QBDNA Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 12, 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 colenorthrup@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

QBDNA is built for high school quarterbacks, generally ages 14 to 20, and their families. QBDNA is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has created an account, 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 colenorthrup@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 · colenorthrup@theqbdna.com