AI Disclosure

Effective date: 2026-05-21 Last updated: 2026-05-20

ARQ uses artificial intelligence for analytics, corrections, narrative summaries, and certain authoring flows (for example, building a custom game schema). This page explains how that works in plain language. It supplements the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service.

1. Where AI sits in the product

• Game-event logging is not AI. When you tap a button to log a score, foul, timeout, or substitution, the event is written directly to our database. No AI is on that path.
• AI is the "intelligence layer." When you ask a question in the chat, request a post-game summary, or ask the system to interpret a correction in natural language, your input is processed by an AI model.

2. Who provides the AI

ARQ uses the Claude API from Anthropic, PBC ("Anthropic"). When you use an AI feature:

• The text of your prompt is sent to Anthropic.
• Relevant game context is also sent — for example, the events in the current game, or a schema definition — so the model can answer correctly.
• Anthropic returns a response, which we display to you and store for the conversation history.

Anthropic processes the request under its API terms. Anthropic does not use API inputs or outputs to train its models under those terms.

For the current list of sub-processors and how they handle your data, see Sub-processors.

3. What gets sent

When you use an AI feature, the following may be sent to Anthropic:

• The text of your prompt.
• The recent conversation history with the AI (within the same chat).
• The structured context relevant to your question (e.g. the events of the game you're looking at, the schema of the sport, the roster).
• System instructions from ARQ that tell the model how to behave.

We do not send:

• Your password, auth tokens, or other credentials.
• Personal information from other leagues you are not a member of.
• Payment data (sponsor billing runs off-platform today; it is not part of the AI surface).

4. What to do (and not do) when chatting

AI is a helpful assistant, not a confidential channel. Apply normal judgment about what you paste in:

• Do: ask analytical questions ("why is LA winning?"), request corrections ("undo the last foul"), ask for summaries, ask the model to author a new schema for a custom game.
• Don't: paste anything you would not want sent off our servers — medical records, social security numbers, financial account numbers, third-party private communications, or any information about minors. Game data about adult amateur athletes is the intended use.

5. AI output is not always right

Treat AI output as a suggestion, not a source of truth.

• The model can be wrong, out-of-date, or biased.
• It can "hallucinate" — produce confident statements that are not supported by the events in your game.
• It may misinterpret ambiguous instructions, especially corrections.
• We do not verify AI output for accuracy.

For anything that matters — official standings, awards, statistics for league records — confirm against the underlying event log before relying on it. ARQ's event log is the system of record; AI output is a layer above it.

6. AI corrections are still auditable

When you ask the AI to correct an event (for example, "undo that last foul"), the correction is recorded as a new "void" event in the append-only log that references the original. The model never edits or deletes a historical event in place. You and your league members can always see what was originally logged and what was voided.

7. Limits on AI use

You agree not to:

• Try to extract our system prompts, jailbreak the model, or generate output that violates Anthropic's usage policies.
• Use the AI to produce harassment, defamation, or content that targets identifiable people negatively.
• Use the AI as a substitute for advice you should be getting from a licensed professional (legal, medical, financial).

See the Terms of Service § Acceptable use for the full list.

8. Your choices

• You can use ARQ without using the AI features. The hot-path event logging works without them.
• You can delete your AI conversation history by deleting the corresponding chat in the UI (where available) or by emailing privacy@arqstats.com.
• For broader rights — access, deletion, correction of personal information — see the Privacy Policy § Your choices and, for California residents, Your Privacy Choices.

9. Changes

We will update this Disclosure when our AI usage materially changes — for example, if we add a new AI provider or change what is sent. Material changes are dated at the top.

10. Contact

Questions about AI: privacy@arqstats.com