Darwinator runs innovation tournaments: you submit ideas, evaluate your peers’ ideas, and see how the group judged yours. This policy explains what we collect to do that, how we use it, and the things we never do. It is short because our use of your data is narrow.
Last updated · June 30, 2026We use your information only to run tournaments: to show your ideas to peers for evaluation, to calculate and present results and the feedback report on your own ideas, and to let the facilitator who runs a tournament set it up, oversee it, and analyze the outcome. That is the whole purpose.
We do not sell or rent your data. We do not show advertising or use advertising or analytics trackers. We do not use your data to train artificial-intelligence models. We do not share it with anyone outside the service providers below, and we never repurpose it for anything beyond running the tournaments you take part in.
Your data is visible only within the tournaments you join, never publicly. During evaluation, a facilitator can choose to anonymize submissions so peers rate ideas without seeing who wrote them. A tournament’s facilitator can see identified results for their own tournament in order to run and assess it. Outside of that, other participants see only what the tournament’s settings allow.
We use a small set of trusted providers to operate the app, each handling only the data needed for its part and only to provide it to us: Vercel (hosting), Neon (database), Resend (sign-in and notification email), and Google (sign-in, if you choose it). Our data is stored in the United States.
All traffic is encrypted in transit (TLS). Access is restricted by your role and the tournaments you belong to, enforced on the server for every request. We never store passwords — sign-in is by Google or a one-time email link. Uploaded files are kept in private storage and are not readable from a public link.
You can view and edit your profile at any time from your account screen. You can ask us for a copy of your data or to delete it by emailing privacy@darwinator.com. When we delete an account we remove or irreversibly anonymize your personal details while preserving the integrity of any tournament results you were part of. We keep your data only while your account and its tournaments are active, or until you ask us to remove it.
Instructors often use Darwinator for a class exercise. When you use it for a course, you sign in and contribute directly, and your school’s own privacy policies also apply to how your instructor uses the results. We hold your data only to run the exercise, as described above.
If we make a meaningful change we will update the date above and, where appropriate, let you know in the app. Continuing to use Darwinator after a change means the updated policy applies.
Questions about privacy? Email privacy@darwinator.com.