NotAWide

Privacy policy

Last updated: 27 October 2026

NotAWide is a mobile app for scoring cricket ball by ball, with teams, match history, career statistics and earned badges. It is run by Ranjith Poovaragavan, Tamil Nadu, India. This page explains what the app collects, why, who can see it, and how to delete it.

What we collect

• Your phone number, to sign you in. Sign-in uses Firebase Authentication, run by Google, which sends the one-time code by SMS.
• The number of a person you add. A team admin can add someone to a team or an auction by name and phone number. To check that the number is theirs, Google (Firebase) sends a one-time code by SMS to that number. The person reads the code out and you enter it. We then keep the name and number so the person can find their profile when they sign in. We never show a phone number to other users.
• Your profile: the name you choose, your city if you give it, your playing details (how you bat and bowl), and a profile photo if you add one.
• Cricket and team data: the matches you score or play in, every ball recorded in them, scorecards, teams and team crests, grounds, tournaments and their photos, player auctions with a virtual budget, the notes of money that team members record (match fees and expenses; the app does not move any money), and the statistics and badges worked out from them.
• Your app version and phone type (Android or iOS), saved with your profile, so an out-of-date version of the app can be asked to update.
• Requests and reports you send. When you send a request or a report (Help & support, Report a problem, a match deletion, Report a match, or a report on a player, team, cup, ground, match or name), we keep its text, the name or photo address you reported, your app version and phone type (for example Android API 34), and the time. The app never adds a phone number to it. We keep it only as long as we need to handle it and for our records, then delete it. The reported person is never told who reported.
• That you agreed to the Terms. We keep a record that you agreed to the Terms of use, which version, and when.
• The people you block. A block is kept until you undo it or delete your account.
• Contacts, only when you ask. If you choose “Add from contacts” on a team, the app reads your contacts on your phone so you can pick people. Your contact list is not uploaded. Each name you pick is looked up one at a time, and a number is sent only when you invite that person.
• Camera, only to read a NotAWide QR code. On Android the code is read by the phone's own code scanner, so NotAWide does not hold camera permission; you can also pick a photo of a code from your gallery. Nothing is photographed or stored by us.

What we do not do

• We do not show ads and do not sell or rent your data.
• We do not use advertising or analytics trackers, and the app does not send us crash reports.
• We do not read your SMS messages and do not collect your location.
• The app keeps a diagnostic log on your phone to help find faults. It stays on the phone unless you choose to share it, for example from Help & support.
• We never show your phone number to other users.

Who can see what

Your profile (name, city, playing details, photo), statistics and badges can be seen by other signed-in NotAWide users. Matches can be seen by signed-in users. Whether other people can find you by your name or by your number is your choice: you set it in Edit profile.

A link you share from the app (for example a scorecard or a player card) opens that page in the NotAWide app for the person you send it to. The link carries only an internal ID for that page, never a name or a phone number.

Photos you add (profile, team crest, tournament photo) are stored so that other signed-in users can see them, and anyone who has the exact address of a photo can open it.

Reports, removed content and our records

When a report is upheld, a person at NotAWide may remove a photo, replace a name with a placeholder, delete a match or make an account read-only. Every such act is written to an audit of our actions. The audit keeps ids, codes, a fingerprint (a hash) of any removed text and a short note by the person who acted. It never keeps the text itself, and it never keeps who reported. It is kept for our records.

When a match is deleted, we keep a short record of it (the teams, the date, who deleted it and why) for our records.

A report made about you stays, without your account, for a limited period after it is closed.

A photo removed after a report is kept privately for a short fixed period, for appeals and legal requests, then deleted; longer only while a legal hold requires it. No other user can open it in that time. This applies even if the account is deleted in the meantime.

Where it is stored

Your data is stored with cloud service providers that process it only on our behalf: our database and photo storage run in India (Mumbai). Sign-in is handled by Google (Firebase Authentication), which processes sign-in data on Google's own systems and may do so outside India. Data travels encrypted (HTTPS).

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while you have an account. You can delete your account at any time in the app: Menu → Account → Delete account. Your profile, name, city, playing details, photo, badges and career page are deleted. Scorecards of matches you played in stay, because a match belongs to everyone who played it, but your name on them is replaced with “Deleted player”. Some technical identifiers on records you created (for example which sign-in scored a match) can remain on those records without your name. Your blocks are removed with the account, and so is the record that you agreed to the Terms. A request or report you sent stays, without your name, for a limited period after it is closed. A photo of yours removed after a report stays for its short private period even if you delete the account. Copies kept in our provider's backups are removed when those backups expire. See Delete your account for the full details, including how to ask us to delete it if you no longer have the app.

Who it is for

NotAWide is for people aged 18 and over.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions or requests, including to correct or delete your data: support@notawide.com. Complaints about how we handle your data or content go to our Grievance Officer, Ranjith Poovaragavan, grievance@notawide.com; we acknowledge within 24 hours and aim to resolve within 15 days.