Privacy Policy

Last updated September 2026

The short version

Fairway Index works with no account at all, and that is the default. Used that way, your rounds never leave your device and we cannot see them. If you choose to create an account to sync across devices, we store your email address and your rounds — and nothing else. If you also add friends, they see your Handicap Index and your last ten scores, and nothing more.

Without an account

We collect nothing. There is no analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, no crash reporter, and no tracking of any kind.

With an account

Creating an account stores your email address, a securely hashed password, and the rounds, golfers and courses you have saved, so they can be synced to your other devices. That is the whole list. Unless you add a friend, your data is isolated from every other user at the database level, not merely by our application code. We do not sell it, share it, or use it for advertising, and there is still no analytics or tracking.

Friends

Adding a friend is the one thing in Fairway Index that shows your data to another person, so it only ever happens when both of you agree to it, and it shares as little as possible.

To be findable you choose a handle. Nobody can browse a list of golfers and nobody can search by your name or email — a handle only reaches you if you give it out. Someone who has sent you a request can see the handle and display name you chose, so that you know who is asking; they can see nothing else unless you accept.

Once you accept, that friend can see your Handicap Index, how many rounds you have posted, and the date, course, score and differential of your ten most recent rounds. They cannot see your hole-by-hole scorecards, the notes you write on a round, anything older than those ten rounds, your email address, or any round you have deleted. Those are not hidden by our app being careful — a friend has no permission to read your rounds at all, enforced by the database itself.

Removing a friend, or declining a request, deletes the connection and with it their access. Either of you can do it at any time, and neither of you is told. If you never open the Friends screen, none of this applies to you and nothing about you is published.

Deleting your account

Email support@sigrotechnologies.com and we will delete your account and everything stored with it. Signing out on its own does not delete anything, and it leaves your rounds on the device.

Where your data lives

In your browser's local storage on the web, or in the app's local storage on iOS and Android. Deleting the app or clearing site data deletes your scoring record permanently, which is why the app offers a one-tap backup file. That file is yours: it is written to wherever you choose to save it and is never uploaded anywhere.

Network requests

With no account, every outbound request the app makes is for course data, and it makes none at all until you search for a course. Then it fetches our own course list, and queries OpenGolfAPI and Golf Canada's public directory for anything our list does not have. When you pick a course, it fetches that one course's ratings. Those requests carry your search text and your IP address, as any web request does. They carry none of your scores and no identifier for you.

Children

The app is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date above changes with it. We still collect nothing about you, and the only data that ever reaches another person is what the Friends section describes — so we do not expect it to change often.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or a request to delete your data, can go to support@sigrotechnologies.com.