Privacy Policy
Long Whistle is used by families with children in it. We built it local-first so that there is very little for us to know about you, and we would like to keep it that way.
Who we are
Long Whistle LLC is a Texas limited liability company. You can reach us at support@longwhistle.com.
This website
This website does not use cookies, analytics, advertising, or third-party scripts. Fonts are served from our own domain rather than a font network. We do not build a profile of you, and we set nothing in your browser that follows you anywhere.
Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, processes standard web server request data (such as IP address and browser user agent) in order to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse. We do not use that data for analytics or marketing.
The Long Whistle app
The Long Whistle app is local-first: everything you enter is stored on your own phone. It is not sent to us, and we do not run a server that receives it. There is no account to create, and the app does not collect your name or email for us.
When you import a swimmer’s history from a meet results file, the app reads the file on your phone and keeps only your swimmers’ swims; other children named in the file are not saved.
The app contains no analytics, crash reporting, advertising, or third-party tracking code. The app’s own code makes no network connections. Subscription status comes from Apple’s App Store through your phone’s operating system (see below).
Because the data stays on your phone, we cannot see your swimmer's times, splits, or meets, and we cannot recover them for you. Your phone’s own iCloud or computer backup, if you use one, includes the app’s data; that backup is held by Apple or on your computer under your account, not by us. If you save a backup file from the app, that file is yours to keep or delete.
Subscriptions
Some features of the app are part of a subscription. Apple handles the purchase: you buy it through the App Store with your Apple Account, and Apple takes the payment. We do not see your card, your Apple Account, or your billing address. Apple tells the app on your phone whether the subscription is active, and that answer stays on your phone with the rest of your data.
If you share the subscription with your family through Apple’s Family Sharing, Apple shares the subscription, not your swims. Each phone keeps only the races entered on it.
Whether or not you subscribe, your swims stay on your phone. You can still see them and back them up.
Children's privacy
Long Whistle is intended to be set up and operated by a parent or legal guardian, not by a child. It is built for youth swimmers, and the choices below exist because of that.
- Local-first storage. Race data lives on the parent's device by default, not in an account on our servers.
- Parent-owned data. The parent or guardian who enters the information controls it, and can edit or erase it at any time from within the app.
- Only what the app needs. The app stores a swimmer's name and birth date, which set their age group, and whether they swim in boys' or girls' events, which sets the time standards the app shows. It does not ask for a school, address, or photograph, and it does not use the camera, microphone, location, or contacts. Like everything else, this stays on the device.
- No ranking between children. There are no leaderboards and no kid-versus-kid comparisons anywhere in Long Whistle. A swimmer is compared only to their own times and published time standards. A swim can show the official place it earned at its meet, as printed in the results; the app keeps no list of other swimmers.
- No advertising and no sale of data. We do not serve behavioral advertising, and we do not sell or rent personal information to anyone.
- Parental consent. By setting up a swimmer, the parent or guardian is providing consent for the information they choose to enter. A child should not be entering their own information without a parent.
- Deletion on request. Removing a swimmer in the app keeps them under Deleted swimmers on the Swimmers screen, where you can restore them. Erasing them there removes them and all their swims from the phone, and deleting the app removes everything. A backup file you saved, or your phone’s own backup, keeps its own copy until you delete it. If we ever hold anything about your family, write to us and we will delete it — see below.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information directly, contact support@longwhistle.com and we will delete it.
When you email us
If you write to support@longwhistle.com, we keep your message and your email address so that we can answer you and keep track of the conversation. Please do not include your child's full name or other details you would rather we did not have.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted. Email support@longwhistle.com and we will respond. In most cases the honest answer will be that we hold nothing but the email you sent us.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Material changes that affect how your family's information is handled will be described in plain language rather than buried in a revision.
Contact
Privacy questions, data deletion requests, and anything legal.