QBDNA Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 22, 2026

QBDNA is a quarterback scouting and recruiting platform operated by DNA Elite Group, LLC. This policy covers the QBDNA iOS app and the QBDNA websites (joinqbdna.com and rank.joinqbdna.com). Questions go to support@theqbdna.com.

What we collect

• Account information. Your email address, phone number, and sign-in credentials, handled by Firebase Authentication. For players under 18 we also collect a parent or guardian email. If you sign in with Apple or Google, we receive the identifier and email those services share.
• Player profile information. Name, class year, high school, city and state, athletic measurements, offers, commitments, and season statistics that you or your family submit, or that QBDNA staff enter from public sources and events.
• Photos and videos. Headshots, action shots, highlight film, and verification evidence that you choose to upload. Evidence uploads are covered by the license you accept at upload time and can be removed on request.
• Social graph. Which players and schools you follow inside QBDNA.
• Coach accounts. College coaches who sign up for the Coaches Portal give us their name, school email address, phone number, school, and staff role. The phone number is for our records only and is never displayed anywhere. Every coach account must verify its email and is then reviewed and approved by the QBDNA team by hand before it can see anything beyond the public site.
• Trainer accounts. Private quarterback trainers who sign up for the Trainer Portal give us their name, email address, phone number, and, if they choose, their business name. The phone number is for our records only and is never displayed anywhere. Every trainer account must verify its email address; access opens automatically once verified, and QBDNA reviews trainer accounts and can revoke any of them. A trainer's list of players is built only from invite and quote links those players (or their parents) send or accept themselves.
• Parent accounts. A parent or guardian may create an account (name, email address, phone number) linked to their own quarterback. Every link is created either by the player sending his parent an invite from his own account, or by the parent creating and managing the player's profile herself. Linked parents can book training sessions and see their own child's schedule, session balance, and profile information, including contact and academic details. Parents may create and manage a profile for a child aged 8 to 11; those profiles never appear on The Board or in public rankings until the player turns 12.
• App usage. Anonymous statistics about how the app is used, such as which screens are visited and for how long, measured with Google Analytics for Firebase. This data is tied to a random per-install identifier, not to your name or profile, and ad personalization is turned off.
• Diagnostics. Anonymous crash reports and performance measurements (such as app start time and network request speed) via Firebase Crashlytics and Firebase Performance Monitoring, used only to find and fix problems. Like usage statistics, diagnostics are never linked to your identity.

What we do NOT collect

• No advertising identifiers and no ads.
• No location tracking.
• No sale of personal information to anyone, ever.
• No tracking across other companies' apps or websites. Usage statistics stay anonymous and are never linked to your identity.

How your information is used

Player profiles, stats, rankings, and share cards exist to get quarterbacks recruited. Public profile data (name, school, class year, stats, photos) is visible to other signed-in users and to college coaches. Contact details like email and phone are never shown publicly; verified college coaches are the one exception, described below.

Verified college coaches. QBDNA operates a Coaches Portal where verified college coaches scout players. Getting your information in front of these coaches is the purpose of QBDNA. In addition to public profile data, verified coaches can see the recruiting information that players and their families add for exactly that audience: academic information (GPA, test scores, NCAA eligibility, transcript), the player's phone number, parent and coach reference contact details, sealed reference quotes, and any answers or rankings a player marks as visible to coaches. A coach only gains this access after verifying a school email address and being approved by the QBDNA team by hand, and access can be revoked at any time. Scouting notes a coach writes are private to that coach; they are never shown to players, families, or other coaches.

Verified QB trainers. QBDNA also operates a Trainer Portal for the private quarterback trainers that players list on their own profiles. A verified trainer sees only the players who linked him by sending their quote link. For those players he sees the same profile information any signed-in QBDNA user can see (measurables, offers, game logs, film, and mechanics clips), plus contact information for the player and his parents (names, phone numbers, and email addresses) so he can coordinate training with the family; trainers do not receive the rest of the coach-only recruiting information described above (academics, transcripts, or coach-directed answers). Trainers write sealed scouting quotes about their own players (shown to verified college coaches, never to the player) and can send film assignments that appear as a notification on the player's account. Trainers can also post their training availability; players on that trainer's list can book sessions, and the trainer sees the player's name and the session time. Trainer access is hand-approved and can be revoked at any time.

Where it lives

QBDNA runs on Google Firebase (authentication, database, and file storage). Data is stored on Google Cloud infrastructure in the United States.

Young athletes and parental consent

QBDNA is built for quarterbacks and their families. A player must be at least 8 years old to have a profile, and most players on QBDNA are in high school. Some of our players are under 13, so we handle their information differently from everyone else's. This section describes exactly how.

How a young player's account is created. Every player account for someone under 18 records a parent or guardian email address at signup, along with the player's date of birth and the date our terms were accepted. A parent or guardian can also create and manage a profile for a player aged 8 to 11 from their own QBDNA parent account, and that is the path we recommend at those ages. We ask for a young player's name, class year, high school, city and state, athletic measurements, and any photos, video, or statistics the family chooses to add. We use it to build his profile, run his training schedule, and show him his own progress.

What we never do with a young player's information. Players under 12 never appear on The Board, in public rankings, or in search on our websites, whatever they add to their profile. The player profile pages that search engines can index include only players aged 14 and older who have their own account. Players under 13 cannot see the activity feed. Players under 17 cannot enter a payment or book a training session; a parent does that from their own account. We never sell any player's information, we show no ads, and we do not track anyone across other companies' apps or websites.

Who can see it. A young player's information is visible to him, to his linked parent or guardian, to any QB trainer his family linked to his account, and to college coaches we have verified and approved by hand. Contact details and academic records are never shown publicly. The Verified college coaches and Verified QB trainers sections above describe those two audiences in full.

Parents are in control. If you are the parent or guardian of a player under 13, you can ask us at any time to show you everything we hold about your child, correct it, delete it, or stop collecting anything further, and you can refuse to let us keep it without losing anything else. Email us from the guardian address on the account and we will take care of it within 48 hours. Deleting the account permanently removes the profile, uploaded photos, video, and evidence files. A parent who created and manages a child's profile can also edit or delete it at any time in the QBDNA app, without asking us.

How we check age. We use the date of birth on the account. On iPhone we may also ask Apple whether the account holder is above or below 13 without learning their exact age. We use the answer only to decide which parts of QBDNA to show.

If you believe a child's account was created without a parent or guardian involved, contact us and we will remove it.

Deleting your data

You can request removal of your profile at any time from the profile editor on rank.joinqbdna.com or by emailing support@theqbdna.com. We permanently delete your account, profile, uploaded photos, evidence videos, and follows within 48 hours.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date above changes with it, and material changes will be announced on the website.

DNA Elite Group, LLC · support@theqbdna.com