Podium Watch privacy
Privacy and team alerts.
How Podium Watch handles team alert subscriptions, site analytics, cookies, and advertising.
Team alert subscriptions
Email choices stay under your control
When you follow a team, Podium Watch stores your email address, the teams you follow, your alert preferences, and delivery history. A confirmation email is required before a new subscription becomes active.
Every alert includes a secure link where you can change your preferences, stop following one team, or unsubscribe from all team alerts.
Podium Watch does not sell follower email addresses to advertisers or team managers.
Analytics
Measurement without personal profiles
Podium Watch may record team page views, section views, social link clicks, recruiting link clicks, sponsor impressions, and sponsor clicks through its own first-party analytics system. Browser generated visitor and session identifiers help avoid counting the same view repeatedly.
Podium Watch also uses Google Analytics (GA4) to measure overall site traffic, such as which pages are visited, how visitors found the site, and general device and location information. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to do this. You can read Google's own privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy, and you can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
None of Podium Watch's analytics tools ask visitors to provide names, addresses, phone numbers, student records, or athlete health information.
Cookies and advertising
How ads may use your information
Podium Watch works with, or is in the process of applying to, third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense and Mediavine. Once active, these partners and their own vendors may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
You can review how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and you can manage or opt out of personalized advertising from Google at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from many companies at once through the Digital Advertising Alliance at optout.aboutads.info.
Most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking cookies may affect how parts of this site or its ads display, but it will not prevent you from reading Podium Watch's own coverage.
Service providers
Tools used to operate the service
Podium Watch uses hosting, database, analytics, email delivery, and (once active) advertising providers to operate the website and send requested alerts. Those providers process information only as needed to provide their services.
Team managers can see aggregate team analytics and follower totals. They cannot see follower email addresses through the team dashboard.
Children's privacy
Not directed at children
Podium Watch covers Ohio high school athletics, but the website itself is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. Team alert subscriptions and My Podium accounts are intended for coaches, parents, athletes, and fans old enough to manage their own email and account preferences.
Questions and requests
Contact Podium Watch
Questions about team alerts, analytics, advertising, or stored information can be sent to podiumwatchohio@gmail.com.
This page may be updated as Podium Watch adds or changes website features, including as new advertising partners are added.