Privacy Policy
Rally (“we”, “us”), operated by Ahnaf An Nafee, is a court and field finder for nine sports that shows which venues are free right now — and lets you organize games and groups with other players. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the control you have over it.
The short version
- You can browse every court without an account. We don’t make you sign in to look.
- We use your location only to show nearby courts and, if you check in, to attach a report to the right court or confirm you showed up to a game.
- Playing together is optional. Your display name and reliability score are visible to players in your groups and games — never your email.
- We don’t sell your personal information. Rally is free and, unless you have Rally Pro, is supported by ads.
- You can delete your account and data at any time from inside the app.
1. Information we collect
Information you give us
- Account details — your email address (used for a one-time sign-in code) and a display name. We use passwordless email codes, so we do not store a password.
- Court reports & check-ins — the court, the status you report (open, a wait, packed), and the time.
- Groups & games — groups and games you create or join, including a group’s name, sport, and visibility, and the court and time you set for a game. See section 4.
- Photos — any photo you choose to add to a court, plus its associated court and timestamp.
- Support messages — anything you send us by email.
Information collected automatically
- Location — with your permission, your device location to find courts near you and to confirm game check-ins. See section 3.
- Push token — if you turn on notifications, a device push token so we can send you alerts such as game invites and reminders. You can turn notifications off anytime in your device settings.
- Device & usage data — app version, device type and OS, language, and basic interaction logs used to keep the service running and to fix bugs.
- Advertising & analytics identifiers — for players without Rally Pro, a mobile advertising identifier and app-usage and crash diagnostics collected through the tools described in section 6.
- Approximate location from IP — derived coarsely from your network for security and regional defaults.
2. How we use information
- Show you nearby courts and their live status.
- Let you check in, report status, add photos, earn points, keep streaks, and appear on city leaderboards.
- Let you create and join groups and games, invite other players, and build a reliability (show-up) score.
- Send push notifications you’ve enabled, such as game invites, reminders, and open-court alerts.
- Verify new courts (a court is published only after two independent player confirmations).
- Send you the email code you request to sign in, and important service notices.
- Show ads to players without Rally Pro and measure their performance.
- Detect, prevent, and investigate abuse, spam, and fraudulent reports.
- Maintain, debug, and improve the app, in aggregate where possible.
3. Location data
Location is at the heart of finding a court, but it is your choice. The app requests location permission only when you use a feature that needs it, and you can grant precise or approximate location, or deny it and search by ZIP code or place name instead.
We use location to center the map, sort courts by distance, and tie a check-in to the court you’re at — and, for a game, to confirm you actually showed up, which feeds your reliability score. We do not continuously track your location in the background, and we do not build advertising profiles from it. You can change or revoke the permission anytime in your device settings.
4. Groups, games & invites
Rally includes optional social features for playing together. When you use them, we process:
- Groups — a group you create or join, its name, sport, and whether it’s public or private, plus your membership and role (a group’s creator is its host). Public groups can be discovered and joined by other players; private groups are visible only to members and people you invite.
- Games — games you host or join, including the court, sport, date and time, and who is attending.
- Check-ins & reliability — when you check in to a game we use your location to confirm you were there (see section 3). Your attendance builds a reliability (show-up) score that other players in that game or group can see.
- Invites — when you invite someone we generate a shareable link that you send yourself, through your device’s share sheet or clipboard; we do not access your contacts. Anyone with a group or game invite link can see that group or game’s basic details and join it.
Your display name, reliability score, and the groups and games you take part in are visible to the other players in them. Your email is never shown to other players.
5. How we share information
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only as follows:
- Service providers that run the app on our behalf, under contract and limited to what they need: cloud database and hosting, image storage and content delivery, transactional email, and push-notification delivery.
- Advertising, analytics & crash-reporting providers — Google AdMob (ads for players without Rally Pro), Google/Firebase Analytics, and Firebase Crashlytics, as described in section 6.
- Other players — your display name and the reports you submit are visible in the app (for example on a court’s history or a leaderboard). If you use the social features, your reliability score and the groups and games you join are visible to the relevant players, and anyone with an invite link can see the linked group or game’s basic details. Your email is never shown to other players.
- App stores — Apple and Google process downloads and any Rally Pro purchases under their own privacy policies.
- Legal & safety — when required by law, to enforce our terms, or to protect people’s rights and safety.
- Business transfers — if Rally is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, with notice to you.
- Aggregated or de-identified data that cannot reasonably identify you.
Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, used under the Open Database License.
6. Advertising, analytics & crash reporting
Advertising. Rally is free and, for players without a Rally Pro subscription, is supported by ads served through Google AdMob. AdMob may access your device’s advertising identifier and limited device and usage signals to select and measure ads; its handling of that data is governed by Google’s advertising policies. Rally Pro removes ads. You can limit ad personalization by resetting or turning off your advertising identifier in your device settings. Sponsored or featured venues shown on the map are labeled as such.
Analytics & crash reporting. We use Google/Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics to understand how the app is used in aggregate and to diagnose crashes. These tools collect app-usage events, a device or installation identifier, device and OS details, and crash diagnostics. We use this to keep Rally reliable and to improve it — not to build advertising profiles of you.
7. Your choices & rights
- Access & correct — view and edit your profile in the app.
- Delete — delete your account and associated personal data from the app’s settings; this is permanent.
- Location — grant, limit, or revoke location permission in your device settings.
- Notifications — turn push notifications on or off in your device settings at any time.
- Ads — reset or turn off your advertising identifier in your device settings, or subscribe to Rally Pro to remove ads.
- Email — service emails (like sign-in codes) are required to use an account; you can opt out of any optional updates.
To make a request you can’t complete in the app, email [email protected].
8. California privacy rights
If you’re a California resident, the CCPA/CPRA gives you the right to know what personal information we collect, to access and delete it, to correct it, and to opt out of its “sale” or “sharing.” We do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined, and we do not knowingly process the data of anyone under 16 for those purposes.
In the past 12 months we have collected the categories described in section 1 (identifiers, including a mobile advertising identifier for non-Pro users; internet and other usage activity; geolocation; and user-generated content) for the purposes in section 2. You won’t be discriminated against for exercising your rights. Submit a request at [email protected]; we may need to verify your identity, and you may use an authorized agent.
9. Data retention
We keep your information while your account is active and as needed to provide the service. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify your personal data, except where we must retain limited records to comply with law, resolve disputes, or prevent abuse. Court reports may persist in de-identified, aggregate form so the map stays accurate.
10. Security
We use industry-standard measures — encryption in transit, access controls, and passwordless sign-in — to protect your information. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, so we can’t guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a breach affecting you, we’ll notify you as required by law.
11. Children
Rally is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their personal information. If you believe a child has provided us data, contact us and we’ll delete it.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy as the app evolves. We’ll post the new version here with a fresh “last updated” date and, for material changes, notify you in the app or by email.
13. Contact us
Questions or requests? Email [email protected] or write to Ahnaf An Nafee.
