Spili organises regular games among people who already know each other. It is built so that it needs very little about you, and this page says plainly what it keeps, who can see it, and how to get rid of it.
Spili is in beta: a small group is testing it before it opens to everyone.
The short version. No ads, no selling or sharing of your information for anyone else's marketing, no public profiles, no directory, no location tracking. Spili never reads your address book. You can delete your account from inside the app and it takes effect immediately.
Spili is made by Spili LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company ("we", "us"). We are the controller of the information described here. You can reach us at support@spili.app.
If you are in Switzerland, Spili LLC is the controller of your information under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, and everything on this page — including your rights to see, correct and delete your information — applies to you in the same way.
| Information | Why we have it |
|---|---|
| Sign-in details — the email address you sign in with | To sign you in (we email you a one-time code; there is no password) and to reach you about your account. |
| Profile — a display name and, optionally, a photo | So the people you play with recognise you. Your photo is stored privately, not at a public link, and the app shrinks it and removes any location data in the file before it is uploaded. We do not track your location. |
| Age confirmation and terms | Spili is for adults. When you sign up you confirm that you are 18 or over and agree to the Terms; we keep that you confirmed, when, and which version of the Terms it was. We never ask for or keep your date of birth. |
| Sports you play, your private rankings of players, groups you make, people you connect with, people you block | To ask the right people, in the order you chose. Your rankings are private to you; nobody else can see where they sit on your list. |
| Matches — sport, time, venue name and address as entered, courts or tables, who was asked, who replied and how, who played | To run the game: fill the spots, settle the lineup, update calendars, keep the count honest. |
| Guests — a name you type onto a seat for someone who is not on Spili | So the others in the match know who is making up the numbers. A guest's name is the only thing we hold about them: no email, no phone, no account, and we never contact them. You are responsible for telling them, and for using only a name they are happy to have shown. The name is seen only by the people in that match. |
| Repeating games and weeks of games — the days you tick, whether you play, and the spots a captain holds for you | To fill each week's games, first come, first served, and to tell the captain who can play. |
| Shares — the shares you hold in a booked court, the weeks you are away, which weeks you play or gave up and who covered them, any sub fees and drop-in fees owed to you or by you and whether they were marked paid, and, if the captain keeps track of court money, what your share costs and the payments the captain records | To plan a shared court fairly by share and keep a record of who owes what. Spili never moves money. |
| Messages in conversations: a game's, a repeating game's or share's, direct messages and group chats you start; a group chat's name; who is in each conversation, and when someone left, was taken out or was added; conversations you deleted from your list | So the people in a game can talk about it. A conversation is visible only to the people in it. In a group's conversation or a group chat you read from when you joined; a conversation you delete from your list starts again from the next message. |
| Notification details — a push token for your device, and your notification preferences | To tell you when you are asked to play, when a spot fills, and when a lineup is settled. |
| Invitations you send, whether each was used and by whom, and how many invitations you have left | So whoever opens your invitation becomes one of your players, you know how many you have left, and one unused after 30 days comes back to you. |
| Feedback you send, reports you make about a person or a message, and basic technical records (timestamps, request counts, errors) | To fix problems, look into reports, prevent abuse and keep the service running. The person reported is never told. |
If you add a phone number, only your players can see it, so they can call or text you from their own phone. Spili never calls or texts it.
We do not collect precise location, we do not read your contacts, we do not use advertising or tracking software, and we do not build profiles of you for anyone else. If you turn it on, Spili adds your games to a Spili calendar on your phone and keeps it up to date; it never reads your other calendars, and nothing in your calendar is sent to us.
We use a small number of companies to run Spili, each only for the purpose named, under contracts that stop them using your information for anything else:
Your information is stored in the United States. We do not sell it, rent it, or share it with data brokers or advertisers. We would disclose it only if the law required us to, to protect someone's safety, or as part of a sale of the business — in which case this policy would still apply to it.
This policy covers the app and the website at spili.app together. The website itself asks for nothing: it sets no cookies, runs no analytics or tracking, and has no forms. Like any website, requests to it pass through our host, Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs (your IP address, browser type and the page requested) for a short time for security and to keep the site running; we do not use those logs to identify you. When someone opens an invitation link, before they have an account, Spili shows only the game (its name, sport, time and place, how many spots are open and any drop-in fee) and the name of whoever sent the link — never who else is playing — and stores nothing about them until they choose to create an account.
While your account is open, for as long as it is needed for the purposes above. While Spili is invite-only, an invitation works once and expires after 30 days if unused. Once Spili is open, your own link works until you make a new one. Records of the notifications we send you are removed after 30 days. Push tokens for a phone not used in 120 days are removed.
You can delete your account from inside the app at any time; no email to us is needed. When you do, immediately:
The record that a match happened, and who played in it, is kept without your name so that other players' histories stay accurate. Copies in backups are overwritten within 30 days. If you want a copy of your information first, use Settings › Download my data. If you would rather we delete it for you, write to us.
If you no longer have the app, email support@spili.app from the address you sign in with and we'll delete your account within 30 days.
Spili is for people 18 and over. We do not knowingly keep information about anyone younger, and we delete an account promptly if we learn its owner is under 18.
Information travels encrypted, is stored with access controls that mean each person can only reach their own data and the matches they are part of, and the systems that send notifications have no access to anything else. No system is perfect; if we ever learned of a breach affecting you, we would tell you.
If we change this policy in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app when it takes effect. The date at the top is the date of the current version.
Spili LLC · Connecticut, USA · support@spili.app