Effective October 7, 2026
In plain terms: Greenseeker has no accounts and no server of its own. Your location is used on your devices to work out how far you are from the green. It leaves your phone only to ask OpenStreetMap which golf courses are in an area, and to ask Apple Weather for the conditions at a course. Nothing about you is collected, stored or sold.
What is collected
Nothing. The app has no accounts, no sign-in, and no advertising, analytics or tracking code. It sends no usage data, no identifiers and no crash reports to its developer, and there is no server for it to send them to.
If you are testing the app through TestFlight, Apple may pass on crash logs, any feedback you choose to send, and your device model and OS version. That comes from Apple's testing tools rather than from anything in the app. Apple describes it in TestFlight & Privacy.
Your location
The app asks for your location while you are using it, so it can tell which course you are on, which hole you are playing, and how far you are from the green. Your position is worked out on your iPhone and Apple Watch and used there. It leaves your device in only two situations:
- Finding courses. When you look for courses nearby or search for a city, the app asks OpenStreetMap's public Overpass service for the golf courses in that area. The request describes the area being searched. It carries no name, account or device identifier.
- Weather. When you open a course map, the app asks Apple Weather for the conditions at that course, using the course's location rather than yours. Apple describes its handling in Weather & Privacy.
Your location is never sent to the developer, never stored off your devices, never sold, and never used for advertising or to track you. The app keeps no history of where you have been; the watch takes a fresh reading each time you ask for a distance.
What stays on your devices
Downloaded courses, the round in progress, your course and nine names, and your settings are stored on your iPhone and Apple Watch. The phone sends the course and round to the watch directly, over Apple's own device-to-device connection. Deleting the app removes all of it.
Children
Greenseeker is not directed at children, and collects no personal information from anyone, children included.
Course data
Course maps — greens, tees, bunkers and water — come from OpenStreetMap, which is built by volunteers. Course data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. The list of courses that ships inside the app is derived from OpenStreetMap and is available under the same licence on request. Base maps are Apple Maps.
Your rights
Because no data about you is held, there is nothing to show you, correct or delete. The data on your devices is yours: deleting a course, or the app, removes it. You can turn off the app's access to your location at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services, though it cannot measure distances without it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or the app: hello@digicove.app.