Speedbag Champ — Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 6, 2026 · Operated by Athletic Interpretations ("we", "us") · Contact: support@athleticinterpretations.com

This Privacy Policy explains what the Speedbag Champ mobile applications for iOS and Android (the "App") collect, how that information is used and shared, and the choices and rights you have. The App is a companion to the Speedbag Champ smart speed bag and connects to it over Bluetooth. This policy applies to both the iOS and Android versions of the App. It also covers the founding supporters sign-up on our website, speedbagchamp.com (see "Website sign-ups" below).

1. Information we collect

Information you provide

• Account information. When you create an account you provide an email address and password, or sign in with Google or Apple. When you use Google or Apple sign-in, we receive your account email address and, where available, your display name and profile photo URL from that provider. With Sign in with Apple you may choose to hide your real email address; we then receive Apple's private relay address instead.
• Profile information. A unique username, an avatar chosen from the App's preset characters (no photo upload), your country and — for U.S. users — your state (chosen from a list, not detected from your device), an optional city you may type in, and an optional "speedbag start date" (the date you began speed bag training — this is not your date of birth).

Information created when you use the App

• Training and activity data. Punch/hit counts, punches-per-second rates, session durations, race and round times, challenge and tournament results, freestyle session stats, personal bests, win/loss records, session history, and the name of the bag device you connected to.
• Social features. Your friends list (other players you add), challenge invitations, lobby participation, and your presence status (online, available to race, currently training). During live modes (head-to-head races, tournaments, the live training room), your username, avatar, region, and live hit counts are broadcast to other participants in real time.
• Push notification data. A Firebase Cloud Messaging registration token, together with basic device information (device model, operating system, app version) used to deliver notifications reliably, and your in-app notification preferences.
• Usage analytics (iOS and Android). Both Apps use Google Firebase Analytics, which automatically records app opens, screen views, general usage events, device type and model, operating system version, and a coarse, non-precise region derived from your IP address. We use it only in aggregate to understand how the App is used. We do not use this data for advertising, the Apps do not collect the device advertising ID, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites.
• Server logs and IP address. Like virtually all internet services, our backend provider (Google Firebase) processes your IP address as part of operating the service and protecting it from abuse (including app integrity checks via Firebase App Check).

Information stored only on your device

• Freestyle session history summaries, walk-up arcade (guest) initials and scores, and app preferences are stored locally on your device and are not transmitted to us. If you are signed in, your best Speed Bag Arcade score is posted with your username to the public Speed Bag Arcade world board.
• Reel videos you record with the in-app camera (see the camera and microphone section below) are stored on your device only.

Camera and microphone (reel recording)

• The App includes an optional reel recorder that films your session so your live stats can be drawn onto the video. The camera and microphone are used only while you are actively recording a take you started, and the App asks the operating system for permission the first time you use the feature.
• Everything is processed entirely on your device: the video and audio are captured, combined with your stats overlay, and saved to your device (on iOS to your photo library using the add-only permission; on Android to your gallery via the system media store). Recordings are never uploaded to, received by, or stored on our servers. Sharing a finished reel is entirely your choice, using your device's own sharing tools.
• You can decline or revoke the camera and microphone permissions at any time in your device settings; every counting, racing, and tournament feature works without them.

Bluetooth and the smart bag

• The App uses Bluetooth Low Energy solely to discover, connect to, and read punch data from one or more Speedbag Champ smart bags. On Android 12 and later, Bluetooth scanning is declared "never for location." On older Android versions (11 and below), the operating system itself requires the Location permission to perform any Bluetooth scan; even there, the App does not collect, store, or transmit GPS or device location.

