Padel Masters has no server of its own; it runs entirely on Apple's CloudKit. Your players, sessions and scores live in your own private iCloud database. The social features — a published profile, a shared session, a game invite — use a public database inside the app's CloudKit container, readable by other signed-in Padel Masters users. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and no third party code of any kind in the app.
What stays private to you
Your players, sessions, sets and scores are written to your private iCloud database. That is your personal iCloud storage. It syncs between your own devices and it is not readable by us, by other players, or by anyone else. If you are not signed in to iCloud, it simply stays on your phone.
What becomes visible to other people
Two things leave your private storage, and both are things you choose to do.
A published profile
If you publish a profile, these are stored in the app's public iCloud database so other players can find and recognise you:
- Your display name
- Your handle, for example
@murat - Your profile picture, if you set one
- Your level and experience total
- An identifier derived from your iCloud account, used to tell profiles apart
Publishing is off until you turn it on, and you can undo it. Only your handle is searchable. Your name is not, which means nobody can browse a list of users or find you by guessing names. The only ways to reach you are a handle somebody gave you or a link somebody sent you.
Sessions you share
When you finish a session, the results can be shared with the people who played in it, so a night of padel appears in everyone's record rather than only the phone that typed it in. The shared copy contains the scores, when it was played, and the names of players who have published a profile. Anyone on court without a profile appears only as “Guest” — their name is never published. The copy is addressed to the people who played, and the app shows it only to them. Being straight about the limit: it is stored in the app's public database, so another signed-in Padel Masters user could in principle read it. It is not indexed, not searchable, and not linked to anything outside the app. Per-player private sharing is coming in a later release.
Who can see what
Because the social records live in a public database, both we and, in principle, another signed-in user of the app can technically read them. We do not use that data for anything, and it is never sold, shared with advertisers, or used to build a profile of you. Your private results are not accessible to us at all.
Reports and blocking
If you report someone, we store who reported whom and which category you picked. Nothing else, and not the free text of anything. A report is readable only by you and by us, never by the person reported or by anyone else. Reports are read as soon as we can, and always within a few days.
Blocking someone hides them from you completely: they leave your squad and stop appearing in search, in requests, in invitations and in anyone's list of who they play with. The list of people you have blocked is stored in your own private iCloud storage, so it survives you getting a new phone and nobody else can read it. Being blocked is not announced to the person blocked.
Worth being precise about what blocking can and cannot do. It guarantees that nothing they write ever reaches your screen. It cannot stop them using the app, because in a shared database anybody may write their own records. Anything stronger would need a server, and there isn't one.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, Apple's Push Notification service is used to tell you when someone invites you to a game, cancels one, asks to connect, or shares a session you played in. The message contains only what you see in it. You can turn notifications off in iOS Settings at any time.
Photos
If you pick a profile picture, the image is copied into the app and, if you have published a profile, uploaded with it. The app never reads your photo library beyond the single image you select.
Children
Padel Masters is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect anything from them.
Deleting your data
- Remove your public profile. On the You screen, unpublish. This deletes your profile and releases your handle so it can be used again. Your results stay on your own device.
- Remove everything. Deleting the app removes the local copy. To remove the synced copy as well, delete the app's data in iOS Settings → Apple Account → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
One thing worth being straight about: a session shared with other players is a copy on their device. If you delete your profile, those copies remain with the people who played in that session, because it is their record of their own padel too. If iCloud is unavailable when you delete, the removal resumes automatically the next time the app opens with a connection.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that affects what is stored or who can see it, the app will say so rather than quietly updating this page.
Contact
Questions, or a request to remove something: support@userface.nl.