Scorecard Party privacy policy

This policy covers Scorecard Party for iPhone (and the Android version when it’s released), and its website at scorecard-party.web.app, including the live spectator leaderboard. Scorecard Party is published by HOLLINGSWORKS LLC (“Hollingsworks”, “we”, “us”), a small software studio in Michigan.

What we collect

Your account

You can play as a guest (an anonymous account with no email), or sign in with email and password, Google or Apple. We store your display name, your email address (with Apple this can be a private relay address), your Google or Apple profile photo link, and the profile details you add: handicap index, home course, units and favorite courses.

Your golf

Rounds (course, tee, date, and each player’s name and hole-by-hole strokes, putts, fairways, greens and penalties), stats, events and leagues you host or join (names, dates, divisions, teams, check-in), side games and settle-up totals, and crews. If you mark where your shots landed on the satellite map, those map spots are saved with the round.

Messages

Event announcements, smack talk, crew chat and reactions you post, with your name.

Location

To find courses near you and show distances on the course, the app uses your phone’s precise location while you’re using it. Your position is used on the phone and isn’t stored on our servers or shared. Only shot spots you tap yourself are saved (see above). Map imagery comes from MapTiler, which, like any map service, receives the area you’re viewing and your IP address.

Scorecard photos

If you choose Scan a scorecard, you can upload up to four photos of a printed course scorecard. They’re stored privately and sent to Google’s Gemini AI (Vertex AI), with the course name and location, to read the course’s holes, pars, handicaps, tees, ratings, slopes and yardages. Gemini is told to ignore player names and scores, but please avoid photographing personal information. Raw photos are deleted automatically within 30 days. After you review a scan, the corrected course information may be kept as a proposed course update and, once approved, shared with other players without your account ID.

Notifications

If you turn on notifications, Firebase Cloud Messaging stores your device’s messaging token and the event or personal topics you follow. Notifications for announcements, smack talk and crew chat include the sender’s name and the message text.

Device, diagnostics and app usage

• Crash reports (Firebase Crashlytics): what went wrong, device model and OS version, and an installation ID.
• App usage (Google Analytics for Firebase): standard automatic events such as first open, sessions and app updates, with device details and an approximate location derived from your IP address. We don’t log custom events or attach your name or email.
• App integrity (Firebase App Check with Apple App Attest/DeviceCheck or Google Play Integrity) to confirm requests come from the real app.

On your phone

Settings such as onboarding progress, theme, and a cache of your data so the app works offline.

Who can see what

• The people you play with see the rounds you’re in (names and scores), and co-scorers can edit them.
• Event players and viewers see the event’s players, divisions, teams, handicap indexes, scores, leaderboards and feed. Anyone with an event’s code, including people watching on the website without an account, can view the event for 30 days after they open it. Share event codes only with people you’re happy to see that.
• Crew members see the crew’s members and chat.
• Event hosts can add a co-admin by entering their exact email address; this tells the host whether that address has a Scorecard Party account.
• Your profile (email, handicap, home course, favorites) is visible only to you.

Ads

Scorecard Party is currently free without ads. If a future version adds ads, they’ll come from Google AdMob, Google’s consent form will ask first where the law requires it, and we’ll update this policy before they appear.

Service providers

• Google Firebase (authentication, database, file storage, cloud functions, messaging, analytics, crash reporting, App Check and website hosting), in the United States.
• Google Cloud Vertex AI (Gemini) for scorecard scans.
• MapTiler and © OpenStreetMap contributors for maps and imagery.
• On the website: Google Fonts, and a QR-code service (api.qrserver.com) that receives the event share link when you show an event’s QR code.

Course data is provided under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Sharing

We don’t sell your personal information or use it for targeted advertising. We share it only with the people you play with as described above, with the service providers listed, or when the law requires it.

How long we keep it

Your account data is kept while your account exists. Raw scorecard photos are deleted within 30 days. Spectator access expires after 30 days. Reviewed course corrections and their history may be kept to maintain course accuracy. Crash reports are kept for 90 days, and analytics for no longer than 14 months.

Deleting your account

In the app, go to Profile › Settings › Delete account (you’ll be asked to sign in again). This deletes your account, profile, rounds you own, events you host and crews you own (with their messages), your posts and messages elsewhere, your scorecard scans, and removes you from other players’ rounds, events and crews. Guests can delete too. You can also email us and we’ll delete it for you.

Children

Scorecard Party isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. Side games track friendly wagers between adults, so the App Store rates the app 18+. If you think a child has given us personal information, email us and we’ll delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example California, other U.S. states with privacy laws, the EEA or the UK), you may have the right to access, correct, export or delete your personal information, to object to processing, and to complain to your local data protection authority. Email us and we’ll answer within 30 days. We won’t treat you differently for using these rights.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will also be noted in the app.

Contact

HOLLINGSWORKS LLC, a Michigan limited liability company
Email: hello@hollingsworks.com