This Privacy Policy describes how the Press Tracker mobile application (the "App," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects information about you ("user" or "you") when you use the App. By installing, accessing, or using Press Tracker, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices described below.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not install, access, or use the App.
1. Who We Are
Press Tracker is published by Press Tracker LLC, an Ohio limited liability company ("Developer"). You can contact us at privacy@presstrackerapp.com or through our contact page for any question, request, or concern regarding your information or this Policy.
2. What the App Is
Press Tracker is a golf scorekeeping and entertainment tool. It is not a gambling service, wagering platform, sportsbook, or betting product. No real money, credits, deposits, withdrawals, prizes, or rewards flow through the App. All dollar amounts, "stakes," or "earnings" displayed in the App are hypothetical values used to illustrate a scoring format; they have no real-world value.
This Privacy Policy describes only how we handle information. A separate Terms of Service govern your use of the App.
3. Information We Collect
3.1 Information You Provide to Us
- Account identifiers: when you sign in with Apple (Sign in with Apple), Apple provides us with a unique user identifier and, at your option, your name and an email address (which may be a private Apple-relay address). The email address is kept only in your device's Keychain; the App never writes it to our CloudKit database or sends it to any server, so we cannot see it.
- Profile information: your first name, last name, and chosen username, plus the optional details you add to your profile: a profile photo, a short bio, your home course, and your city and state or province. Your city and state are values you type, not readings taken from your device, and we treat them as coarse location information. Your profile is visible to other Press Tracker users who view it.
- Golf match data: information you voluntarily enter: team names, team colors, hole-by-hole scores, match format, press selections, and the hypothetical dollar values associated with your matches.
- Social content: posts and the photos or videos you attach to them, comments, reactions, live-match chat messages, direct messages (see Section 3.5), friend connections and friend requests, and any other content you create within the App's social features (the "Clubhouse" feed and related features). Your friend list is kept on our CloudKit database on records that other Press Tracker users can read, so who you are friends with is not private. A post you mark Friends or Only Me is filtered out of other people's feeds by the App; the post itself is stored in the same shared database as public posts, so treat the visibility setting as a display preference rather than a lock.
- Communications to us: anything you send to our support email.
3.2 Information Collected Automatically
- Push notifications: match invites, friend requests, comments, mentions, and message alerts are delivered through CloudKit subscriptions that Apple manages for the App. We never receive, store, or see your device's push token.
- Activity records the App's features need: when you watch a live match, a spectator record notes which match you opened, when you joined, and a presence ping every 30 seconds while you watch, so the host and other viewers can see who is watching. When you tap the heart on a live match's full-screen map, a heartbeat record with your user ID, the match, and the number of taps is written so the host's phone can vibrate; the first tap in a match also writes a one-time notification record carrying your display name so the host is told someone is adding pressure. The host can turn heartbeats off in Profile or match settings, and a host who has blocked you never receives them; when you read a direct-message thread, the time you last read it is stored so unread counts work. These records live on our CloudKit database and are removed when you delete your account.
- Diagnostic logs: the App writes routine diagnostic output (errors, state transitions) to the device's console log during operation. These logs remain on your device unless you choose to share them with us.
- Crash and performance reports: the App uses Apple's MetricKit framework, which generates daily performance metrics and immediate crash and hang reports on your device. When the "Upload diagnostics" switch in Profile > About > Diagnostics is on (it is on by default), the App uploads these reports to our own CloudKit database so we can find and fix crashes and slowdowns. A report contains the App version, iOS version, device model and region format, timing and memory statistics, network transfer totals, the amount of time location was used in the background, counts and timings of the App's own scoring, press-detection and live-sync operations, and crash or hang call stacks. It never contains your name, username, messages, scores, or location coordinates. You can turn the switch off at any time, which stops uploads and deletes any report waiting to be sent, and you can view or share every stored report from that screen.
We do not collect advertising identifiers (IDFA), your device's address book, microphone audio, camera captures (the camera is used only on your device, to scan a QR code or a printed scorecard), health, financial, or biometric data. We do not use third-party analytics SDKs, advertising SDKs, or tracking pixels.
3.3 Location
The App uses your device location in two distinct ways. Both require the iOS "When In Use" location permission, which you grant the first time the App asks and can withdraw at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
(a) Live match sharing. The App streams your precise location (GPS coordinates) while all of the following are true:
- You are the host of an active match in the App (a round you started, not yet ended).
