Privacy Policy
For Four Ways. Last updated: on release.
This policy explains what Four Ways does with your information. The short answer is very little, and almost all of it stays on your phone. If anything here is unclear, ask us at harfredlabs@gmail.com.
The short version
- You do not need an account to use Four Ways.
- The bets you record, their results and your settings are stored only on your device.
- There are no analytics, no ads and no tracking, and nothing is sold to anyone.
What stays on your device
Tickets you mark as placed, the stakes and results you record, and your settings — default stake, bookmaker, which tickets to show — are kept in your browser's or the app's own storage on the device (IndexedDB and localStorage). So is a copy of the day's odds, so a second open costs nothing. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.
Deleting the app, or clearing this site's data in your browser, deletes all of it. We cannot recover it, because we never had it. The sample day at /demo is built on the device and saves nothing.
What leaves your device
- The request for the day's odds. To print tickets, the app asks this app's own server for that day's odds. The request carries a date and nothing about you — no account, no identifier, no bets.
- Standard server logs. Like every web server, ours records each request it receives: your IP address, the time, the address requested and your browser's or device's user-agent string. We use these to keep the service running and to stop abuse, and they are deleted after a limited period.
- App updates. Opening the web app loads it from the same server. The installed app checks that server for updates, sending its version number.
- Google sign-in, only if it is switched on. Four Ways has an optional Google sign-in through Firebase, a Google service. It is off unless we switch it on; while it is off, the app loads nothing from Firebase and makes no request to Google. If it is on and you choose to sign in, Google receives your Google account's name, email address and a user identifier, under Google's own privacy policy. Signing in does not send your bets, results or settings anywhere.
- Notifications, only if you turn them on. If the installed app offers notifications and you allow them, Apple or Google issues your device a notification token. It is kept on your device.
Where the odds come from
Prices come from The Odds API, which collects them from Australian bookmakers. Our server fetches them once a day for everyone. Your device never contacts The Odds API or any bookmaker through Four Ways, so they learn nothing about you from it.
Odds can be wrong, late or out of date, and bookmakers change their prices all day. Check the price in your own bookmaker before you place anything.
What we do not do
- No analytics, crash reporting or usage tracking.
- No advertising, no advertising identifiers, no tracking pixels.
- No selling, renting or sharing of personal information, and no profiles.
Service providers
- Google Cloud — runs the server, keeps each day's odds, and holds the server logs.
- The Odds API — supplies the odds. It receives requests from our server only, never from your device.
- Apple and Google — app distribution and notification delivery; Google also provides sign-in, when it is switched on.
These providers operate internationally, so server logs may be processed in a country other than your own. We rely on the safeguards those providers offer for transfers of that kind.
Children
Four Ways is for adults. It is not directed at anyone under 18, and it does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to harfredlabs@gmail.com and we will delete it.
How long we keep things
Data on your device lasts until you delete it or remove the app. Each day's odds are kept on our server as a file that contains prices and nothing about anyone. Server logs are kept for a limited period for security and diagnostics, then deleted.
Your rights
Depending on where you live — in Australia, under the Privacy Act 1988 — you may have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. We hold almost nothing: no account, no bets, only the server logs above. Ask us at harfredlabs@gmail.com and we will respond within the time your local law requires, and in any case within 30 days.
The rest you can do yourself: deleting the app, or clearing this site's data, removes everything Four Ways stored on your device.
Security
Data sent between the app and our server travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). No system is perfectly secure, so we do not claim otherwise — but we keep the amount of information we hold small, which is the most effective protection available.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change materially affects how we use your information, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
Four Ways is published by Four Ways. For any privacy question, or to exercise any right above, write to harfredlabs@gmail.com.