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Privacy policy

Last updated: 9 November 2026

What personal information Next-End collects, why, who can see it, how long we keep it, and the choices you have. It covers the Next-End app and this website.

1. Who we are

Next-End is run by Next-End LTD, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17513884). Our registered office is 49, Level One, Basecamp Liverpool, Jamaica Street, Liverpool L1 0AH, United Kingdom.

Next-End LTD is the controller of the information described here. That means we decide how and why it is used.

For anything about your information, email support@next-end.com.

2. The short version

You need an account to use the app. We use your email address to sign you in and to contact you about your account.
We don't sell your information and we don't show advertising. The app has no advertising or tracking tools, and this website sets no cookies.
Scoring works offline. Your shoots are saved on your phone first, then backed up to your account.
Your shoots are private unless you share them. You choose who sees each post: everyone on Next-End, your followers or only you.
We ask for your country and date of birth so we can apply the right age rules. They are private and never shown to anyone.
If you buy Premium, Apple takes the payment. We never see your card details.
You can get a copy of your information, correct it and delete your account. See section 10.

3. What we collect

Your account

Your email address and password. Your password is stored by our sign-in provider in a scrambled form that nobody, including us, can read.
A sign-in key kept in your phone's secure storage, so you stay signed in.

Your age details

Your country, your US state if you live in the US, and your exact date of birth. We use these to check you are old enough, and to choose your privacy settings and which features are open to you (see section 11).
An age group worked out from them: under the minimum, 13–15, 16–17 or 18 and over.
Where Apple provides one, the age range and consent setting your phone shares with apps. We keep only the range and the consent setting, never Apple's full reply. If your date of birth and Apple's range disagree, we use the younger age.
Your classification category (Open or Female), only if you choose to give it. Archery GB's classification tables use it. You can leave it blank.

These details are never shown on your profile, in posts or in notifications. If you are refused at sign-up because you are too young, we don't keep the details you entered. We don't check identity documents, so this is not proof of age. A phone running a modified version of the app could send a false age range.

Your profile

Your display name, handle, short bio and profile photo, if you add them.
Whether your profile can be found in search, and who sees your new posts by default.

Your shooting

Each shoot: the round, bow type, date and time, every arrow's score, any plotted arrow positions, sighters, misses, sight marks, notes and score corrections.
Your equipment: bow setups, components, tuning measurements, arrow sets and sight marks, and a copy of the setup used for each shoot.
Figures worked out from your shoots, such as personal bests, handicaps, streaks and arrow counts.

Scoring other archers

When you score other archers on your phone, you enter their names and scores. These stay on your phone. Only your own result is saved to your account. A post can say how many archers were on the target, without naming them.

What you share

Posts you publish, with their title, caption, photos, scores and, if you choose, your equipment.
Comments, replies, appreciations, follow requests, follows and blocks.
Reports you make about posts, comments or profiles, with the reason and anything you add.

Photos

Photos you add to a shoot, a post or your profile. Before uploading, the app removes the photo's hidden details, including where it was taken and which camera took it. The app only opens your camera or photo library when you choose to add a photo, and only with your phone's permission.

Notifications

In-app notifications about follows, comments and appreciations, and whether you have read them.
If you allow push notifications, a notification address for your phone, so we can send alerts to it.

Premium

Whether you have Premium or a free trial, and when it ends. We use this to unlock Premium features and to show the gold Premium ring on your profile.
If you are one of Next-End's first 500 accounts, your founder number. It decides whether you can have the founder price. Other people see only that you are a founding archer, never the number.
Apple handles the payment. We don't receive your name, card or Apple account details. Our billing provider, RevenueCat, receives your Next-End account ID (a random code, not your email) and Apple's record of your subscription. See section 5.

When you contact us

Your email address, what you write and anything you attach. If you email from the app, the message may include the app version and your phone model, to help us fix problems.

This website

The website has no accounts, analytics, advertising or cookies. If you use the light and dark switch, your choice is saved in your own browser and never sent to us. Our web host, IONOS, keeps standard server logs (your IP address, the pages requested and your browser type) to run and protect the site.

