Privacy
Plain words, in the order a parent asks the questions.
Who makes it
Bickford Sports Calendar is made by Bickford Technologies. Questions and requests: derek@bickfordtechnologies.com.
No accounts
There are no accounts. We never ask for your email address, phone number or a password. Names, notes and team calendars hold whatever you or the team type in, which can include a coach's phone number; all of it goes when you delete the family calendar. A family gets a code; whoever has the code is in.
What a family stores
- an optional family name;
- kids' first names and a colour;
- adults' first names, for "who's driving";
- team names, the calendar links and schedule-page links a parent pastes, and notes;
- the events read from those links, and a 60-day history of changes;
- optional problem reports (the team's link is included only when the parent ticks the box);
- only if alerts are turned on, the code each phone or browser uses to receive them. Alerts stop when you turn them off on that phone, and the code is deleted with the family.
To stop abuse we also keep, for one day, a scrambled count of new family calendars and join tries per connection. It holds no address.
How the links are read
Our server at Cloudflare reads each link, identifies itself as BickfordSportsCalendar, and never passes the link to anyone else.
Who can see a family's data
Anyone who has the family code or the family's calendar link. Bickford Technologies can see it only to keep the product running, and reads the problem reports you send.
A new code, made on the Family screen, stops the old code and signs out every other phone and browser in the family; they need the new code to come back. A new calendar link stops the old one. "Delete the family calendar" removes everything, for every phone and browser.
Where it is stored
On Cloudflare's network (a D1 database), encrypted in transit. The app also keeps a copy on your phone for reading when you are offline.
How long we keep it
Old events are deleted 60 days after their date, and changes older than 60 days go too. Problem reports are kept 90 days, and removing a team clears its link from them. A family calendar that nobody opens and no phone calendar reads for 18 months is deleted. These deletions run by themselves every day. "Delete the family calendar" removes everything at once.
Deleted data can stay in our database provider's backups for up to 30 days.
No tracking
No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no cookies. The browser version keeps your family code in your browser's own storage.
Children
The app is for parents. It collects only a child's first name, chosen by the parent, and never anything from a child directly. A parent can delete it at any time.
Your rights
Delete everything at any time from the Family screen: "Delete the family calendar". Your family calendar link is a copy of your events you can save anywhere. Questions: derek@bickfordtechnologies.com.
Updates
Last updated 2026-11-03. Changes are posted on this page.