Privacy Policy

This policy applies to the Predictive Outdoors mobile app for iOS and Android (the "App") and to predictiveoutdoors.com. "We," "us," and "Predictive Outdoors" means Predictive Outdoors, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company. It explains what we collect, why, who can see it, and the choices you have. We've tried to keep it plain.

1. Information you give us

Account. Your email address and password, handled by our sign-in provider (Supabase). Passwords are stored hashed, never as plain text. You also choose a nickname, which is how other members of your camps see you.

Profile (optional). Full name, home state, phone number, the species you hunt, and your hunting methods.

Safety profile (optional). Blood type, allergies, medications, vehicle description, and license plate. Other hunters can't see them. They're kept for safety alerts (Section 4).

Emergency contacts (optional). Names, phone numbers, relationships, and priority order of the people you'd want alerted if you're overdue. The App doesn't read your phone's address book; you type contacts in yourself. Only add people who have agreed to be contacted.

Hunting and camp content you create in the App, including:

• Sighting reports: species, type, count, behavior, notes, time, location, and an optional photo or video clip
• Harvest records: species, method, times, measurements, tag number, notes, location, and an optional photo
• Stands, blinds and solo stands; property boundaries; gate, parking and camp pins; access notes and gate codes; scouting markers
• Camps you create or join, member roles, invite codes, stand reservations, and camp settings
• Camp chat, group and direct messages
• Camp waivers and your signatures (the name you type, the waiver version, and when you signed)
• "Warden Wallet" entries: license, tag, stamp or permit details, expiration dates, renewal links, and an optional photo
• Reports you send about other users' content, and the people you block (Section 5)

Website forms. If you request an invite, send beta feedback, or ask us to delete your account on predictiveoutdoors.com, we receive what you enter (for example your email, the state you hunt, your phone type, your message and any screenshot you attach). Netlify hosts the site and stores these submissions for us.

Support messages. If you email us, we keep the message and your address so we can reply.

2. Information collected when you use the App

Location. With your permission, the App uses your device's precise location only while the App is open: when you check in, report a sighting or harvest without picking a spot on the map, drop a solo stand where you're standing, or get weather and predictions for where you are. During an active check-in, your location is refreshed every few minutes while the App is open, so your camp has your latest spot if you run overdue. The App doesn't collect location in the background. You can turn location off at any time in your device settings; some features won't work without it.

Photo location and time. When you attach a photo, the App reads its embedded location and capture time so the sighting is placed and dated correctly. The photo is then resized and re-saved without that embedded metadata before upload. We never upload your original file. The location is stored with the sighting and protected by the visibility rules in Section 3.

Conditions. When you report a sighting, log a harvest, or check in, the App may save the weather and moon phase for that place and time.

Technical information. Our hosting providers automatically log basic technical data such as IP address, request times, and app or device platform, to run the service and keep it secure. The App checks for updates through Expo. The App contains no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDKs. We don't use advertising identifiers and we don't track you across other companies' apps or websites.

3. Who can see your information

You can see everything in your account.

Your camp. A camp is a group you create or join with an invite. What members see depends on your settings:

• Profile: your nickname only. Your full name, phone, email and safety profile stay private (Section 4).
• Stands: each stand can be shared (exact spot), fuzzed (general area, about half a mile), or private (only you and the camp's admins). Solo stands can be shared with specific members.
• Check-ins: members see that a stand is occupied. You can check in by nickname or anonymously. Whether others see your check-in location follows the stand's setting. Camp admins can see exact check-in locations.
• Sightings: you choose Only me, My camp, or Area feed for each one.
• Chat: camp messages go to camp members, group messages to the group, and direct messages only to the person you choose. Camp admins can remove messages in the camp channel.
• Waivers: camp admins can see who has signed the camp's waiver.

The area feed. Sightings can appear in the area feed for App users within 25 or 50 miles. They see only the species, type, count, behavior, and the day and time it was seen. No location, distance, name, note, photo, weather or moon data is shown; your location is used on our server only to decide who is within range. Trail-cam sightings that state rules keep private are left out. A sighting you mark Keep private is hidden from your camp but can still appear in the area feed this way.