- You have explicitly toggled Live Match Sharing ON for that match.
- You have granted the iOS "When In Use" location permission to the App.
What we use it for: displaying your real-time position on a satellite map so the friends and players who can view that live match can follow along while you play.
Background tracking: while a live match is active, location updates may continue in the background so spectators see your position even if you switch apps or lock your phone. While background tracking is active, iOS displays a blue indicator (a status bar pill, or an arrow icon on the Dynamic Island) so you always know location is being collected. Tracking stops automatically when you end the match, turn Live Match Sharing OFF, or close the App entirely.
Where it is stored: your coordinates are written to the live-match record in the App's shared CloudKit database, which Apple operates for us. That database is not your personal iCloud storage: the live-match record is readable by other Press Tracker users, so treat a live match as visible to the people you are playing with and to anyone they invite to spectate. We keep no separate history of past locations, and we send those coordinates to no other service.
Retention: location coordinates are tied to the live-match record and are removed when the match ends. The App does not maintain a separate history of past locations.
You can disable it at any time: turn off Live Match Sharing in match settings, end the match, or revoke the App's location permission in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.
(b) One-shot uses. Outside a live match, the App reads your location a single time, at the moment you use one of the features below, and uses that reading only to answer that request:
- Weather on the home screen: your coordinates are sent to Apple WeatherKit, which returns the current conditions where you are. Apple handles that request under its own privacy policy. We do not store the coordinates.
- Near Me posts in the Clubhouse: your coordinates are used to select the nearby posts shown to you. We do not store them.
- Find Games and course search: your coordinates are used to sort nearby games and golf courses by distance from you. Only the name of a course you select is sent to our course-data provider (see Section 6); your coordinates are not sent to it.
- A location you attach to a post: if you turn on the location option when creating a post, or pick a course for that post, the coordinate is saved on the post and is visible to everyone who can see the post. This is the only one-shot reading the App keeps, and it is kept only because you attached it.
We do not sell your location data, share it with advertisers, or use it for profiling or marketing. The purpose string iOS shows you says the same thing in short form: live-match tracking for spectators, plus weather conditions and nearby golf posts.
3.4 Information Collected by Apple (Not by Us)
When you use the App, Apple collects information in its role as the platform operator and as the provider of Sign in with Apple, iCloud/CloudKit, and the Apple Push Notification service. Apple's handling of that information is governed by Apple's own privacy policy, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/. We do not receive from Apple any information you have not authorized.
3.5 Direct Messages (Encrypted)
The App lets you send private direct messages to friends you have added and accepted in the App. Direct messages are handled differently from other social content:
- Message content is encrypted on your device before it is stored. Encryption keys are generated on your device, kept in your device's secure Keychain, and synced only between your own devices through iCloud Keychain. We do not hold your keys and we cannot read the content of your direct messages. Other users (apart from the friend you are messaging) cannot read them either.
- Delivery information is not encrypted. To deliver and organize messages, the App processes the participants' account identifiers and message timestamps in readable form. In other words, the fact that two accounts exchanged messages, and when, is visible to the service; what was said is not.
- Readable copies live on your devices. Your device keeps a local, decrypted copy of your conversations so they load instantly. These copies are protected by your device's built-in encryption and are removed by the App's account-deletion process.
- Reported messages are the one exception. If you report a direct message using the in-App report tools, your device includes the readable text of that specific message in the report so we can review it. This is the only way direct-message content ever reaches us, and it happens only at the choice of a participant in the conversation.
- Key loss. If you lose access to iCloud Keychain (for example, by resetting it), previously received messages may become permanently unreadable. Because we never hold your keys, we cannot recover them for you.
3.6 Subscription Status
The App offers an optional auto-renewing subscription, Press Tracker Pro, and a one-time Lifetime Pro purchase. Everything in this section applies to both.
- Apple processes the payment. When you buy or renew a subscription, the purchase is made and charged through your Apple Account. We are not part of that transaction.
- What the App receives from Apple. Apple returns the product identifier of the subscription or Lifetime Pro you bought, the purchase and expiration dates, and the renewal state (for example, whether the subscription is active, in its free trial, or expired). The App stores the resulting entitlement, that is, whether the account currently has Pro, on your device so it knows which features to unlock.
- What we never receive. We do not receive the name on your card, your card number, your billing address, your Apple Account password, or any other payment detail. No payment information ever reaches us.
