Privacy Notice

Last updated: November 15, 2026

Approach Strength is a free volleyball strength-training web app in an early test, run by Ryan Parker. This notice explains what we collect and why.

Who can use it. You must be 13 or older. If you're under 18, your coach must have a signed consent form from your parent or guardian before you can log anything, and each optional feature below stays off unless your parent agreed to it. If you're on more than one team, each team's coach needs their own form. Coaches must be 18 or older. If you're 18 or older, you make these choices yourself in Settings → Privacy.

What we store on our servers

• Account: name, email, password (stored securely by our login provider, not readable by us), role, volleyball position, birth year, whether you're under 18, and how you want your name shown on boards.
• Teams: teams you create or join, your position group, your rack group, your experience level on that team (beginner, intermediate, or advanced, set by your coach), and your coach's posted workouts and calendar.
• Workouts you log for a team: exercises, sets, reps, weights, notes, how long the workout took, and whether you hit a personal best. While you're training, your live progress (sets done) is shared with your coach's board and deleted after a day.
• Daily check-ins (if allowed): sleep, soreness, energy (1–5) and pain (yes/no).
• Attendance (if allowed): practices and matches you attended, and their length.
• Testing days (if allowed): jump-test results (including approach touch), strength-check results (weight × reps), and the estimated strength calculated from them; plus a record of the coach confirming supervision.
• Consent records: what you or your parent agreed to, when, and which coach recorded it. Coaches also email us copies of signed parent forms. For coaches: the version and date of the Coach Terms you accepted.

What stays on your phone only: body weight, personal notes, touch height you log outside a team testing day, and everything in solo mode (no account).

Who sees it.

• You and your team's coach see your data. Your experience level is never shown to teammates.
• On more than one team? Each coach sees only what you do with their team: their team's schedule, workouts from their program, and the choices on their team's form. If you follow another team's lift program, the other coach sees only that you're "following another team's lift program," not which team.
• Teammates can see only the team boards: your name as "Jordan M." or initials (or nothing, if you hide), your workout progress, which rack group you're in, and effort rankings (sessions, consistency, streaks, attendance, hours, jump-test improvement). Teammates on your rack also see your board name in their "your rack" card. If you're hidden or didn't agree to boards, they see only "1 more teammate."
• Teammates never see your weights, strength-check results, estimated strength, level, check-ins, body weight, or nutrition.
• If you leave a team or a coach removes you, that coach can no longer see your data.

What we don't do. No ads. No selling or renting data. No advertising or tracking tools. No location, photos, or contacts. We don't monitor check-ins or notes. If something is wrong, talk to a coach, parent, or athletic trainer in person. If you're struggling, you can call or text 988.

Our website. The website at approachstrength.com doesn't use cookies, analytics, or tracking, and it has no forms. Signing in happens only in the app at app.approachstrength.com.

Nutrition. The Fuel tab gives general, cited information for healthy athletes. It doesn't use your body weight and isn't individual advice.

Service providers. Supabase (database and login), GitHub Pages (hosts the website and app), and Zoho Mail (our email, including copies of signed consent forms). They process data only to provide their service to us.

Keeping and deleting. We keep your data while your account is active. Delete your account anytime in Settings → Delete my account; it's removed within 30 days. Parents can ask for deletion through the coach or the email below. We keep a short proof record of consent (who agreed to what, when, and which coach recorded it, plus the signed form copy) and of coach supervision on testing days (team, coach, date, who took part) for 5 years after an account closes. It contains no workout, check-in, or test results, and then it's deleted.

Questions or requests: ryan@approachstrength.com