Held sighting locations. In states with rules on sharing game locations (currently Kansas, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Georgia except hogs, Minnesota, Alaska, Nebraska and Montana), your camp first gets a notice with no location (for example "Todd saw a buck · 7:40 AM"), and the sighting's location unlocks for your camp 1 hour after local sunset. In Montana, trail-cam photos stay private. You always see your own sightings right away.

4. Safety check-in and alerts

When you check in, you set the time you expect to be out, and your camp sees that you're out. If you don't check out in time, members of your camp see an overdue alert in the App, with your last check-in spot, and the text steps below begin.

Text messages (SMS)

How the texts step up. At your check-out time we text you a reminder. At 15 minutes, if your hunt is shared with your camp, we text camp members checked in at the same camp and the camp's owners and admins. At 30 minutes we text your confirmed emergency contacts. At 1 hour we text your contacts and camp asking them to call 911 or the sheriff if they can't reach you. When you check out, everyone we texted gets an all-clear. We also text you when a contact replies YES, and once if a contact hasn't confirmed after 24 hours. How the program works, with example messages, is at predictiveoutdoors.com/sms; the program terms are in Terms Section 8.

Opt-in only. We text you only if you tick Text me safety alerts in the App. We text an emergency contact only after you confirm they agreed and they reply YES to our one-time confirmation text. Consent to texts isn't required to use the App.

What we collect for texts: your mobile number and your emergency contacts' numbers; a record of each consent (when it was given, how, and the wording shown); YES, STOP, START and HELP replies; and a log of the texts we send (time, recipient number, message type and delivery status).

What an alert contains. If you're overdue, we text your confirmed emergency contacts and, if your hunt is shared with your camp, members checked in at that camp and its owners and admins, through our SMS provider, Twilio: your name or nickname, how long you're overdue, the stand name, a map link to your last check-in location, and, if you entered them, your vehicle description and blood type.

No sharing for marketing. We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile number, your emergency contacts' numbers, or SMS opt-in data and consent with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent won't be shared with any third parties. Twilio, our SMS provider, processes phone numbers and replies only to deliver our texts on our behalf.

Stopping texts. Reply STOP to any text, untick the box in the App, or remove an emergency contact. Reply HELP or email support@predictiveoutdoors.com for help. Consent records and message logs are deleted with your account, except that we keep a record of numbers that opted out (the number and date) so we don't text them again. If you're someone's emergency contact, we use your number only to send the texts described here.

Predictive Outdoors isn't an emergency service. Alerts depend on coverage and on other people seeing them. In an emergency, call 911.

5. Reports, blocking, and moderation

You can report any message or sighting another user posts, and block any user, from inside the App (long-press a message, or tap ⋯ on a sighting). A reported post is hidden for you right away. Blocking hides that person's messages and sightings from you and stops direct messages both ways; they aren't told. You can unblock people in Me → Blocked hunters.

When you report something we receive the post, who posted it, the camp it was in, the reason you picked, and anything you add. We review reports, usually within 24 hours, and may remove content, remove someone from a camp, or suspend accounts that break our community rules. You can also email support@predictiveoutdoors.com.

6. How we use information

• To run the App: predictions, weather, maps, camps, chat, check-ins, records, and alerts
• To create and secure your account, review reports, and stop abuse
• To answer support requests and send service messages (for example sign-up confirmation and password reset)
• To improve predictions using community sighting activity: recent sightings near a location feed the prediction score, and area-feed sightings are anonymized as described above
• To send invite and beta updates you asked for on the website
• To comply with the law

We don't sell your personal information, we don't share it for targeted ("cross-context behavioral") advertising, and we don't show ads.

7. Service providers

These companies process information for us so the App and site work. They may use it only to provide their services to us.