What we don't collect

Your location, your contacts, your payment card details or advertising identifiers. The app contains no advertising or analytics tools.

4. Why we use it, and our legal basis

UK data protection law says we need a legal reason, called a legal basis, for each use.

What we do	Legal basis
Run your account, save and back up your shoots and equipment, and show your history and statistics	Contract: it is the service you asked for
Show your posts, profile, comments and appreciations to the people you choose, and send notifications	Contract
Provide Premium, check whether you have it, and apply the founder price	Contract
Send sign-up codes, password resets and important account messages	Contract
Check your age and country, and apply age limits and privacy settings for young people	Legal obligation (UK online safety law requires us to protect children) and legitimate interests: keeping young people safe
Keep the service secure, prevent abuse, review reports and act on rule-breaking content	Legitimate interests: keeping Next-End safe for everyone. Some of this is also a legal obligation
Reply to emails and fix problems you report	Legitimate interests: helping you and improving the app
Keep records the law requires, report child abuse material to the National Crime Agency, and answer valid legal requests	Legal obligation

Our word filter automatically stops some words being saved in posts, comments and profiles. Apart from that, we don't make automated decisions about you. People read reports and decide what happens to accounts.

5. Who can see your information

Other archers, depending on your choices

Everyone means anyone signed in to Next-End. Nothing is shown to people without an account, and nothing appears on the open web.
Followers means people whose follow request you have accepted.
Only me means only you.
If your profile is hidden, only people you have a follow link with can open it.
Blocking someone stops them seeing your profile and posts, and stops you seeing theirs.
People who can see your profile can see the gold Premium ring if you have Premium or a trial, and a "Founding archer" card if you are one of the first 500 accounts.
Your email address, age details, founder number, private notes, unshared shoots, equipment library and score corrections are never shown to other archers. Equipment appears on a post only if you choose to include it.

Anyone who can see a post can take a screenshot of it, so think before you share.

Our moderator

Our moderator, currently Next-End's founder, can see posts, comments, profiles and photos that have been reported, to decide whether they break our rules. When new reports arrive, the moderator gets an alert that says only how many are waiting, without any names or content.

Companies that work for us

These companies handle information for us under contracts that only let them use it to provide their service.

Supabase: accounts, sign-in, the database and photo storage, hosted in Ireland.
IONOS: website hosting, our email mailboxes, and sending sign-up and password emails.
RevenueCat (United States): manages Premium subscriptions bought through Apple. It receives your Next-End account ID and Apple's subscription record (the plan, start and renewal dates, trial and price), plus basic technical details such as app version and device type. It does not receive your email address or name.
Expo (United States): passes push notifications from our server to Apple. It receives your phone's notification address and the text of each alert, which can include another archer's name, for example "Sam commented on your shoot".
Apple: distributes the app, takes Premium payments, handles refunds, delivers push notifications and, where available, shares an age range. Apple uses your Apple account under its own privacy policy.

Others, only when the law requires

For example a court order, or the police where the law allows. If we find child sexual abuse material, the law requires us to report it to the National Crime Agency, with information about the account involved.

We don't sell your information or share it for advertising.

6. Where your information is stored

On your phone, the app keeps your shoots and equipment in its own storage, so scoring works without a signal. Your account data is stored by Supabase in Ireland, which UK law recognises as protecting personal information to the same standard as the UK.

Supabase, RevenueCat and Expo are US companies. Where information is handled in the US or elsewhere outside the UK, the contract with each company includes the safeguards UK law requires.

Next-End is not offered in the European Union or European Economic Area at present, so this policy is written for UK data protection law.

