Privacy Policy

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how TheShowBase ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and shares your information when you use our website and services.

Information We Collect

We collect information when you visit our website, including:

  • Information about your browser, operating system, and device
  • Pages you visit and features you use on our site
  • IP address and geographic location (city/country level)
  • Referral source that brought you to our site

These website analytics disclosures apply when you visit TheShowBase. The Chrome extension does not derive or upload your city, country, or precise location as part of an import.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help us provide and improve our services.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies help us analyze data about webpage traffic and improve our website to tailor it to user needs.

Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our site, you will be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings button in the footer of our website.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our services
  • Understand how users interact with our website
  • Detect and prevent fraud and abuse
  • Analyze usage patterns and trends

Data Sharing

We may share your information with:

  • Service providers who help us operate our website (such as Google Analytics)
  • Legal authorities when required by law

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

  • Access to your data
  • Correction of inaccurate data
  • Deletion of your data
  • Objection to processing
  • Data portability

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.

Chrome Extension Privacy Notice

This section applies specifically to the theSHOWBASE Importer Chrome Extension, including version 3.3 and later.

Data the Extension Handles

  • TheShowBase account: Your Supabase user identifier, email address, and basic Google OAuth profile information used to connect the extension to your account.
  • Authentication information: Short-lived access tokens and a refresh token used to keep your requested sync authenticated.
  • MLB The Show inventory: Card UUIDs, owned quantities, and sellability flags.
  • Collection progress: Player-reward collection identifiers, titles, completed/required totals, and—only when you start the optional exact scan—per-card SDS Collected membership.
  • Program progress: Official program identifiers, percentage/completion state, and—only when you start the optional reward scan—visible program titles, reward thresholds, direct player-card UUIDs, and whether SDS marks each direct reward as earned or unearned.
  • Import metadata: Game edition, timestamps, page and item counts, run status, retry diagnostics, extension identifier, and extension version.
  • Security and operational data: IP address, user agent, request timing, import outcome, and related identifiers may be recorded in limited server logs to secure the service, prevent abuse, and troubleshoot failed imports.

Data We Do Not Retain or Upload

  • MLB The Show passwords or SDS cookie values
  • Raw MLB The Show HTML or JSON responses processed in memory by the public Web Store extension
  • General browsing history or activity outside the narrowly permitted MLB The Show and TheShowBase services
  • Payment, financial, health, personal communications, or credit information
  • In-game currency balances or purchase history

How We Use Your Data

  • Save the normalized results of a sync you started to your private TheShowBase account
  • Power My Club, ownership indicators, collection tracking, program-reward tracking, team building, and personalized market tools
  • Resume long scans after the side panel closes or Chrome suspends the extension worker
  • Secure the import API, enforce rate limits, detect abuse, and diagnose reliability problems

Local Processing and Storage

  • User initiated: The extension reads MLB The Show data only after you choose a sync or optional scan.
  • Normalized checkpoints: Card, collection, program, progress, and retry checkpoints are stored locally so an interrupted scan can resume. The extension retains only a bounded number of completed run records.
  • Tokens: TheShowBase access tokens use browser session storage. A refresh token is stored locally until you disconnect the account, clear extension data, or uninstall the extension.
  • No raw pages: MLB responses are parsed in memory. Raw HTML/JSON pages and SDS cookies are not saved or uploaded by the public Web Store build.

Server Storage and Security

  • HTTPS: Authentication and import traffic is encrypted in transit.
  • Private account data: Supabase access controls and authenticated server APIs restrict imported club data to its owner and authorized service operations.
  • Current snapshots: Inventory and current collection/program observations are replaced by newer complete scans rather than appended indefinitely.
  • Historical evidence: Import-run summaries and exact-scan summaries may be retained for reliability and audit purposes. Confirmed earned program rewards remain in a monotonic ledger until the imported data or account is deleted.
  • Human access: We do not allow people to read extension user data except with your specific consent for support, when necessary for security, when required by law, or after aggregation/anonymization for internal operations.

Your Choices and Rights

You have complete control over your data:

  • Choose: Standard sync, exact Collected scan, and exact program-reward scan are separate actions.
  • Pause or cancel: Long scans can be paused or cancelled from the side panel.
  • Access, export, or delete: Contact support@theshowbase.com to request a copy or deletion of imported extension data without needing to uninstall.
  • Disconnect: Disconnecting clears local TheShowBase authentication tokens. Uninstalling clears extension-local data and stops all future collection.
  • Account deletion: Deleting your TheShowBase account removes account-linked imported snapshots, reward evidence, and importer audit records.

Service Providers and Data Sources

  • Google OAuth: The sign-in provider for your TheShowBase account.
  • Supabase: Authentication and database infrastructure for account-linked imported data.
  • Vercel: Hosting, API execution, and operational/security logging for TheShowBase.
  • MLB The Show / Sony Interactive Entertainment: The authenticated, read-only source of the club and progress data you request to sync.

Data Retention

Current imported snapshots are kept until replaced or deleted. Historical import/scan summaries, earned-reward evidence, and limited security records are retained while your account remains active unless you request earlier deletion. Authentication access tokens expire automatically; locally stored refresh token remains until disconnect, browser-data clearing, or uninstall.

Chrome Web Store Limited Use

The theSHOWBASE Importer uses personal or sensitive user data only to provide or improve its user-facing sync and private My Club features. We do not sell extension user data, use it for personalized advertising, transfer it for unrelated purposes, or use it to determine creditworthiness.

The theSHOWBASE Importer's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Chrome Extension, please contact us at:

General Support: support@theshowbase.com

Privacy Concerns: admin@theshowbase.com

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last Updated" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible.

Last Updated: July 23, 2026

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