The Perch

What we do with your data.

Effective October 13, 2026

The short version

We collect what we need to run a golf app: your account, your profile, your rounds and the people you play with. We don’t sell your data, we don’t share it for advertising, and we don’t run ad trackers. Your profile and rounds are public unless you change that in Settings. You can download your data or delete your account any time from Settings > Account.

Who’s responsible for your data

The Perch (the app, perchgolf.com and app.perchgolf.com) is operated by Perch Golf LLC, a California limited liability company. Perch Golf LLC is responsible for the data described here.

Perch Golf LLC
2108 N St #17089
Sacramento, CA 95816

When you register for an event, league or club on The Perch, the host who runs it also receives some of your information (see “What hosts and organizers see”). The host decides how to use it for their own events and is responsible for that use.

What we collect

Information you give us:

Information collected automatically:

Information from other people:

How we use it

What other people can see

What hosts and organizers see

When you register for an event, join a league or join a club, its hosts can see your name, email address and phone number, your payment and refund status, your answers to their sign-up questions, how you found the event, your results, the rating and comment you leave in a post-event review, and your waiver record (the waiver text you accepted, when, and the IP address and device you used, kept as proof of the acknowledgement).

Hosts can keep private notes and tags about the people they host; those notes aren’t shown to you. If a host emails their members from The Perch, they can see whether each email was delivered, opened or clicked.

Hosts use this to run their events and may contact you about their own events. When a host imports contacts or emails people from The Perch, the host is responsible for having permission to do so, and we process that data for them. To change what a host holds about you, contact the host, or email us and we’ll help.

If a club runs associations under it (for example its men’s, women’s or junior sections), the club’s managers can see and manage those associations’ members, events and contact lists too.

Emails, notifications and texts

Location

The mobile app asks for your location only while you use it. We use it to find courses near you, show distances and hole maps, filter events by distance, and capture points when you help map a course. Your position during a round isn’t stored as a history of where you’ve been, and event distance filters use a rounded location (about a kilometre). Points you capture while mapping a course are stored, as described above. You can decline location and search by name or ZIP code instead.

Apple Health

On Apple Watch, The Perch can run your round as a golf workout through Apple Health (HealthKit), so the watch app opens by itself and stays awake while you play. With your permission it saves that workout to Health on your own devices. A workout session also measures heart rate and active energy, which is why Health asks about them. The Perch doesn’t show, store or send any of that data: nothing from Health reaches our servers, Anthropic or any other company, and none of it is used for advertising. You can turn this off at any time in the Health app on your iPhone.

Albie and AI

Albie and Albie Insights are powered by Anthropic. When you ask Albie something, scan a scorecard, ask for help setting up an event, or open a round’s Albie Insights, the text, photo or round data needed to answer is sent to Anthropic. Scorecard photos can include other players’ names, so only scan cards you’re comfortable sharing. Anthropic processes this to give the answer and, under its terms for business customers, doesn’t use it to train its models.

So Albie can answer about your own things (“when’s my next event?”), a question also sends a short summary of your account: your name and username, your plan and how much of your Albie allowance you’ve used, your estimated handicap and home course, the events you’re registered for or host (with how many have signed up), the leagues, games, groups and clubs you’re in or run, and any round in progress, plus the screen you asked from and the last few questions and answers in that conversation. It’s read with your own access, so it never includes anything you couldn’t already see.

Under each answer you can say whether it helped. “Yes” stores only that it helped. “No” lets you add a note, and if you tap Send to The Perch we keep that question, Albie’s answer and your note so we can improve Albie, for up to 12 months.

Your Albie chats (your questions and Albie’s answers) are saved on your own device, not on our servers, for 30 days, so you can pick a conversation back up. Delete one any time from Past chats.

You can also try Albie before you have an account, at app.perchgolf.com/start. What you type is sent to Anthropic to draft a plan, we use your IP address to limit how many drafts each visitor can make, and the draft is kept in your browser for 24 hours so you can save it after signing up.

Cookies and similar technology

We use cookies and device storage to keep you signed in, remember your settings (such as theme), carry an invite or referral through sign-up, remember the campaign link you arrived from (for up to 90 days), and protect sign-up from bots. We don’t use advertising cookies or ad pixels. If we ever add them, we’ll update this policy first and give you a way to opt out.

On the web, our error reporting may record a replay of a small share of sessions, and of sessions where something breaks, with all text and typed input masked, so we can see what went wrong.

Who we share it with

We use these service providers to run The Perch. They process data on our behalf and only for these purposes:

We also share data with event hosts as described above, when the law requires it, to protect people’s safety or our rights, and with a buyer or successor if Perch Golf LLC is ever sold or merged (the data would stay covered by this policy).

We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t share it for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.

How long we keep it

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and other US states), you may have the right to know what personal information we hold, to get a copy, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale or use for targeted advertising. We offer these rights to everyone, wherever you live. Email hello@perchgolf.com from the address on your account. We may ask you to confirm your identity, and you can use an authorized agent. We’ll answer within 45 days. If we turn down a request, you can appeal by replying to our answer. We won’t treat you differently for using these rights.

The information we collect falls into these categories: identifiers (name, email, username, account and device IDs, IP address); customer and commercial records (payments, subscriptions, registrations); internet activity (feature use, campaign source); approximate location and, for course mapping, precise location; audio and visual content (photos and videos you post); and inferences such as your estimated handicap. We use precise location only to provide the features you use, not to infer things about you.

People who aren’t on The Perch

We hold some information about people without an account: guests added to a round or event, people invited to a group sign-up, contacts a club imports, sponsor and invoice contacts, people who join an email list on perchgolf.com, people who use our free golf tools or follow an event’s results, and golf clubs and organizers we contact at their business addresses about The Perch. We use it only for that purpose. Anyone can ask us to see, correct or delete their information, or to unsubscribe, by emailing hello@perchgolf.com.

Age limit

The Perch is for golfers 13 and older. Don’t create an account if you’re under 13. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 13, we’ll delete it. Some events are for adults only and ask you to confirm you’re 18 or older.

Security

We use encryption in transit, hashed passwords, access controls in our database and limits on sign-in attempts. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach that affects you, we’ll tell you as the law requires.

Where your data is processed

The Perch is run from the United States, and our providers store and process data mainly in the US. If you use The Perch from another country, your data is transferred to the US.

Changes to this policy

When we make a material change, we’ll update the effective date above and tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: hello@perchgolf.com, or write to us:

Perch Golf LLC
2108 N St #17089
Sacramento, CA 95816