Transparency

Every organization that works with Phoenix Scout is shown with its relationship to us. The partnership types we use are:

• Official Sponsors — a paid relationship, always labelled as sponsored.
• Official Partners
• Featured Partners — a paid relationship, always labelled as sponsored.
• Community Partners
• Resource Partners

Commercial terms are confidential and are never published. A partnership never changes a player’s record, a verification, a Scout Rating or a Club Fit result.

Partner content appears only in labelled placements — marked Partner, Sponsored or Advertisement — and is kept separate from news, player information and search results. Placements are reviewed before they go live, and a placement is never shown as editorial content.

The resource network links to independent organizations — clubs, academies, education providers, technology and media companies, logistics and community organizations. Their websites, services and policies are their own. Links open in a new tab and are marked as external.

Health & Medical. Health and medical organizations listed here are independent external resources. Phoenix Scout does not provide diagnosis, treatment or medical advice.

Education. Education resources cover universities, academies, scholarships, courses, certifications, coaching education, professional development — each provided by the organization listed, not by Phoenix Scout.

Phoenix Scout keeps three kinds of information visibly apart on every profile:

• Verified data — facts checked against a source on the published trust ladder, with the source shown.
• Scout assessment — an approved scout’s structured observation on the sport’s own template.
• Phoenix Scout analytical estimate — our own derived analysis (Scout Rating, Player DNA, Club / Team Fit, estimated values), always labelled with its methodology version.

External data enters only from licensed providers and keeps its source. Imported data is never marked verified automatically, and a transfer rumour never becomes a confirmed transfer.

Ratings, fit scores and estimates support a decision; they do not make it. They depend on the evidence available, which may be incomplete — missing data stays missing and is never treated as zero. Scouting boards and analytics illustrations on public pages explain how Phoenix Scout reads a sport; they are not live data about any athlete. Always review the evidence, the source and the methodology before acting.

Sport ball photographs are licensed images from Wikimedia Commons — none is AI-generated. Brand names visible on a ball belong to their owners and imply no partnership.

• Football — “Football (soccer ball).svg” by flomar, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Rendered by Wikimedia Commons; cropped to the ball, circular cut-out, resized.
• Basketball — “Basketball.png” by Reisio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped to the ball, circular cut-out, resized.
• Volleyball — “Volleyball ball.jpg” by Οσελότος, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped to the ball, circular cut-out, resized.
• Handball — “Handball the ball2.png” by Armin Kuebelbeck (photo); edited by Krzys Pe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped to the ball, circular cut-out, resized. The modified image is shared under the same licence.

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