Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
Smash records motion and workout data from your Apple Watch during padel matches. This policy explains what we collect and why.
Data we collect
- On our server: your profile, and each match you record. That includes the full recording: every detected shot with its motion trace, your GPS court position trace, your heart-rate summary, calories and match metadata. Smash keeps your matches on your account, not only on your phone, so this is how the app works and not an optional backup. We keep the complete recording so your history survives a lost or replaced phone, so it can be re-analysed when shot detection improves, and so we can investigate when detection gets something wrong.
- What we work out from it: your Padel Score, your statistics, records and trends, and each match’s analysis, including the court heat map, are computed on our server from those recordings.
- On your devices: your Apple Watch holds a match while it is being recorded, and your iPhone keeps a copy of your matches so the app opens quickly and works without a connection. A match is uploaded once your iPhone is online.
- Usage data: basic information about how you use the app and the device you use it on, which we use to fix problems and improve Smash.
- Social content: comments and kudos you post, and a device token so we can notify you about them.
- Sign in with Apple: a stable user identifier and, on first sign-in, your email if you allow it.
Smash needs an account: you sign in with Apple, and your matches are stored on it. Recording on the Watch works fully offline; the match is uploaded later.
Who can see your matches
Every match has a visibility setting — private, followers only, or public — and new matches default to followers only. Visibility controls what other people see. It does not change what we store: the full recording is kept either way so the app can analyse it for you.
How we use data
To show your stats, power your Padel Score, run the social features, and improve shot detection. We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising or tracking across other apps.
Your choices
You can set any match to private, delete individual matches, and export everything we hold via Settings → Privacy → Export my data.
Deleting your data
You can delete your account from inside the app at any time: open your profile and choose Delete account. You do not need to ask us, and you do not need a reason.
Deletion is immediate and permanent. It removes your profile, every match you uploaded and its full recording — shot motion traces, court position traces and heart-rate summaries — along with your comments, kudos, follows, blocks, notifications, push tokens and profile photo. There is no grace period and no archived copy we can restore from, so export first if you want to keep anything.
Deleting a single match removes that match and its recording from our server in the same way.
One thing outlives deletion: reports that other people filed about content you posted, kept so moderation decisions survive the reported account being removed. They are never used to rebuild a deleted account.
If you cannot reach the app — you have lost the device, or you are already signed out — email support@smashpadel.org from the address on the account and we will delete it for you.
This website
smashpadel.org uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. Google sets cookies in your browser to do this and receives your IP address and details of your device and browser. This applies to the website only; the Smash app does not use Google Analytics. You can block it with your browser's settings or with Google's opt-out add-on.
Contact
Questions: support@smashpadel.org