Privacy Policy

Summary

• Our apps work without an account. We don't ask for your name, email, location or contacts.
• Your favorites and settings stay on your device.
• In World Sport Rankings, if you turn on ranking alerts or the weekly digest, the app registers a random install ID and a push token with our notification server so we can tell it when a ranking you follow has a new edition, or send the digest on Sunday evening. Turning both off deletes that registration. College Sports Rankings doesn't send notifications.
• Both free apps show ads from Google AdMob, which collects data under Google's own policies. Where the law requires it, each app asks for your consent first, and it asks your permission before Google may use your device's advertising identifier.
• College Sports Rankings loads some school logos directly from ESPN's or a school's website.
• We don't sell your personal data.

Data stored on your device

World Sport Rankings stores these on your device only: your favorite team, players and rankings; your settings, including whether ranking alerts and the weekly digest are on; the rankings you've downloaded, so they work offline; a record of the ranks you last saw, which the app uses to tell what changed; your answers to the ad consent message, kept by Google's consent tool; and how many rankings you've opened and on how many days, which the app uses to decide when to ask for an App Store rating. The Home Screen widget reads a copy of your favorites and their ranks, kept in storage shared only between the app and its widget on the same device. None of this is sent to us, except what is described under ranking alerts and the weekly digest below.

College Sports Rankings stores these on your device only: your favorite school and pinned rankings, your settings, the rankings you've downloaded, so they work offline, and your answers to the advertising consent questions, which Google's consent tool keeps so it doesn't ask again on every launch. None of this is sent to us.

Uninstalling an app deletes its data. In either app, Settings, then About, then Clear Cached Rankings removes downloaded rankings without touching your favorites.

Ranking alerts, the weekly digest and push notifications (World Sport Rankings)

This section applies to World Sport Rankings only. College Sports Rankings doesn't send notifications or register with our notification server.

Ranking alerts are off until you turn them on and allow notifications. When they're on, the app checks your favorites in the background a few times a day. To deliver alerts sooner, it also registers with our notification server, which tells the app when a ranking you follow has a new edition. The weekly digest, also off until you turn it on, uses the same registration. The registration contains:

• a random install ID created by the app, which isn't linked to your Apple Account, your name or your device's advertising identifier;
• the push token Apple issues for this app on your device, and whether it's a test or App Store build;
• while ranking alerts are on: which rankings your favorites appear in, for example "FIFA men's world ranking" or "WTA women's singles", but not which team or players you follow;
• while the weekly digest is on: that it's on, and your device's time zone (for example "Europe/Warsaw"), so the digest arrives on Sunday evening your time;
• the app version, and when the app last received one of our notifications.

When one of those rankings publishes a new edition, our server sends a silent notification through the Apple Push Notification service. It only wakes the app: the app then downloads the new ranking, compares it with what you last saw on your device, and shows any alert itself. Our server never learns which teams or players you follow or what the alert said.

The weekly digest is one notification every Sunday at 6 pm in your time zone. Our server sends the same general text to everyone, such as how many rankings were updated that week. Before it appears, the app replaces that text on your device with how your favorites did, using the favorites and ranks stored on your device. Our server never sees the personal version.

We use the registration only to send these notifications. It is stored with our hosting provider, Amazon Web Services, in the United States. The app refreshes it about once a week while alerts or the digest are on. Turning both off, or turning off notifications for the app in iOS Settings, deletes it the next time you open the app. If the app is deleted or stops checking in, the registration is deleted automatically after 60 days. Apple handles delivery of notifications under the Apple Privacy Policy.

Ranking data and school logos

The rankings in our apps are published by sports organizations, polls and other public sources. We collect them on our own servers, and each app downloads them from our storage at Amazon Web Services; the apps don't send anything to the publishers. World Sport Rankings also downloads each ranking's status once a day, such as off-season or the next expected update. Downloading a ranking doesn't require any personal information. Like any internet request, these downloads and the alert registration include your device's IP address, which we don't use to identify you or combine with other data.

College Sports Rankings shows school logos. A few are built into the app; the rest are loaded directly from ESPN's image servers or, for some schools, the school's athletics website. Those servers receive the usual information sent with any web request, such as your IP address and device type, and handle it under their own privacy policies. The app doesn't send them anything else, such as your favorites.

If you open a publisher's page from either app, it opens in Safari inside the app, and that website's own privacy policy applies.

Advertising, consent and tracking

Both free apps show banner and full-screen ads from Google AdMob. To serve and measure ads, and to prevent fraud, Google may collect information such as your IP address, approximate location, device and app information, and how you interact with ads. Google's use of this data is described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. We don't receive this data from Google in a form that identifies you; AdMob gives us aggregate reports such as ad impressions and earnings.

Ad consent. Each time it starts, each app uses Google's consent tool (the User Messaging Platform) to show any consent message the law requires where you are, for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and some US states. The apps request ads only after this step. If you don't consent, the app still shows ads, but Google limits how it uses your data for them. Where Google requires it, the app's Settings include Privacy Choices, which reopens the message so you can change your answer.

Tracking. Either app may show a short Google message about ads, followed by Apple's prompt asking whether the app may track your activity across other companies' apps and websites. If you allow it, Google may use your device's advertising identifier to show more relevant ads and measure them. If you ask the app not to track, the advertising identifier isn't available to the app or to Google, and ads are still shown, though they may be less relevant. Your answers don't change how the rest of the app works. You can change this at any time in iOS Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking.

This website

This website uses GoatCounter to count page views and clicks on our App Store buttons. GoatCounter doesn't use cookies or store personal data: it records the page, the referring site, and general browser, screen size, and country information, without identifying you.

Data sharing

We don't sell your personal data for money. We share data only with the service providers needed to run our apps and this site: Amazon Web Services (hosting the rankings and the notification server), Apple (delivering notifications), Google (advertising and ad consent) and GoatCounter (website statistics). Your advertising identifier is used for cross-app tracking only if you allow tracking, and then only by Google for ads. If you allow tracking or agree to personalized ads, Google may use data such as your advertising identifier for targeted advertising, which some US state laws call "selling" or "sharing" personal data; you can opt out at any time as described under Your choices. We may disclose information if the law requires it.

Children's privacy

Our apps aren't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your choices

• World Sport Rankings: turn ranking alerts and the weekly digest on or off in the app under Settings, Alerts. Turning both off deletes your registration on our notification server.
• World Sport Rankings: turn notifications for the app on or off in iOS Settings, Notifications. If they're off, the app turns ranking alerts and the weekly digest off and deletes the registration the next time you open it.
• Both apps: allow or stop tracking for ads in iOS Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking. Where it's offered, change your ad consent in the app under Settings, Privacy Choices.
• On any iPhone or iPad, you can turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track in iOS Settings, Privacy & Security, Tracking. You can manage how Google uses your data for ads at My Ad Center.
• Uninstalling an app removes everything it stored on your device; any World Sport Rankings alert registration is deleted after 60 days.

Because we don't link any app data to you, we can't look it up by name or email. If you have a question about your data, contact us and we'll help.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as our apps change, for example when we add features or apps. We'll change the date at the top when we do, and describe significant changes on this page.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Reach us at support@boolteklabs.com.