Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 2, 2026
Drilld is operated by Drilld Technologies OÜ ("Drilld", "we", "us"), a company registered in Estonia (registry code 17607858), Tartu mnt 67/1-13b, 10115 Tallinn, Estonia. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data when you use Drilld.
We are the data controller for personal data processed on the platform. For privacy questions, contact us at hello@drilld.co.
Drilld Technologies OÜ has not appointed a data protection officer. GDPR Article 37 does not require one at our current size and activities. Questions about personal data: hello@drilld.co. The Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) is our supervisory authority.
1. Data we collect
Account data
When you create an account, we collect:
- Your full name and display name
- Email address
- Password (stored as a one-way hash)
- City and country
- Date of birth (for age verification)
- Biological sex (for sport eligibility and safety, such as women-only events and training-partner matching)
- Sports you practice and target groups
Profile data
If you complete your profile, we may also collect:
- Profile photo and bio
- Social media handles (Instagram, etc.), which we also use to check that an instructor controls the account (see "Checking a coach's identity" in section 2)
- Location data (city / region for matching)
- Sports certifications, experience, and credentials (for instructors)
Booking and payment data
When you book or sell sessions, we collect:
- Booking details (date, time, sport, location, price)
- Payment information processed via Stripe (we do not store card data ourselves)
- Stripe Connect account details (for instructors)
- Booking thread messages between students and instructors
Usage data
We automatically collect:
- IP address and approximate location
- Device type, browser, and operating system
- Pages visited, actions taken, and timestamps
- Cookies and similar technologies (see Cookie Policy below)
Content you create
Posts, comments, reviews, and other content you share on the platform.
2. How we use your data
We process your data to:
- Provide the platform (account management, bookings, payments, communication)
- Enable matching between athletes, instructors, and training partners
- Process payments and payouts via Stripe
- Send transactional emails (booking confirmations, reminders, password resets)
- Send marketing emails (only with your consent, you can unsubscribe anytime)
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and policy violations, including automated checks of posts and comments for harmful content
- Comply with legal obligations (accounting, tax, anti-money-laundering)
- Improve the platform (analytics, feature development)
When a person at Drilld reads booking thread messages
Booking thread messages are private between the student and the instructor, and nobody at Drilld reads them as part of running the platform. If one of you reports a message in the thread, a member of our team may read that message together with up to three messages sent before it and up to three sent after it, so that the report can be judged in context. That is the normal review window. We keep an internal record of these reviews. We do not open the rest of the conversation unless one of the cases under "Legal disclosure" in section 3 applies.
When you report a post, a comment or a profile
When someone reports a post, a comment, a message in a booking thread or a profile, we save a copy of it as it was at that moment. For a post, a comment or a message, that is the text, links to any photos or video, who wrote it and when. For a profile, that is the name, the profile address, the photo, the tagline and the bio. The copy also holds the reason given for the report. A member of our team who handles reports uses the copy to review the report, even if the content or the profile is changed or deleted afterwards. Only that team can see the copy. The copy may include personal data about people mentioned in it. We limit access to the moderation team. Nobody who is reported is ever told who made the report. We do this under our legitimate interest in keeping people on Drilld safe, and to meet our obligations under the EU Digital Services Act.
Checking a coach's identity
Before someone can sell sessions on Drilld, we check that the person controls the social media account given to us. This can be done in one of two ways: add a Drilld link to the bio of that account, or send a one-time code from that Instagram account to Drilld's Instagram account @drilld.co. For this check we process the username, the code and when it was created, and a person at Drilld reads the message in our Instagram inbox. Instagram is run by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, which handles the message under its own terms and is an independent controller of that service. We keep a record of the check (the method, the username, the code and the time) as proof of how we decided, for as long as the coach account is active and for 2 years after it closes.
