Privacy
What is and is not public
Most of the people this site is about are minors, so it is worth saying exactly what appears where. Nothing below is a summary of a longer document. This is the rule.
MiSpeechHub is run by Michigan Speech Coaches, Inc., the Michigan speech coaches’ association and a nonprofit. The rules for using the site are in the terms of use.
Public to anybody, no account needed
A speech tournament is a public competition, and its results are a public record. Michigan results going back to 2003 live here for the same reason a school keeps its trophy case in the hallway.
- Results
- A competitor's name, entry code, school, placement, and each judge's rank and rating, on the results page for that tournament. This is the tab sheet, the same document that has been handed out at Michigan tournaments for decades.
- Team sweepstakes
- Every school's sweepstakes standing at every archived tournament, and a program record page collecting a school's trophy cabinet and event champions.
- The schematic, while a tournament runs
- Who is in which room, and when. Competitors appear as an entry code, or as a first name and last initial if the host turns names on. No school and no scores appear on a live schematic.
- Share cards
- If somebody shares a result link, the preview card shows the name, event, placement and school from that result page.
- Tournament pages
- Invitations, schedules, room lists, entry fees, judging requirements, and any announcements a host publishes.
Never public
- Ballots and written critiques
- Never public. A judge's comments go to the competitor and their coaches, and only after the head coach releases them at the end of the tournament.
- Contact details
- Email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and home addresses are never shown on a public page and never included in a share card or a search result.
- People in search
- The site search covers tournaments, results, schools, past champions, news and pages. It does not return people. A competitor's name is findable by opening the result page they appear on, which is deliberate: reachable in context, not harvestable in bulk.
- Team business
- Rosters, forms, dues, gear orders, carpools, practice notes and coaching logs are visible to that team only, and some of them to coaches only.
- Anything in the consoles
- What a coach or a tournament director sees while they work is not a public surface.
Text messages
- Who gets texts
- Only people who asked for them: an account holder who ticks the texting box in their preferences, or a volunteer who ticks the texting box when signing up for a shift. Texting is never required to use the site.
- What they are about
- Tournament-day logistics from the people running a tournament you are part of: a round being posted, a room change, a schedule delay, a note from the tournament director. Never advertising, and never anything sold by somebody else.
- How often
- It varies. Most weeks, nothing; on a tournament day, a handful. Message and data rates from your carrier may apply.
- Stopping them
- Reply STOP to any text and they stop at once, everywhere on the site; your preferences are switched off to match. Reply START to turn them back on, or HELP for help. You can also untick the box in your preferences at any time.
- Your number is not shared
- Your phone number and your consent to receive texts are never sold, rented or shared with anybody for their marketing or promotional purposes. They go only to the service that delivers the message (Twilio), and only to deliver it. This exclusion of text-message opt-in data and consent applies to every kind of sharing described on this page.
- How long a number is kept
- An account’s number is kept until you remove it or close the account. A volunteer’s number is erased 14 days after the tournament’s results are released.
What you control
- Claiming your results
- Linking an archived result to your account changes what YOU can see, not what anybody else can. The result page looked exactly the same before you claimed it.
- Sharing a page about yourself
- Links you create to share a page are long and unguessable, are never indexed by search engines, and stop working when you turn them off.
- Following a competitor
- A family following somebody through a tournament day sees where they are and how they finish. It does not open up their ballots.
- Your team's public page
- A team page shows nothing about individual students unless a coach turns that layer on. It is off until they do.
The one rule worth reading twice
A school’s name is attached to a competitor on results pages and on the cards minted from them. It is not attached anywhere else: not in search, not in autocomplete, not on the live schematic, not in news or the calendar. That asymmetry is on purpose. Somebody reading a specific tournament’s results should be able to see which school a competitor represented; nobody should be able to scrape a list of which children attend which school.
Corrections, and getting a name taken down
Names in the archive come from the tab sheets the tournaments published. If one is misspelled, wrong, or should not be there, write to support@mispeechhub.com and say which tournament and which event.
Deleting an account removes the person and keeps the historical placements, anonymised. That is a deliberate compromise: a school should not lose a sweepstakes title from 2011 because somebody who competed for them closed an account in 2026.
Questions about any of this go to support@mispeechhub.com. For how results are read, see the results archive.