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Privacy policy

PARtners helps golfers find people to play with. This page explains what we store about you, who can see it, and what you can do about it. Short version: we only keep what the app needs to work, we never sell your data, and there are no ads or trackers.

Last updated 9 November 2026

Who is responsible

PARtners is run by Kane Punter as a private project. Kane Punter is responsible for your data under the GDPR.

Kane Punter, Augustenstraße 85, 70197 Stuttgart, Germany. Email: parpartners.app@gmail.com

What we store

Your account: your email address and, if you use one, your password (stored only as a secure hash). If you sign in with Google, we receive your name and email address from Google.

Your profile: name, photo (optional), home course, handicap, languages, when you like to play, round length and how competitive you are. Year of birth and gender are optional.

What you do in the app: rounds you post or join, requests to join, scorecards and scores, friends and friend requests, and the notifications we send you.

Guests: if you add someone to a scorecard who isn’t on PARtners, we store the name you type for them and their scores. Only add people who are happy with that.

Safety: players you block, and reports you send. If someone reports you, we store the report and the reason they gave. We use reports only to keep PARtners safe, and the person reported never sees who reported them.

Push notifications: if you allow them, a token that identifies your phone to the notification service, and your app language.

What you have to give us

To have an account you need an email address (or a Google account) and a name. Without them we can’t give you an account. Everything else in your profile is optional.

Technical data when you use the app

Whenever the app talks to our servers, Supabase records technical details: your IP address, the time, what was requested, and your device or browser type. We use these only to keep the app secure and to find errors. They are deleted automatically after at most 7 days.

If the app crashes or runs into an error, it sends a crash report to Firebase Crashlytics: what went wrong, the screen you were on, the app version, your phone model and Android version, and a random ID for this installation. Reports aren’t linked to your account. We use them only to find and fix bugs, and Crashlytics deletes them after 90 days.

Your location

If you allow it, the app uses your phone’s location to find rounds near you. It is sent with the search and not stored. You can always search by course instead.

Stored on your phone

The app keeps a few things on your device so it works: your sign-in session (so you stay signed in), your language choice, an invite code until you’ve signed in, and scores you entered without a connection until they are saved. These are needed for the app to work, so we don’t ask for consent (§ 25(2) TDDDG). They are not used for tracking. Uninstalling the app removes them.

Who can see what

Other signed-in players can see your name, photo, handicap, home course, languages and vibe. Your age and gender are only shown if you switch that on in Edit profile.

Rounds you post as "nearby" are visible to signed-in players in Find. Invite-only rounds are visible only to people with the link.

A scorecard is visible to everyone on it. Your friends see your finished scorecards, the rounds you post or join, and new friendships on their Home feed.

Your email address is never shown to other players.

Services we use

Supabase (Supabase Inc., USA) stores the app’s data, photos and accounts on servers in Frankfurt, Germany. Supabase works for us under a data processing agreement (GDPR Article 28). Because Supabase is a US company, staff there could in rare cases access data from outside the EU; this is covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Google (Google Ireland Ltd. and Google LLC, USA): if you choose "Continue with Google", Google handles that sign-in. Sign-in and confirmation emails are currently sent through a Gmail account, so Google processes your email address and the email’s content. Transfers to Google LLC are covered by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.

Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google) delivers push notifications to Android phones. It receives your phone’s token and the text of each notification (for example "Lena joined your round"). You can turn notifications off at any time in your phone’s settings.

Firebase Crashlytics (Google) receives the crash reports described above. Google may process them outside the EU; this is covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

Golf course names and locations come from OpenStreetMap. No personal data is sent to OpenStreetMap.

We don’t sell your data or share it with anyone else, unless the law requires us to.

Why we may use it

We use your data to provide the app you signed up for (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)).

Optional details, like your year of birth, gender and location, are used because you chose to give them (Article 6(1)(a)). If your gender is Woman, we also use it to let you see, post and join women-only rounds. Your gender itself isn’t shown, but the players in a women-only round can tell that everyone in it is a woman. You can withdraw that consent at any time by removing them in Edit profile or turning off location access. This doesn’t affect anything we did with them before.

Technical data is used because we have a legitimate interest in keeping the app secure and working (Article 6(1)(f)).

How long we keep it

As long as you have an account. If you delete your account in Settings, your profile, photo, solo scorecards, friendships and notifications are removed straight away. Upcoming rounds you host pass to another player, and your scores stay on other players’ cards as "Deleted player" so their cards still add up.

Copies in our backups are overwritten within 7 days.

Automated decisions

We don’t make decisions about you based only on automated processing, and we don’t build profiles of you for advertising.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, have it corrected or deleted, limit how we use it, object to its use, or take it with you. Email parpartners.app@gmail.com and we’ll reply within a month.

You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg.

Age

PARtners is for people aged 16 and over.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll tell you in the app before it applies.