- Apple's own handling. Apple's collection and use of purchase information in its role as the seller is governed by Apple's privacy policy, available at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.
4. How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Create and maintain your account.
- Operate core App features: record scores, calculate hypothetical press outcomes, sync matches across your devices, and display match history.
- Enable the App's social features: deliver posts and messages to the people you share with, display your username and content to other users you interact with, and send notifications you have opted into.
- Communicate with you about the App (service messages, security notices, changes to this Policy).
- Debug and improve the App.
- Protect the App, our users, and the Developer from fraud, abuse, and unlawful conduct, and to enforce our Terms of Service, including reviewing content that users report to us through the in-App report tools.
- Comply with applicable law.
We do not sell or rent your personal information. We do not use your information to serve advertising. We do not profile you for behavioral targeting.
5. Where Your Information Is Stored
- On your device. Core match data is stored locally on your device using Apple's SwiftData framework.
- In your iCloud account (CloudKit). The App uses CloudKit to sync match data, profile information, and social content across your Apple devices and, where you explicitly share, with other users. Data in CloudKit is stored by Apple on your behalf, subject to Apple's Terms and Apple's privacy practices. We do not operate a general-purpose backend or database of our own. The one server function we run is the Apple token-revocation endpoint described in Section 6, which account deletion calls once and which stores nothing.
- With Apple's push notification service: notifications are delivered through CloudKit subscriptions that Apple manages; we never receive your device token.
- Crash and performance reports are stored in our CloudKit database in a record that only you and we can read; other users never see them.
Because the App relies on Apple-operated infrastructure, your information is stored and processed wherever Apple operates the relevant services, which may include the United States and other countries.
6. How We Share Information
We share information only as follows:
- With Apple, as a necessary operator of the Sign in with Apple, iCloud, CloudKit, and push notification services the App depends on. Apple processes this information under its own privacy policy.
- With the services the App calls to answer a single request: Apple WeatherKit receives your coordinates when the home screen shows weather; OpenGolfAPI (opengolfapi.org) receives the name of a course you selected so the App can look up that course's per-hole pars, and receives nothing else about you (Course par data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) via OpenGolfAPI); and a token-revocation function we operate at presstrackerapp.com/api/apple/revoke receives a single-use Sign in with Apple authorization code when you delete your account, uses it once to ask Apple to revoke the App's access, and stores nothing. None of these services receives your name, username, messages, or match data.
- With other users you interact with, to the extent the App's features require it. For example, when you accept a friend connection, your username is visible to that friend. When you post in the Clubhouse feed, your content and username are visible to the audience you choose.
- With law enforcement or other parties when compelled, if we are required to do so by a valid subpoena, court order, or other lawful process, or if disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Developer, App users, or the public.
- In connection with a business transfer, if the Developer is acquired by or merges with another entity, in which case reasonable notice will be given to users.
We do not share your information with advertisers, data brokers, analytics vendors, or any third party for their own marketing or profiling purposes.
7. Retention
We retain information for as long as your account remains active. You can delete your account and its associated data at any time from within the App (Profile → the account-deletion option). In-App deletion removes your CloudKit-stored data category by category, including your profile, posts, comments, matches you shared, and the direct messages you sent, releases your username, and destroys the messaging encryption keys stored on your device. You can additionally clear any remaining App data from your iCloud account through iOS Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → Apps Using iCloud → Press Tracker. Deleting the App from your device without running account deletion does not erase CloudKit-stored data.
Deleting a single post from within the App removes the post together with its photos or videos, comments, reactions, and the mention notices created from it.
Crash and performance reports are kept for up to 90 days and are deleted earlier when you delete your account from within the App. Reports that have not yet been uploaded live only on your device and are removed when you turn off the Upload diagnostics switch or delete the App.
Subscription status is not kept on a server by us. The entitlement described in Section 3.6 is a cache that lives on your device, is refreshed from Apple, and is removed when you sign out and when you delete your account. Apple keeps its own record of the transaction under Apple's retention practices, and deleting your Press Tracker account neither cancels a subscription nor erases Apple's records of it.
After account deletion, some residue remains by design of the underlying platform: residual diagnostic logs on your own device; content you posted that has already been received, cached, or retained by other users; for direct messages, the messages that OTHER users sent to you, which belong to their accounts and remain part of their conversation history; and any moderation report another user filed about you, which we keep so that a reported account cannot erase the reports made about it. Reports that you filed about other people are deleted with your account. Because your encryption keys are destroyed during deletion, your sent message history cannot be read by any future account on your device. We have no technical ability to remove content that has already been delivered to other users' devices.
