Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 3, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Rap Verdict ("we," "us," "Service") collects, uses, shares, and safeguards your information. The Service is restricted to users 16 and older.
1. Data We Collect
Account & Profile Data
Email address, display name, username, date of birth (stored as a timestamp used solely to enforce the 16+ age requirement), country (optional, profile-level), avatar image (optional, stored in Firebase Storage).
Battle Submissions
URLs and metadata submitted by users for admin review. Submissions are stored until processed and may be retained for spam/abuse detection.
Community Data
Chat messages (with your username and user ID, timestamped), chat presence signals (approximate last-seen timestamps), and public-facing community activity.
Technical & Security Data
Hashed IP counters for signup rate limiting (auto-purged within ~48 hours), authentication events, error logs, and Firebase App Check tokens.
We do not collect sensitive categories of data (health, biometrics, financial account numbers, etc.).
2. Legal Bases (GDPR / Similar)
- •Contract — to operate and provide the Service you signed up for
- •Legitimate Interests — fraud prevention, security, analytics, improving community sentiment analytics
- •Consent — where explicitly requested (e.g., marketing emails)
- •Legal Obligation — age restriction enforcement, law enforcement requests
3. How We Use Your Data
- •Operate, maintain, and personalize the Service
- •Compute and display battle statistics, RV Scores, and leaderboards
- •Review and process battle submissions
- •Moderate chat and community contributions
- •Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and spam
- •Generate aggregated, anonymized analytics (e.g., most-active battles, leaderboard trends)
- •Improve community sentiment and verdict analytics using aggregated feedback
- •Comply with applicable law
4. Community Verdicts & Analytics
We compile Community Verdicts (comment sentiment analysis and scorecards) by processing public YouTube transcripts, video metadata, and comments. No user account data is passed to our processing models or third-party APIs. The compiled results are stored on our servers and displayed publicly on the battle pages.
5. Data Retention
| Data Type | Retention | |---|---| | Account profile | Until deletion request | | Hashed IP rate-limit docs | Auto-purged within ~48 hours | | Chat messages | Retained for integrity; may be anonymized on account deletion | | Battle submissions | Retained until processed; archived for anti-abuse purposes | | Aggregated statistics | Persisted without personal identifiers after account deletion |
6. Sharing
We do not sell your personal data. Limited sharing occurs with:
- •Firebase / Google Cloud — cloud infrastructure and Authentication
- •Data Processing & AI APIs — anonymized public battle transcripts and comments (not your account data) to run sentiment analysis and compile verdicts
- •Legal Authorities — when required by law, court order, or to protect rights/safety
7. International Transfers
Data may be stored and processed in data centers outside your country (primarily the United States). We rely on standard cloud-provider protections and access controls as transfer safeguards.
8. Security
We implement App Check enforcement, least-privilege Firestore security rules, rate limiting, hashed (not raw) IP logging, and access monitoring. No system is perfectly secure — please report any vulnerabilities to support@rapverdict.com.
9. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:
- •Access & Export — Settings → Export Data
- •Deletion — Email support@rapverdict.com to request account deletion. We will remove your profile, username reservation, and auth credentials; aggregate counts without personal linkage may persist.
- •Rectification — Change your username or display name via Settings
- •Restrict or Object — Contact us at support@rapverdict.com
- •Portability — your exported data is provided in a portable JSON format
We may retain limited logs for security and legal compliance after deletion.
10. Age Restriction
This Service is only for users 16 and older. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16. If you believe a user under 16 has registered, contact us and we will remove the account.
11. Changes to This Policy
We will post updates here and may notify you in-app or by email for material changes. Continued use after the updated effective date constitutes acceptance.