Last updated 1 September 2026. Applies to EightNine for Android, version 0.1.
The short version: EightNine keeps your matches on your phone. It has no accounts, no servers of ours, and no analytics or advertising code. We do not receive your match data, because there is nowhere for it to be sent.
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Everything EightNine records is written to a database file inside the app's own private storage on your phone. Other apps cannot read it.
| What | Why it exists |
|---|---|
| Match records — format, rules settings, start and end times, result | So a match survives a crash, a force-quit, and a dead battery |
| Every scoring action — balls pocketed, fouls, safeties, undos, with the time your device reported | The score is rebuilt from this list rather than stored as a number, which is what makes an exact resume possible |
| Opponent names you type | So you can pick a regular opponent instead of retyping them |
| A random identifier for this installation | Generated on your device the first time you open the app. It is not derived from your phone, your account, or you, and it never leaves the device in this version. |
EightNine does not ask for and cannot read your contacts, your location, your photos, your microphone, or your camera. There is no advertising identifier and no device fingerprinting.
Nothing, on its own. This version of EightNine contains no code that sends your data anywhere. It has no user accounts, no sign-in, no sync, no crash reporting service and no analytics service. It works with the phone in airplane mode, indefinitely, and that is a tested property of the app rather than a claim.
The only ways your match data moves are ones you start yourself: a backup you have enabled on your phone, and an export you tap. Both are described below.
EightNine includes its match database in Android's built-in backup, so that a new phone can restore the matches from your old one. If you have Android backup switched on, that copy is made by Google and stored in your Google account, under Google's privacy policy — not ours. We have no access to it.
The backup contains only the app's match database. Nothing else in the app is included.
You can turn this off in your phone's Settings, under System → Backup. Doing so means a new phone will start with an empty match history.
The app can write your match history to a JSON or CSV file and hand it to Android's share sheet. Where that file then goes is entirely your choice — email, a messaging app, cloud storage, or a file on the phone. Once you have shared it, that copy is governed by whichever app or service you sent it to.
Export exists so your data is yours to take somewhere else. It is free and it is not limited.
Android lists some permissions that come from the app's development framework rather than from anything EightNine does. For transparency: the app declares network access, but this version contains no code that uses it. If that changes — for example if optional crash reporting is added — this policy will be updated before that version is published, and this section will say what is sent.
Your matches stay on your phone until you delete them. We do not hold a copy and cannot delete one for you, because we never had one.
To remove everything EightNine has stored: uninstall the app, or go to your phone's Settings → Apps → EightNine → Storage → Clear storage. Either removes the database and everything in it. If you have Android backup switched on, also delete the app's backup from your Google account to remove the copy Google holds.
Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights over personal data a company holds about you — to see it, correct it, delete it, take it elsewhere, and to know whether it is sold. In EightNine's case there is a simple answer to all of them: we hold nothing about you. There is no account, no profile, no server-side record, and nothing is transmitted to us.
In practice that means you exercise these rights directly on your own device:
We do not sell or share personal information, and we never have. There is no advertising in the app and no data broker relationship to disclose.
EightNine is a scoresheet. It has no chat, no user-generated content shown to other people, no social features, and no advertising. It does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age, because it does not collect personal information at all.
If a future version of the app sends data anywhere — optional crash reports, an account for syncing between devices, or a purchase — this policy will be updated to say exactly what is sent and to whom, and the date at the top will change. Material changes will be described in the app's release notes rather than made quietly.
Questions about this policy, or about anything the app does with your data: support@eightnine.app.