Privacy Policy

TCG Dexter (“TCG Dexter,” “we,” “us”) is a deck-building and collection-tracking tool for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. This policy explains what information we collect when you use tcgdexter.com, how we use it, and the choices you have. It applies whenever you visit the site, whether or not you create an account.

Account information. When you sign in, we receive your email address (for email sign-in) or your name and email as provided by Discord or Google (if you sign in that way). We don’t collect or store passwords — sign-in is passwordless (email link or third-party OAuth).

Profile and content you provide. Anything you choose to add or create: display name, username, bio, avatar image, banner color, showcased cards, your TCG Live handle, saved deck lists and notes, match results and logs (including any opponent name, handle, or archetype you type or paste in — see “Content You Share May Include Other Players’ Information” below), your tracked card collection, a daily activity streak that counts the days you log matches, and any images you upload as evidence for a verified match.

Social connections. If you follow another user, we record that follow relationship (who you follow and who follows you) to power the Follow button and the follower and following counts shown on profiles. Follows are visible to other signed-in users, and you can unfollow at any time to remove the relationship.

Trainer Spotlight submissions. Trainer Spotlight is an editorial feature in which we highlight a community player. If we invite you and you choose to take part, we collect what you fill in on the onboarding form: a short introduction, an optional headline, your answers to the interview questions you pick, your favorite cards and the stories you tell about them, which of your saved decks and card lists you’d like featured, and a screenshot of your Pokémon TCG Live avatar that you upload. Taking part is entirely voluntary, and this content is collected specifically so it can be published on the site — see “Trainer Spotlight” below for how it is edited, published, and removed.

In-app notifications. To power the notification bell, we record activity directed at you — for example when another signed-in user likes one of your public decks (storing who liked it and which deck), follows you, when you earn a badge, or when we invite you into a Trainer Spotlight. These are visible only to you and are deleted when you delete your account.

Simulated battles. When you run a simulation in the Simulator, we store a record of it: the two deck lists exactly as they were played, the battle log our game engine generates, a transcript that lets the same game be replayed, the result, and which decks you picked. We store the deck lists themselves rather than a link to them so the replay keeps describing the game that was actually played, even if you edit or delete the deck afterwards. These records are visible only to you, and they are deleted when you delete your account.

Usage and cookie data. We use a small number of first-party cookies to keep you signed in and to understand how the site is used. See “Cookies & Similar Technologies” below for the specifics.

We use the information above to:

• Provide the core features — deck profiling, saved decks, match logging, collection tracking, and public profile pages.
• Keep your account secure and let you sign back in.
• Send optional reminder emails — for example when your match-logging streak is about to lapse or you’re close to earning a badge. You can turn these off anytime in Settings or via the unsubscribe link in any such email.
• Understand overall usage patterns so we can improve the site.
• Run the simulations you request in the Simulator, and show you the replay afterwards.
• Improve our game engine and the models behind features like deck analysis and simulation. For this we use only deck lists that are already public — a curated meta archetype, or a saved deck you have published from a public profile — together with the simulated battles played with them. A deck you have kept private, and a list you paste in without saving, are never used this way: the simulation is stored for you to watch, and excluded from that work. If we ever want to widen this, we will update this policy first and say so.
• Edit and publish a Trainer Spotlight, if you accept an invitation to be featured in one.
• Respond to support requests sent to feedback@tcgdexter.com.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not use it for third-party advertising.

We don’t share your personal information with third parties except:

• Service providers that host and run the site on our behalf — currently Supabase (authentication, database, and file storage) and Vercel (hosting), and Resend (email delivery — receives your email address to send the account and reminder emails described below). They process data only to provide their service to us, not for their own purposes.
• What you make public. Content and profile fields you mark as public (e.g. a public deck, a public profile) are visible to anyone — and not only to someone who already has the link. Public profiles are listed in our Trainers directory, where they can be browsed, searched by name or handle, and sorted by public counts such as decks, likes and followers; public decks appear in the same way across the site. Search engines may also index these pages. Setting your profile to private in Settings removes it from those listings.
• A published Trainer Spotlight. A spotlight is public by design once published, and we also use it to promote the feature off-site — including graphics we generate from it (your name, handle, headline, avatar image and featured cards) and post to TCG Dexter’s social channels. See below.
• If required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of TCG Dexter or our users.

We use a small set of first-party cookies — no third-party ad or tracking cookies:

• Session cookies from Supabase that keep you signed in.
• dx_aid — an anonymous device identifier (no personal data), used to make usage analytics more accurate. Lasts up to 2 years.
• dx_sid — a short-lived session identifier for the same purpose, expiring after about 30 minutes of inactivity.
• dx_theme — remembers whether you chose light, dark, or system appearance. Contains only that setting. Lasts up to 1 year.

Page views and feature usage are logged internally along with a one-way hash of your IP address (never the raw address) so we can see aggregate trends without tracking individuals across the web. This data isn’t shared with or sold to anyone outside TCG Dexter.

We keep your account and content for as long as your account is active. If you ask us to delete your account (see “Your Rights & Choices”), we’ll remove your personal information within a reasonable time, except where we need to keep limited records to comply with law or resolve disputes.

A published Trainer Spotlight is removed along with everything else when you delete your account, including the submission you filled in and the images uploaded for it. See “Trainer Spotlight” below for the one limit on that — copies already made by other people are outside our reach.

You can review and update most of your profile information directly in Settings, including permanently deleting your account and all associated data yourself under the “Danger Zone” section. You’re also entitled to request a copy of your data — email feedback@tcgdexter.com and we’ll handle that for you.

TCG Dexter is not directed at children, and you must be at least 13 years old to use it. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, contact us and we’ll remove it.

We rely on our infrastructure providers’ industry-standard security practices (encryption in transit, access controls) to protect your information. No online service can guarantee perfect security, so please use a unique, secure email account and let us know right away if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

If you accept an invitation to be featured, here is exactly how your submission is handled.

Editing and approval. What you submit is stored separately from the version we publish. We write the published spotlight from your answers, and your original submission is kept alongside it rather than overwritten. Before anything goes live you get to read the edited version and approve it, and you can ask for another pass instead. Nothing is published without that approval, and being invited never obliges you to take part — you can simply not fill the form in, or tell us you’d rather not be featured.

Who can see it. While it is a draft, your submission is visible only to you and to TCG Dexter administrators. Once published, the spotlight page is public to anyone, whether or not your profile is set to public, and search engines may index it. Your uploaded TCG Live screenshot is stored in our file storage at an unguessable address; the processed version of it appears on the published page.

Promotion. We create promotional graphics from published spotlights — typically your display name, handle, headline, avatar image and featured cards — and post them to TCG Dexter’s social media channels to point people at the feature.

Removal and account deletion. Deleting your account removes your spotlight — the published page, your original submission, and the images uploaded for it — along with the rest of your data. You can also ask us to unpublish or delete a spotlight at any time without deleting your account, by emailing feedback@tcgdexter.com. One honest limit: we can remove the page and our own social posts, but we can’t claw back copies other people have already made — reposts, screenshots, or search-engine and archive caches.

Battle logging and battle-log import let you record details about your opponents — a name, handle, or deck archetype you type in, or text pasted from a Pokémon TCG Live battle log. That information is provided by you, not verified by us, and is visible according to the same public/private settings as the rest of your battle history. Please be considerate about what you share regarding other players.

We may update this policy as the product changes. If we make a material change, we’ll update the “Last updated” date above; significant changes may also be announced on the site.

Questions about this policy or your data? Email feedback@tcgdexter.com.