Updated October 28, 2026. Accounts, shared games, invitation alerts and Apple Health workouts are optional features in newer builds. The App Store listing describes the current public release. This website does not create accounts or accept game scores through a signup form.
The earlier published privacy statement remains available for reference.
Who operates Candle Count
TheoByte Apps operates Candle Count. Contact us at GGolfapp@gmail.com for support or privacy requests.
Local scorecards and Classic
Local games, Classic Archive, unfinished-game recovery and practice notes are stored on your device. Creating an account does not automatically upload your Classic history. Device backups follow your Apple settings.
Accounts and shared games
If you create an account, we use your email for sign-in codes and store your account ID, username, optional display name and profile choice. Our cloud service stores shared-game lineups, names entered for guests, scores, scoring revisions, the selected alley, played time and location-verification status. It also stores the game references and name of a series you create. Account and installation identifiers support sign-in, synchronization and scorekeeper handoff. Participants can view their shared scorecard; accepted account players receive their own completed result in account history.
Location and score sharing
With location permission, Candle Count checks for a nearby alley while the app is in use. Online scorecards can record the selected venue and whether location was verified, which can reveal where and when you bowled. The shared-game and honor services do not receive your device’s raw GPS coordinates. You can deny location access and choose an alley manually. Sharing a score image is your choice; it can include player names, scores, alley branding, promotional text, the recorded time and verification status. The app you share to controls its own copy.
Profiles, honors and reports
A username lets other bowlers invite you to a shared game. A public profile and a qualifying score submission are separate choices. Honor submissions include the selected score, alley, played time and any evidence you enter. Assigned alley staff can review submissions for their alley. Approved honors appear publicly only when the profile and submission are shared. Reports, block choices and review notes are stored to operate and moderate the community. Ordinary scores do not require alley approval.
Optional invitation alerts
If you turn on invitation alerts, we register an Apple push token and an installation identifier with your account to deliver new-game invitations. Delivery records help prevent duplicate or obsolete alerts. Alert text contains no player names, scores or location. You can turn alerts off in Clubhouse → Invitation alerts or in iPhone Settings. Opening an alert does not automatically join a game or take over scoring.
Optional Apple Health workouts
The bowling activity timer works independently of your scorecard. After you review a finished activity and choose Save to Apple Health, Candle Count requests permission to write a Bowling workout with its recorded time, duration and pauses. It does not invent calories, distance or heart rate, and does not upload workout records to the Candle Count account service. A stable activity identifier and a check for this app’s own matching workout help prevent duplicate saves. Other apps, including EffortPath, need their own Health permission to access the workout. Manage permission and saved workouts in Apple Health.
Service providers and tracking
Supabase provides account and shared-game services. Our email provider delivers sign-in codes, and Apple provides system location, notification and Health services. These providers process information needed to operate those features, including network and security information. This build has no advertising trackers and does not use Health data for advertising.
Your choices and deletion
You can edit your profile, change its public setting, withdraw an honor submission, turn off alerts, revoke location or Health permission, and use local scoring without an account. To delete your online account, open Clubhouse → My profile → Delete online account. A successful deletion removes your sign-in, profile and account-owned online records, and clears account-associated device links. In shared online scorecards, your account-linked bowler name is replaced with “Former player”; numeric scores remain for the other participants’ history. Deletion does not erase local Classic scores, existing Apple Health workouts or previously exported images. Other people’s free text, guest labels and existing offline copies may still contain names or mentions. Contact us for help with personal information in those records or other privacy requests.
Changes to this policy
We update this policy when Candle Count’s data practices change. The date above identifies this version. Contact GGolfapp@gmail.com if you need clarification or help exercising your privacy choices.
This website
The website source contains no advertising tracker, analytics script, signup form or payment form. The hosting service may process technical request information to deliver and protect the site.
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Support messages and questions
If you email us, we receive your email address and the information you include. We use that information to respond to your request.
For questions or requests concerning your information, email GGolfapp@gmail.com.