Privacy
Last updated October 3, 2026
The short version
- We keep what you give BowWizard so it can coach your shooting: your email, your target photos and sessions, your gear, and, if you use one, movement from your Garmin watch.
- We don't sell your data, rent it, or use it for ads. Other BowWizard users can't see it.
- We remove location from your photos when they're uploaded.
- Your photos only help train our arrow finder if you turn on Help improve arrow finding. It's off unless you turn it on.
- You can delete your account and everything in it from Setup, any time.
Who we are
BowWizard (bowwizard.com and the BowWizard Archery watch app) is run by Sam Reti. For any question or request about your data, email samreti07@gmail.com.
What we collect
Your account
Your email address and password. Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication, so your password goes to Google and never reaches us. We also note the dates your account was first and last used.
Your shooting
- Photos of your targets that you take or add in the app. When a photo is uploaded we remove its location (GPS) and other extras a phone can tuck inside a photo file, such as motion-photo clips. Everything else about the photo stays as you took it.
- Sessions and rounds: when you shot, the distance, the bow, arrows and target you used, notes you write, the arrows we find and any you fix by hand, group sizes, scores, and how long each end took.
- Your gear and setup: bows, arrows, targets, saved courses, your defaults, your goal, and the coaching we've written for you.
Names and notes are whatever you type. If you name a course after a place or write a place in a note, that's stored like any other note.
Your Garmin watch, if you use one
The BowWizard Archery watch app sends us the movement of your bow arm around each shot (readings from the watch's motion sensors), the time of each shot, and what the watch worked out about it, such as hold time and steadiness. It doesn't send heart rate or location.
The watch identifies itself with a random code it makes up the first time it runs, plus its model name, not with your Garmin account. We store only a scrambled form of that code, linked to your BowWizard account when you pair. Shots reach us through the Garmin Connect app on your phone, so Garmin's privacy policy covers that part of the trip.
Technical information
Like most websites, our hosting provider (Google Cloud) keeps short-term logs of requests to our servers, including IP address, browser type and the page asked for, for security and troubleshooting. Our home page loads its fonts from Google Fonts, which also sees your IP address. We don't use advertising or analytics trackers.
On your phone, the app keeps your sign-in and any sessions and photos that haven't uploaded yet in your browser's own storage. That's what lets you shoot with no signal.
How we use it
- To run BowWizard for you: finding your arrows, measuring your groups, scoring your rounds, keeping your history, and letting you use your account on any device.
- To write your coaching. Report cards and the Coach tab may be written with help from an AI model, Anthropic's Claude. When they are, we send Anthropic a text summary of your shooting: dates, distances, gear names, group sizes and directions, scores, and the start of your session notes. We never send your photos, your email address or your name. Anthropic uses this only to write your coaching and doesn't train its models on it.
- To improve arrow finding, only if you turn it on. With Help improve arrow finding on (Setup), we may copy your target photos into the collection we use to teach our arrow finder. A person checks and marks every photo before it's used. Turn it off and we remove your photos from that collection within 30 days. An arrow finder already trained keeps what it learned, but not your photos.
- To keep BowWizard working and safe: fixing problems you report and preventing misuse. BowWizard is run by one person: Sam can reach stored data to run and fix the service, and uses it for nothing else.
We don't sell your personal information, share it with advertisers, or use it to show ads.
Who we share it with
Only companies that help run BowWizard, for that purpose only:
- Google: sign-in (Firebase Authentication), our website and servers (Firebase Hosting and Cloud Run), and storage (Cloud Storage), in the United States.
- Anthropic: the text summaries described above, to write coaching.
- Garmin: only if you use the watch app, to carry your shots from the watch to us.
We'd also share information if the law requires it, or to protect someone's safety. If BowWizard were ever sold or merged, your data would move with it under this policy, and we'd tell you before that happened.
When you tap Share on a set, the app makes a picture on your phone and hands it to your phone's share menu. Where it goes from there is your choice. BowWizard never posts anything publicly.
Where it's kept and how it's protected
Your data is stored with Google Cloud in the United States. It travels over encrypted connections (HTTPS), every request has to come from your signed-in account, and each account's data is kept separate. No system is perfect, but we work to keep yours safe and will tell you if something goes wrong that affects your data.
How long we keep it
- Your account and shooting: until you delete them or your account.
- Deleted sessions are kept for 30 days in case you deleted one by mistake (email us to get it back), then erased for good.
- A photo you remove from a set after it has uploaded stays with that session until you delete the session.
- Watch shots stay in your history even if you unpair the watch, until you delete your account.
- Deleting your account erases your sessions, photos, gear, coaching, watch shots and sign-in straight away. Any copies in our training collection are removed within 30 days. Google's request logs expire on their own, usually within 30 days.
- On your phone, photos are cleared once they're safely uploaded. Signing out keeps your sessions on that phone. Signing in as someone else, or deleting your account, clears them.
Your choices and rights
- Delete your account: Setup, then Delete my account. Or email us.
- Photo training on or off: Setup, then Help improve arrow finding, any time.
- Unpair a watch: Setup, then Garmin watch, then Remove.
- See, fix or get a copy of your data: most of it is in the app; for anything else, or a full copy, email us.
Depending on where you live, privacy laws such as the GDPR (EU and UK) or the CCPA (California) may give you more rights, including to access, correct, delete or move your data, and to object to how we use it. Email us and we'll respond within 30 days. We never treat you differently for using these rights.
For people in the EU and UK: we use your data to provide the service you signed up for (contract), to improve arrow finding only with your consent (which you can withdraw in Setup at any time), and to keep BowWizard secure and working (legitimate interests). You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
For people in California: we don't sell or share your personal information for advertising.
Children
BowWizard is for people 13 and older. Children under 13 shouldn't create their own account; a parent can track a young archer's shooting in the parent's own account. If you think a child under 13 has signed up, email us and we'll delete the account.
Changes
If we change this policy we'll update this page and the date at the top. For changes that matter, we'll also tell you in the app before they take effect.
Contact
Sam Reti, samreti07@gmail.com