BowlRadar app privacy
Last updated November 3, 2026
This covers the BowlRadar apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. The apps work without an account, show no advertising and don't track you across other companies' apps or websites. They have no analytics. Everything else, including your account and online entries, is in our privacy policy.
When the app first opens
It registers with BowlRadar and gets a random device code, which it keeps in your device's Keychain on iPhone and iPad, and encrypted with a key that never leaves the phone, and left out of backups, on Android. We keep only a scrambled copy of the code, with the app's version, when it was last used and a scrambled form of the network it registered from (never the address itself), to tell copies of the app apart and to stop misuse.
Your location and ZIP code
If you choose “Use my location”, your device works out your ZIP code and the app keeps only that; your location itself never leaves the device, except that on Android the phone's built-in geocoder may ask Google's location service for the ZIP code. You can type a ZIP code instead. The app sends your ZIP code with searches to measure distance, as the site does.
If you sign in
You can sign the app in to your BowlRadar account with a code we email you. While you're signed in, we link the app's registration to your account. The events you mark Interested or Going and the comments you post are saved to your account, and the app shows your account's home ZIP code and the bowlers you entered online. You can sign out, or delete your account from the app (Alerts, then Account).
If you send an event or a correction
The app sends your name, email and what you wrote to our review queue, as the site's form does, and keeps your name and email on your device for next time (in the Keychain on iPhone and iPad). We keep what you sent for 12 months after a moderator decides on it.
If you turn on push alerts
The app asks your permission first. It then sends us your device's notification address (from Apple on iPhone and iPad, from Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging on Android), which kinds of alerts you want, and the events and tours you're watching, so we can tell you when they change. Alerts go through Apple's or Google's push notification service. Turning the alerts off removes the address. We keep a record of the alerts we sent for 90 days, so the same one isn't sent twice.
What stays on your device
The events you save and the tours you follow, kept for when you have no signal; the next saved event, for the home screen widget; your search settings. If you add an event to your calendar, the app opens your calendar's own new-event screen and can't read your calendar. Deleting the app deletes what it kept, except that iOS may keep its Keychain items (the device code, and your name and email if you saved them) until the device is erased.
Maps on Android
The Android app's maps come from Google Maps. Google's map software receives your device's IP address, basic details of the device and the app, how you move and zoom the map, and crash reports from the map software, under Google's privacy policy. On iPhone and iPad, maps come from Apple Maps.
Paying for an entry
When a tournament takes cards, the app opens Stripe's payment page in your browser; the app never sees your card.
Deleting your information
To have the app's registration or anything you sent deleted, or to ask about this policy, contact us through the correction form.