Privacy Policy

1. Who This Policy Applies To

This Policy applies to users of the Services in the United States who are at least 13 years old. Minors between 13 and the age of majority should use the Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

2. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of information:

• Account & authentication: your email address and authentication identifiers, and any name or photo you provide, including through Google or Apple sign-in.
• Profile: display name, bio, home state, hunting interests, and avatar.
• Content you create: posts, photos and video, comments, reactions, and harvest records (such as species, weapon, date, and measurements).
• Harvest & stand location: a location label and, if you choose to add it, precise GPS coordinates for harvests and stands. You can mark a harvest's location as "undisclosed" to hide it on public posts.
• Precise device location: with your permission, your device's location is used to power stand GPS capture, "Near Me" club discovery, and a track you deliberately choose to record. You control location access through your device settings and the in-app location toggle.
• Background location while a recorded track is running, and battery level while a Safety Watch or a location share is running: a track you started keeps collecting route points with the app locked or in the background. On iPhone this requires background ("always") location permission, and shows a lock-screen card with time and distance and a way to pause or stop. On Android it runs on the ordinary location permission you already granted, with no separate background permission; the app shows a persistent notification the whole time so you always know it is running; pause or stop from the app. If you grant background ("always") permission for Safety Watch or sharing on iPhone, the app may also report your most recent position and battery level while that watch or share is active; Safety Watch and location sharing do not run in the background on Android. Watch and sharing keep only the single most recent point, never a live-position history. See "Location, Recorded Tracks, Safety Watch, and Location Sharing" below.
• Recorded tracks: when you tap "Start tracking," the mobile app collects a series of location points while that track is running, including with the app locked or in the background (on iPhone, if you allow Always; on Android, using the ordinary location permission plus a persistent notification, with no separate background permission requested) — so it can draw the route and calculate distance, duration, speed, and, when your device provides altitude, elevation gain and loss. A draft stays on your device until you save or discard it, or delete your account. A saved track remains associated with your account and the property or club where you recorded it until you delete the track or your account.
• Club activity: the clubs you belong to, your role, events and RSVPs, stand check-ins (including any wind, temperature, and sightings you log), and any dues or fines your club records.
• Device & notifications: device type, a push-notification token used to deliver notifications, and basic log, diagnostic, and usage data needed to operate and secure the Services.
• Anonymous product analytics: on EAS mobile builds, Expo Insights may collect anonymous app-open and device statistics that are not linked to your account and are not used for advertising or tracking across apps or websites.
• Website analytics and advertising measurement: page views, referring pages, browser and device characteristics, and, only when you allow advertising tracking on huntingclub.app, cookie or advertising identifiers and actions such as tapping an App Store link. We do not intentionally include your account name, email address, user content, or precise location in these website events; the landing-page URL may include campaign parameters from the link you followed.
• Mobile advertising measurement: Meta-enabled app builds may report an app install or open and basic app and device information to Meta so we can measure advertising. We do not enable advertiser-identifier collection or intentionally include your account name, email address, user content, or precise location in these events.
• Purchase status: your Premium subscription and entitlement status from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or RevenueCat on mobile, and from our website payment provider when you subscribe on the web. We do not receive your full payment-card numbers.

3. How We Use Information

• provide, maintain, secure, and improve the Services and manage your account;
• show your content to the audiences you choose (your club, or the public feed);
• send notifications you have enabled and respond to your requests;
• run Safety Watch and location sharing, show your chosen contacts your most recent position and battery level, and notify them if you do not check out by the time you set;
• record and display a route when you deliberately start a track, and calculate the route statistics shown with it;
• process and manage Premium subscriptions through our payment providers;
• measure advertising performance and, only where permitted by your privacy choices and settings, build audiences to show follow-up ads to people who interacted with the Services;
• prevent, detect, and address abuse, and review reported content; and
• comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information. When you allow website advertising tracking, or use a Meta-enabled app build, we may "share" limited advertising event data with Meta for measurement and cross-context behavioral advertising as described below. We otherwise share information only as follows:

• With other users: content you post is visible to the audience you choose. Public posts are visible to the broader community; club posts are visible to club members. A recorded track is private to you by default; if you change its audience to your club and leave "Show on map" on, members of that club can see it.
• With service providers who process information on our behalf: Supabase (hosting, database, authentication, and media storage), Resend (email), Expo (push notifications and anonymous usage diagnostics), Vercel (hosting), PostHog (product analytics), RevenueCat and the Apple App Store and Google Play (mobile app distribution and billing), and our website payment provider for web subscription checkout.
• With Meta for advertising measurement: if you allow advertising tracking on huntingclub.app, the Meta Pixel receives limited website event data so Meta can measure campaigns, target and deliver ads, and build audiences. Meta-enabled app builds may also send basic install and app-open events for campaign measurement.
• For legal reasons: when required by law or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users, the public, or the Services.
• In a business transfer: in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to this Policy.
• With your consent: when you direct us to share information.

5. Advertising Measurement and Privacy Choices

The Meta Pixel on huntingclub.app stays off unless you select "Allow" in Privacy choices. If you allow it, Meta may use cookies, web beacons, and similar storage technologies to receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, provide measurement services, target and deliver ads, and help us create audiences of people who interacted with Hunting Club.

You can turn website advertising tracking on or off at any time using the Privacy choices control shown on huntingclub.app. We treat an enabled Global Privacy Control browser signal as a request to keep it off. Declining does not affect your ability to use the website or app. You can also manage advertising choices through Meta's Ad Preferences and optout.aboutads.info.

