Privacy Notice

Last updated: September 14, 2026

This Privacy Notice explains how JCompete (“JCompete,” “the Service,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), operated by Tyler Richer, collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information when you use the Service.

1. Who We Are

JCompete is an independent trivia training, play-along, performance tracking, wagering practice, flashcard, and study platform.

For purposes of applicable data protection laws, JCompete is the controller of personal information collected through the Service, except where another company acts as an independent controller of information it collects directly from you.

2. Personal Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use JCompete and which features you choose to use.

Account Information

When you create or maintain an account, we may collect information such as:

  • Name.
  • Email address.
  • Login and authentication information.
  • Profile image or avatar, if you choose to provide one.
  • Account creation and account-status information.

If you sign in using a third-party authentication provider, we may receive information that provider makes available to us according to your settings and its privacy practices.

Profile Information

If you choose to complete your profile, we may collect information such as:

  • Display name.
  • Biography or other profile information.
  • Trivia or study goals.
  • Target scores or other performance goals.
  • Profile and privacy preferences.
  • Other optional information you choose to provide.

Gameplay & Performance Information

When you use JCompete's gameplay, tracking, or wagering features, we may collect and store information such as:

  • Games and episodes played.
  • Questions or clues encountered.
  • Correct, incorrect, and skipped responses.
  • Scores and performance statistics.
  • Coryat scores or similar performance measurements.
  • Wagers and wagering history.
  • Category, Topic, Subject, or Tag performance.
  • Gameplay dates, activity, and progress over time.

We use this information to provide performance tracking, statistics, recommendations, and other features of the Service.

Flashcard & Study Information

When you use JCompete's study features, we may collect information such as:

  • Flashcards viewed, saved, studied, or reviewed.
  • Study results and performance.
  • Topics, Subjects, and Tags associated with your study activity.
  • Flashcards or study sets you create.
  • Flashcard exports or export activity.
  • Study preferences and progress.

We may use this information to provide study tools, personalize your experience, identify areas for improvement, and improve JCompete's study features.

Subscription & Billing Information

If you purchase a paid subscription, we may collect information such as:

  • Subscription plan.
  • Subscription status.
  • Billing period.
  • Purchase and renewal dates.
  • Transaction identifiers.
  • Payment status.
  • Refund and cancellation information.
  • Limited billing information made available to us by our payment processor.

Payments are processed by Stripe or another payment processor identified at checkout.

Payment card information is provided directly to the payment processor. JCompete does not receive or store your full payment card number.

Payment processors may collect and process your information under their own privacy policies and terms.

Referral Information

If JCompete offers a referral program, we may collect information necessary to operate that program, including:

  • Referral links or codes.
  • Which account generated a referral.
  • Whether a referred user created an eligible account or subscription.
  • Referral rewards earned or redeemed.

We use this information to administer referral programs, prevent abuse, and provide applicable rewards.

Communications & Support

If you contact us, we may collect:

  • Your name and email address.
  • The contents of your message.
  • Information you provide about your account or issue.
  • Our communications with you.

Usage, Device & Technical Information

When you access JCompete, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical information, including:

  • IP address.
  • Browser type.
  • Device type.
  • Operating system.
  • Device or browser identifiers.
  • Pages or features viewed.
  • Interactions with the Service.
  • Approximate location derived from IP address.
  • Referring pages or websites.
  • Dates and times of access.
  • Error, diagnostic, and security logs.

We may collect this information through cookies, server logs, Google Analytics, HubSpot tracking technologies, and similar tools.

3. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Create, maintain, and secure your account.
  • Provide JCompete's gameplay, score tracking, wagering, flashcard, study, and other features.
  • Calculate and display performance statistics and progress.
  • Personalize your study experience and identify areas for improvement.
  • Provide and manage subscriptions.
  • Process payments, cancellations, and refunds.
  • Operate referral or promotional programs.
  • Provide customer support and respond to requests.
  • Send service-related communications, including account, security, billing, and subscription notices.
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, scraping, security incidents, and violations of our Terms.
  • Diagnose technical problems and maintain the Service.
  • Understand how JCompete is used.
  • Measure traffic and usage patterns.
  • Analyze and improve our products, features, user experience, flashcards, classifications, and study tools.
  • Develop new features.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing, we may rely on:

  • Performance of a contract when processing is necessary to provide the Service you requested.
  • Legitimate interests in operating, securing, analyzing, and improving JCompete.
  • Consent where we specifically ask for it, such as certain marketing communications or cookies where required.
  • Legal obligations where processing is required by applicable law.

4. Automated & AI-Assisted Features

JCompete may use automated or artificial-intelligence-assisted tools to help create, classify, organize, review, or improve flashcards and other study materials.

These processes use trivia-related content such as clues, flashcard content, Topics, Subjects, and Tags. JCompete does not send your personal account information, gameplay history, study history, profile information, billing information, or other personal information to AI providers for flashcard generation or classification.

JCompete may separately use automated calculations and software to generate statistics, performance summaries, recommendations, and other features based on your activity within the Service. These functions do not involve sending your personal information to third-party AI providers.

5. Email & Communications

Service Communications

We may send emails necessary to operate the Service, including:

  • Account verification or security messages.
  • Password or authentication messages.
  • Purchase receipts.
  • Subscription and renewal information.
  • Cancellation or refund confirmations.
  • Important changes to the Service, Terms, or Privacy Notice.