Legal basis for processing
We process your data based on:
- Contract: Providing the platform, including age-restricted features and sport-eligibility features such as women-only events, requires processing your date of birth and sex
- Consent: Marketing emails and optional cookies require your explicit consent
- Legitimate interest: Fraud prevention, security, and platform improvement
- Legal obligation: Tax records, financial reporting, regulatory compliance
If you sell through Drilld: tax reporting (DAC7)
If you sell through Drilld we collect your name, address and date of birth, and after your first sale in a year your tax number (or your place of birth if you have none). For a company or a club we collect its registration number and place of business. We use this to report you to the Estonian Tax and Customs Board under DAC7. The legal basis is a legal obligation. The Board may share it with tax authorities in other EU countries. We keep it for as long as Estonian law requires for that reporting, and no longer than needed for a dispute about the report.
3. Who we share data with
We share data only when necessary:
- Stripe: Payment processing and instructor payouts
- Brevo: Email and SMS delivery
- Twilio: Phone number verification and booking texts by SMS in the United States and Canada
- OpenAI: Automated checks of the text in posts and comments for harmful content
- Cloudflare R2 + Stream: Image and video hosting
- Supabase: Database hosting
- Vercel: Application hosting
- Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Instagram): If you send us a verification code on Instagram, Meta handles that message as an independent controller under its own terms
- Other users: Your public profile data is visible to other users on the platform
- Sponsors: If you opt into sponsor visibility, your athlete profile may be shared with sponsors
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
Legal disclosure
We may disclose data when required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Drilld, our users, or others.
4. How long we keep data
We keep your data only as long as necessary:
- Active accounts: Data is kept while your account is active
- Date of birth and sex: Kept while your account is active, as part of your account data
- Closed accounts: Most data is deleted within 90 days of account closure
- Bookings and payments: Retained for 7 years for tax and accounting compliance
- Terms acceptance records: Retained indefinitely as audit trail
- SMS consent records: When you agree to receive booking texts, we record when you agreed, the phone number and the exact wording you saw. We keep this record only so we can show that you agreed if there is a legal claim, and we do not use it for anything else. We keep it for 4 years for numbers in the United States and Canada, and 3 years for other numbers, counted from when you stop receiving texts from us or close your account.
- Fraud prevention records: Retained for up to 5 years
- Copies of reported content and profiles: Kept while the report is being reviewed and for 6 months after we decide, so the decision can be appealed. The copy is kept even if the content is deleted, the profile is changed or the account is closed. If the police or another authority asks us to preserve a copy, we keep it for as long as they need it. If the person who made the report closes the account, we remove the name from the report. We keep the copy even if the author asks us to delete it, because we need it to handle the report, to allow an appeal, or to meet a legal obligation or request from an authority.
- Guardian-managed accounts: Kept while the account is managed. If the child turns 18 and never took the account over, the account is anonymized two years later (see section 9).
- Minor consent and participation records: Consent and participation records for a minor are kept for as long as the related booking is retained (see "Bookings and payments" above), as part of our booking and accountability records. These are kept even after an account is anonymized.
5. Your rights
Under GDPR and similar laws, you have the right to:
- Access: Request a copy of your personal data
- Rectification: Correct inaccurate data
- Erasure: Request deletion of your data (subject to legal retention obligations)
- Restriction: Limit how we process your data
- Portability: Receive your data in a portable format
- Objection: Object to processing based on legitimate interest
- Withdraw consent: Withdraw consent for marketing or optional cookies at any time
To exercise these rights, contact us at hello@drilld.co. We respond within 30 days.
Complaints
If you believe we have mishandled your data, you have the right to file a complaint with the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) at aki.ee, or with the data protection authority in the EU country where you live or work.
6. Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep you logged in
- Remember your preferences
- Analyze platform usage
- Deliver marketing (only with consent)
You can manage cookie preferences through the cookie banner shown when you first visit the platform, or via your browser settings.
Cookie categories
- Essential: Required for the platform to function (login, security). Cannot be disabled.
- Analytics: Help us understand how the platform is used. Optional.
- Marketing: Used to deliver personalized content. Optional.
