curtis@ballhockey.com.

Player ratings

For each rating entry the site shows the player's name, the team, the event, the rating earned there, and whether they played goalie. This comes from the rosters and results of the qualifying events listed on the About page. It's published so captains and organizers can check division eligibility.

Entries roll off the database when their event expires (the expiry date is shown on each player's profile). Removed entries are kept privately for the staff record so they can be restored if removed by mistake.

Getting a rating corrected or removed

Open the player's profile and choose Appeal this rating, for example if you didn't play in an event, the rating is wrong, it's a different person with the same name, or the name is misspelled. You can also email curtis@ballhockey.com.

Appeals

When you send an appeal we keep:

• your name and email address, and your phone number if you give one
• whether you're the player or sending it for them, which entry it's about, and your message
• the time it was sent, and a scrambled code made from your internet connection, used only to limit how many appeals can be sent in a day. Your actual IP address isn't stored.

We use this to review the appeal and reply to you. Staff can add internal notes and update its status. Only Ballhockey.com ratings staff, who sign in to a private staff panel, can see appeals. When an appeal is sent, staff get an email about it, and you may get a confirmation email with your reference number.

Appeals are kept as part of the ratings record so decisions stay consistent. To have your contact details removed from an appeal, email curtis@ballhockey.com with your reference number.

Player photos

Players who are 18 or older can add a photo of themselves from their profile. It shows on their profile, their player page, in search results and in link previews when someone shares their page. Photos are only ever added by the player, never by staff or anyone else.

When you send a photo we keep:

• your photo, cropped and resized on your device before it's sent
• a photo of your ID, so staff can check the photo is really you and that you're 18 or older. You can cover the ID number and address; only your name, face and date of birth need to be readable.
• your email address, so staff can tell you their decision, and the time it was sent
• a scrambled code made from your internet connection, used only to limit how many requests can be sent in a day

Your ID photo is deleted as soon as staff approve or decline your photo. If nobody reviews it within 30 days, the request, the photo and the ID are all deleted automatically. The ID is never published, emailed or shared, and only Ballhockey.com ratings staff, who sign in to a private staff panel, can see it. If your photo is declined, it's deleted too.

When staff approve your photo, they also note privately that your ID was checked: who checked it and when. Nothing from the ID itself is kept. Staff can make the same note after checking your ID in person at a tournament. Verified players show a small ID verified badge next to their name on the site, which helps captains and tournament check-in. Only the badge is public: who checked your ID, when and how is seen only by staff. The badge stays if your photo is later removed. Email curtis@ballhockey.com to have it removed.

Once approved, your photo is public. Location and camera details are removed from it before it's published. To have it taken down, open your profile and choose Ask to remove this photo, or email curtis@ballhockey.com. A removed photo stops showing on the site within a few minutes and is deleted.

Visitor statistics

To see how the site is used, we keep simple anonymous counts. No cookies are used and nothing is saved on your device for this. When you leave or switch away from a page, your browser sends a short summary of that visit:

• which screens you opened (search, Roster Builder, a player or team page), and how many Roster Builder checks and appeals were started or sent
• what you searched for and how many results it found, and which player profiles and teams you opened
• the page you arrived on, and the website that linked you here (just its name, like google.com, not the full address)
• whether you used a phone, tablet or computer, and whether you opened the installed app
• your approximate province or state and country, worked out by our host from your connection

To count unique visitors without tracking anyone, each visit gets a scrambled code made from your internet connection and browser type, mixed with a secret that changes every day. The code can't be turned back into your IP address, and because the secret changes daily, visits on different days can't be linked. Your IP address and full browser details aren't stored.

A couple of days after each day ends, that day's visits are added into daily totals and the individual visit summaries are deleted. Only the site administrator can see the totals. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, nothing is counted. Search engines and other automated visitors aren't counted either.

What's stored on your device

The site doesn't use cookies for visitors and has no ads or tracking cookies. It saves a few things in your own browser, which never leave your device:

• bh-theme: light or dark mode, if you chose one
• bhr-recent: players you recently opened, shown under the search box
• bhr-next-roster: the roster you're building in the Roster Builder

Clearing your browser's site data removes them. Staff who sign in to the staff panel get one sign-in cookie, which lasts up to 12 hours.

Services we use

• Netlify hosts the website, runs the forms, and stores the anonymous visit counts and player photos (including ID photos until staff review them). Like any web host, it handles basic request information such as IP addresses to deliver pages.
• GitHub stores the ratings and the private staff records in a private repository.
• Resend sends the appeal and photo emails.

We don't share your information with anyone else unless the law requires it.

Changes to this page

If what the site collects changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top.