Gym accounts and Gym Floor

• Gym Floor is a mode for gyms and fitness businesses that lets one of the gym's phones or tablets connect to all of the gym's bags. It appears only on accounts that a gym has linked to its floor.
• When a gym runs Gym Floor, the App records punch counts for each bag station and for the gym — not for individual people, and Gym Floor does not identify who is punching. Floor punches are never added to anyone's personal stats, including the account that runs the floor.
• For each gym we store the gym's name, the station names the gym chooses (for example "CORNER"), the gym's punch totals by day and month in the gym's time zone, a live view of each station (its count, pace, signal and battery) while the floor is running, and a record for each phone or tablet running the floor (a device label such as "IPHONE", the platform, the app version, and the ID of the account that set it up).
• Gym names, station names and gym totals may appear on screens in the gym and publicly (for example on the Million Punch Wall, where a gym-approved short name may appear with the gym's punch count).
• Gym billing contacts are collected outside the App, by invoice.

Website sign-ups (founding supporters list)

On speedbagchamp.com you can join a free list of founding supporters for a nonprofit we plan to form for the speed bag community. The sign-up form collects your email address and, only if you choose to give it, your first name. We use them only to email you about the nonprofit — its launch, drives and events — and to ask for your input. Athletic Interpretations holds the list, stored with Squarespace (the service that runs our website, which may use Google reCAPTCHA to block spam sign-ups), until the nonprofit is formed; we will then hand the list to the nonprofit for the same purpose and let you know when we do. We never sell the list or use it for advertising. You can unsubscribe with the link in any of these emails, or email support@athleticinterpretations.com to have your details deleted.

What we do not collect

We do not collect your precise location (GPS), contacts, health records or data from Apple Health / Health Connect, financial or payment information, or browsing history. We do not read or collect your photo or media library — with your permission, the App only saves reels you record to it. Camera and microphone data never reaches us: the optional in-app reel recorder captures video and audio only when you start a recording, processes it entirely on your device, and saves it to your device (see the camera and microphone section above). The App contains no third-party advertising SDKs and shows no third-party ads. We do not use your data to track you across other companies' apps or websites, and we do not request the iOS App Tracking Transparency permission because we do not track.

2. How we use your information

• Operate the App's core features: counting hits, timed rounds, races, reaction drills, freestyle sessions, and syncing your training history to your account.
• Power social and competitive features: leaderboards (global, country, and state), live challenges, head-to-head races, tournaments, the live training room, friends, and the live world activity map (which places activity by self-declared country/state — never by GPS).
• Send notifications you'd expect, such as challenge invites, tournament turns, and friend activity, subject to your notification settings.
• Maintain and secure the service: authentication, abuse and cheating prevention, app-integrity verification (Firebase App Check with Apple App Attest / Google Play Integrity), and diagnosing problems.
• Understand aggregate usage to improve the App (Firebase Analytics, iOS and Android; aggregate only).
• Email you about the speed bag nonprofit (its launch, drives and events) if you joined the founding supporters list on our website.
• Comply with legal obligations.

For users in the European Economic Area / UK, our legal bases are: performance of a contract (operating the App and your account), legitimate interests (security, abuse prevention, service improvement), consent where required (e.g., push notifications, and the founding supporters emails you sign up for on our website, which you can unsubscribe from anytime), and legal obligations.

3. What other players can see

Speedbag Champ is a social training game. By design, the following is visible to other users of the App: your username, avatar, country/state (and city if you added one), scores and leaderboard entries, training stats shown in live modes, win/loss records, and online/availability status. Your email address is never displayed in the App. If you're signed in, each session of 10 or more punches adds your username, the punch count and the date to the Million Punch Wall, which anyone can see in the App and on speedbagchamp.com. On iOS you can turn off the sharing of your online status in the App's settings (the same control is coming to Android); signing out removes you from live presence on both platforms. You can always decline or ignore challenges and friend requests.

