Privacy policy
Last updated: 21 August 2026
The short version
Benchwarmer has no account, no server and no analytics. Everything you enter stays on your phone. I cannot see your teams, your players, or your matches, because they are never sent anywhere.
Who this is about
Benchwarmer is made by Fernando Moreira, an independent developer in the Netherlands. Questions about this policy go to support@benchwarmer.nl.
What the app stores on your device
Benchwarmer keeps a database on your phone containing the information you enter: your teams, your players and their shirt numbers, matches and opponents, substitutions and playing time, goals and cards, and training attendance and ratings. This database is part of the app's own storage. It is included in your device backup if you use iCloud or a computer backup, in which case Apple's terms govern that copy, not mine.
What I collect
Nothing. There is no account to create, no analytics in the app, no advertising, and no third-party service receiving your data. The app makes no network requests to me.
Crash reporting
Benchwarmer includes crash-reporting code that is switched off in this release and transmits nothing. If a future version enables it, this policy will be updated before that version ships, and no player names or match records would ever be included in a crash report.
Backups you create yourself
You can export a team, or all your teams, to a file. That file is created at your request and goes wherever you send it — AirDrop, email, a cloud drive, your choice. Once it leaves the app it is under your control and the terms of whatever service you send it through. I never receive it.
Information about players, including children
Coaches using Benchwarmer will enter names and records for players, and in youth football those players are usually children. That information stays on the coach's own device and is never transmitted to me or to anyone else. Benchwarmer is intended for adult coaches and team managers; it is not directed at children and children are not expected to use it.
If you are a coach entering information about other people's children, you are the one holding that information, and you should follow whatever rules your club or association sets for it.
Apple
Apple provides the App Store and collects its own information about downloads, crashes and usage under Apple's privacy policy. I can see aggregate, anonymous figures such as how many people downloaded the app. I cannot see anything that identifies you.
Deleting your data
Delete the app and its data goes with it. There is nothing held elsewhere to request, correct or erase. Export a backup first if you want to keep anything.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.