Privacy Policy

Welcome to Bogey Logger. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your information when you use the Bogey Logger mobile application and this website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about our data practices.

Bogey Logger is designed as a privacy-first application. The vast majority of your data — including your round history, scores, and course data — is stored locally on your device. If you sign in, you can optionally back up your finished rounds and saved courses to your private cloud storage so you can restore them on another device. Cloud services are otherwise used only for the specific features described below.

By using Bogey Logger, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the application.

Information Stored Locally on Your Device

The following data is stored exclusively on your device using local database storage. We do not have access to this data, cannot retrieve it, and it never leaves your device unless you explicitly choose to share it or, when you are signed in, back it up to the cloud (see below):

• Round history (scores, dates, courses played, format, results)
• Course data (name, location, par, handicap ratings, yardage, tee information)
• User profile preferences (name, handicap index, home course)
• Friends list (locally cached after cloud lookup)
• Skins records and settlement history

If you delete the application, all locally stored data is permanently removed from your device.

Information Stored in the Cloud

When you create an account and sign in, certain data is stored in Google Cloud Firestore to enable multiplayer and community features:

• Account profile: display name, handicap index, a unique 6-character friend code, your email searchability preference, and your home-course sharing preference (your home course name is included only if you turn that sharing on).
• Authentication credentials: managed entirely by Firebase Authentication (Google, Apple, or email/password). We never store or have access to your passwords.
• Community course contributions: when you add a course while signed in, the course data and your display name are shared to the community database so others can find it.
• Multiplayer round data: scores, player names, invite codes, and course info are stored temporarily to enable live score sync between devices.
• Cloud backup: when signed in, copies of your finished rounds and saved courses are backed up to your private cloud storage so you can restore them on another device. This backup is private to your account and not shared with other users.
• Notifications: in-app round invitations and reminders are stored in the cloud and associated with your account.
• Scorecard scan usage metadata: when scorecard scanning is enabled, usage counters and entitlement status are stored to apply account limits and protect API costs.

This Website and the Launch List

This website (bogeylogger.com) is a static site. It uses no analytics, no advertising or tracking scripts, no third-party embeds, and no cookies.

The one exception is the email sign-up form. If you choose to enter your email address, that address is submitted to and stored by Netlify, Inc., the United States hosting provider that serves this site, using Netlify Forms.

We use it to tell you when Bogey Logger is released, and occasionally afterwards to share news about the app itself — a significant new feature, or an important change you would want to know about. We email rarely, and only ever about Bogey Logger. We do not sell your address, do not share it with anyone else for their own purposes, and do not add it to any other company's mailing list.

Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribe requests are actioned promptly. You can also ask us to remove your address at any time by emailing birdie@bogeylogger.com — no account or explanation required. We keep your address until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, and no longer.

Providing your email is entirely optional. Every page of this site, including the guides, the calculator and these legal documents, is fully usable without submitting anything.

Information We Do NOT Collect

Apart from a launch-list email address you choose to give us (described directly above), Bogey Logger does not collect any of the following, in the app or on this website:

• Location or GPS data
• Advertising identifiers, or any identifier used to track you across apps or websites
• Analytics, telemetry, behavioural profiling, or usage tracking
• Health or fitness data
• Financial or payment information (skins is a record-keeping feature only — no payments are processed through the app)
• Contacts, address book, or browsing history

Some technical identifiers are unavoidable in order for the app to function: your Firebase account identifier, a device push-notification token if you enable notifications, and a subscriber identifier held by our payment provider. These identify your installation to those services so the app can work. They are never used for advertising or cross-app tracking.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information solely to provide and improve Bogey Logger: to manage your profile and friend code, synchronize multiplayer scores and invitations, power the community course database, provide scorecard scanning when you choose to use it, manage subscription access and scan limits, and calculate course handicaps. We do not use your information for advertising, marketing, profiling, or sale to third parties.

Third-Party Services

We rely on Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore (Google) for sign-in, cloud data, usage counters, and secure backend functions. Scorecard scanning, when used, sends the scorecard photo and course details you provide to our secure backend and to OpenAI's API so a structured course-data draft can be returned for your review. Subscription status may be managed through Apple, Google Play, and RevenueCat. These services are governed by their own privacy policies and terms, including Google's Privacy Policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Scorecard Scanning, Insights, and AI

Scorecard scanning uses cloud-based AI to help read printed scorecards and create an editable draft of course data, including tees, pars, yardages, ratings, slopes, and stroke indexes where visible. This feature is available during the Pro trial and paid Pro subscription, subject to usage limits. You must review, edit, and confirm scanned data before it is saved. AI output may be incomplete or wrong, and course rating/slope details should be verified when accuracy matters.

Scorecard photos used for scanning are uploaded only to process the scan request. Bogey Logger is designed not to use scorecard photos for advertising, user profiling, or automated eligibility decisions. Personal insights are generated from deterministic calculations based on your own scoring history.

When We Share Your Data

We share data only in limited ways: community course contributions and your display name are visible to other signed-in users who search the database; multiplayer participants can see your display name, handicap index, and scores for that round; if you opt into email searchability (off by default), others can look you up by email (your email itself is not displayed); and if you opt into home-course sharing (off by default), friends who add you can see your home course. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

Data Retention

• Local data: kept on your device until you delete it. You can enable auto-delete of old rounds (30 days, 90 days, 6 months, 1 year, or never).
• Account profile and cloud backup: retained as long as your account exists; deletable at any time (see Your Rights).
• Multiplayer round data: automatically deleted from the cloud 5 days after the round is created. Your local scores remain on your device.
• Community courses: course reference data may be retained while useful. If an account is deleted, its contributor attribution and validation identifiers are removed. Zero-validation courses may be removed after 6 months and unverified courses after 12 months.
• Email sign-up addresses: kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete your address, then removed promptly (see "This Website and the Launch List" above).

Data Security

Cloud data is protected by Firebase Authentication and enforced Firestore security rules that restrict access based on identity (you can only read and modify data you are authorized to access). Passwords are never stored by the app. Scorecard scanning is processed through a backend service so API keys are not stored in the mobile app. No method of electronic storage or transmission is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Rights and Choices

• Access & correction: view and update your profile in the Me tab at any time.
• Deletion: delete your account and associated cloud data in the app (Me tab → Delete Account). This removes your authentication account, profile, lookup records, friend relationships, private backups, notifications, entitlement and scan-usage records, your subscription provider customer record, and identifying data from temporary multiplayer records. Community course reference data may remain after contributor attribution and validation identifiers are removed. Rounds and other local data on your device remain until you clear the app's storage or uninstall it. You can also submit a request without the app through our account deletion page.
• Email searchability: control whether others can find you by email (off by default; Me tab → Privacy).
• Community sharing choices: you can avoid contributing a course to the community database by not saving it as a community course. Cloud backup and multiplayer features require account-based cloud storage.
• Data portability: export any round as a text summary via the Share function.

Children's Privacy

Bogey Logger is not directed at individuals under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a minor has provided us information, contact us at the email below and we will delete it promptly.

Camera and Photo Library Access

We request camera and photo access for scorecard scanning and for scanning a friend's QR code to send a friend request. Friend QR scans are processed on-device. Scorecard photos selected for scorecard scanning are uploaded only when you choose to use that feature. You can revoke these permissions anytime in your device settings.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, features, or applicable law. Material changes will update the Effective Date above. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance.

Contact Us

Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to birdie@bogeylogger.com. We will respond to privacy-related inquiries within 30 days.