4. How your information is shared

• With other users (by design): as described in Section 3.
• With service providers (processors): we use Google Firebase (Authentication, Realtime Database, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging, App Check, Hosting, and Analytics) to host and process data on our behalf, Resend to deliver account-verification email, and Squarespace to store the founding supporters list from our website and send its emails. Google processes this data under its Firebase Data Processing and Security Terms. We require service providers to protect your data to at least the standard described in this policy.
• Sign-in providers: if you sign in with Google or Apple, your use of those sign-in services is governed by Google's Privacy Policy and Apple's Privacy Policy respectively.
• The speed bag nonprofit (website sign-ups only): once the nonprofit is formed, we hand it the founding supporters list, to use for the same purpose, and let you know when we do.
• Legal and safety: we may disclose information if required by law, or where necessary to protect the rights, safety, or property of our users, the public, or Athletic Interpretations.
• Business transfers: if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction; this policy would continue to apply until replaced.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it with third parties for their own advertising or for cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Advertising for the App on other platforms

We promote Speedbag Champ by running ad campaigns on platforms such as Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (including YouTube and Google Ads), and TikTok. If you see or interact with one of our ads on those platforms, those platforms may collect data about that interaction (such as ad views, clicks, and app installs) using their own cookies, identifiers, and measurement tools, acting under their own privacy policies — see Meta, Google, and TikTok. The platforms may provide us aggregated, non-identifying campaign statistics (for example, how many people installed the App after seeing an ad). The App itself contains no SDKs from these advertising platforms and does not send them your personal data. You can manage ad preferences directly in your Facebook/Instagram, Google, and TikTok account settings.

6. Data retention and deletion

• We keep your account and training data while your account is active.
• Delete in the App (iOS & Android): you can permanently delete your account and associated data via Profile → Delete Account (you may be asked to re-authenticate first). This removes your profile (including email, username, and region), training sessions and history, friends list, presence data, leaderboard entries, gym membership, notification tokens and settings, and username reservation.
• Delete by request: you can also request deletion at any time by emailing support@athleticinterpretations.com from the email address on your account, with the subject "Account deletion request." We will complete the deletion within 30 days, except where retention is required by law.
• Anonymous, aggregated statistics that cannot identify you (for example, a global daily punch counter) may be retained.
• Gym Floor: if a gym owner or staff account is deleted, it is automatically unlinked from the gym and the floor device records it set up (which carry the account's ID) are deleted. The gym's aggregate punch totals (which are not about any person) stay in place. A gym can ask us to remove its Gym Floor data by emailing us.
• Locally stored data (freestyle history, guest arcade scores) stays on your device until you delete it or uninstall the App. Your Speed Bag Arcade world-board entry is deleted with your account.
• Signing out does not delete your data; uninstalling the App does not delete your server-side account — use the deletion options above.

7. Data storage, security, and international transfers

Your data is stored on Google Firebase infrastructure (servers located in the United States) and encrypted in transit using HTTPS/TLS. Access to user data is restricted, and app-integrity checks (Apple App Attest / Google Play Integrity) help keep illegitimate clients out. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we take reasonable industry-standard measures to protect your information. If you use the App from outside the United States, you understand that your information is transferred to and processed in the United States; where required, transfers rely on appropriate safeguards such as the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses as implemented by our processor, Google.

8. Children

The App is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us personal information, contact us at support@athleticinterpretations.com and we will promptly delete it.

9. Your choices and rights

• Access, correction, deletion, portability. You can view and edit profile details in the App, delete your account in the App or by email (Section 6), and request a copy of your data by emailing us.
• Notifications. Turn push notifications off in the App's notification settings or your device settings at any time.
• Online status. Turn off "show online status" in the App's settings (iOS; coming to Android), or sign out to leave live presence.
• Guest mode. Arcade mode can be used without creating an account.
• EEA/UK residents have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
• California residents (CCPA/CPRA) have the right to know, correct, and delete personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising those rights. We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes requiring a right to limit.
• To exercise any right, email support@athleticinterpretations.com. We may need to verify your identity (for example, by confirming control of the account email). An authorized agent may act for you where the law allows.

10. Summary table

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version at this URL and update the effective date above; for material changes we will provide notice in the App. Your continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

12. Contact us

Athletic Interpretations
Email: support@athleticinterpretations.com