1. Who we are

LiPAR Golf Monitor (“LiPAR,” “we,” “us,” “our”) is operated by LiPAR Golf Inc, a Tennessee corporation, 4338 Nestledown Ct., Chattanooga, TN 37419.

LiPAR is currently offered and distributed only in the United States. We do not knowingly offer the app to, or collect personal information from, users outside the United States. If we expand to additional countries, we will update this policy before doing so.

Contact: contact@lipargolf.com

2. Summary

LiPAR records your golf swing with your iPhone’s camera and analyzes it entirely on your device. In normal use, no swing video, image, body-motion data, or metric leaves your phone.

There is one exception, and it is entirely your choice: an optional setting called “Help Improve LiPAR” that uploads your swing recordings so we can improve our models. It is off by default, requires your separate express consent, and can be switched off at any time.

We do not sell your personal information. We do not use it for advertising. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking SDKs.

3. What the app accesses on your device

Camera (high-frame-rate video)

Purpose: to record and analyze your swing and ball flight. Leaves your device: No, unless you enable Help Improve LiPAR.

Microphone

Purpose: audio is captured with your swing video so clips include the sound of impact, and to help detect impact timing. Leaves your device: No, unless you enable Help Improve LiPAR.

Precise location (optional)

Purpose: to tag a shot or session with where it was taken so your history shows the course or range, and to record elevation. Leaves your device: No.

Speech recognition (optional)

Purpose: on-device voice commands such as “Next Shot.” Leaves your device: No. Apple’s on-device speech recognition is used and command audio is not sent to us.

Motion and fitness data (optional, Apple Watch)

Purpose: wrist motion during your swing, used to improve swing analysis. Leaves your device: No.

Body-motion and biometric analysis

Purpose: see Section 4. Leaves your device: No, unless you enable Help Improve LiPAR.

Sign in with Apple (optional)

Purpose: your name and email, stored locally on your device to personalize the app. Leaves your device: No. There is no server-side account.

Diagnostics

Purpose: crash and performance data. Leaves your device: Only if you have enabled sharing with developers in iOS Settings. Delivered by Apple in aggregated form.

Firebase Installation ID

Purpose: a randomly generated per-installation identifier created by the Firebase software development kit so that our cloud storage service can recognize your app installation. Leaves your device: Yes. It is provisioned by Google as part of the Firebase SDK. It is not linked to your name, email, or advertising identifier, is not used for analytics or advertising, and is reset if you reinstall the app.

You can use LiPAR without signing in and without granting location, microphone, or speech permissions. Camera access is required for the core function.

4. Body-motion and biometric information — important notice

Please read this section carefully. In some jurisdictions it constitutes formal notice required by law.

To analyze your swing, LiPAR estimates the position of body landmarks (joints, limbs, torso orientation) from your video. Depending on where you live, this analysis may be treated as biometric information, including under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (740 ILCS 14), the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act, and the Washington My Health My Data Act.

What we collect: body-landmark coordinates and derived kinematic measurements (rotation angles, sequencing, tempo), and the video frames those are computed from.

Purpose: solely to analyze golf swing mechanics, generate coaching feedback, and, if you opt in, improve our analysis models.

We do not use this data to identify you. We do not perform facial recognition, face matching, gait identification, or any identity-verification function. We do not compare your data against any database of individuals.

We do not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from biometric information, and we will not disclose it except (a) with your separate express consent, (b) to a service provider bound by written confidentiality and processing obligations, or (c) as required by law or valid legal process.

Retention and destruction schedule:

• On your device: retained until you delete the session, use Delete All Data, or delete the app.
• If you opt in to Help Improve LiPAR: retained for the period necessary to develop and validate our models, and in any event destroyed no later than three (3) years after upload, or within 30 days of a verified deletion request, or when the purpose of collection has been satisfied, whichever occurs first.

Consent: you will be asked for separate, express, written consent before any recording containing body-motion or biometric information is uploaded to us. You are not required to give it, and declining does not limit your use of the app.

5. Optional data sharing — “Help Improve LiPAR”

This setting is off by default. When you turn it on, and only then:

What is uploaded: swing videos from sessions you record, the metrics and body-landmark data computed on your device, and technical context needed to interpret them (device model, iOS version, frame rate, camera configuration, and, only if you separately allow it, the general location type such as “outdoor range” or “indoor”).

Why: to develop, train, evaluate, and improve LiPAR’s golf-analysis models and features.

How it is stored: under a randomly generated contribution identifier that is not linked to your name or email. Uploads are transmitted over TLS to access-controlled cloud storage located in the United States.

Server logs: when your device uploads a contribution, our storage provider records the request, including your device’s IP address, in access logs. IP addresses are treated as personal data in some jurisdictions. We use these logs only for security, abuse prevention, and troubleshooting, we do not use them to build a profile of you, and we retain them for no more than 90 days.

Honest disclosure about anonymity: your swing video may show your face, body, clothing, and surroundings. We therefore do not claim these recordings are anonymous or de-identified. Someone who knows you could recognize you in them. We separate them from your account identifiers, restrict access, and never publish them, but we will not tell you they are unidentifiable when they are not.

