CourtTime privacy policy

The short version

CourtTime has no accounts and no sign-up. You never give me an email address, a name, or anything else.
Everything you enter — teams, players, games, schedules, stats and notes — is stored on your iPhone.
If you’re signed in to iCloud, that data is synced through your own private iCloud account, which only you (and anyone you deliberately share a team with) can reach. I can’t see it.
There is no analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party SDKs and no server of mine that your data is ever sent to.
Because I collect nothing, there is nothing for me to sell, share, leak or hand over.

CourtTime’s App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”, and this policy explains why that’s the case.

Who this policy is from

CourtTime is an iPhone app made by Adam Pallozzi, an independent software developer based in Melbourne, Australia. “I” and “me” throughout this policy mean exactly that — one person, not a company with a data department.

If anything here is unclear, email me at adamp@hey.com and I’ll answer.

What CourtTime stores, and where it lives

To do its job, CourtTime keeps the information you type into it:

Team details, such as team name and season
Player details, such as first name and jersey number
Fixtures and games, including opponents and dates
Substitution schedules and the substitutions you actually made
Season statistics such as games played, court time, starting five appearances and Player of the Match awards
Final scores and any coaching notes you write
Your preferences, such as game length and substitution interval

All of it is stored in a database on your device. If you are signed in to iCloud and have iCloud enabled for CourtTime, that database is also synced to the private area of your own iCloud account (Apple’s CloudKit private database) so it’s backed up and available on your other devices.

Your iCloud data belongs to you. I have no access to it, no key to it, and no ability to read, copy or recover it.

What I collect: nothing

To be completely specific, CourtTime does not:

Require or create an account, and does not ask for your name, email address or phone number
Send your team, player or game data to me or to any server I control — I don’t operate one
Include analytics, telemetry or usage tracking of any kind
Include advertising, ad networks, or an advertising identifier
Track you across other apps or websites (which is why the app never shows a tracking permission prompt)
Bundle third-party marketing, attribution or crash-reporting SDKs
Build a profile of you, your team, or your players
Access your location, contacts, photos, microphone, camera, calendar or health data
Sell, rent, trade or share personal information — I have none to sell

There is no “delete my data” request to send me, because I never had any of it.

If you invite a team manager, assistant coach or helper to your team, CourtTime uses Apple’s built-in iCloud sharing to do it. The invitation and the shared data travel between your iCloud account and theirs, through Apple — never through me.

A few things worth knowing:

You choose whether an invited person can make changes or has view-only access.
You can stop sharing, or remove a participant, at any time from within the app. Their access ends when you do.
Anyone you share with can see the team information described above, including player names and statistics. Only invite people who should have it.
Once someone has seen information, revoking access can’t un-see it — the same as handing someone your notebook.

Because sharing runs on your iCloud accounts, the data stays subject to Apple’s privacy protections, and stays invisible to me.

Live Activities and the Lock Screen

The Live Activity that shows your current, previous and next substitution is generated by the app on your own device, from the schedule already stored there. Nothing about your game is uploaded to make it work.

Children’s information

Junior basketball means the players are children. CourtTime is designed with that in mind:

The app is intended for use by adult coaches, managers and helpers — not by children.
Player records exist only so the app can plan rotations. A first name and a jersey number are enough, and I’d encourage you to enter no more than that.
No player information is ever transmitted to me, to an advertiser, or to any analytics service, because none of those exist in the app.
As the coach, you remain responsible for the information you record and who you share a team with. Your club or association may have its own rules about children’s information — CourtTime is built so that following them is easy.

Apple’s role

CourtTime relies on two Apple services, and Apple’s own privacy practices apply to both:

iCloud / CloudKit, which syncs your data between your devices and to anyone you share a team with.
The App Store, which handles downloading the app. Apple gives me only aggregated sales and download reports — numbers and countries, never anything that identifies you.

If you have chosen to share analytics and crash data with Apple in your iOS settings, Apple may pass me anonymised, aggregated crash reports. Those contain technical diagnostics about the app — not your teams, players or games. You can turn that off in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Apple’s privacy policy is at apple.com/legal/privacy.

Security

Your data is protected by the same things that protect the rest of your phone:

Data on the device is covered by iOS device encryption, and by your passcode, Face ID or Touch ID.
Data in iCloud is encrypted in transit and at rest by Apple. Turning on Advanced Data Protection for your Apple Account extends end-to-end encryption to more of your iCloud data.
Turning on two-factor authentication for your Apple Account is the single most useful thing you can do to keep the data safe.

No system is perfect, but keeping everything inside your own device and iCloud account means there is no central database of coaches and players anywhere for someone to break into.

Keeping, and deleting, your data

Your data stays for exactly as long as you want it to.

Deleting inside the app — removing a player, game or team deletes that record from your device and, on the next sync, from your iCloud account.
Deleting the app — removing CourtTime from your iPhone deletes the copy stored on the device. A copy may remain in iCloud so that reinstalling restores your season.
Clearing the iCloud copy — go to Settings › [your name] › iCloud › Manage Account Storage, choose CourtTime, and delete its data.
On my side — there is nothing to delete, because nothing about you was ever sent to me.

Your privacy rights

Privacy laws such as the Australian Privacy Act, the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export, delete or restrict the use of personal information that an organisation holds about you.

I hold no personal information about you or your players, so there is nothing for me to disclose, correct, export or erase, and no personal information for me to sell or share. Within the app, you can already see, edit and delete every record yourself at any time.

The one exception is straightforward: if you email me, I obviously receive your email address and whatever you write. I use it only to reply and to help you, I don’t add it to any mailing list without asking, and you can ask me to delete our correspondence at any time.

Changes to this policy

If CourtTime ever changes in a way that affects this policy, I’ll update this page and change the date at the top, and note it in the app’s release notes. If a future version ever needed to collect something, it would be explained here and asked for in the app first — not slipped in quietly.

Contact

Questions, concerns, or something I’ve missed? Email adamp@hey.com.