Use the app without an account: what it uses instead and what Delete my data does

You open the app and use it. The few places that ask for any text about you are optional or stay on the phone. Your own name is asked for only to make your club check-in code, and it goes to a club’s phone when you show the code, not to Shooter. The feedback form has an optional email field, used only to reply to that report. On Android, backup to Google Drive asks for a Google sign-in, for that folder only. See the club check-in code.

• A random device identifier. It is made on your phone the first time the app contacts Shooter’s server and kept in the phone’s secure keychain. It is not made from your name, email, Apple ID or Google account. The server keeps a row for it.
• A check that the app is a real copy. The app asks Apple (App Attest) or Google (Play Integrity) to confirm this to Shooter’s server. It is used against fraud, not to identify you. That is separate from the identifier: the identifier tells the server it is the same phone as last time, the proof tells it the app is real.
• A purchase identifier, a random id that the purchases service RevenueCat knows your purchases by.
• Your check-in code, for the club attendance register.

The identifier is used to check that requests come from a real copy of the app, to tie a subscription to your device and to count free scans. Because it stays the same, the data tied to it is pseudonymous, not anonymous: it tells the server it is the same device without telling it who you are.

It starts at the first launch, in the background. Even if you never scan, the phone pairs with the server and gets a row there.

These are the main things the app sends in the background. The privacy policy is the full text.

• The pairing described above, and a check of your subscription and scan status.
• RevenueCat is set up at every launch, so it gets your purchase identifier, platform and app version, even if you never buy anything.
• An update check at launch, through Expo.
• Crash reports go to Sentry and usage events to PostHog. They carry a separate random id that Shooter’s server assigns, not your name or your device identifier. They never contain the contents of your sessions or your photos.
• When you save a scored target, the app may send a small report comparing what its detector found with the shots you saved: four counts, the card, the app and detector versions and a random scan id. It holds no photo, no positions and no scores. After a TargetScan import it sends a small report about the discipline and the target you picked.

Your target photos leave the phone only if you switch on “Share target photos”, which the app asks about once and which you can change in Profile, under Privacy & terms. “Link usage data” in the same place does not stop crash reports and usage events. It sends them without an identifier that links them to you. See AI scoring from your photo.

You find it at the bottom of Profile, under Data & transfer. It turns photo sharing off. It unlinks your uploaded photos and AI records from your device identifier on Shooter’s servers. They are not erased: they stay there without the link to you, as the privacy policy describes. The app then stops contacting the server on its own until you use something that needs it.

It does not delete your sessions, shots or backups on the phone. To remove those, clear the app’s storage or uninstall. It does not cancel a subscription, and your Pro and AI credits stay. A minimal anti-fraud record is kept, as the privacy policy describes: your device and purchase identifiers and the credit ledger, plus purchase records. The record exists to prevent purchase replay, for example deleting your data and pairing again to get spent credits back.

If you use the server again, for example for an AI scan or a purchase, the app links to that same record. Nothing you unlinked is attached again. To ask for a copy of your data or a full deletion by email, copy the Support ID row in Profile and write to the address in the privacy policy.

The app also keeps three of these identifiers in your own iCloud or Google account: the check-in code, the device identifier and the purchase identifier. On a new phone of the same kind, signed in to the same Apple or Google account and with that storage left on, the app is meant to find them and carry on as the same customer, so Pro, AI credits and the check-in code should come back without you doing anything.

This does not carry your sessions. They come back only from a backup. It does not cross between iPhone and Android either, so moving to the other kind means buying Pro again, as the terms of use explain. See back up and restore.

• There is no way to log in on another device, and no personal profile held on a server. The Profile tab only holds settings.
• Shooter keeps no copy of your sessions and shots. Photos reach Shooter only if you switch on photo sharing or use AI scoring.
• The app does not use your Apple ID, Google account, email or phone number as an identity.
• You cannot see the data held on the server from inside the app. You ask for a copy by email.

Do I need an account to use the app?

No. There is no sign-up, sign-in or password. The first 10 scans are free without one.

Does Shooter know who I am?

Not by name. It knows a random identifier for your phone and what the app sends in the background. It holds no name and no email, apart from an email you type into the feedback form yourself.

Does “Delete my data” remove my sessions?

No. Your sessions stay on the phone. It unlinks your shared photos and AI records on the server and turns sharing off. To remove the sessions, clear the app’s storage or uninstall.

Will my sessions come with me to a new phone?

Only from a backup. Pro, AI credits and the check-in code are meant to follow your Apple or Google account on the same kind of phone. The sessions do not. See back up and restore.