Tryhurst Rugby Referee: Privacy Policy

The CoffeePot (developer: Dragusin Bogdan) · Last updated: 13 November 2026

This policy covers Tryhurst Rugby Referee for Garmin watches (Connect IQ) and for Wear OS and Android phones (Google Play, package com.coffeepot.tryhurst; one purchase covers the watch app and the phone app), and for iPhone and Apple Watch (App Store, com.coffeepot.tryhurst; one purchase covers both).

Summary

Tryhurst works entirely on your watch. It has no internet access, no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. We do not run a server for this app and receive no data from it. Everything it records stays on the watch until you delete it or uninstall the app.

What the app stores on the watch

• Match data you enter: the match format and settings, kick-off and end times of each period, time off, tries, conversions, penalty goals, drop goals, penalty tries, cards, replacements, blood and HIA replacements with the shirt numbers and minutes you type in, the optional scrum and lineout counts, and team shirt colours. Team names are optional; players are identified on the watch only by the shirt numbers you choose to record.
• The running match is saved after every entry so it survives an app or watch restart. It is removed at full time.
• Match history: the reports of your last 10 matches. You can clear them in the app (Match history → Clear history).

Heart rate, distance and location

• Garmin: during a match the app reads heart rate and, if GPS is switched on in the setup, your position, through the watch's sensors, and records them in a rugby activity on the watch. If you save the activity at full time, it is stored on the watch like any activity you start yourself and synced by Garmin Connect under Garmin's own privacy policy. If you discard it, it is deleted. The app itself sends nothing anywhere.
• Wear OS: during a match the app uses Health Services on the watch for heart rate, calories and, if GPS is switched on and you allow precise location, distance. These values are shown in the app and kept in the match report on the watch. Position coordinates are not stored by the app, only the distance total. Location is used only while a match runs (foreground service), never in the background otherwise. The app does not write to Health Connect or any other service.

The phone app

The phone app works offline like the watch app: it has no internet permission, no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking.

• What it stores: the matches you plan (teams, shirt colours, competition, venue, kick-off time, format, optional notes and, if you type them, team sheets with shirt numbers and player names) and the match reports it receives. Everything is kept in the app's private storage on the phone and deleted when you delete it in the app or uninstall the app. Player names never go to the watch; they only appear in the reports on the phone and in reports you share.
• Phone and watch: when you tap Send to watch, the teams, shirt colours, format, timer and card settings go to Tryhurst on your paired Wear OS watch; after a match the watch sends its report (the same data as its match history, including the heart-rate and distance summary) to the phone app. This uses the Wearable Data Layer of Google Play services, which moves the data directly between your own paired devices (Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi via your Google account's device link under Google's policy); it is not sent to us.
• Camera: the phone app asks for camera access only to scan the report QR codes shown by the watch. The camera runs only while the scanner screen is open; frames are read on the phone by a QR reader built into the app (Google ML Kit, bundled model) and are never saved or sent. ML Kit's optional usage logging cannot send anything because the app has no internet permission. You can also pick a photo or screenshot of a QR code (Android photo picker: only the picture you choose is read) or paste the text instead.

Sharing a report

On Wear OS you can choose "Share report" to hand the match report text to another app on your watch. In the phone app you can share a report as a PDF, an image or text through the Android share sheet; the file is made in the app's private cache and handed only to the app you choose. Nothing is shared unless you do this, and what that app does with the report is governed by its own policy.

Permissions

• Garmin: Sensor (heart rate), Positioning (optional GPS distance), Fit / FitContributor (recording the activity, with the score as extra activity fields).
• Wear OS: body sensors / heart rate (BODY_SENSORS or READ_HEART_RATE), activity recognition, precise location (ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, only for GPS distance during a match), notifications (the "match in progress" chip), a foreground service of type health and location while a match runs, vibration and wake lock. No internet permission.
• Android phone app: camera (only for scanning the watch's report QR codes) and vibration. No internet permission.

iPhone and Apple Watch

On iPhone and Apple Watch (App Store) the same rules apply: no internet access, no accounts, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. On Apple Watch each match runs as a workout session so the clock, the sin-bin, HIA and blood timers and the kick clocks keep time with your wrist down. With your permission the watch reads your heart rate, active energy and walking and running distance from HealthKit during the match, shows them on the watch and in the match report, and saves the match as a rugby workout in the Health app on your devices. If you turn Distance on, the watch asks for location while the app is in use so the workout can use GPS; your route is not recorded. The match setup and the finished reports are exchanged only between your own iPhone and Apple Watch through Apple's WatchConnectivity. Fixtures, team sheets and reports are kept in the app's storage on the iPhone; the Home Screen widget and the watch complication read a copy from the app's own App Group on the same device. The iPhone app uses the camera only while the QR scanner is open; pictures are read on the iPhone (Apple's built-in reader) and never stored or sent. A report leaves the iPhone only when you share it as a PDF, image or text through the share sheet, to the app you choose. Health data is never used for advertising, never sold and never sent to us or to anyone else. Deleting the app deletes everything it stored.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13 and we do not collect personal information from anyone. Youth match formats are for referees of youth games; no information about players is collected beyond the shirt numbers the referee chooses to note on the watch and, in the phone app, any team-sheet names the referee types in, which stay on the referee's phone.

Third parties

Garmin (Connect IQ Store, Garmin Connect) and Google (Google Play, Wear OS Health Services, the Wearable Data Layer and the on-device ML Kit QR reader) and Apple (App Store, HealthKit, WatchConnectivity) handle purchases, downloads and the watch platforms under their own privacy policies. Tryhurst is not affiliated with or endorsed by any rugby union, league, competition or referee body.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date before the app update ships.

Contact

Questions about this policy: dragusinb@gmail.com
Dragusin Bogdan (The CoffeePot), Bucharest, Romania