Privacy Policy
Who we are
GoGad Golf is published by Brandon Orther, an individual. Contact: privacy@gogad.golf.
The short version
GoGad Golf has no accounts, no sign-in, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Your location, your club bag and your settings stay on your devices. No request the app makes carries an account, a device identifier, an advertising identifier or your GPS position.
What stays on your devices
- Your position. Your Apple Watch uses its GPS to show distances and to keep track of the hole you are on. All of that is computed on the watch. Your iPhone uses its location only to choose which courses to download; the download asks for courses, not for a location. Your position is never sent to us, or to Apple's weather service.
- Your workout. When you end a round, the watch saves a golf workout to Apple Health with its distance and duration only, if you allow it. From there, Apple Health governs it.
- Courses, club bag and settings. These are kept on your iPhone and your watch. They move between the two over Apple's WatchConnectivity, directly between your own devices, never through a GoGad Golf server.
What leaves your devices, and why
We do not sell or share personal information.
- Course downloads. At most once a day your iPhone fetches the list of courses from packs.gogad.golf, and then downloads the courses within about 50 miles of you, your favourites, and any newer versions. A watch with its own connection does the same for one course when you tap Download. Like any web request, this shows the server your IP address, the User-Agent and the time, and the set of courses requested, with the IP address, suggests the approximate area you are in. There are no accounts, and packs.gogad.golf serves the same files to everyone. It is delivered by Cloudflare, which processes these requests under its own privacy policy and may keep request logs, including IP addresses, for a short time.
- Wind forecast. If your watch is online when you start a round, it asks Apple's WeatherKit service for one forecast for the course's location, taken from the course file, not for your position. It does not ask again during the round. This request goes to Apple, not to us, and Apple handles it under its privacy policy.
- Apple services. Any App Store transaction is handled by Apple. The app contains no analytics, crash-reporting, advertising or tracking code, and has no telemetry endpoint of its own. If you share crash reports or app analytics with developers in your Apple settings, Apple collects them and shows us only what it shares with developers.
If you email us
Mail to support@gogad.golf and privacy@gogad.golf is forwarded to Brandon Orther's personal inbox and nowhere else, and are kept in that inbox. We receive your email address and your message and use them only to reply to you. Emails stay in that inbox. Ask privacy@gogad.golf any time and we'll delete yours.
Children
GoGad Golf is not directed at children under 13.
Your choices and rights
There are no accounts, so there is no profile of you to export or delete. You can turn off location access or Health access for GoGad Golf in your device settings at any time. For anything about emails you sent us, write to privacy@gogad.golf. Wherever you live, you can ask us to see, correct or delete emails you sent us, and you can complain to your local data-protection authority.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will post the new version here and update the effective date above.