TEELANDS PRIVACY

Your location

On a hole, the app uses your phone's location to show where you stand on the map and how far you are from the green. It asks only while the app is open (never in the background) and you can say no; the scorecard works without it.

Your location stays on your phone. It is never sent to the Teelands server and no track of where you walked is kept anywhere.

For the wind flag, the app asks a weather service for the weather at the green of the hole you're on: the US National Weather Service (weather.gov) in the US, and Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com) elsewhere or when the US service has no answer. That sends the green's position (to about a kilometre for Open-Meteo), which is part of the course map, not yours, but it does tell the weather service which course someone is near, along with your phone's internet address, as any website visit does.

Marked shots

When you mark a shot, your phone saves where the ball lay so it can draw the shot on the map. The server gets only the shot's length in yards, the club type (a full shot or a putt) and when you marked it. Where it was hit from never leaves the phone.

Your account

• Email address. You sign in with an emailed code, so the server keeps your email address. It's used only to send those codes: no newsletters, and it's never shown to other players. The codes are kept only as scrambled fingerprints and stop working after 10 minutes.
• Name. The display name and nickname you choose.
• Rounds. Rounds you play are copied to the server so they're safe if you lose your phone: the course, the tee, when you played, and for each hole your strokes, putts, fairway, bunkers and how many penalty strokes you took (the count, not why), plus the marked shots above. In a round you play with your party, the names, tees and scores you enter for guests without the app are kept with that round too. Guests you add to a round without a party stay on your phone.
• Parties. The parties (groups) you make or join, and invite codes.
• Your internet address. The server sees it on each request, like any website, and uses it to limit how often sign-in is tried. It isn't saved with your account.

The server runs on Microsoft Azure, which also delivers the sign-in emails. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers, and the app has no ads or analytics trackers.

What your party sees

People in a party with you see your display name and nickname and that you're a member. In a round you play together they also see the course, your tee, whether you've joined or finished, and your strokes and putts on each hole.

They don't see your email address, your fairways, bunkers, penalty strokes or marked shots, or rounds you play on your own.

Crash and problem reports

If the app crashes or hits an error, it sends a report to the Teelands server (not to any outside crash service): the error message and where in the code it happened, the app version, the phone's system (like "android 15"), whether the app had to stop, a random number for this install so the same crash isn't counted twice, and the kind of screen you were on, written as a pattern like course/[key]/[layout], never which course, round or party. Crash reports aren't linked to your account and never include your location.

If you use REPORT A PROBLEM, the server keeps what you typed, the same app and screen details, and which account sent it, so I know whose problem it is. Only I read these reports.

Test versions of the app also keep a debug log on the phone: the last 300 things you and the app did, such as holes, scores, shot lengths and sync results. It never holds a position. It leaves the phone only if you share it, or send it with a problem report using ATTACH DEBUG LOG, which is on unless you turn it off. The server then keeps it with that report. The public version of the app has no debug log.

App updates

When the app opens, it may check Expo (expo.dev), the service that delivers small updates to the app. That check sends your phone's internet address, as any website visit does, the app version, whether it's Android or iPhone, and a random number for this install. It doesn't include your account, your rounds or your location.

Deleting your account

Settings → DELETE ACCOUNT deletes your account straight away. It removes from the server your email address, your name and nickname, your sign-ins, your problem reports, your solo rounds and the shot lengths from every round, and takes you out of your parties (a party you led passes to the longest-standing member).

In rounds you played with others, your hole scores (strokes, putts, fairway, bunkers and penalty strokes) stay on their cards so their rounds still add up, under the name "Deleted player". Crash reports stay too, since they were never linked to you.

Your phone asks whether to keep your rounds on it or clear them. Signing in again with the same email starts a new, empty account. If you can't get into the app, email the address below from the address you sign in with, and I'll delete it by hand. teelands.com/delete-account has the steps.

Children

Teelands isn't meant for anyone under 13, and I don't knowingly hold accounts for them.

Contact

Questions, or want your data or your account gone? Email privacy@teelands.com.

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