Short version: Biñho Cup has no email sign-up, no ads and no tracking. It keeps only what it needs to run your tournaments and your record, and you can delete your player name from inside the app at any time.
What’s stored, and where
- On your phone: the cups you host or joined, your player name and the secret key that proves it’s yours, and your settings. This stays on your phone.
- Shared cups: when a host taps Share, the cup goes to our server so other phones can join: the cup name, the names entered, the bracket, scores and cards, the rules, buy-in and payout settings, and the host’s Venmo or Cash App handle if they added one. Anyone with the join code can see all of this. A shared cup is erased automatically 30 days after its last change, or straight away when the host deletes it.
- Player names: the name you pick, plus your match results, Elo rating, streaks, cups won and crews. Other players can see these on leaderboards and player pages. That’s the point of them. Your phone keeps a secret key that proves the name is yours, so on a shared computer tap “Stop using this name on this phone” when you’re done.
- Alerts: if you turn on alerts, we store the push address your phone’s browser or operating system gives us for that cup, so we can tell you when you’re on deck or up. Apple, Google and your browser deliver those alerts; app alerts go through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging.
- Website visits: the website (not the apps) adds to daily totals of visits by kind of page and country, so we can see how many people stop by. Your browser keeps the date of your last visit so you’re counted once a day; that date stays on your device, and the totals can’t be tied to you. Cloudflare, our host, also keeps its own traffic statistics, and its Web Analytics script runs on the website to count page loads. It doesn’t use cookies.
Everything is stored with Cloudflare, our hosting provider. We don’t sell or share any of it, and nothing is used for advertising.
What we don’t collect
No email addresses, phone numbers, passwords, contacts, location, photos, or payment details. Biñho Cup never handles money: it only shows the buy-ins and payouts you set, and any Venmo or Cash App button just opens that app.
Deleting your data
- Your player name: in the app, open your profile (the “You” section on the start screen) and tap Delete my player name. That erases the name, your record, streaks, cups won and crew spots. Three things stay: a shared cup you joined keeps your name until it’s deleted or expires after 30 days, your opponents keep their results against you, shown as “Deleted player”, and any report made about the name stays until it’s reviewed.
- A cup: the host can delete it from the person icon inside the cup. Otherwise it erases itself 30 days after its last change.
- Anything else, or if you’ve lost your phone: email j.pella.bgb@gmail.com.
Children
Biñho Cup isn’t aimed at children under 13 and doesn’t knowingly collect anything about them beyond a player name they choose.
Changes
If this changes, we’ll update this page. Last updated November 6, 2026.