• Supabase: database, sign-in, file storage, real-time chat and server functions. Receives the account data and content described above. Data is stored in the United States.
• Mapbox: satellite map imagery and place search. Receives the map area and search text, not your account identity.
• OpenWeatherMap: weather. Requests go through our server with map coordinates only, not tied to your account.
• Apple / Google device location services: turning an address you search into map coordinates.
• Public county and state GIS services; ReportAll USA: property boundaries when you import one. They receive the map point you tap; ReportAll requests go through our server.
• Expo: app builds and over-the-air updates. Receives basic app and device information when the App checks for updates.
• Cloudflare: only if you use trail-cam email import or video clips. Receives the emailed trail-cam photos or the clips you upload.
• Twilio: only if you text photos to our number, and for safety texts once they're active (Section 4). Receives phone numbers, message content and opt-out replies, and may use them only to deliver our messages.
• Netlify: hosts predictiveoutdoors.com and stores website form submissions.
• Apple and Google: app distribution. The App has no in-app purchases today.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect someone's safety, to investigate fraud or abuse, or as part of a merger or sale of the business, in which case this policy continues to apply to your information.

All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information won't be shared with any third parties. See Text messages (SMS).

8. Keeping and deleting your information

We keep your information while your account is open.

Delete your account in the App: Me → Delete Account (bottom of the screen). It happens right away and permanently deletes your account and what's tied to it: profile, safety profile, emergency contacts, sightings, harvests, check-ins, Warden Wallet entries, messages, camp memberships, the people you blocked, and the photos and clips you uploaded.

Can't get into the App? Use predictiveoutdoors.com/delete-account or email support@predictiveoutdoors.com from the address on your account. We confirm it's your account, then delete it within 30 days (usually much sooner).

• Camps where you're the only member are deleted with your account. If you own a camp other people are in, make one of them the owner first (Camp Admin → Members).
• Stands you created in a shared camp stay with that camp but are no longer linked to you.
• Copies in our provider's backups are overwritten as backups roll over, within 7 days.
• We may keep a record that a report was made, without your identity, and limited data where the law requires it.

You can edit or delete individual sightings, harvests, stands, contacts, and wallet entries in the App at any time.

9. Your choices and rights

• Permissions: turn location, camera, or photo access on or off in your device settings.
• Sharing: choose who sees each sighting and stand, and whether you check in by name or anonymously.
• Access, correction, deletion: update most information in the App, or email us for a copy of your data or for help.
• Text messages: safety texts are opt-in. Reply STOP to any text or untick Text me safety alerts on the Me tab to stop them; reply HELP for help.
• Marketing email: we only send invite and beta updates you asked for, and every one has an unsubscribe link.
• State privacy rights: depending on where you live (for example California, Virginia, or Colorado), you may have rights to know, access, correct, delete, or port your personal information and to opt out of its sale or use for targeted advertising. We don't sell or target-advertise, but you can make any request by emailing us. We won't treat you differently for using these rights.
• EU / UK: you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and may complain to your supervisory authority. We process your data to provide the App you signed up for, with your consent (location, photos), and for our legitimate interest in keeping it safe.

10. Children

You must be 13 or older to have a Predictive Outdoors account. Hunters under 13 may use the App only through a parent's or guardian's account, under that parent's or guardian's supervision. We don't allow children under 13 to have their own accounts, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected it, we delete it. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, contact us at privacy@predictiveoutdoors.com and we'll delete it.

11. Security

We use encrypted connections (TLS), database rules that limit each user to the data they're allowed to see (Postgres row-level security), private file storage with time-limited links, and managed sign-in. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your personal information, we'll notify you as the law requires.

12. Where your information is processed

We're based in the United States and our providers process information primarily in the United States. If you use the App from elsewhere, your information is processed in the U.S.

13. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we'll update the date above. For significant changes (for example, turning on text alerts) we'll also tell you in the App or by email before they take effect.

14. Contact us

Predictive Outdoors, LLC (a Georgia limited liability company)
Privacy questions: privacy@predictiveoutdoors.com
Everything else: support@predictiveoutdoors.com
Location: Cumming, GA