PureScores
Privacy policy
PureScores has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no third-party software inside the app. This page lists every piece of data the app handles and where it goes.
What stays on your device
- Your favorite teams, your theme, your hide-scores setting, and your notification choices. The app stores them on the phone in the app's own container so the widgets can read them.
- The phone copies favorites and theme to your Apple Watch over Apple's Watch Connectivity. That copy stays between your two devices.
- A cache of recent scores and team logos, so the app and widgets open quickly.
None of this leaves your devices, and none of it is backed up to any server of ours. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Requests the app makes
- Scores, standings, schedules, and box scores come from our server at
api.purescores.app, hosted by Railway. Like any web server, it sees your IP address and the time of the request in its logs, which Railway keeps for a limited period. The app sends no identifier with these requests. - Team logos load from ESPN's image servers (
a.espncdn.com). ESPN sees your IP address when a logo downloads. ESPN's own privacy policy covers that request.
Notifications
When you turn on a notification for a team or a game, the app sends the following to our server, and the server stores it:
- the push token Apple assigns to your device, a random string that lets Apple deliver notifications to that device and nothing else,
- the teams and games you asked about, and which events (start, final) you want,
- the time of your last update.
The server uses this to send the notification through Apple when the event happens. It does not link the token to a name, an email, or anything else about you, because it never has any of those.
The server deletes the record when you turn off your last notification in the app. It also deletes it when Apple reports the token dead, which happens after you delete the app.
What we never collect
- No name, email, phone number, or account of any kind.
- No location.
- No advertising identifier, and no tracking across apps or websites.
- No usage analytics and no crash reports from inside the app. Apple may share aggregate crash data with us only if you opted into that in iOS Settings.
Children
The app collects no personal information from anyone, children included.
Changes
If the app starts handling new data, this page changes first and the effective date at the top moves.