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Privacy Policy

Last updated September 2026.

What we collect

If you create an account: a username, an email address, and a password (which is hashed on your own device before it’s stored (see Security below), plus the role you pick (Fan, Player, or Scout: self-declared, not verified). If you favorite a team or player, we store that team/player ID against your account.

If you choose to create a Player Card, you decide what to add: name, jersey number, position, best stat, team, class year, offers received, an optional photo, social media handles or links, highlight video links, and a self-rated star rating. All of it is optional except name, jersey number, and best stat, and all of it is shown publicly to anyone who opens the site.

If you post a scouting note on a player card, we store the note text, your account handle, and the date. Notes can only be posted on cards whose owner turned notes on, and that player can delete any note on their card. Insider members can mark a note private; a private note is stored the same way but only shown to the account that wrote it.

If you join Insider, we store your membership status and dates against your username. Your display name appears on the Supporters wall unless you turn that off from your account menu. Picks you make on Predict are stored with your username and shown on the leaderboard.

What we don’t collect

• No ad tracking and no advertising identifiers. The only analytics is optional: on thegridiron305.blog we ask once whether you’ll allow anonymous Google Analytics page counts (IP anonymized, no ads features). If you decline, or never answer, it never loads. And you can change your answer from the “Analytics choice” link in the footer.
• No location tracking beyond whatever your browser already sends any website.
• No payment information on this site. The optional Insider membership is billed by Stripe on Stripe’s own checkout page; we receive the username you type there, the email you gave Stripe, and whether the subscription is active. We never see your card number.
• No data collection beyond what’s described above; we don’t buy, sell, or share your information with data brokers or advertisers.

Team, roster, score, news, ranking, stat, and playoff data

Team names, records, rosters, game scores, news headlines, recruit rankings, state poll positions, stat leaders, and playoff results are not collected from you. They’re real, public information sourced from outlets like MaxPreps, the Rivals Industry composite, High School Football America, FHSAA, and the news sites linked on each item, refreshed on a weekly schedule. Those rankings are the third party’s evaluations, republished with attribution. Not ours.

Rosters list the name, jersey number, position and graduation year each program already publishes for its players. If you’re a player, parent or guardian and want an entry removed from this site, email us below and we’ll take it down. You don’t have to explain why.

Security: please read this one

Your password is hashed in your browser before it’s ever stored, so we never see or store your plain password. That said, this site has no traditional backend, no encryption-at-rest guarantee, and no separate, access-controlled storage per account. Account and card data lives in a shared database used by the app. Please don’t reuse a password here that you use anywhere important.

Cookies & local storage

We don’t use tracking cookies. Analytics cookies exist only if you opt in on the public site. See the Cookie Policy for exactly what we do use.

Children & minors

This site isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. High-school-age users creating Player Cards are typically minors under 18 who are choosing to represent themselves publicly (name, stats, photo, links), if you’re a parent or guardian and want a minor’s card, report, or account removed, contact us below and we’ll take it down.

Your choices

You can sign out anytime, edit or delete your Player Card, and unfavorite teams/players from your account menu. To request full account deletion, or removal of any content about you or a minor you’re responsible for, email us below.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update the date at the top.

Contact

Questions or removal requests: email us

Terms & Conditions

Last updated September 2026.

Not an official site

305 Gridiron is an independent, unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA), MaxPreps, any school district, or any school or team named on the site. Team names and school names are used for identification and commentary purposes only; any related marks belong to their respective owners.

Who can use this

You must be at least 13 to create an account. If you’re under 18, please only use this site with a parent or guardian’s knowledge, especially before uploading a photo or other personal details to a Player Card.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself. This isn’t a professionally secured login system (see the Privacy Policy). You’re responsible for what’s posted from your account. We can remove any account or content that violates these terms.

Content you post

By uploading a photo or posting a Player Card, scouting report, or any other content, you confirm it’s yours to share (or you have permission to share it), and you agree it will be shown publicly to anyone who opens the site. Don’t post content that:

• Isn’t yours, or that you don’t have rights to use;
• Impersonates another real person;
• Harasses, bullies, or targets anyone, including other student-athletes;
• Is illegal, obscene, or knowingly false.