7. Data security
We use industry-standard security measures:
- Encryption in transit (HTTPS)
- Encryption at rest for sensitive data
- Access controls and authentication
- Regular security audits
- Incident response procedures
No system is fully secure. If we become aware of a data breach affecting your data, we will notify you and relevant authorities as required by law.
8. International transfers
Drilld is based in Estonia (EU/EEA). Some service providers (Stripe, Cloudflare, Supabase, Vercel, Twilio, OpenAI) may process data outside the EU/EEA. We ensure adequate safeguards are in place, including:
- Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission
- Service providers certified under recognized data protection frameworks
9. Children and guardian-managed accounts
You must be at least 13 to create your own Drilld account. If you are between 13 and 18, you must have permission from a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly let users under 13 create their own account. If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account without a parent or legal guardian, we will delete that account data promptly.
Profiles of people under 18
If you are under 18, or if we do not have your date of birth, your profile is visible only to people who are logged in to Drilld. People who are not logged in cannot see your profile, your posts or your comments, and search engines are not allowed to index your profile.
From your 18th birthday, your profile, posts and comments become visible to everyone, including people who are not logged in, and search engines can show your profile. We send you a message about seven days before this happens.
Accounts a guardian manages
A parent or legal guardian can create and manage an account for a child under 18. The guardian sets the account up and controls it. The child cannot log in to it.
For that account we collect the child's name, date of birth, and biological sex so the child can be registered for sessions and events with the correct age group and safety rules. The guardian can also add a photo and the sports the child trains. We process this data to provide the service the guardian asked us to provide.
A guardian-managed account is private by default. It is never visible to logged-out visitors and it is never indexed by search engines. The guardian decides whether other logged-in users can see it.
The guardian can use the rights in section 5 for a managed account. After a takeover, the child can use those rights for the account. The guardian's remaining access is only the limited visibility described below, until the child turns 18.
Taking over the account from the age of 13
From the age of 13 a child can take over the account. The guardian starts the takeover. The child then chooses the email address and password for it. After the takeover, the profile is visible to people who are logged in to Drilld. People who are not logged in and search engines will not see it until the child turns 18.
We email the guardian when the child completes the takeover. The guardian can object for a short period after that, or until the child's 18th birthday if that comes first. We tell the guardian the exact deadline in that email.
If a guardian objects, we freeze the account while a person at Drilld reviews the case. The review either lifts the freeze and lets the child keep the account, or reverses the takeover so the account is managed by the guardian again.
What a guardian can see afterwards
After the takeover the guardian no longer controls the account, but keeps limited visibility while the child is still under 18. The guardian can see:
- The child's upcoming sessions and events
- Sessions and events from the past 30 days
- Which clubs the child belongs to
The guardian cannot see posts, comments, messages, followers, or any amounts paid. This visibility ends on the child's 18th birthday.
Turning 18
We email the guardian about six months before, and again about one month before, the child's 18th birthday.
On the 18th birthday the guardian link ends automatically.
If the child has taken over the account, the guardian's visibility stops and the account continues as an ordinary adult account. Its profile, posts and comments then become visible to people who are not logged in, as described in "Profiles of people under 18" above.
If the child never took over the account, it stops being a managed account. The guardian's access ends, and nobody can log in to it.
Accounts that were never taken over
If an account was never taken over, we anonymize it two years after it stops being managed, or earlier if we receive a deletion request (see section 5). We email the person who was the guardian at least 30 days before we anonymize it.
When we anonymize an account we permanently remove the name, date of birth, biological sex, photo, bio, email address, phone number, and location. We keep the booking history, payment references, and the record that a guardian gave consent, as accounting and accountability records (see section 4).
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated via email or in-app notification. The "Last updated" date at the top reflects the most recent version.
11. Contact
For privacy questions, data subject requests, or complaints, contact us at:
- Email: hello@drilld.co
- Postal: Drilld Technologies OÜ, Tartu mnt 67/1-13b, 10115 Tallinn, Estonia