8. Your Rights and Choices
You have the following rights with respect to information we hold about you:
- Access: you can review the information in your account from within the App.
- Portability: the App offers a free "Export my data" action in Profile > About that produces a file containing your matches, your presses, and your profile information, which you can save or share from your device. You can also send a request to our support email, support@presstrackerapp.com, or to privacy@presstrackerapp.com, and we will respond within 30 days.
- Correction: you can update your profile and content from within the App.
- Deletion: you can delete content from within the App and you can delete your account as described in Section 7.
- Opt out of push notifications: at any time, through iOS Settings → Notifications → Press Tracker.
- Withdraw consent: you can stop using the App at any time.
8.1 California Residents (CCPA / CPRA)
Press Tracker LLC is a small Ohio company that does not meet any of the thresholds that make a company a "business" under the California Consumer Privacy Act: annual gross revenue above the statutory figure, buying, selling or sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more consumers or households in a year, or deriving half or more of annual revenue from selling or sharing personal information. We do not claim the law applies to us. We honor the rights below voluntarily, for every user of the App, whatever state or country you live in, and we use California's own vocabulary so you can see exactly what you are getting. We reassess this and will update this section if it changes.
Notice at collection. The categories California uses (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.140(v)), matched to what they actually are in the App:
| Category (what it is in the App) | Source | Business purpose | Categories of third parties it is disclosed to | Retention period or criteria |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifiers (A): your Sign in with Apple user identifier, your username, your CloudKit user record name, and your friend connections and friend requests | Apple, and you when you choose a username and add a friend | Running your account and connecting you to the people you play with | Apple, which runs Sign in with Apple, CloudKit and push for us; other Press Tracker users, because the records carrying a username and a friendship are readable app-wide (Section 3.1) | Account deletion |
| Personal information under Cal. Civ. Code 1798.80(e) (B): your first and last name, and the player names you type onto teams | You | Showing who is who on a profile, a scorecard and a post | Apple; other users who see that profile, match or post | Account deletion |
| Geolocation, precise (G, also sensitive, see below): your position while you host a live match with sharing on, that match's course coordinate, a coordinate you attach to a post or a Find Games tee time, and single readings for weather, Near Me posts, and sorting nearby games and courses | Your device | Showing your position to the people watching your match, placing a post, and answering that one request (Section 3.3) | Apple; Apple WeatherKit, for one forecast; the users who can see that match, post or tee time | The match ends; the post or tee time is deleted; the single readings are never stored; otherwise account deletion |
| Geolocation, coarse (G): the city, state or province and home course you type on your profile | You | Filling out your profile | Apple; other users who view your profile | You clear the field, or account deletion |
| Audio and visual information (H): your profile photo and the photos and videos you attach to posts, including any sound in a video | You | Showing them to the audience you chose | Apple; that audience | You delete the post (its media goes with it), or account deletion |
| Gameplay content (H): hole-by-hole scores, presses, round configuration, recaps, and the hypothetical dollar figures | You | Keeping score and showing the hypothetical outcome | Apple; the players and spectators of that match | Account deletion |
| Message contents (H, also sensitive, see below): direct messages, encrypted on your device, and live-match chat, stored in readable form | You | Delivering the message to the person or the match you sent it to | Apple; the recipient, or the people watching that match. The body is ciphertext we cannot read, but who exchanged messages and when is stored in readable form on records any signed-in Press Tracker user can query (Section 3.5) | Account deletion |
| Other content you create (H): posts, comments, reactions, your bio, tee-time posts in Find Games, the message on a friend request, reports you file, and the short excerpt copied onto the record that delivers the matching notification | You | Publishing it to the audience you chose, and reviewing what you report | Apple; that audience | You delete the item, or account deletion |
| Product interaction (F): which live match you opened, when you joined, a presence ping every 30 seconds while you watch, the heartbeats you send to a host, and when you last read a message thread | Your device | Showing the host and other viewers who is watching, letting the host's phone vibrate when you send a heartbeat, and keeping unread counts right | Apple; the other viewers of that match, the host of that match, never your message read state | Account deletion |
| Diagnostic information (F): crash, hang and performance reports from Apple MetricKit, your region format, and counts and timings of the App's own scoring, press-detection and live-sync operations. Section 3.2 lists exactly what a report contains and what it never contains | Your device, which generates them either way; they reach us only while the Upload diagnostics switch is on | Debugging and security | Us, and Apple as operator of the database; no other user can read them | 90 days, or account deletion if sooner. Turning the switch off deletes reports still waiting on your device; ones already uploaded go at 90 days |
The categories of third parties above are complete: Apple as our service provider, the other users a feature shows something to, and one course-data provider. Only the name of a course you select goes to OpenGolfAPI, with nothing else about you, though as with any internet request your device's IP address reaches the service it contacts. Every row is also subject to the two disclosures in Section 6 that no feature triggers: valid legal process, and a business transfer with notice to users. "Account deletion" means the copies we control; Section 7 describes the residue that survives by design, including a moderation report another user filed about you, messages and content that belong to other people's accounts, and the shared course record a par lookup created.
