Privacy Policy

This website

The website has no accounts. The Playground and the Shot of the Day run in your browser and save nothing. Two services see your IP address when your browser loads the site: Cloudflare, which hosts it, and Google Fonts, which serves its typefaces. If you email us, we get your email address and whatever you write.

Cloudflare also counts visits for us with its Web Analytics: which pages are opened, which site a visit came from, the kind of browser and device, the country and how quickly the pages load. It uses no cookies, doesn’t try to tell visitors apart and shows us only totals.

Your notes and matches

Your notes, scored matches, practice and lesson progress are kept on your device. There are no accounts, and the app never sends your notes or the names you type anywhere. If your device backs itself up to iCloud or Google, the backup includes them, as it does for your other apps.

Usage statistics

The apps send usage statistics to Google Analytics for Firebase, in PoolKit’s own project. They count which screens you open, how long you use the app, and when something finishes: a race, a match, a lesson, a practice set, a drill, a purchase or a restore, with details such as the game, the table size, a score or the plan. Keeping a new note is counted too. Firebase adds a random ID for the app on your device, the kind of device and its system version, and an approximate location worked out from your IP address.

There’s no advertising ID, nothing you type is sent, and the statistics aren’t linked to you. They aren’t sold or used for advertising. Only the apps from the App Store and Google Play send them, test versions included. Google keeps them on its servers, which may be in another country, and describes how it uses them in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

Purchases

Pro is sold through the App Store and Google Play. Apple or Google takes the payment under its own privacy policy, and we never see your card details. The app asks the store whether you have Pro and keeps the answer on your device.

Keeping and deleting

Your notes stay until you delete them, and deleting the app removes everything it kept on that device. Google Analytics keeps the statistics from each app ID for 2 months; after that, only totals that can’t be traced to anyone remain. Because the statistics aren’t linked to you, we can’t find yours to delete them, but reinstalling the app starts a new ID. To have an email you sent us deleted, ask us.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update it here and change the date at the top.

Contact

PoolKit is made by Phuc Nguyen. Questions about privacy? Write to [email protected].