Turning it off: you can disable the setting at any time in Settings. This stops all future uploads immediately.

Deleting past contributions: email contact@lipargolf.com with the contribution identifier shown in Settings, and we will delete the associated recordings within 30 days.

One thing we cannot undo: once a recording has been used to train a model, that training cannot be reversed. Deleting your contributions removes the recordings and stops future use, but does not remove the influence they have already had on model weights. We think you should know that before you opt in.

6. What we do not do

• We do not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA or comparable laws.
• We do not use your data for advertising, profiling, or cross-context behavioral advertising.
• We do not include third-party advertising or analytics SDKs.
• We do not track you across other apps or websites.
• We do not require an account.
• We do not use your data for automated decision-making producing legal or similarly significant effects.

7. Service providers

We use a small number of processors, each bound by contract to process data only on our instructions:

• Google LLC (Firebase / Google Cloud Storage) — storage of opt-in contributions — United States
• Apple Inc. — app distribution, payments, crash reporting, Sign in with Apple — US / global

We will keep this list current. We do not permit any provider to use your data for its own purposes.

8. Business transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or part of our business or assets, information covered by this policy, including opt-in contributions and derived datasets and models, may be transferred to or accessed by the counterparty as part of that transaction or its due diligence, subject to confidentiality protections. Any recipient will remain bound by commitments materially no less protective than those in this policy for data collected before the transfer, and we will notify you of any change of controller.

9. Security

On-device data is protected by iOS file-system encryption and your device passcode or biometric lock. Uploads travel over TLS 1.2 or higher to storage with access controls, encryption at rest, and audit logging. Access is limited to personnel who need it.

No system is perfectly secure. Where required by law, we will notify you and the relevant state authority of a qualifying data breach within the applicable deadline under the breach notification statute of your state.

10. Retention

• On-device sessions, videos, metrics, settings — until you delete them or delete the app.
• Locally stored Sign in with Apple name and email — until you sign out or delete the app.
• Opt-in contributions — up to 3 years from upload, or 30 days from a verified deletion request.
• Derived model weights and aggregate statistics — indefinitely. These are not personal data and cannot be reversed to identify an individual.
• Storage access logs, including IP address — 90 days.
• Support correspondence — 2 years.

11. Children

LiPAR is intended for users aged 13 and over.

Help Improve LiPAR is restricted to users aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly accept uploaded recordings from or depicting minors. If you record another person, including a junior golfer, you must not contribute that recording unless you are their parent or legal guardian, or they are an adult who has consented.

We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided us information, email contact@lipargolf.com and we will delete it.

12. Your rights

Everyone, regardless of location, can:

• Turn Help Improve LiPAR on or off at any time
• Delete individual sessions or all data from within the app
• Request deletion of past contributions by email
• Contact us with any privacy question

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights described in Section 13. We will not discriminate against you for exercising them.

To exercise a right, email contact@lipargolf.com. We will respond within 30 days (or 45 days under the CCPA, extendable once). Because we hold very little identifiable data, we may need your contribution identifier to locate records. If we cannot verify a request, we will explain why.

13. State-specific disclosures

13.1 California (CCPA / CPRA)

Categories collected: identifiers (only if you sign in, stored locally on your device); audio, electronic, visual, and similar information (swing recordings, if you opt in); biometric information (body-landmark data, if you opt in); internet or other electronic network activity (Firebase Installation ID, storage access logs including IP address, and device diagnostics).

Sources: directly from you and your device.

Purposes: providing the app’s analysis features, securing our systems, and, with your consent, improving our models.

We do not sell or share personal information, and have not in the preceding 12 months. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16.

Sensitive personal information: we collect biometric information only with your consent and use it only to provide the analysis features you have requested and, if you opt in, to improve our models. We do not use or disclose it for any purpose that would require offering a right to limit under CPRA.

Your rights: know, access, delete, correct, opt out of sale or sharing (not applicable, as we do neither), limit use of sensitive personal information, and non-retaliation. Authorized agents may submit requests with proof of authority. We will respond within 45 days, extendable once.

13.2 Illinois, Texas, and Washington

See Section 4, which contains the notice, purpose, retention schedule, and consent mechanism required under those states’ biometric and health data laws.

13.3 Other states

Residents of states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws, including Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Montana, and Tennessee, may have rights to access, correct, delete, and obtain a portable copy of personal information, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, and profiling. We do not engage in targeted advertising, sale of personal information, or profiling. To exercise any other right, or to appeal a decision we make on a request, email contact@lipargolf.com.

14. Changes to this policy

We will update the effective date above for any change. For material changes, particularly any change to what leaves your device, we will give in-app notice and, where consent is the legal basis, ask for fresh consent before the change takes effect. We will not retroactively apply materially less protective terms to data already collected.

15. Contact

LiPAR Golf Inc 4338 Nestledown Ct. Chattanooga, TN 37419 contact@lipargolf.com

Privacy questions, data deletion requests, and rights requests all go to the same address and are handled by a person.