What we do not collect. No email address on our servers: Sign in with Apple may hand one to your device (possibly a private relay address), where it stays in the Keychain, is never written to our database, and is never shown to anyone. No device or advertising identifiers, no address book, no health or biometric data, nothing about your job or your education, no payment or financial details, and no purchase history on our side, because Apple processes every purchase and only tells your device which Press Tracker product you own, an entitlement that never leaves the device (Section 3.6). We draw no inferences to profile you, do no behavioral targeting, and send nothing to an advertiser or an analytics vendor. The dollar figures in a match are hypothetical gameplay values, never financial or commercial information: no money moves through the App.
Sale and sharing. We do not sell personal information, and we do not "share" it in the narrow sense California gives that word, which is disclosing it to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising; when Section 6 uses "share" in its ordinary sense it means the disclosure a feature you invoked requires (Apple runs the services the App is built on, OpenGolfAPI gets a course name, WeatherKit gets a coordinate for one forecast, and other users see what a social feature exists to show them), and none of those is a sale or a California share, because each happens at your direction and we receive nothing of value for it. This section describes the App; Section 13 describes the website and the analytics it uses.
Sensitive personal information. Two of the rows above are sensitive personal information under Cal. Civ. Code 1798.140(ae): precise geolocation, and the contents of your messages, which count because we are not the intended recipient of a message you send another player. Direct messages are encrypted on your device and we cannot read them, with one exception: if you or the other participant reports a message, that one message's readable text is included in the report so we can review it (Section 3.5). Live-match chat is stored in the clear so the match can display it. We use both only to deliver the feature you asked for and to keep it secure, no further than is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes, and never to infer characteristics about you, which is what puts them outside the right to limit (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.121(d); 11 CCR 7027(m)). So we offer no "Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" link, and because we neither sell nor share, no "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link either.
Your rights, which we honor voluntarily:
- Right to know: the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, the purposes, the categories of third parties we disclosed it to, and the specific pieces we hold. The table above is the standing answer to the first four; ask us for the specific pieces, including from further back than 12 months where that is possible without disproportionate effort.
- Right to delete: delete your account from within the App (Profile, then the account-deletion option), or ask us. Section 7 sets out what deletion removes and what survives by design.
- Right to correct: fix your name, username and profile details from within the App at any time, edit a completed match, delete and repost anything else you wrote, and ask us to correct whatever you cannot reach.
- Right to portability: the free "Export my data" action in Profile > About produces a file with your matches, your presses and your profile information, which you can keep or send anywhere. For anything the file does not cover, such as your posts, comments, chat or diagnostic reports, ask us and we will assemble it.
- Right to opt out of sale or sharing: we do neither, so there is nothing to opt out of, and a Global Privacy Control signal has nothing to switch off.
- Right to limit the use of sensitive personal information: nothing we do falls inside it, for the reason given above.
- Right of non-discrimination: exercising any of these rights never changes what you pay or what the App does for you. We offer no financial incentive in exchange for personal information.
- Authorized agent: an agent may make a request for you with your written permission. We may ask the agent for proof of it and verify your identity with you directly.
How we verify a request. We match it to the Sign in with Apple identity behind the account, usually by asking you to send it from inside the App while you are signed in, or, if you write to us, by asking for the username on the account. We hold no password and no email address on our servers, so we cannot verify you with either; anything you do send us to prove who you are is used only for that and then deleted. If we cannot verify you, we will tell you so and explain why rather than answer a request from someone who might not be you.