Meta-enabled mobile app builds may send basic install and app-open events for advertising measurement without collecting your device's advertising identifier. You can limit personalized advertising through your iOS or Android privacy settings and your Meta Ad Preferences, or contact us at legal@huntingclub.app. We do not intentionally send Meta precise location, Safety Watch data, posts, messages, harvest records, names, or email addresses through these advertising events.

6. Public and Shared Information

Content you post may be visible to other users depending on the feature and the audience you select. Public posts are visible across the Hunting Club community. You can mark a harvest's location as undisclosed so it is not shown on public posts.

7. Location, Recorded Tracks, Safety Watch, and Location Sharing

Location is collected continuously only while you deliberately run a Safety Watch, a location share, or a recorded track. A recorded track keeps collecting route points with the app locked or in the background: on iPhone because you granted background ("always") location permission, shown on a lock-screen card with time, distance, pause, and stop; on Android because of the ordinary location permission you already granted, shown as a persistent notification the whole time it runs, with no separate background-location permission requested or needed. If you grant background ("always") permission for Safety Watch or sharing on iPhone, the app may report your device's position and battery level while that watch or share is active even when the app is closed or not in use, so that a contact who is told you are overdue can be shown where you were and how much battery you had left; Safety Watch and location sharing do not run in the background on Android. Your device displays its own background-location indicator (iPhone) or the persistent notification (Android) the entire time a background recording runs.

Safety Watch and location sharing store ONE live position per person: a single record holding your most recent latitude and longitude, its accuracy, the time of the fix, and your battery level at that moment. Each new live position overwrites the previous one. Those features do not build or keep a route history. Recorded tracks are separate and are created only when you tap "Start tracking" and then choose to save the resulting route.

That record is deleted when you check out, close the watch, stop sharing, or when the watch or share expires. A location share may run no longer than 12 hours and a safety watch no longer than 24 hours, so a stored position can never outlive those limits; an automated sweep deletes any record whose watch or share has expired.

Your position is shown only to the people you chose, the accepted safety contacts you selected for that watch, the viewers you selected for that share, or, if you turn on live position sharing, the members of the club whose property you are currently on. If a watch goes unanswered long enough to escalate, members of the club whose property the watch is on may also be shown it; the app tells you this before you arm a watch. We do not sell location data, we do not use it for advertising or any cross-context behavioral advertising, we do not share it with data brokers, and we do not transmit it to emergency services or any other outside party.

A saved track contains the route points needed to draw the line, its start and end times, calculated distance, duration, average speed, and, when available, altitude-derived elevation gain and loss. It is private to you by default. You can choose to share it with members of the selected club. Turning "Show on map" off removes the line from the map but does not delete the saved track; you can show it again, rename it, change its audience, or delete it from your track list.

You can stop location collection at any time. Closing a watch or stopping a share in the app deletes the stored live position immediately; pausing or discarding a recorded track stops that track's collection. You can grant or revoke location permission in your device settings at any time, revoking it stops collection, and it also means Safety Watch will have nothing to tell your contacts about where you are.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Services, maintain your account, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify your personal information, except where we must retain it for legal reasons.

A live location used by Safety Watch or sharing is the exception to that general rule: as described above, we keep only your single most recent position and delete it when the watch or share it belongs to ends or expires. A recorded track is saved content rather than a live position; we retain it until you delete that track or your account.

9. How We Protect Information

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encrypted transport and access controls on our hosting and storage. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. Children's Privacy

The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us information, contact us at legal@huntingclub.app and we will delete it.

11. Your Choices and Rights

• access and update your profile information at any time in settings;
• control notification preferences for each club;
• enable or disable location services in your device settings, including, on iPhone, background ("always") location used by recorded tracks, Safety Watch, and location sharing, and on Android the ordinary location permission a recorded track runs on (Android requests no separate background-location permission for tracks, so there is no extra background toggle to find);
• close a Safety Watch or stop a location share at any time, which deletes your stored position;
• pause or discard a track while recording, and rename, hide, change the audience of, or delete a saved track;
• allow, decline, or revoke Meta website advertising tracking through the Privacy choices control on huntingclub.app;
• block other users;
• delete individual content; and
• delete your account entirely, which removes or de-identifies your personal information.

To exercise a right or make a privacy request, contact us at legal@huntingclub.app.

12. State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence (for example, California), you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of your personal information; to opt out of sale or "sharing" for cross-context behavioral advertising; and to not be discriminated against for exercising those rights. We do not sell personal information. Use Privacy choices on huntingclub.app to opt out of Meta website advertising tracking, enable Global Privacy Control in a supported browser, or contact us at legal@huntingclub.app. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

13. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

We honor an enabled Global Privacy Control signal by keeping Meta website advertising tracking off. Because there is no universally accepted standard for other "Do Not Track" signals, we do not currently respond to those signals unless required by law.

14. Third-Party Services and Links

The Services rely on third-party providers (including Supabase, Resend, Expo, Vercel, PostHog, Meta, RevenueCat, the Apple App Store and Google Play, and our website payment provider) and may link to third-party sites. Their handling of your information is governed by their own privacy policies, which we do not control.

15. International Use

The Services are intended for users in the United States, and your information is processed in the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, you do so at your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local law.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Your continued use of the Services after changes take effect means you accept the revised Policy.

17. Contact Us

Hunting Club LLC. Website: huntingclub.app. Privacy questions: legal@huntingclub.app.