Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

White Lights is operated by DeadBeet LLC. This policy applies to the White Lights iPhone app, thewhitelights.com, and the White Lights services that support them.

Questions or privacy requests can be sent to support@thewhitelights.com.

2. Public competition records

White Lights presents powerlifting competition results from the public-domain OpenPowerlifting dataset. Those records may include an athlete's name, sex category, federation, division, equipment, tested status, bodyweight, weight class, attempts, total, placing, meet, date, and location.

White Lights does not collect these public records directly from athletes. Choosing, saving, or following a public career does not prove that the person using the app is that athlete.

Source corrections should be submitted to OpenPowerlifting so the shared public archive can be corrected for everyone.

3. Information kept on your iPhone

The current app can store your unit preference, onboarding state, saved public careers, My Passport selection, rivals, and notification preferences on your device.

If you choose a Passport photo, the app stores a processed copy in its local app storage. White Lights does not upload that photo in the current build. You can remove it from the Passport, clear local selections in Settings, or remove the app and its local data from your iPhone.

4. Information processed when you use the service

When the app searches for a career or loads public Passport data, it sends the search text or requested public profile identifier to our service. Our hosting and security provider may process ordinary network information such as IP address, request headers, timestamps, and error information to deliver and protect the service.

When you contact support, we receive the email address, message, and attachments you choose to send. We use them to answer the request and keep them only as long as reasonably needed for support, safety, recordkeeping, or legal obligations.

5. Accounts and athlete verification

Account creation and athlete verification are not open in the current build. Before those features open, this policy will be reviewed and updated if their data practices change.

If accounts are enabled, Sign in with Apple may provide an Apple account identifier and, if you choose to share it, an email address or private relay address. We may also store synced public profile identifiers, My Passport and rival selections, unit and notification choices, opaque session records, and the status of an athlete verification request.

Profile selection is not identity verification. Only a completed server-side review can create a verified-athlete status. We will explain any evidence process before asking for evidence, and verification, appeals, revocation, privacy, and deletion will not require a paid subscription.

6. Sharing and photos

Meet stories, Passport cards, and other exports are rendered by the app. Nothing is posted automatically. A share leaves your device only after you choose a destination through Apple's share sheet. Your chosen photo may appear on an export when the app clearly discloses that it is user-selected.

You are responsible for having permission to use and share any photo you select.

7. On-device intelligence

White Lights calculates competition facts, personal records, standings, targets, and comparisons deterministically from published data. Supported Apple intelligence features may improve the presentation of those facts using Apple's on-device Foundation Models.

White Lights does not currently send career data or photos to an external AI provider. If that changes, we will explain the provider and choices before the feature is enabled.

8. How we use information

• Provide search, public Passports, comparisons, exports, and support.
• Remember choices and, if accounts open, sync the choices you ask us to sync.
• Maintain security, diagnose failures, prevent abuse, and protect the integrity of the service.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Use.

We do not sell personal information or use it for third-party advertising.

9. Service providers

Cloudflare provides website hosting, API delivery, storage, security, and email routing. Apple provides the iPhone platform, system sharing and photo selection, TestFlight and App Store distribution, and, if enabled, Sign in with Apple and in-app purchase processing.

These providers process information under their own terms and privacy policies as needed to provide their services. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect rights or safety, or as part of a business transfer subject to appropriate safeguards.

10. Retention, deletion, and your choices

Local app data remains on your iPhone until you remove it through the app, clear the app's storage, or uninstall the app. Public OpenPowerlifting records remain part of the source archive and are not deleted by clearing White Lights data.

If accounts open, the app will provide an account deletion control in Settings. Deletion will revoke White Lights sessions and remove account data that we are not legally required to retain. It will not remove public source records.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, or a copy of personal information we control. Contact support@thewhitelights.com. We may need to verify a request before acting on it.

11. Children and young athletes

White Lights is not directed to children under 13, and account features are not currently open. Public competition archives can contain results for young athletes. If you believe we control personal information submitted by a child under 13, contact us so we can investigate. Source-record corrections must be handled with OpenPowerlifting.

12. Security and international processing

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No service can guarantee absolute security.

White Lights and its providers may process information in the United States and other countries where they operate. Those locations may have different data-protection laws than your home country.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as White Lights changes. The effective date above will identify the current version. If a change materially affects how account information is handled, we will provide reasonable notice through the app or website.

14. Contact

DeadBeet LLC
support@thewhitelights.com
White Lights Support