7. How long we keep it

Information	How long
Your account, profile, age details, shoots, equipment and posts	Until you delete them or delete your account
Photos	Until you remove them or delete your account. A removed photo disappears from the app at once, and its file is deleted within 30 days
Photos uploaded but never saved to a shoot, post or profile	Deleted after 30 days
Premium status and founder number	While your account exists. A founder number is never given to anyone else
Subscription records at RevenueCat	Kept by RevenueCat as our billing records. Apple keeps its own purchase records
Your phone's notification address	Until you sign out on that phone, it stops working, or you delete your account
Reported content held as evidence	Until the report is closed and for 90 days after, even if the account is deleted first
A banned account	30 days, so you can appeal, then deleted as in an ordinary account deletion, apart from anything the law requires us to keep. If we confirm the account belongs to someone under 13, it is deleted straight away
A coded copy of a banned person's email address, and their handle, so they can't be used again	For as long as the ban stands. We review these every two years
Earlier versions of a profile changed by our moderator (name, bio and picture)	Two years after the change
Material and account details kept for a National Crime Agency report	One year from the date of the report, and the report's reference for five years, unless the law requires longer
Support emails	Two years after the conversation ends
Our record of complaints, appeals and safety concerns	Two years after the case closes
Website server logs	For a short period set by IONOS

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app, under Settings → Account → Delete account. Your sign-in, profile, age details, private shoots, equipment, custom rounds, posts, comments and follows are deleted straight away. Your photos are deleted within 30 days.

Some things are kept for longer, as the table above says: reported content held as evidence, our records of moderation decisions and complaints, and anything the law requires us to keep. If the law requires us to preserve an account for an investigation, its deletion can be delayed.

The app also removes that account's data from the phone you delete it on, and from any other phone signed in to it the next time that phone connects.

Deleting your account does not cancel a Premium subscription. Cancel it in your App Store settings first.

8. Keeping it safe

Information travels between the app and our servers encrypted. Your private shoots, equipment and age details can only be read by your own account; database rules enforce this. Sign-in keys are kept in your phone's secure storage. Photos are stored privately and shown only to people allowed to see them.

No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong password that you don't use anywhere else. If something goes wrong that puts your information at risk, we will tell you and, where the law requires, the Information Commissioner's Office.

9. Your choices in the app

Choose who sees each post, and who sees new posts by default.
Hide your profile from search (young people's profiles are hidden for them, see section 11).
Accept or decline follow requests, remove followers, block people and report posts, comments or profiles.
Choose whether to include your equipment or photos in a post.
Edit or delete your shoots, posts, comments and photos.
Turn push notifications on or off in your phone's settings.
Delete your account.

10. Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to:

give you a copy of your information
correct anything that is wrong
delete your information
limit, or object to, how we use it
give you your information in a format you can take elsewhere

To ask, including for a copy of your data, email support@next-end.com. We may need to check it's you, usually by asking you to reply from your account's email address. We will reply within one month. You can delete your account yourself in the app at any time.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first so we can put it right. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or on 0303 123 1113.

11. Children and young people

You must be 13 or over to have a Next-End account, and live in one of the countries offered at sign-up: the UK, the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Social features (the feed, posting, comments, following and a profile others can see) start at 13, except in Australia, where they start at 16, and in Mississippi and Tennessee, where they start at 18. If social features aren't open to you, you can still score, keep your equipment and history, and back them up.

Aged 13 to 15: your profile is always private. You don't appear in general search; people can find you only by typing your exact handle. Anyone can then ask to follow you, but they see nothing until you accept.
Aged 16 or 17: your profile starts private, and you can choose to make it public.
Under 18: only followers you have accepted can comment on your posts.
Nothing is made public for you when you have a birthday. Your settings stay as they are until you change them.

If we learn that someone under 13 has an account, we close it and delete it straight away, unless the law requires us to keep it for an investigation. A report on its own changes nothing; we check first. To tell us about an account you think belongs to someone under 13, email support@next-end.com.

Next-End has no parent accounts. Parents can use Apple's family controls.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change affects how your information is used, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.

13. Contact

Next-End LTD, 49, Level One, Basecamp Liverpool, Jamaica Street, Liverpool L1 0AH, United Kingdom.

Email: support@next-end.com