1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
- Account information: If you sign in with Apple (iPhone) or Google (Android), we receive a unique user identifier and, optionally, your name. On Android, Google may also share your email address with us; we use it only to identify your account.
- Profile data: The display name and optional group image you add to your profile and groups.
- Gameplay data: Your birdies, pars, eagles, greens in regulation, rounds played, course names, and goals you set.
- Scorecard rounds: When you save a hole-by-hole round, it is backed up to your account so it can sync across your devices. This includes the course name, tee box, date, notes, and per-hole details you enter, such as strokes, putts, first-putt distance, tee-shot direction and club, bunker and penalty counts, and any other per-hole stats you record. Scorecard rounds are private to your account and are not shown to other users.
- Group data: Group names, invite codes, membership, and activity entries generated by your gameplay.
- Chat messages: Text you send in a group chat.
- Activity reactions: When you tap 👍 (Like) or 👊 (Knucks) on a group milestone, we record your user ID and the reaction type so other members can see the count.
- Activity comments: Text comments (up to 500 characters) you post on group milestones. Comments are visible to all group members.
- Course layouts: When you start a round at a course we don't already have on file, we may publish the course's layout to a shared library so other users can pre-fill their scorecards at the same course. This includes the course name, hole count, par per hole, and the map locations of the course's greens and tees. No personally identifying information is attached to these submissions.
Location
- Finding nearby courses: With your permission, the App uses your device's location to find golf courses near you. To do this, your approximate coordinates are sent to the OpenStreetMap Overpass service, which returns nearby courses and hole layouts. We do not store these coordinates on our servers or attach them to your account.
- During a round (iPhone): On iPhone, the App may use your location on your device during a round to show distances to the green and to detect which hole you're on. This location is not uploaded or stored by us.
- Only while the App is open: The App uses your location only while it is open on your screen. It does not access your location in the background.
- You can turn off location access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → Birdie Tracker. The App still works without it; you'll just enter the course name yourself and won't see distances during a round.
Information We Receive Automatically
- Device identifier: A unique anonymous ID generated by Firebase Authentication when you first launch the App.
- App usage: A limited set of in-app actions and basic device information, collected through Google Analytics for Firebase as described in Section 4.
- Ad measurement (iPhone, only if you say yes and allow tracking): If you agree to help us measure our ads and allow tracking in Apple's request, a few app moments and device details go to AppsFlyer, as described in Section 4.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Provide, maintain, and improve the App.
- Sync your stats and scorecard rounds across your devices.
- Enable you to join groups and compete on leaderboards with friends.
- Deliver milestone activity updates, group chat messages, reactions, and comments to other members of your groups.
- Find courses near you and, on iPhone, show distances during a round.
- Pre-fill course layouts (par per hole, green and tee locations) when you start a round at a course another user has already logged.
- Understand how the App is used and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
- Enforce our Terms of Service and community guidelines.
- Respond to reports of objectionable content.
4. Analytics and Advertising Measurement
The iPhone version of the App uses Google Analytics for Firebase to understand how the App is used and to measure whether our ads lead people to install it. The Android version does not include Google Analytics for Firebase; Google Play reports installs to us without any analytics code in the app. On iPhone, we only report a small set of actions you deliberately take in the App:
- First open: the first time you open the App after installing it.
- Stat logged: that you logged a birdie, par, eagle, or round on the dashboard. We record only the type, not which hole, which course, or your totals.
- Course added: that you added a course. The course name is not sent.
- Round started / completed: that you started or saved a scorecard round, with the number of holes. Your scores are not sent.
- Pro purchase: that you bought Birdie Tracker Pro, with the product, price, and currency. Payment details are handled by Apple and are never available to us.
Along with these events, Firebase automatically collects limited technical information: an identifier that is randomly generated for this installation of the App, device model, iOS version, App version, session start and length, and an approximate country or region inferred from your IP address.
What we do not collect: We do not record which screens you view, and we do not send your scores, course names, location, chat messages, comments, or profile information to analytics. Analytics data is not linked to your Sign in with Apple account. Google Analytics for Firebase never receives your device's advertising identifier (IDFA).
Advertising measurement: If you installed the App after seeing one of our ads, Google Ads uses this data, together with Apple's privacy-preserving SKAdNetwork framework, to tell us in aggregate how many installs, logged stats, and purchases our ads produced.
Retention and your choices: Event-level analytics data is kept for no more than 14 months and then deleted automatically. Deleting the App removes its installation identifier from your device. To ask us to delete analytics data associated with your installation, contact us using the details below. For more about how Google handles this data, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and Google's Privacy Policy.
Measuring Our Ads with AppsFlyer (iPhone, Only If You Say Yes)
Birdie Tracker advertises on services such as Apple Ads, Google, Meta, and TikTok, and uses AppsFlyer to see which of those ads bring golfers who keep using the App. Nothing is sent to AppsFlyer unless you say yes and also allow tracking in Apple's request. After you log your first stat, the App asks you once whether it may measure its ads. If you say no, nothing described in this part is sent, and nothing else in the App changes. If you say yes, Apple's request to allow tracking comes next. If you choose Ask App Not to Track there, that counts as no: nothing described in this part is sent, Google's consent form is not shown, and RevenueCat is not linked to AppsFlyer. Only if you choose Allow does Google's consent form come next where the law requires one (for example, in the European Economic Area and the UK), and then measurement starts.
If you say yes and allow tracking, AppsFlyer receives only these moments, by name, each at most once per installation:
- you signed in with Apple;
- you set up your first course;
- you logged your first stat;
- you saved your first scorecard round;
- you opened the App again on your second day, and on your seventh day.
