Privacy Policy

Pocket Bullpen and Pocket Bullpen Remote · Effective November 12, 2026

This policy explains what the Android apps Pocket Bullpen and Pocket Bullpen Remote (together, "the apps") do with information. Both apps are made by Frank Jones, an independent developer ("I", "me").

Contents

1. What Pocket Bullpen stores
2. When information leaves your phone
3. Google Play purchases
4. Sharing through Google Drive
5. Pocket Bullpen Remote and Bluetooth
6. Permissions
7. What I collect and share
8. Keeping and deleting your data
9. Security
10. Children
11. This website
12. Changes
13. Contact

1. What Pocket Bullpen stores

Pocket Bullpen keeps the following in its private storage on your phone, where other apps can't read it:

• Players you add: name, jersey number, height, birth year, positions, throwing and batting side, sport, pitching distance, colors and an optional photo.
• Teams (Team edition): team names and colors, rosters, lineups, and coaches' names and roles.
• Contact details you enter for sharing: an email address or phone number for a player's family or a coach, used only when you choose to share with them.
• Recordings and pitches: video recorded with the camera, the short clips kept for each pitch, their measurements (speed, distance, angle), results, at-bats and game details.
• Players shared with you: read-only copies of data other people send you, with the name the sender gave.
• Calibration and settings: lens calibrations, the pitch line distance, your preferences, how many free trial sessions you've used, which edition you own, the Remote pairing, and the IDs of files the app made in your Google Drive.

Android's own device backup may include the app's settings and database, as it can for any app, according to your Google account's backup settings. That backup is handled by Google, and I don't have access to it.

2. When information leaves your phone

Pocket Bullpen sends information off your phone only in these cases, each started by you:

• Sharing a clip: when you tap Share on a pitch, the app hands a copy of that video, with a line of text, to the app you pick (for example email or a messaging app).
• Sharing a player or team file: when you share a player (or, in the Team edition, a whole team), the app makes a Pocket Bullpen file with that data and hands it to the app you pick. A player file holds the player's profile, pitches and games, and may include their photo and clips. A team file also holds the team's games, lineup, and coaches' names, roles and the contact details you entered. Your name, as you entered it, shows the receiver who sent it.
• Google Drive: see Sharing through Google Drive.
• Google Play: see Google Play purchases.
• Bluetooth: to your own paired remote phone; see Pocket Bullpen Remote.

Once you've sent something to another app or person, what happens to it is governed by that app and that person. None of it is sent to me.

3. Google Play purchases

Pocket Bullpen offers a free trial and one-time purchases of the Player and Team editions, plus an upgrade from Player to Team, sold through Google Play Billing. There are no subscriptions.

• Purchases are made and processed entirely by Google Play. Your payment details go to Google, never to the app or to me.
• When the app starts, it asks Google Play which editions your Google account owns, and keeps a note of your edition on the phone so it works offline.
• Google gives me the order records it gives every Play developer (such as the order number, product, price, date and country). I use them only to handle refunds and support, and for tax and accounting.

Google's handling of your purchase is covered by the Google Privacy Policy and the Google Play terms.

4. Sharing through Google Drive

You can choose to send players' stats to families and coaches through your own Google Drive. If you do:

• Google asks you to sign in and allow Pocket Bullpen access to only the Drive files it creates (the "drive.file" permission). The app can't see any of your other files, and it never sees your Google password; Google gives the app a temporary access key on your phone.
• The app creates a "Pocket Bullpen" folder in your Drive, uploads the share file there, and shares it (view only) with the email addresses you chose. Google then emails those people a link.
• The app remembers the folder and file IDs on your phone so that sending again updates the same file.
• The files and sharing live in your Google account, under the Google Privacy Policy. Nothing goes through a Pocket Bullpen server, and I can't see your Drive.

Pocket Bullpen's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. The app uses Drive access only to create, update and share the files you ask it to send.

To stop sharing, delete the files or the "Pocket Bullpen" folder in Google Drive, or change who they're shared with there. To remove the app's access, go to your Google Account's third-party connections page.

5. Pocket Bullpen Remote and Bluetooth

Pocket Bullpen Remote is a free app that controls Pocket Bullpen from a second phone. It doesn't collect any personal data, it has no internet access, and it sends nothing to me or anyone else. It uses Bluetooth only to find and connect to a phone running Pocket Bullpen that you've paired with. The pairing details (the other phone's name and a random pairing key) are kept on your phone until you choose Forget or uninstall the app.

Pocket Bullpen and Bluetooth. If you turn on Pocket Bullpen Remote in Pocket Bullpen's settings, Pocket Bullpen uses Bluetooth while the record screen is open so your paired remote phone can connect. Recording commands, the game count, pitch speeds and hit locations pass directly between your two phones and aren't sent anywhere else. Neither app uses Bluetooth to find your location.

6. Permissions

Pocket Bullpen

• Camera: to show the picture and record pitches, only while the record screen is open. Recordings stay on your phone.
• Nearby devices (Bluetooth): only if you turn on Pocket Bullpen Remote, so your paired remote phone can connect.
• Internet: only for Google Play purchases and Google Drive sharing.
• Vibration: for alerts while recording.

Pocket Bullpen Remote

• Nearby devices (Bluetooth): to find and connect to your recording phone. It's marked as never used for location.
• Location (Android 11 only): Android 11 requires it before an app can scan for Bluetooth devices. The Remote doesn't read or use your location.

7. What I collect and share

I don't collect any personal information from the apps. There's no account, no advertising, no analytics or crash-reporting service, and no tracking. I don't sell, rent or share your information with anyone. The only information I receive is the purchase records from Google Play described above, and anything you choose to send me yourself, such as an email to support.

8. Keeping and deleting your data

Your data stays on your phone for as long as you keep it there. You're in control of it:

• Delete a pitch, game, player or team in the app, or use Settings → Storage → Clean up to remove old clips.
• Uninstall Pocket Bullpen to remove all of its data from the phone. Uninstall Pocket Bullpen Remote (or tap Forget) to remove its pairing.
• Files you shared through Google Drive stay in your Drive until you delete them there.
• Copies you sent to other people or apps are theirs to keep or delete.
• If you email me, I keep the conversation only as long as needed to help you, and you can ask me to delete it.

Because I hold none of your app data, there's nothing for me to delete on a server. If you have questions about Google Play order records, contact me and I'll help.

9. Security

App data is kept in Pocket Bullpen's private storage, protected by Android. Connections to Google Play and Google Drive use encryption (HTTPS). The Remote's pairing code stops other phones from controlling your recorder.

10. Children

Parents and coaches can enter information about young players (such as name, birth year and photo). It stays on the phone it was entered on unless the parent or coach chooses to share it, and it's never sent to me. I don't knowingly collect personal information from children.

11. This website

pocketbullpen.com uses no cookies, analytics or trackers, and loads nothing from other sites. It's hosted by Cloudflare, which processes basic technical information such as IP addresses to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse, under the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

12. Changes

If this policy changes, I'll update this page and its effective date. If a change affects how your information is used, I'll also mention it in the app update's notes.

13. Contact

Questions or requests about privacy or your data:
Frank Jones
[email protected]