Privacy
Draft for the owner to check. It describes what the app actually does as of November 2026. It is not legal advice. Fill in the highlighted parts, and have it checked against the Australian Privacy Principles (and the GDPR if you expect European users) before relying on it.
In short
- Without an account, everything stays on your phone. We never receive it.
- With an account, your golf data is kept in our database so it syncs and can't be lost. Only you can read it.
- Your live location is used on your phone for distances. It is not sent to us. Positions of shots you mark are saved with your rounds.
- No advertising, no tracking analytics, and we don't sell or share your data.
- You can delete your account and all its data from the app at any time: Profile → Delete account.
Who we are
Pretty Average Golf is a free golf app made in Melbourne by [your full name or business name, and ABN if you have one]. Questions or requests: [contact email].
What the app stores
Whatever you enter or record: rounds and scores, putts, fairways and penalties; shots (club, time and, if GPS was on, the position where the shot started and finished); your bag and club distances; range and practice sessions; courses you save and their hole maps; today's pin positions; warm-up progress; optional caddie feedback (short / right / long); your first name if you give one; and settings such as units and theme.
Without an account this lives only in your browser's storage on your device. Clearing the browser's data for this site deletes it. Use Profile → Settings → Export backup to keep a copy.
With an account the same data is also stored in our database so it syncs between your devices and can be restored. We also hold your email address, and, if you use Google, the basic profile Google shares on sign-in (name, email and profile picture address). Database rules mean each account can read and change only its own data.
Location
When you press GPS, your phone's location is used inside the app to measure distances and work out which hole you're on. Your live position is not sent to us or anyone else.
When you mark a shot, its start and end positions are saved with your data, on your phone, and in your account if you have one. They are used to draw your shots on the map and work out club distances. They are never shown to other people, and they are not included in round images you share.
Course data is fetched by the course's location, not yours (see below).
Course problem reports
If you use Report a problem on a course, we receive the course, tee, hole, the kind of problem and your note, linked to your account so we can follow up. No location or round data is included.
Sharing a round
Share draws a picture of your round on your phone and hands it to your phone's share sheet (or saves it). Nothing is uploaded by us. You choose whether the course, date and stats appear. No map, route or location is ever included.
The caddie
Club suggestions are worked out on your phone by fixed rules from your own numbers. No artificial intelligence service is used and no data is sent anywhere to produce them.
Services the app uses
Like any website, each of these sees your device's IP address and basic browser details when it is contacted.
| Service | What for | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Netlify | Hosts the site and runs our server functions (course search, account deletion) | Normal web requests; your search text; your sign-in token when you delete your account |
| Supabase | Accounts, sync and course reports (only if you sign in) | Your email, your golf data, your reports |
| Sign in with Google (only if you choose it) | Handled by Google's sign-in page | |
| GolfCourseAPI | Scorecards for courses we haven't checked yet | Your search text, sent from our server, not from your phone |
| OpenStreetMap (Nominatim, Overpass) | Finding a course and downloading its hole shapes | The course name or the course's map area |
| Open-Meteo | Wind for the caddie | The course's coordinates |
| Google Fonts, jsDelivr | The wordmark typeface and the sign-in code library | Normal web requests |
Some of these providers store data outside Australia (for example in the United States). Our database is hosted by Supabase in [your Supabase project's region, shown in Supabase → Project Settings → General].
What we don't do
No advertising, no ad trackers, no analytics that follow you around, and no selling, renting or sharing of your data. The app's diagnostics show counts only (no locations) on your own screen and are never sent anywhere.
If sponsors ever support the app, they will be clearly labelled and will not receive your account, golf or location data.
Your choices and rights
- Export: Profile → Settings → Export backup downloads all your data as a file.
- Remove from a phone: Profile → Sign out and remove from this phone.
- Delete your account: Profile → Delete account. Your account, email and all synced data are deleted from our database straight away, along with the copy on that phone. Our database provider may keep encrypted backups for a short period before they expire [check your Supabase plan's backup retention].
- Access or correct: everything we hold is visible and editable in the app. For anything else, email us at the address above.
If you're not happy with how we handle a privacy request, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).
Children
The app is meant for golfers aged [16] and over. Accounts are not intended for younger children.
Handicaps
The handicap shown is an estimate for your own tracking. It is not an official Golf Australia handicap.
Changes
If this changes in a way that matters, for example adding a new service that receives your data, we'll update this page and say so in the app before it takes effect.