How we respond. Free of charge, within 30 days (California allows 45). You may make a right-to-know request twice in a 12-month period; beyond that, or for a request that is manifestly unfounded or excessive, we may charge a reasonable fee or decline, and we will tell you why. Requests go to privacy@presstrackerapp.com or our contact page.
Minors. The App is for users 18 and older (Section 9). We have no actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age, because we sell and share none.
8.2 Residents of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Other Jurisdictions with Similar Laws
If you are in a jurisdiction whose law applies to our processing of your information, you may have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port, or object to our processing, and to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. The legal bases on which we rely are (i) your consent (for optional features like push notifications), (ii) performance of our contract with you (for core App features), and (iii) our legitimate interests (debugging, security, abuse prevention). To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@presstrackerapp.com or through our contact page.
8.3 Nevada Residents
Nevada residents have the right to request that we not sell certain personal information. We do not sell personal information, so no action is required, but you may confirm this by contacting us.
9. Children's Privacy
Press Tracker is intended for users 18 years of age or older (see our Terms of Service). The App includes social features with the ability to chat, including live-match chat and direct messages between accepted friends; those features are subject to this Policy, including the encryption and reporting practices described in Section 3.5, and to the conduct rules and moderation tools described in our Terms of Service. The App is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information, including messages, from any person under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act or similar children's privacy laws. If you believe we have received information from a child under 13, contact us at privacy@presstrackerapp.com or through our contact page and we will delete it promptly.
10. Security
We use Apple's platform-level security (Sign in with Apple, end-to-end-encrypted iCloud services where applicable, device-level encryption) to protect your information. Direct-message content is additionally encrypted on your device with keys we never receive, as described in Section 3.5. No system is perfectly secure, however, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted over the internet. You are responsible for safeguarding the Apple account and device you use to access the App.
11. International Transfers
Because the App relies on Apple-operated infrastructure, your information may be processed in the United States and other countries where Apple operates. By using the App, you consent to such processing to the extent permitted by applicable law.
12. Third-Party Links and Services
The App may contain links to third-party websites or services, including our own hosted Privacy Policy and Terms of Service pages. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party sites.
Course par data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) via OpenGolfAPI.
13. Our Website
This Policy is primarily about the App, but a note on presstrackerapp.com (the website where this Policy is hosted): the website uses Vercel Analytics (aggregate, cookieless page metrics) and Google Analytics 4 to understand site traffic, such as pages visited, approximate region, and how visitors found us. Google Analytics sets cookies and processes data in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy; you can opt out using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
If you voluntarily submit your email address in a form on the website (for example, to enter a giveaway, or, during the beta that ended in September 2026, to request a download link), we also provide that email address to Google Analytics in hashed (irreversibly encoded) form for measurement accuracy and aggregate audience insights ("user-provided data"). Google never receives your readable email address from this feature, and we do not use it to send you marketing, sell it, or share it with any party for their own marketing or profiling. The uses described where you enter your email (administering the giveaway, or, formerly, following up about the beta) remain the only ways we ourselves use your address.
Microsoft Clarity. The website also uses Microsoft Clarity to see how visitors use the site: how far they scroll, what they click, and a replay of the page as it was moved through, so we can find and fix confusing layouts. Clarity never records what you type. Every input field is masked in your browser before anything is sent, and in the masking mode we use Clarity also masks numbers and email addresses that appear in page text. Clarity is not loaded on our internal admin page. Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Clarity sets two first-party cookies (_clck and _clsk) so that the pages of one visit are stitched into one session; we tell Clarity on every page that it may store analytics data and may not store advertising data, so Microsoft's advertising cookies are not set. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland get no Clarity cookies at all, and each page view is treated as its own session. Microsoft keeps replays for 30 days and aggregate click and scroll data for 9 months, on Microsoft Azure, and processes it under the Microsoft Privacy Statement. Clarity honors the Global Privacy Control browser signal, and you can opt out of Microsoft's measurement at optout.aboutads.info.
This measurement applies to the website only, the App itself contains no analytics SDKs, as described in Section 3.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top and, if the change is material, provide reasonable in-App notice. Your continued use of the App after the update constitutes your acceptance of the revised Policy.
15. Contact Us
For questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact:
Press Tracker LLC Email: privacy@presstrackerapp.com · Web: presstrackerapp.com/contact
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