These communications are part of providing the Service and may not always include an unsubscribe option.

Marketing Communications

We may send promotional or marketing communications where permitted by law.

Where consent is required, we will send such communications only if you have opted in.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link included in the message or by contacting us.

Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not prevent us from sending necessary account, security, billing, or other transactional messages.

6. How We Share Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share personal information with companies that help us operate JCompete, including:

Payment Processors

We use Stripe or another identified payment provider to process payments, subscriptions, invoices, taxes, cancellations, and refunds.

Hosting, Database & Infrastructure Providers

We may use third-party providers to host JCompete, store information, maintain databases, provide authentication, or operate technical infrastructure. These providers process information as necessary to provide their services to JCompete.

Email & Communications Providers

We may use service providers to send account, transactional, support, and marketing communications.

Analytics & Product Usage

We use Google Analytics and HubSpot tracking technologies to understand how visitors and users interact with JCompete.

These tools may collect information such as pages viewed, interactions with the Service, approximate location derived from IP address, browser and device information, referring pages, and dates and times of visits.

We use this information to measure traffic, understand usage patterns, evaluate the performance of JCompete, and improve the Service.

Google and HubSpot may process information collected through their technologies according to their respective privacy policies.

JCompete does not use Google Analytics or HubSpot tracking technologies to sell your personal information.

Professional Advisers

We may disclose information to lawyers, accountants, insurers, consultants, or other professional advisers where reasonably necessary.

Legal, Safety & Security

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process.
  • Protect the rights, property, or safety of JCompete, our users, or others.
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Business Transfers

If JCompete or substantially all of its assets are acquired, sold, reorganized, financed, or transferred, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

7. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

JCompete uses cookies and similar technologies to operate the Service and understand how it is used.

Essential Technologies

We may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary to:

  • Keep you signed in.
  • Maintain account functionality.
  • Protect account and Service security.
  • Remember necessary preferences.
  • Provide features you request.

Blocking essential cookies may prevent portions of JCompete from functioning correctly.

Analytics & Tracking Technologies

We use Google Analytics and HubSpot tracking technologies to understand how people use JCompete.

These technologies may collect information about your browser, device, pages viewed, interactions, approximate location derived from IP address, referring source, and visit dates and times.

We use this information for analytics, traffic measurement, product improvement, and understanding how users interact with the Service.

You may be able to control or block certain cookies through your browser settings or other available privacy controls.

Where applicable law requires consent before using non-essential cookies or tracking technologies, we will request that consent.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Maintain your account.
  • Provide the Service.
  • Maintain appropriate business and transaction records.
  • Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory requirements.
  • Resolve disputes.
  • Prevent fraud and abuse.
  • Enforce our agreements.
  • Protect our legal rights.

Different categories of information may be retained for different periods.

If you close your account or request deletion, we will delete or anonymize personal information when reasonably practicable, subject to information we are permitted or required to retain for legal, security, fraud-prevention, accounting, backup, or other legitimate purposes.

Aggregated or de-identified information that can no longer reasonably be linked to you may be retained and used for analytics, research, and product improvement.

9. Account Deletion

You may request deletion of your JCompete account through functionality provided by the Service or by contacting us through the Contact page.

Deleting your account may permanently remove access to gameplay history, statistics, study history, flashcards, profile information, and other account-related information.

Some information may remain in backups or be retained where required or permitted by law, including transaction, fraud-prevention, security, or legal records.

10. International Data Transfers

JCompete is operated from the United States.

Our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. These countries may have privacy laws that differ from those where you live.

Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we may use recognized mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses or other legally approved transfer mechanisms.

11. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:

  • Request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Request correction of inaccurate information.
  • Request deletion of personal information.
  • Request restriction of certain processing.
  • Object to certain processing.
  • Request portability of certain information.
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
  • Opt out of certain marketing communications.
  • Lodge a complaint with an applicable privacy or data protection authority.

Some rights are subject to exceptions and limitations under applicable law.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us through the Contact page.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

12. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under state law.

Depending on the law that applies, these may include rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information, and rights concerning certain forms of data sharing, targeted advertising, profiling, or sale of personal information.

JCompete does not sell personal information.

If these laws apply to JCompete and to your information, you may exercise applicable rights by contacting us through the Contact page.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

13. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.

These measures may include encrypted connections, access controls, authentication protections, secure hosted infrastructure, and other security practices appropriate to the nature of the Service.

However, no internet service, database, or transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of personal information.

You are responsible for protecting your account credentials and should notify us if you believe your account has been compromised.

14. Children

JCompete is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to JCompete, please contact us.

15. Third-Party Services & Links

JCompete may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites, applications, or services.

Those third parties may collect and process information according to their own privacy policies. JCompete is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services.

This includes services such as Stripe, Google Analytics, HubSpot, third-party authentication providers, and other services that may be integrated with JCompete.

We encourage you to review the applicable third-party privacy policies before providing personal information.

16. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes to JCompete, our practices, technology, or applicable law.

The updated notice will identify its effective date.

If we make material changes, we may provide notice through the Service, by email, or through another appropriate method.

17. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice, want to exercise a privacy right, or have a concern about how your information is handled, please contact us through the Contact page.

JCompete is independently owned and operated and is not affiliated with, authorized by, endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with Jeopardy Productions, Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, or their respective affiliates.