Jobu Golf Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 21, 2026
Jobu Golf is an app for golf groups, starting with Ryder Cup–style trips between two teams of friends. It's made by Jobu Golf ("we"). This policy explains what the app collects, why, who it's shared with, and the choices you have.
Who can use it
Only people a trip commissioner has added to the roster can sign in. There's no public sign-up. Everything in the app is visible only to signed-in members of the group.
Players' friends and family can also ask, on the website, to follow along as Patrons. A commissioner approves each request. Patrons use the website only: they see the scores, recaps, predictions, stats and the Public chat, and can post there, but not the team chats, the players' chat or the photo album.
What we collect
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your name, nickname and email address | To let you sign in with an emailed code, and to show you on the leaderboard and in matches |
| A profile photo, if you add one | To show it in place of your initials, to players (and to Patrons, unless you hide your name from them) |
| Your handicap index, team and tees for each trip | To work out handicap strokes and pairings |
| Golf scores, match results, and who entered or changed each score and when | To run the leaderboard and keep each trip's record |
| Emoji reactions you add in the feed | To show them to the group |
| Messages you send in the chats (including GIFs you pick), and your reactions, replies and when you last read each chat | To run the group chat, your team's chat and the Public chat, and show who's seen what |
| Your answers to the profile questions ("About me"), and whether Patrons may see each one | For the player intros and Meet the Teams, and so Jobu knows a bit about you (if you've said yes to the AI) |
| Questions you ask Jobu in a chat or in Ask the stats | So Jobu can answer them (see "Jobu, the AI" below), and to limit how many a day |
| For Patrons: name, email, who they know on the trip and how, and a short note; their Pick'em picks | So a commissioner can approve the request, and to run Pick'em |
| Photos and videos you choose to add, with when they were taken, their size and length, your favorites and reactions | To show them in the trip's album and chats, grouped by day |
| Messages or photos you report, and players you block | So commissioners can review reports, and so you don't see people you've blocked |
| A push notification token for your phone, and your notification settings | To send the notifications you've chosen (birdies, results and so on) |
| Your choice about Jobu (the AI), and whether Patrons may see your name | To know what Jobu may use (see below), and what Patrons see |
We don't collect your location, contacts or payment information. The app has no ads, doesn't track you across other apps or websites, and doesn't sell data.
Photos, videos and your camera
- With your permission, the app looks through your photo library on your phone for photos and videos taken during a trip's dates, so you can pick which to add. Only the ones you choose are uploaded. You can also take a photo with the camera.
- Photos and videos in an album are visible to the players. Ones shared in a team chat are visible only to that team, and ones posted in the Public chat are visible to Patrons too. You and the commissioners can remove a photo or video at any time, and it's deleted for good.
Chats and content rules
There's a chat for all the players, one for each team (visible only to that team), and a Public chat that Patrons can read and post in. Before posting, everyone agrees to the chat rules. You can report any message or photo, and the commissioners review reports and can remove content. You can block anyone, and you'll no longer see their messages. When a message contains a link, the app fetches that page's title and image to show a preview.
Face ID and fingerprint log in
If you turn on log in with Face ID, Touch ID or your fingerprint, your phone checks it; the app never sees or stores your face or fingerprint, only whether you've turned the option on. Your sign-in is stored on your phone encrypted, with its key in the phone's secure Keychain (Android Keystore).
Jobu, the AI
Jobu is the app's AI: Claude, a model from Anthropic. He writes the recaps and previews, the morning notes and live updates, the player intros and Pairings Night reactions, and he answers when someone asks him something in the players' chat, a team chat or Ask the stats. To do that, the app sends Anthropic:
- players' first names, last names, nicknames, golf scores, handicaps and records, and the match details that aren't personal (team names, the course, the session) and phrases the group has added ("group lingo");
- players' answers to the profile questions, for the intros and so he knows a bit about each player;
- when someone asks him something in a chat, the question and the chat's messages: the last 30, so he can follow the conversation, and, when the question needs it, older messages from that chat that he looks up and its pinned message.
Never email addresses, photos or videos. To answer questions outside the Cup (the weather at the course, a course's rating and slope, golf news), Jobu can search the web and read web pages through Anthropic. Only his search terms and the pages he opens go out, nothing about you.
- The app asks you first. If you say no, Jobu calls you "a Red player" or "a Blue player", and your name, profile answers and chat messages aren't sent. The one exception is a question you ask him yourself, which he has to read to answer. You can change your choice any time in Settings → Privacy & AI (on the website, Settings).
- Anthropic uses this data only to write Jobu's answers and does not use it to train its AI models.
- What Jobu writes is shown only to signed-in members of the group (Public chat updates to Patrons too). Commissioners can rewrite or delete any recap, and anything he posts in a chat can be reported like any other message.
GIFs
The GIF button in the chats searches GIPHY. Your search goes to GIPHY through our server, without your name or account. The GIFs themselves load from GIPHY, which sees your phone's internet address, like any website. Results are limited to GIPHY's PG-13 rating.
Who we share data with
We use these service providers to run the app. Each gets only what it needs:
- Supabase: hosts the database, chats and sign-in.
- Cloudflare: stores the photos and videos (in a private storage bucket), hosts the website, and runs the bot check on the Patron request form.
- Resend: sends the sign-in code emails.
- Expo, with Apple and Google push services: deliver app updates and push notifications.
- Anthropic: runs Jobu (the AI), as described above, including his web searches.
- GIPHY: the GIFs in the chats, as described above.
We don't share data with anyone else, except if required by law.
How long we keep it
Scores and results make up the group's history, so we keep them year to year. Chats, photos and videos are kept until they're removed or the account that posted them is deleted. Error reports are deleted after 90 days.
If you delete your account, we delete your login, email address, push tokens and notification settings, your chat messages, reactions and read receipts, your reports and blocks, your stats questions and connector links, and every photo and video you added (including the files). Your name stays on the matches you played, so the other players' results and history still add up. If you'd like your name removed from past results too, contact us.
Deleting your account
In the app, tap your photo at the top right, then Delete my account (on the website, Settings → Delete my account). Patrons can ask a commissioner, or us using the contact details below, to remove them. Anyone can also ask us to do it.
Children
Jobu Golf is for adults. It isn't directed to children, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 18.
Security
Data is sent over encrypted connections and stored with access rules that limit each person to what they need. Only commissioners can change trips, rosters and pairings, and Patrons can't change anything.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and let members know in the app.
Contact
Jobu Golf · mnrcowell@gmail.com