Last updated 30 September 2026. Written to be read, not to be survived.
The short version. Plusses keeps your child’s information on your phone. We have no account system, so we do not know who you are. If you later share with a team, what you share is encrypted on your device first — we cannot read it, and neither can anyone hosting it for us. We do not use analytics, advertising or trackers of any kind.
Encrypted is not the same as anonymous, and we would rather say so than let you assume otherwise. When your phone talks to our sync service it necessarily reveals a few things that encryption cannot hide: your IP address, the moment the request happened, roughly how much data changed, and an opaque group identifier that links the phones in one team. We do not use any of that to build a profile, and we do not link it to you by name — but it is information, it exists, and under Australian law an IP address can be personal information.
What we genuinely cannot see is the content: your child’s name, their number, their team, and every statistic you record.
At present Plusses makes no network requests. Everything you record is written to storage on the device and stays there. There is no server copy, because there is no server.
Sharing will be opt-in, per team. If you never create or join a team, nothing ever leaves your device.
| What is sent | Can we read it? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your game data, encrypted | No | So the other parents in your team see it. The key is created on the phones from the team code and is never sent to us. |
| A team identifier | Yes | To know which team the update belongs to. It is a random value, not derived from any name. |
| Timing and size | Yes | An unavoidable property of making a network request. |
| Your IP address | Yes | Required to route the request. Handled by Cloudflare, our infrastructure provider. |
Because the key lives only on the phones in your team, losing every device in a team means the data cannot be recovered — not by you, and not by us. That is a deliberate trade and you should know about it before you rely on it.
Fourteen days. The encrypted updates we hold to pass between your team’s phones are deleted after fourteen days, automatically. Your own copy on your own phone is not affected and is not deleted — your phone is the real home of your data, and the server is only a letterbox.
Because of that short window, your app re-sends its full contribution each time it syncs rather than only what changed. So a parent who misses a few weeks still gets the whole season when they come back, instead of a gap they would never have noticed.
Plusses lets you call stats out loud instead of tapping. The speech recognition runs entirely on your device. We specifically did not use the speech features built into phone browsers, because those send recorded audio to Apple or Google. No audio from your child’s game is transmitted anywhere, by us or through us.
Plusses is used by parents and carers to record information about children, which we take seriously as a category of its own rather than as ordinary data.
We collect the minimum the app needs to work: a name or nickname, optionally a jersey number and team, and the statistics you choose to record. You decide what to enter — a first name or a nickname works perfectly well, and we would encourage it.
We are following the development of Australia’s Children’s Online Privacy Code and intend to meet it. If any of our practices need to change as a result, we will update this page and say what changed.
Deleting the app removes everything stored on your device. If you have shared with a team and want the shared copy removed, email [email protected] with the team code and we will remove it and confirm. You do not need an account to make that request, because you do not have one.
Cloudflare provides our infrastructure and processes requests on our behalf. Apple and Google distribute the app and have their own privacy practices covering the download itself, which are between you and them.
We do not sell personal information. We do not share it with anyone for advertising. We do not use it to train machine-learning models.
Email [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with how we handle a privacy complaint you can escalate to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
If we change this policy in a way that affects what leaves your device, we will say so in the app before the change takes effect — not quietly, and not after the fact.