DeeDogDevelopmentTallyUp Golf Privacy Policy
In short: TallyUp Golf does not collect your data. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and the app talks to no server run by its developer. Your rounds are kept on your device and, if you leave sync on, in your own iCloud. Your location stays on your device. To draw a course, the app asks public map, elevation and weather services about that course, never about you.
Who this covers
This policy covers the TallyUp Golf app for iPhone and iPad. It is published by Jim Murff, who also trades informally as DeeDogDevelopment ("we" in this policy). Contact details are at the end.
What we collect
Nothing. We run no servers for the app and receive no personal information from it. The app has no sign-up and no login, shows no ads, and contains no analytics or advertising code and no tracking.
What stays on your device
The app saves the following on your device, so your rounds and courses are there next time:
- Your rounds: the course, the players' names and handicap strokes, every score, and the side games and their results.
- The courses in your Library, with their maps, locations and elevation, so they work with no signal.
- Your settings, such as distances in yards or meters, the theme, the background photo and how holes open.
Deleting the app removes all of this from the device. Settings can delete downloaded maps, and a round can be deleted from the Rounds list.
Your location
If you allow it, the app uses your location while it's open to show where you are on the hole, measure the yards to the green or to where you aim, and find courses near you. Your location is used on the device and is never sent to us or to any other service. The app works without it: yards are then measured from the tee, and course search shows courses anywhere. You can change this at any time in your device's Settings, under Privacy & Security, Location Services.
iCloud sync and backups (optional, Apple)
With "Sync Rounds With iCloud" on, the app keeps your rounds in your private iCloud database, so they follow you to your other devices signed in to the same Apple Account. This is on by default and only works if you are signed in to iCloud. Back Up Now saves your rounds as a file in your iCloud Drive, or on the device when iCloud Drive is off. Apple stores and protects this data under your Apple Account and Apple's privacy policy. We cannot see it.
- To stop syncing, open Settings in the app and switch off "Sync Rounds With iCloud". Rounds already in iCloud stay there until you remove them in your device's iCloud storage settings.
- A round you send to someone else from its menu is a file you share yourself, through the share sheet you pick.
Outside services the app asks
To find and draw courses, the app sends requests to these services. Each request is about a course or a place on a course: a course name you search for, or a course's coordinates. None of them includes your location, your name, your scores or anything that identifies you, and none of them is run by us.
- OpenGolfAPI, an open course directory: the course name you search for, to get pars, stroke index, yardage and tees.
- OpenStreetMap (through the Overpass API): a course's coordinates, to get the shapes of its holes, greens and bunkers.
- The US Geological Survey elevation service: points along a hole, to get the ground's height for the side view.
- Apple Weather (WeatherKit) and Apple Maps: a course's location, for the wind and temperature in the plays-like yardage, and to find a course the directory doesn't list. Apple handles these under Apple's privacy policy.
- ESPN and TheSportsDB: the Tour tab asks for tournament schedules and leaderboards. It sends nothing about you.
Like any website, these services see the network address your request comes from. Their own privacy policies apply to what they do with it.
Money
TallyUp Golf keeps a tally of side games in points. It does not move money, and it has no in-app purchases.
Diagnostics from Apple
If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's privacy settings, Apple may pass us crash reports and usage statistics about TallyUp Golf. They come from Apple, are not part of the app, and are not linked to your identity by us.
Children
TallyUp Golf does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. It has no ads and no chat or other way to contact other people.
Sharing your information
We do not sell, rent or share personal information, because we do not have any.
Changes to this policy
If the app changes in a way that affects your privacy, we will update this page and the effective date at the top, and the App Store listing will show a matching privacy label.
Contact
Questions about privacy: natured-lobular8t@icloud.com.