We can remove content that breaks these rules without notice.

Insider membership

Insider is an optional membership billed by Stripe at $5 per month, tax included, until you cancel. Cancel anytime from the link in your Stripe receipt or by asking us; perks run to the end of the period you paid for and partial months aren’t refunded, except where a perk we promised wasn’t delivered. Perks are switched on by hand within one business day of payment, using the username entered at checkout. Membership never affects a ranking, a record or anything we write about a player; the perks are the ones listed on the Insider page, and that list can change over time. If you’re under 18, a parent or guardian must be the one who subscribes.

Predict rewards

Predict is free to play and no purchase is ever required to enter or win. A pick cannot be changed once made and stands until the game’s final score. Points and winners are computed from the picks and final scores shown on the site; the scoring rules and any current prize are published on the Predict page. Prizes are provided by 305 Gridiron, not by any school, Stripe or MaxPreps; a prize for a winner under 18 is arranged through a parent or guardian. We can substitute a prize of equal value and we correct scoring mistakes when a score changes.

No warranty

This site is provided “as is.” Real-world data (scores, records, news, stat leaders, playoff results) comes from third-party public sources and a weekly refresh. It can be incomplete, delayed, or wrong. Illustrative rankings and scouting reports (outside Player Cards) are placeholders, not scouting judgments about real people. We don’t guarantee uptime, accuracy, or that the site will keep existing.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, 305 Gridiron and its operator aren’t liable for damages arising from your use of the site, including reliance on any data shown here.

Governing law

These terms are intended to be read under Florida law, given the site’s subject matter, but this hasn’t been reviewed by a lawyer and isn’t a substitute for proper legal drafting.

Changes

We may update these terms as the site changes; the date above reflects the latest revision.

Contact

Questions, or a takedown request: email us

Cookie Policy

Last updated September 2026.

The short version

305 Gridiron sets no tracking or advertising cookies. The one non-essential thing we’d like to use is Google Analytics for anonymous page counts, and it only ever loads on thegridiron305.blog after you say yes to the one-time question at the bottom of the page. Say no, or say nothing, and it never loads. Your answer is remembered in your browser and can be changed anytime from the “Analytics choice” link in the footer.

What this site does use

Browser local storage (not a cookie). When you sign in, we save your username and password hash in your browser’s local storage so you stay signed in on that device next time. Your theme, language, live-chat thread ID and analytics answer are stored the same way. None of it is used for tracking or advertising, none of it is shared with anyone, and you can clear it anytime by signing out or clearing your browser’s site data.

Google Analytics cookies (only if you allow it). If you accept the analytics question on thegridiron305.blog, Google Analytics sets its own first-party cookies (_ga, _ga_*) to tell repeat visits apart. We configure it with IP anonymization and with advertising features off, and we only look at which pages get used. Decline and no analytics cookie is ever set.

Third parties we load from

Google Fonts. This page loads its typefaces from Google’s font servers (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com). Like any font or CDN request, that sends your device’s IP address and browser information to Google when the page loads. See Google’s Privacy Policy for how they handle that.

Cloudinary (thegridiron305.blog only). The two atmosphere photographs on the public site (the stadium behind the home page headline and the field on the About page) are served from Cloudinary’s image CDN (res.cloudinary.com), which sees your IP address and browser information when they load, the same way a font request does. Both images are generated illustrations of an empty field, not photographs of any real venue, game or person. See Cloudinary’s Privacy Policy.

Firebase (thegridiron305.blog only). The public site’s shared database runs on Google Firebase, so the page loads the Firebase SDK from Google’s servers and reads and writes scores, rosters, cards and chat messages through it. That is the site’s own storage, not a tracker.

Stripe. Nothing from Stripe loads on this site. “Join Insider” is a plain link to a checkout page on stripe.com, where Stripe’s own cookie policy applies.

We don’t load any other third-party scripts, embeds, trackers, or ads.

Questions

Email us