Privacy Policy - Sideline Score

Last updated: August 20, 2026

This policy explains what information Sideline Score ("the app", "we", "us") collects and how it is handled. The short answer is that everything you enter stays yours, on your devices — the only thing we collect is anonymous usage statistics that cannot identify you. The long answer is below.

This one document covers both the iPhone/iPad app and the Android app. Where the two platforms genuinely behave differently, both are described. Where this policy says nothing about a platform, the behaviour is the same on both.

What Sideline Score does

Sideline Score lets a parent keep score during their child's youth sports games. You enter information about your family — your child's name, team names, opponents, and scores — and the app stores it so you can look back at it later.

It is a single-purpose scorekeeping tool. There is no account to create, no sign-in, and no profile.

What you put into the app

Using the app, you may create the following:

• A child's first name
• Team names, divisions, and colours
• Season and tournament names, dates, and scoring rules
• Opponent names
• Game scores and every individual scoring event

The app also stores your light/dark appearance preference and a flag recording whether you have purchased Premium.

We have no access to any of it. We run no servers and hold no database of users. There is no mechanism by which this information could reach us.

Where your data lives

This is the one substantive difference between the platforms.

What we collect automatically

The app collects anonymous usage statistics through TelemetryDeck, a privacy-focused analytics service. This tells us things like which sports are being tracked, which features get used, and whether people keep using the app — so we know what to improve. It works the same way on both platforms.

What this looks like in practice:

• Events like "a game was completed" or "a season was created", with coarse detail such as the sport and whether the game was a win, loss, or tie.
• General device context TelemetryDeck derives automatically, such as app version, OS version, and device model.
• A random identifier the app creates on first launch. It is not your Apple ID or Google account, not an advertising ID, and not derived from your device. It is deleted along with the app and cannot be connected to you.

Just as importantly, what it does not include:

• Nothing you type. Names, teams, opponents, scores, and colours never leave your device as part of analytics.
• No tracking. TelemetryDeck cannot follow you across apps or websites. iOS never requests the IDFA or the App Tracking Transparency permission; Android never declares the advertising-ID permission. TelemetryDeck anonymizes all incoming data and is GDPR-compliant, with servers hosted in the EU.
• No crash or performance reporting. No Crashlytics or equivalent.
• No advertising of any kind.
• No location data. The app never asks for or accesses your location.
• No access to contacts, photos, calendar, camera, or microphone.

When the app uses the network

The app is fully usable offline. Scoring a game never requires a connection. The only outbound connections are:

1. Purchases. When you tap "Upgrade to Premium" or "Restore Purchases", the app contacts Apple's App Store (on iOS) or Google Play Billing (on Android) to check or complete your purchase. Apple or Google receives that request, not us.
2. iCloud sync. iOS with Premium only — see "Where your data lives" above.
3. TelemetryDeck, for the anonymous usage statistics described above.
4. The review prompt. Both apps may ask whether you would like to rate the app, through Apple's or Google's own review mechanism — on Android, Play In-App Review. The platform decides whether the prompt actually appears, and we are told nothing about whether you saw it or what you did with it.
5. Contacting us. On Android, Settings → Contact Us opens digitalsandbox.net/contact in a browser tab. On iOS, Settings → Email Support opens your mail app with a message addressed to us. In both cases nothing is sent until you send it.

On Android, the INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions appear in the installed app because the Google Play Billing, Play In-App Review, and TelemetryDeck libraries require them. The app declares no network permission of its own.

Sharing a score card

Tapping Share renders an image of the final score and hands it to the system share sheet. You choose where it goes — messages, mail, a photo library, a social app. The image is written to the app's private storage and made available only to the app you pick. Nothing is uploaded anywhere by us, and we are not told that you shared, or with whom.

Children's privacy

Sideline Score is designed for parents and other adults to use on their own devices. It is not directed to children.

A parent may enter a child's first name. That name stays on the parent's device and, where the platform backup or sync described above is enabled, in that parent's own Apple or Google account. It is never transmitted to us, and we have no mechanism to receive it.

We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has used the app in a way that caused information to reach us, please get in touch — though as described above, there is no route by which that could happen.

Third-party services

Sideline Score integrates exactly one third-party service:

• TelemetryDeck (TelemetryDeck GmbH, Germany) receives the anonymous usage statistics described above. It is built so that the data it receives cannot identify individual users, and its handling of that data is governed by TelemetryDeck's privacy policy.

The only other third parties involved are the platform owners themselves:

• Apple — App Store purchases, iCloud sync, and the review prompt, governed by Apple's privacy policy.
• Google — Play Billing, Play In-App Review, and Android's device backup, governed by Google's privacy policy.

Purchases

Sideline Score offers a single one-time purchase, Premium (US$2.99). It is not a subscription. Billing is handled entirely by the App Store or Google Play, which store your payment method under their own policies. We receive no payment information about you — not your card details, not your billing address, not your name.

Deleting your data

There is no account to delete, because there is no account. To remove your data:

• Delete items in the app. Removing a game, team, child, or season deletes it from your device — and, on iOS with Premium, from iCloud across your devices.
• Delete the app. This removes the local copy on either platform.
• On iOS, also remove the iCloud copy: Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Storage → Sideline Score → Delete Data.
• On Android, also clear stored data: Settings → Apps → Sideline Score → Storage → Clear storage, and turn off Settings → Google → Backup if you do not want the backup copy retained.

Deleting the app also destroys the random analytics identifier described in "What we collect automatically" above. Because that identifier never pointed at you, the statistics already collected under it identify no one — there is no account or profile to purge.

Because we hold no copy of your data, there is nothing for us to delete on your behalf.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at the same URL with a new "last updated" date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email [email protected], or use the contact form at digitalsandbox.net/contact.

— Digital Sandbox LLC