Acceptable use

Do not publish a child’s home address, phone number, school, date of birth or photograph. A first name and a team is as far as this product needs to go, and further is not welcome here.

If you believe something published on Bracketfield puts a child at risk, tell us at once through support. We will act on it before anything else.

Create and publish events you are actually running. Do not impersonate another organisation, copy somebody else’s event to divert their families, or use a sanctioning body’s name to imply it has sanctioned yours when it has not.

Bracketfield carries no advertising, and neither may you through it. Do not use event names, announcements or team names as advertising space, and do not use a notification to promote anything. A sponsor thanked on your own flyer is fine; a sponsor pushed to four hundred lock screens is not.

The urgent flag breaks through Do Not Disturb. Use it for weather and safety. An event that marks everything urgent gets notifications turned off by every family it has, which harms the next event too.

A field slip lets whoever holds it post scores for that field. Give them to your umpires and scorekeepers, and rotate one if it goes missing. Do not publish one.

Do not scrape at a rate that degrades the service for the families using it, attempt to reach data belonging to another organisation, or probe for vulnerabilities without telling us first. If you find one, tell us — we would rather hear it from you.

We may remove content or suspend an account, and we will say which part of this policy and why. Anything involving a child’s safety is acted on immediately and may be reported to the appropriate authorities.