Your data, plainly.

What we collect

• Account basics — your email, name, and password (stored only as a cryptographic hash), or your Google account identifier if you sign in with Google.
• Your golf — scores, rounds, courses played, handicap index, stats, matches, and the results of the games your group plays.
• Money-game results — who won what in your group's games, so the app can keep the running tab. Swilkin never collects card numbers or bank details and never moves money (see the terms for the full promise). If you add payment handles (a Venmo, PayPal, or Cash App username), we store the handle only so buddies can open the right app pointed at you.
• Date of birth (optional) — used for exactly two things: unlocking money games (18+) and age-based tournament flights (Junior, Senior, Mid-Am). Never shown publicly, never used for anything else.
• Players you add by name — when you add a buddy who isn't on Swilkin, we store the name you typed so the scorecard makes sense. If they join later, they can claim that record; until then it belongs to your account.

What we use it for

Running the app: live scorecards, leaderboards, settle-ups, stats, and the emails the app sends on your behalf (password resets, email verification, tee times you ask us to send). That's it. No advertising profiles, no data brokers, no selling or renting your information to anyone, ever.

Who can see what

• Your group sees the rounds, scores and games you share with them — that's the product.
• Public event pages show what an organizer publishes: the leaderboard, field, and results of a public tournament or league. Private events stay private.
• Money is gated — amounts are visible only inside your group's games, and the app hides all money features from any account that hasn't played for money.

Services we rely on

Swilkin runs on rented infrastructure like any modern app: hosting (Railway), a database, file storage and our network (Cloudflare), email delivery (Resend), and Google Sign-In if you choose it. These providers process data on our behalf to run the service — none of them may use your data for their own purposes.

For traffic numbers we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it counts page views and where they came from, and it does not fingerprint you, follow you across sites, or build a profile. That's why you've never seen a cookie banner here, and why you won't.

Kids

Swilkin isn't directed at children under 13, and accounts without an adult birthdate can't create or see money games. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, email us and we'll remove it.

Your controls

• Change your email, password, and profile in the app.
• Ask for a copy of your data, or ask us to delete your account and its data: [email protected]. Scores you posted into someone else's event may remain on that event's record (a tournament's history stays whole), but they'll no longer be tied to your identity.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so plainly — a note in the app, not a silent edit. Questions? Email [email protected] — a person reads it.