DropShot Privacy Policy

Contact: dropshot.tennisapp@gmail.com
Effective date: October 27, 2026

Scope

This policy describes information handling in the DropShot iPhone app. DropShot is a personal tool for tennis plans, practice and match records, skill notes, and equipment. No account registration is required.

Information stored on your device

Information you enter or select is stored in the app's local database. This includes training plans, drills and results, match scores, notes, skill cues, rackets and string jobs, partner names and optional contact details, court names and coordinates, dates, and record associations. Preferences such as language and calendar choices are also stored on the device.

The app uses this information to display records, calculate local statistics and rule-based suggestions, and manage calendar events you link to sessions. The current version does not upload these records to developer-operated servers. It includes no advertising, cross-app tracking, third-party behavioral analytics, or feature that sends your content to an AI service. The developer cannot remotely view or recover your local training records.

Calendar access

Calendar selection and event creation, updates, and deletion require full calendar access from iOS. This system permission is broader than permission to add events. DropShot uses it to read the calendar list and find and manage events linked to your tennis sessions. It does not import unrelated events to build a profile of your schedule.

An event may contain the session title, time, court and coordinates, partner names, and session notes. Calendar and event identifiers are retained locally to support updates and deletion. Do not include information in shared session notes that you do not want calendar members to see.

Events in iCloud, another account, or a shared calendar may be synced by that service and visible to people with access to that calendar. The service's policies and your sharing settings govern this handling. Turning off automatic addition stops future automatic additions; it does not delete existing events. Deleting DropShot does not delete events in Calendar.

You can revoke calendar access in iPhone settings. Local record keeping remains available without it.

Location, maps, and directions

Court search uses Apple MapKit. With location permission while using the app, DropShot temporarily uses the device location to bias nearby searches and calculate court distances. It does not continuously track you in the background or save a device-location history in its training database.

Map searches use Apple services to process requests such as search terms and a search region. The names, addresses, and coordinates of courts you select are saved locally. Selected court coordinates represent a chosen place, rather than a continuously recorded device location.

Directions open the system Maps app. Apple's handling is described in Apple Maps & Privacy. You can search by court name or address without location permission, although nearby ordering and distance information may be limited.

Backups and exports

DropShot can export and restore JSON backups. These files may contain all practice and match records, notes, partner contact details, courts, and calendar associations. The app does not separately encrypt exported JSON files.

Files are exported only when you choose to do so, to a location you select, such as local Files, iCloud Drive, or another file provider. Uploading, syncing, and sharing depend on that provider and your actions. The local database may also be included in system device backups you enable. DropShot has no account-based cloud sync service of its own.

Retention, deletion, and controls

Local content remains until you delete the relevant items through available app controls or use Delete App in iPhone settings to remove the app's local data. Offload App may retain documents and data. Some linked notes or other records may remain independently; deleting one practice does not necessarily remove all related information.

Calendar events, exported files, and system backups are separate copies and must be managed or deleted separately. Restoring a backup replaces current local data, so export any content you want to keep before restoring.

You can manage calendar, location, and device-backup settings in iOS. We do not hold server copies of your local records and cannot remotely delete or recover them for you.

Contacting support

If you voluntarily email support, we receive the address, message, and attachments you provide. We use them to respond to and resolve your request and for necessary follow-up. Do not send a full backup or unrelated personal information with an initial request. To request deletion of information provided by email, contact the address above. Applicable legal retention obligations may require some records to be retained.

Changes and contact

We will update this policy and its effective date if our information practices change. Contact the developer at the email above with privacy questions.

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