Privacy policy
What PokemonBuilder stores about you and why: teams, accounts, public profiles, analytics and the services involved, and how to delete your data.
Last updated Nov 6, 2026
What PokemonBuilder stores about you, why, who else handles it, and how to delete it. In short: your teams and progress, the profile you choose to make public, and, only if you allow it, usage statistics. No ads, and your data is never sold.
What is stored when you use the site without an account?
On your first visit the site creates an anonymous account for you: a random identifier, with no name or email. Under it, Firebase stores what you save: teams, favorites, quiz, PokéPuzzle and Champion Challenge results, your progress, and the answers you give the welcome questions (what you play, and how deep into competitive), which only arrange the site for you, and the gym badges you mark in your badge case.
Your browser also keeps preferences (language, theme, text size, the mascot's colour and reactions) and a copy of public game data in its own storage, so pages open faster. Clearing the site's data in your browser removes them.
What is stored when you create an account?
Your email address and the display name you choose. Your password is handled by Firebase Authentication and is never visible to us.
An account has a public profile, visible to other players: your display name, avatar Pokémon, trainer sprite, badge, frame, title, trainer level, battle record, daily streak, trainer profile (Strategist, Traveler…) and the month the account was made — what the trainer card shows. Your email is never shown on it.
The community features keep a little more: your reactions on forum posts (visible to everyone, like a like), your daily PokéPuzzle result as colours only — never letters — with your name, for signed-in players, and the day's counts without names; your place on the Champion Challenge weekly board; and your Pokégear inbox (replies, mentions, reactions, friend requests), which only you can read. A report you send goes to the admins with your account id.
What becomes public?
What you publish on purpose: forum posts and comments, teams you share by link (anyone with the link can open them), and your name and score on the Champion Challenge ranking. Friend requests and battles are seen by the players involved.
Notifications and email
If you turn on push notifications, your browser's push subscription is stored so the site can send them; turning notifications off or deleting your account removes it. If you turn on turn reminders for friend battles, they are sent to your account's email.
If you send feedback, the message and the email you type are stored so we can reply.
Analytics and cookies
Only if you accept it on the banner, the site uses Google Analytics, through Firebase, to count visits and a few actions (opening the builder, saving or sharing a team). It records the pages you open, your device and browser, and your approximate country, and it sets cookies to tell a returning visit from a new one. It is not used for advertising.
Until you answer, and if you refuse, Google Analytics does not load and sets no cookies. Everything else the site keeps in your browser is what it needs to work: your preferences, your anonymous sign-in and a cache of game data. You can change your answer here at any time.
Who else handles your data?
Google Firebase (authentication, database and analytics) and Google Cloud Storage (images), Vercel (hosting and the site's server functions), and Gmail (the email the site sends). Some Pokémon images load from GitHub, jsDelivr and Pokémon Showdown, which see your IP address like any website you load an image from. These providers may process data outside your country. A voluntary contribution happens entirely on Buy Me a Coffee, under its own privacy policy; your payment details never reach this site.
How do you delete your data?
In Profile → Account → Delete account. It erases your teams, favorites, results, profile, friendships, push subscriptions and Champion Challenge ranking, then the account itself. Forum posts are not erased automatically: delete them before, or write to us and we remove them.
Under Brazil's LGPD and similar laws you can ask to see, correct or delete your data at any time by writing to pokemonteambuilderadmin@gmail.com.
pokemonteambuilderadmin@gmail.com
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. The previous versions are in the site's public source code on GitHub.