These moments carry no values. AppsFlyer also receives information about your device and the App: your IP address, device model, iOS version, App version, an identifier that iOS gives the App's developer (IDFV), and your device's advertising identifier (IDFA). AppsFlyer never receives your scores, stats, scorecard rounds, course names, groups, chat messages, comments, name, or location.
Pro purchases: If you say yes and allow tracking, RevenueCat (which manages Birdie Tracker Pro) tells AppsFlyer when you start a free trial, when a trial becomes a subscription or is canceled, and when you buy or renew, including the product, price, and currency. To link these, RevenueCat receives your AppsFlyer ID, your IP address, your IDFV, and your IDFA.
Changing your mind: You can turn this on or off at any time in the App under Settings → Privacy → Help Measure Our Ads. Turning it off stops sending to AppsFlyer immediately and removes the link between RevenueCat and AppsFlyer. Turning off tracking for Birdie Tracker in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking stops it too, the next time you open the App. If you chose Ask App Not to Track and later want to help, allow tracking there first, then switch this on in the App.
AppsFlyer and RevenueCat keep what they receive under their own retention terms. Deleting your Birdie Tracker account does not remove it, so email us and we'll ask them to delete it. See AppsFlyer's Privacy Policy and RevenueCat's Privacy Policy.
5. Sign in with Apple and Google
On iPhone, when you sign in with Apple, you may choose to share your real name or use Apple's "Hide My Email" feature. Apple does not share your password with us. You can revoke the App's access at any time via iOS Settings → Apple Account → Sign-In & Security → Sign in with Apple.
On Android, when you sign in with Google, Google shares your account identifier, name, and email address with us. Google does not share your password with us. You can remove the App's access at any time from your Google Account → Security → Third-party apps & services.
6. User-Generated Content and Moderation
Birdie Tracker includes features where users can post content visible to others (group chat, group activity comments and reactions, group names, group images, display names). We do not tolerate objectionable content, harassment, or abuse. We provide tools to:
- Filter offensive language before messages are sent.
- Report inappropriate content directly from the chat interface.
- Block users so their messages are no longer visible to you.
- Delete your own messages and comments at any time. Only the original author can delete a comment.
Reported content is reviewed within 24 hours, and any chat message that receives 3 or more reports is automatically hidden from the feed pending review. Offending content or users will be removed from the service.
7. Children's Privacy
Birdie Tracker is rated 12+ and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has provided us personal information, we will delete it.
8. Data Retention and Deletion
- You can delete your account at any time from Settings → Profile → Delete Account. This permanently removes your cloud data (stats, scorecard rounds, group memberships, group chat messages, activity entries, reactions, comments, profile) and erases all local stats on your device.
- Course-library submissions you've made are not personally identifying and remain available to other users after account deletion, since they contain no information that could be tied back to you.
- Analytics data is not linked to your account and is deleted automatically as described in Section 4.
- If you agreed to ad measurement, AppsFlyer and RevenueCat keep what they received under their own retention terms. Deleting your account doesn't remove it, so email us and we'll ask them to delete it.
- Backup copies of deleted data may persist in our service providers' backups for up to 30 days before being purged.
9. Advertising
Free users see interstitial ads provided by Google AdMob. On iPhone, the App only asks for permission to track you if you first agree to help measure our ads (Section 4). If you allow tracking, AdMob may use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) to show ads more relevant to you. If you don't, or you're never asked, AdMob cannot access your IDFA; it may use other device and usage information to select and measure ads. Birdie Tracker Pro subscribers see no ads.
10. In-App Purchases
On iPhone, subscriptions are processed by Apple. We use RevenueCat to manage entitlements. Your payment information is never sent to us. When a purchase completes, the App records that it happened (product, price, and currency) for advertising measurement, and, if you agreed to ad measurement, RevenueCat reports it to AppsFlyer, as described in Section 4.
11. Using the App on Android
The Android version of Birdie Tracker works as described above, with these differences:
- Signing in: Signing in is optional. On Android you sign in with Google instead of Apple. We receive a unique user identifier, your email address, and your Google display name. Google does not share your password with us. You can revoke the App's access at any time from the Third-party apps & services page of your Google Account. If you do not sign in, the App uses an anonymous identifier only.
- Advertising: On the free tier, Google AdMob accesses your device's advertising ID to select and measure ads. You can reset or delete your advertising ID in Android Settings → Privacy → Ads (on some devices, Settings → Google → Ads). Birdie Tracker Pro subscribers see no ads.
- Analytics: The analytics events and AppsFlyer ad measurement described in Section 4 are only in the iOS app. The Android app does not send them and does not include AppsFlyer.
- In-app purchases: Subscriptions on Android are processed by Google Play. We use RevenueCat to manage entitlements. Your payment information is never sent to us.
- Location: On Android, location is used only to find golf courses near you, as described in Section 1, and only while the App is open. The Android app does not show distances during a round. You can turn location off at any time in Android Settings → Location → App location permissions → Birdie Tracker (menu names vary slightly by device).
- Account deletion: Works as described in Section 8. Step-by-step instructions, including how to request deletion if you can't access the App, are on our account deletion page.
12. Security
We use industry-standard safeguards (encryption in transit, Firebase security rules, per-user access controls) to protect your data. No internet service is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you.
- Correct or delete your data.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Data portability.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at 218Cultivation@gmail.com.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be announced within the App and the "Last updated" date above will be revised. Continued use of the App after changes means you accept the updated policy.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data:
Email: 218Cultivation@gmail.com
Website: www.birdie-tracker.com