Scope and operator
Brian Blanchard operates Stroke Gains. This policy covers the Stroke Gains website, web app, and iPhone app.
Information we collect
- Account information: Account and profile identifiers, your primary email address and verification status, your name, and profile update and deletion status.
- Golf records: Uploaded scorecard photographs and their readings, manually entered or corrected shots, courses and tees, round dates, and optional tee times, time zones, tournaments, and round signatures. Course records include addresses and coordinates. We also store calculated scores and golf statistics.
- Contact messages: Your email address and the information you send when you contact us for support or privacy requests.
- Invitation requests: Your email address when you request an invitation through the waitlist.
- Operational information: Processing events and errors, including round identifiers, attempt counts, photograph counts, timings, and information returned by service providers when processing fails.
Photographs may contain names or other information beyond your golf notes. Check what is visible before uploading a scorecard.
How we use information
We use account information to sign you in, associate you with your records, and handle invitation requests. We use golf records to read scorecards, save your corrections, calculate statistics, and display your round history. Your name can appear in a stats share you enable.
We use contact messages to respond to your questions and requests. We use operational information to diagnose processing failures and maintain the service.
Service providers
Stroke Gains uses these services to operate its features:
- Clerk: Sign-in, account profiles, and invitation requests.
- Convex: The application backend, database, and uploaded photo storage.
- Vercel: Website and web app hosting.
- Anthropic: Claude processes uploaded scorecard images to extract golf records.
- GolfCourseAPI: Course searches and course information. Requests include search text or a course identifier.
- Open-Meteo: Course time-zone lookup using course addresses or coordinates. These requests do not include your account identifier.
- Porkbun and Google: Forwarding and receiving support and privacy-request emails.
- Apple: iPhone beta distribution through TestFlight.
These providers also handle information under their own terms and privacy policies.
Sharing and AI tools
If you enable a stats-sharing link, anyone with the link can see your shared name and statistics. You can revoke the link, but this does not remove copies someone has already made.
If you connect an AI service or another compatible tool, you authorize it to retrieve your golf records and calculated round, hole, shot, metric, and trend data through the Stroke Gains connection. The connection provides read access. Information sent to that service is subject to its policies and your settings there.
To stop future access, remove the Stroke Gains connection in the external service. Removing a connection does not delete information the service has already received.
Device and browser storage
The website and web app store your theme preference in browser local storage. The web app also stores onboarding completion locally and uses a cookie for sidebar state. The iPhone app stores appearance, onboarding, and statistics-window preferences on your device. Clerk uses browser and device storage for authentication.
Retention and deletion
We retain golf records until they are removed through a deletion operation. Stroke Gains does not currently apply a fixed retention period.
Deleting an individual round removes its record and calculated statistics. The service also attempts to remove its stored photographs; photo removal may fail and require follow-up.
Deleting your sign-in account does not erase all your golf data. It clears your name and email from your Stroke Gains profile, marks the profile deleted, and revokes your stats-sharing link. Your account-to-profile mapping, historical golf records, and stored photographs remain.
Contact us about data that remains after deletion. Information already received by an external AI service or a stats-link recipient must be handled with that service or recipient.
Requests and contact
For privacy questions or requests to access, correct, or delete your information, contact Brian Blanchard at hello@strokegains.golf. Include the email associated with your account and describe your request. We may need to verify your identity before providing or changing account information.
Your privacy rights depend on the law that applies to you. This policy does not limit those rights. The deletion limits above describe the current service and are not a guarantee of complete erasure.
Policy changes
We will post updates on this page and update the effective date. For material changes, we will provide a notice on the website or in the app before the change takes effect.