What stays on your iPhone
Your profile, players with their photos and PDGA numbers, courses, layouts, rounds, scores, throw details, My Discs, disc photos, your profile photo, and your videos (recorded or imported) are saved in Throwday on your iPhone. Throwday doesn’t send them anywhere unless you use one of the shared features below, and your saved players’ photos and PDGA numbers are never sent.
Like other app data, this information is included in your iPhone’s own iCloud or computer backup, except your videos, which Throwday leaves out of device backups.
What is sent when you share
Throwday uses its own service at api.throwday.com only for features you choose to use:
- Course catalog: what you type in course search, and the course you download.
- Course submissions: the course, layouts, holes, and notes you submit for review.
- Shared rounds: the course and layout, the players’ and teams’ names, the name of each phone keeping score, every hole’s score and penalty strokes, when scores were entered, the game settings, and signatures.
- Events: the event’s name and course, the organizer’s name, and each player’s name and division when they check in.
- Your photo and PDGA number: your profile photo and PDGA number when “Share my photo and PDGA number” is on as you join a shared round, check in to an event, share a round as its scorekeeper, or run an event as its organizer. The switch is on by default, and the service removes location and other details stored in your photo.
Once a round is shared or you check in to an event, Throwday keeps it up to date automatically, for example when you open the app or get your signal back. Rounds you don’t share are never sent.
Who can see shared rounds and events
Anyone with a round’s or an event’s code or link can see what it shares, including players’ names, scores, and divisions, in the app or at app.throwday.com. Codes are short so they’re easy to share, so treat a shared round as visible to anyone who has its code.
A photo and PDGA number you share are seen by the phones in your group and an event’s organizer, and an event’s public leaderboard at app.throwday.com shows them, but a shared round’s public page never does. The scorekeeper’s or organizer’s phone may offer to save you to its players with your photo and PDGA number, and it keeps them only if they choose to save you.
Your installation identity
The first time you use a shared feature, Throwday creates a random credential for this installation and registers it with the service. It isn’t tied to your name, email, or Apple account, and it’s kept in your iPhone’s Keychain on this device only. Throwday uses it, together with the access codes it receives for each shared round and event, to know which rounds and events this phone may change. Throwday doesn’t use advertising identifiers.
How long the service keeps shared data
Shared rounds and events are temporary, and the service deletes them automatically:
- A shared round that’s still open is deleted 6 hours after its last activity, and a finished one 30 days after it closes.
- An event that’s still open is deleted 8 hours after its last activity, and a finished event 30 days after the organizer closes it. A player who leaves an event comes off its list, and the service keeps their check-in until the event is deleted.
- The organizer can delete an event at any time.
- A photo and PDGA number you share are kept with the shared round or event and deleted with it. You can turn off “Share my photo and PDGA number” at any time, which stops sharing them and deletes them from the service right away.
The service keeps your installation’s credential only as a one-way fingerprint that can’t be turned back into the credential, and keeps it along with course submissions after the rounds and events are gone. Course submissions aren’t linked to you or your phone.
Who at Throwday can see it
The people who run Throwday can see shared rounds, events, and course submissions, including names and divisions, to review courses, fix problems, and keep the service safe. We don’t sell or share this information with anyone.
Permissions
Throwday asks for the camera to record throw videos, scan disc stamps, and scan QR codes, and for the microphone to record sound with your videos. It asks to add finished videos to your photo library when you save one, and it never reads your library. When you choose a profile photo, a disc photo, a picture of a QR code, or a video to import, you pick it with the system photo picker, which only gives Throwday what you choose. Videos you import stay in Throwday on your iPhone like the ones you record. Throwday doesn’t use your location.
Scan disc and QR scanning read the image on your iPhone and don’t upload it.
Backup files
A backup file you export contains your profile (including your PDGA number and photo), players with their photos and PDGA numbers, courses, rounds, notes, My Discs with their photos, and My Styles. It isn’t encrypted, so keep it somewhere you trust. Videos and access to rounds you share aren’t included. Once you share or upload a backup file, its handling depends on where you send it.
Deleting your data
Delete local scoring data in Settings removes your courses, rounds, and saved players from this phone and leaves any events you checked in to. It keeps your profile, My Discs, and videos. Deleting the app removes everything Throwday saved on the phone. Neither one deletes what you already shared with the service, which is removed on the schedule above. Email us if you’d like shared information removed sooner.
Service providers and this website
Throwday’s service and this website run on servers we rent from hosting providers. Like any website, they receive your IP address and basic request details, such as your iOS and app version, to deliver pages, limit abuse, and keep the service working. Throwday doesn’t store your IP address with your rounds or events. This website uses no cookies, analytics, or third-party fonts.
The viewer at app.throwday.com remembers the rounds and events you follow, and your check-ins, in your browser’s storage so it can show them again.
Children
Throwday isn’t directed to children under 13. Parents who keep score for a family round should keep in mind that a shared round shows players’ names to anyone with its code.
Changes and contact
We’ll update this page when the way Throwday handles information changes, and the date at the top will change with it. Email selvin@throwday.com with any question about your data.