IGP Tracker Privacy Policy
IGP Tracker is a training app for IGP tracking, made by Dogsport Ventures LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what the app collects, why, who it is shared with, and the choices you have. We do not sell your personal information, we do not share it for advertising, and the app contains no ads or analytics trackers.
1. What we collect
| Information | Where it comes from | What it is used for |
|---|---|---|
| Account details: an anonymous account ID. If you choose to sign in with Apple, Google, or email and password, also your email address and the account identifier that provider gives us (Apple lets you hide your email). | Created automatically on first launch; sign-in is optional. | Backing up your data and restoring it on a new phone. |
| Dog and training records: dog profiles (name, breed, birth date, milestones), training sessions (dates and times, track setups, scores, evaluations, your notes), saved tracks, pace calibrations, trial entries and results, and any notes you keep about judges. | You enter them. | Running the app's features and keeping your records. |
| Precise location, only while the app is open and only if you allow it. | Your phone's GPS. | Looking up weather at your training site, measuring pace and distance while you lay a track, and recording where you marked corners and articles. Those marked points are saved with the session. The app does not track your location in the background. |
| Weather readings for each session. | Looked up from your location. | Scent-condition context for the session and the AI coaching. |
| Field photos you take or choose in the app. | Your camera or photo library, only if you allow it. | Remembering what a training field looked like. Photos are stored only on your phone, inside the app. They are not uploaded to our servers, not included in the cloud backup, and never sent to the AI coaching, so they don't transfer to a new phone. |
| Technical data: IP address, app version, device platform, and basic request logs. | Sent automatically when the app contacts our service providers. | Delivering app updates, keeping the AI service from being abused (rate limiting), and fixing problems. |
Your records are stored on your phone and, so you don't lose them, backed up to our cloud database. The app does not access your contacts or microphone, and it uses the camera and photo library only when you add a photo. Timer alerts are scheduled on your phone; we do not send push notifications from a server.
2. AI coaching
When you ask for an AI debrief or pre-brief, the app sends the relevant training details to the AI provider Anthropic through our own server. These details are your dog's name, breed and age, the track setup, session results and notes, recent training and trial history, any judge notes relevant to an upcoming trial, and the weather. Your name, email address and GPS coordinates are not sent. Anthropic processes this data to generate the response under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to use your data to train its models. AI coaching is optional, and the app asks for your agreement before the first request.
3. Who we share it with
We share information only with the service providers that run the app, and only for that purpose:
- Google Firebase (Google LLC): sign-in and the cloud backup of your records.
- Anthropic (Anthropic PBC): AI coaching responses, as described above.
- Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.): hosts the server that relays AI requests; it sees your IP address.
- OpenWeather (OpenWeather Ltd.): receives your coordinates to return the current weather.
- Expo (650 Industries, Inc.): delivers app updates; it sees technical data such as your app version and platform.
- Apple and Google: if you use them to sign in, and as the app stores.
We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect someone's safety, or as part of a sale or merger of our business (in that case this policy would continue to apply to your data). Anything you share yourself, for example by exporting a file, goes wherever you send it.
4. How long we keep it
We keep your records for as long as you have an account. You can delete your account and its cloud data at any time in the app (Settings), or by emailing us. Deletion removes your cloud records within 30 days. Short-lived logs held by our service providers expire on their own schedules. Deleting the app removes photos stored in it, but not the cloud backup of your records.
5. Your choices and rights
- Location: you can deny or withdraw location access in your phone's settings. Weather lookups and GPS pace tracking stop, and you can still choose the weather conditions yourself.
- Camera and photos: you can deny access in your phone's settings; everything except adding photos keeps working.
- AI coaching: optional; if you don't use it, nothing is sent to Anthropic.
- Access, correction and deletion: you can view, edit and delete your records in the app. To get a full copy of your data, or for anything else, email us and we will respond within 30 days.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, you also have the right to object to or restrict processing, to data portability, to withdraw consent at any time, and to complain to your local data protection authority. We rely on these legal bases: performing our agreement with you (running the app and storing your records), your consent (location and AI coaching), and our legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and working. Your data is processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate, under safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.
If you are in California, you have the right to know what personal information we collect and to ask us to delete it, and we will not treat you differently for exercising these rights. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in California law.
6. Children
IGP Tracker is intended for adults and is not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has given us information, email us and we will delete it.
7. Security
Your data travels encrypted, and your training records in the cloud can only be read by your own account. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and will notify you as the law requires if a breach affects it.
8. Changes
If we change this policy, we will update the date above. If a change is significant, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
9. Contact
Dogsport Ventures LLC, California, USA
Email: [email protected]