Privacy and your data
A round, its scores and its chat are seen by the people in that round. Anyone with a round's live board link sees its board and the names on it, never handicaps or notes. Your location stays on your phone, apart from the three cases below. We never sell your data. The privacy page has the whole list.
Does the app track my location?
Only while the hole view on your phone or the distance page on your watch is open, to show distances; when you tap "Near me" to find a course; and, if you turn on Track my shots, each time you mark a shot.
Your position stays on your device, with three exceptions:
- If you turn on "Help improve course maps", the app sends the position of a hole when you finish it.
- When the app shows a plays-like distance, it sends your position and your target to us to look up their heights, and we keep neither.
- Track my shots keeps the position of each shot you mark, linked to your account, until you delete it or your account.
The first two carry nothing that names you.
Who sees my hole notes and photos?
Only you, unless you share a photo with your trip or the public report page; you can turn either off at any time.
Can I get a copy of my data?
On the website, open "Settings", then "Privacy", then "Download my data": one file with your profile, your rounds and scores, notes and photos, your own messages (never other people's), crews, credits and settings.
What email will I get?
- Sign-in codes.
- Receipts and refund notices.
- For Pro, a confirmation, renewal reminders, an email if a renewal does not go through, and notice of any price change.
- Outing confirmations and your group and start time.
- Trip reports and league reminders you are part of.
- Alerts about a league you host or help run.
- A confirmation when your address is added to a trip's reports, and those reports once you confirm.
- An email before any change to the terms or the privacy page that matters.
- A reply if you write to us.
- One invitation if you joined the waitlist.
Trip reports, league reminders and alerts about a league you host or help run carry an unsubscribe link. Mail about your own account, such as sign-in codes, receipts, Pro notices and notice of changes to the terms, does not, and neither does a reply to your message.
Does the app show ads or sell my data?
No. GoodSpeed Golf shows no advertising and sets no advertising or analytics cookie, and we never sell your data. An outing's page can show the sponsors its organizer adds. The privacy page says what we keep, for how long, and who helps us run the service.
Can I delete a past round, or a guest round I started?
No. Rounds are not deleted, because a round's scores belong to everyone who played it, and they stay under the name each player used there.
- You can hide yourself from recaps on the recap page or in Settings, under Privacy, and every recap then shows you as "a player".
- If something in a round should not be there, such as a guest's name or email, write to support and we look at it.
Anything else: write to support@goodspeed.app.