Last updated: September 17, 2026
This policy will change as Howler changes. This page always holds the current version.
We ask for your email address so you can sign in, and a name so other people know who is talking. Everything else we hold is something you did in the app — how you called a decision, what you said about a match.
We do not track you. There is no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising network and no tracking identifier in this app. Nothing in Howler reports what you do to anybody but Howler.
We do not ask for your date of birth, your phone number, your address or your payment details.
We do not collect your location. Howler shows the ground a match is played at. That is a fact about the fixture, not about you, and the app never asks your device where you are.
We do not read your contacts, your photos or your camera. The app does not ask for those permissions because it has no use for them.
We do not profile you for advertising. Howler does show advertisements, and they are the simplest kind there is: one picture, in one place on a screen, the same for everybody. There is no ad network, no targeting and no advertising identifier. An advertiser buys a space, not an audience, and learns nothing about who saw it.
Your data is held in a database run by Supabase, hosted in Sydney, Australia.
The sign-in code is emailed through Brevo, an email delivery service. Brevo handles your email address for that purpose and nothing else.
Howler is distributed through the Apple App Store. Apple knows you installed it; that is between you and Apple, and their privacy policy covers it.
Nobody else. We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with anyone for their own purposes.
This is the part worth reading twice.
Comments on a match are public to everybody using Howler, with your display name and your team beside them. Treat writing one like speaking in a room, not like sending a message.
Group messages are visible to that group. Members only — but that includes anyone the owner invites later, and members who joined before you can see what was said before they arrived from the point they joined.
Your voting record is yours. Nobody else sees the percentage you agree with the referee. What other people can see is the crowd's split on a decision, which is a count that your vote is one of, with no name on it.
Your email address is never shown to anybody. Not to other fans, not to the owner of your group, not on your comments.
Your sign-in session is stored in your device's own secure storage — the iOS keychain — so you do not sign in every time. Signing out removes it. It never leaves your phone.
For as long as you use Howler.
You can delete your account from inside the app, on the profile screen. Your email address, your name, how you voted and who you support all go, and cannot be recovered.
What you wrote stays, without your name on it. This is the part worth understanding before you do it. Comments you posted were read by other people and replied to, and deleting them would delete those replies too — other fans' words, not yours. So the comment remains and the name on it becomes "Fan".
Deleting your account cannot unsay what you said to other people. A conversation other people took part in is not wholly yours to erase.
If you own a group, delete the group first. We will refuse to delete your account while you own one, because deleting it would take the whole room and every message in it away from everybody else in it.
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, and ask us to delete it. Write to the address below and we will do it.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
Howler is for adults. You must be 18 or over to use it, because it is a place where adults talk to each other and we are not willing to put children in that conversation.
We do not knowingly collect information from anybody under 18. If you believe somebody under 18 has signed up, write to us and we will remove the account and their information.
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If a change matters — if we start collecting something new — we will say so in the app rather than quietly editing this page.