Privacy Policy

Draft — review before store submission. This policy has not been finalized and should be reviewed by Allod Studio and, if needed, legal counsel before Scout is submitted to any app store.

Scout is developed by Allod Studio. This policy describes what Scout actually does today, based on its current source code. Sections describing purchase handling are explicitly marked as planned and not yet active — Scout cannot currently process a payment.

Information stored on your device

Scout stores the following locally, using your device's standard app storage:

• Your followed teams and their per-team notification toggle.
• App preferences, such as spoiler mode and your preferred calendar view.
• An entitlement cache — whether your device currently has Season Pass access. Today this is only ever set locally by a development toggle; see "Purchases" below.
• An offline cache of schedules, rosters, and news for your followed teams and leagues, so Scout can show last-known information when you're offline. Each cached item is stored with the time it was fetched.

Scout has no sign-in and no user accounts. This information is not tied to your identity or to an Allod Studio account.

Notifications

If you grant notification permission, Scout schedules local, on-device reminders — about one hour before a followed team's game. These reminders are generated and delivered entirely on your device. Scout does not use push notifications and does not send notification content to any server. Unfollowing a team cancels its pending reminders.

Requests to the Scout backend

Scout requests public sports schedule, team, league, and news data from a backend service Allod Studio operates. Each request carries only the specific team, league, or feed identifier needed to fulfill it — not your followed-team list, notification settings, or any other locally stored data. As with any web service, the hosting infrastructure may retain standard connection-level logs (such as IP address and request timestamp) for security and reliability; these are not linked to an account, because Scout doesn't have one.

Public sports and news data

Game schedules, scores, and rosters are sourced from ESPN's public sports data. News is aggregated from ESPN and other publishers — currently including ProFootballTalk, MLB Trade Rumors, The Hockey Writers, and SwishAppeal — and shown with attribution to the original source.

External news and broadcast links

Tapping a news item or a broadcast badge opens the original publisher's or streaming service's website in your device's browser. Those sites are operated by third parties and are governed by their own privacy policies, not this one. Some broadcast links may in the future become affiliate or referral links, meaning Allod Studio could earn a commission if you subscribe after clicking through — this would not add any tracking inside Scout itself.

Purchases — planned, not yet active

Scout does not currently process any purchases. Every user has full functionality for one followed team, at no cost, and there is no working purchase flow to unlock more. Season Pass is planned to be sold through Google Play's billing system in the future, with purchase state managed using RevenueCat. Once that's implemented:

• Purchases will be handled by Google Play. Allod Studio will not directly receive or store your payment card details.
• Purchase and subscription records will be controlled by Google Play — you'll view, manage, and cancel your subscription there.
• RevenueCat will process purchase receipts to determine entitlement (Season Pass active or not), and Scout will store the resulting entitlement status locally, the same way it stores other preferences today.

This section will be updated with Google Play's and RevenueCat's specifics once purchases are live.

Advertising and tracking

Scout does not include advertising SDKs, analytics SDKs, or crash-reporting SDKs, and does not build behavioral profiles or track you across other apps or websites.

No sale of personal information

Allod Studio does not sell personal information.

Removing your data

Unfollowing a team removes its cached schedule data. Uninstalling Scout removes everything stored locally, including followed teams, preferences, and the offline cache. Scout does not currently include an in-app "clear all data" control beyond unfollowing teams — uninstalling the app is the reliable way to remove everything.

Children's privacy

[PLACEHOLDER] — add a children's-privacy statement matching Scout's intended Google Play Store age rating before submission.

Changes to this policy

[PLACEHOLDER] — describe how users will be notified of material changes before this policy ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy: [CONTACT EMAIL]